Important info about technical requirements and access
Mr. Duranske will be speaking using Second Life's built-in VOICE-CHAT capability. Please ensure that your system allows you to hear voice-chat and is configured ahead of time.
If you are not yet a Second Life user:
It is very, very important to download the Second Life software, create your account, and familiarize yourself with navigation and other controls ahead of time. This process can take 15 minutes to an hour or more, depending on your familiarity with navigating in 3-D virtual environments. Second Life has a particularly steep "learning curve" even compared to other virtual worlds or games you may have tried.
Unfortunately the organizers will not be assist you with technical problems during the event.
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Ethics of Practice in Virtual Worlds
Benjamin Duranske (SL: "Benjamin Noble")
November 08, 2008
Time: Noon (Pacific Standard Time)
Location: SLBA Office
Continuing education credits available:
1 hour California MCLE (provided by Fitz2 Consulting, provider no. 14547)
Price:
Links referenced in session:
- Formal Opinion No. 2001-155 (State Bar of California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct)
- Do Not Delete: Sanctions for Spoliation of Electronic Evidence, By Steven A. Weiss, Schopf & Weiss LLP, Chicago. pp&d Vol 13:2 (Spring 2005)
- APPENDIX A: State Definitions of the Practice of Law (ABA Committee on Professional Responsibility, Task Force on the Model Definition of the Practice of Law)
- Crossing State Lines Into The Unauthorized Practice Jungle: The Myth Of The Single State Practitioner, By Del O'Roark, Loss Prevention Consultant, Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co. of Ky. KBA Bench & Bar, Vol. 64 No. 1, January 2000
- Beware the Unauthorized Practice of Law in Cyberspace, By Shari Claire Lewis New York Law Journal, June 6, 2007
- Formal Opinion No. 99-413 Protecting the Confidentiality of Unencrypted E-Mail. March 10, 1999. (ABA Standing Committee On Ethics And Professional Responsibility)
Course Description
Practice in virtual Worlds raises unique ethical questions. Mr. Duranske will discuss potential pitfalls and solutions.
Benjamin Duranske is a writer and an intellectual property attorney. He is the author of Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds and the well-known virtual worlds law blog Virtually Blind.
Participants may pay by PayPal/credit card, or contact Cat Galileo to pay in-world. In-world payments will be calculated according to the "today's average" exchange rate as displayed at https://secure-web8.secondlife.com/currency/market.php at the time of purchase.
Participants who choose to pay for MCLE certification will receive the certificate of attendence mandated by the State Bar of California. Fitz2 will provide reasonable assistance to paying attendees from other professions or jurisdictions in obtaining credit (for instance, providing a letter or form to a bar association in another jurisdiction, or to a paralegal association), but cannot guarantee that such credit will be available. For more information, please contact Fitz2 Consulting at kate@ceratops.net.
Refunds will be available if requested more than 24 hours in advance of the program and will be made in the currency of the original purchase.