2025 St. Paddy's Day CLE

Friday, March 14, 2025

Copper King Hotel

Butte, Montana

6.5 Credits (3.5 General & 3 PFI Ethics) 

8:00am-8:30am: Registration & Light Breakfast

8:30am-9:30am: AI Hallucinations in the Context of ABA Formal Opinion 512 (1.0 PFI Ethics Credit)

- Cody James, Director of the William J. Jameson Law Library & Assistant Professor, Alexander Blewett III School of Law

9:30am-10:30am: Estate Administration – A Primer on Probate

- Michelle Sullivan, Sullivan Miller Law, PLLC

10:30am-12:00pm: Judges Panel 

- Justice Beth Baker, Montana Supreme Court, Judge Lee Bruner, Workers Compensation Court; Judge Frank Joseph, District Court 1; Judge Jerome McCarthy, Butte City Court; Justice of the Peace Ben Pezdark

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch on Your Own

1:30pm-2:30pm: Current Science of Addiction and Treatment Affecting the Legal Community and Beyond (1.0 PFI Ethics Credit)

- Cooper Baldwin LCSW, PsyD, JD & Clinical Services Director, Montana DPHHS

2:30pm-3:30pm: Legislative Update 

- Bruce Spencer, Esq.

3:30pm-4:30pm: What is Old is New Again: Crime/Fraud Prohibitions and the Duty to Inquire Into and Assess the Facts and Circumstances of Each Representation (1.0 PFI Ethics Credit)

- Karen Peters-Van Essen, Assistant Professor, Alexander Blewett III School of Law

If cancelation is made seven days or more before the date of a seminar, a 75% refund will be made. If cancelation is made less than seven days before the seminar, a 50% refund will be made. No refund will be granted if cancelation is made on or after the date of the seminar.

Upon cancelation, materials will be provided subject to availability after the seminar. Substitution of attendees is acceptable. Cancelations may be made by emailing jetchart@montanabar.org.

Event sponsored by the CLE Institute. For any questions or concerns about the event, please contact Jeannie Etchart at jetchart@montanabar.org. 

“STATE BAR OF MONTANA CLE PROGRAMMING NOTE: Among the Purposes of the State Bar of Montana established in its Constitution is to foster and maintain high standards of learning and competence and to safeguard a forum for the discussion of subjects pertaining to the practice of law and provide for the continuing legal education of the members of the bar. In fulfillment of that mission, speakers and panelists at all State Bar of Montana continuing education programs appear to share their own perspectives on a variety of subjects pertaining to the practice of law and the legal profession. Their views on the same are theirs alone and are not that of the State Bar of Montana. Appearance at State Bar of Montana events is not an endorsement by the State Bar of Montana of any one individual’s statements of viewpoint on the law or any other matter.”