Sept. 27 CLE & Happy Hour 

Join Members of the Washington County Bar Association (WCBA) and the Association of Corporate Counsel Western Pennsylvania Chapter (ACC) for this special Continuing Legal Education seminar and networking event.

3:30pm  On-Site Check-in Opens at the Hilton Garden Inn, Southpointe

4:00pm  CLE Program: "The Bonehead Play," presented by Mark Yochum

5:00pm  Networking Happy Hour (1 drink ticket / cash bar)

*Note: a brief meeting for WCBA members will be held after the CLE

CLE Program: Professor Mark Yochum will explore the ethics of sportsmanship as a model for professional practice. The title refers to the mistake Fred Merkle made in a storied baseball event of 1908, wherein the failure to attend to a simple rule leads to professional disaster and even death. Yochum will tell Merkle's tale, which provides guidance and inspiration on how we as attorneys deal with errors in others and, inevitably, errors in ourselves. Those Rules of Professional Conduct born of a concern for “zealous advocacy” will be discussed, and the program will serve as a reminder that although practitioners may sometimes be adversaries, we all play for the good of the game.

1 ethics CLE credit (PA, WV, OH)

Thank you to event sponsors Major Legal Services, McClelland Legal Search, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Special Counsel and Steptoe & Johnson for their support.