[Free CLE] Emails, Phone Calls, and Plenty of Red Flags: Ethics of Law Firm Communication

Who doesn’t want a free hour of Ethics CLE credit? As usual, Smokeball has you and your reporting period covered with another information-packed free CLE with the ever engaging Jordan Turk on May 21, 2026, at 1pm CDT. 

[Troy MacClure voice] You might remember Jordan from such CLEs as “Billable Hours: The Reckoning,” and “Motion Practice: Another Form of Cardio.” She comes to you now with a power hour devoted to modern law practice and the pitfalls in communications that can trip us up and cause us to stumble right into the jurisdiction of the ARDC. 

We are awash with tech that keeps us at each other’s fingertips. Clients (and partners…and paralegals) expect immediate responses. Opposing counsel fires off emails at all hours even though the Schedule Send option is literally right there. Emails replace formal letters once typed on weighted letterhead, and texts of “K” replace emails about quick redlines or modified jury instructions. All of this starts feeling like efficiency and convenience. 

However, speed and convenience come with a price, and we can’t let that price be our law license. 
 

Join us for this free CLE and get ready to squirm in discomfort at the thought of your late night snark response to OC being read aloud in a deposition.