Pera and Rich to Present 2025 Legal Ethics Year in Review Webinar

Leading ethics attorneys Lucian Pera, Partner with Adams & Reese, and Trisha Rich, Partner with Holland & Knight, will present their annual free, one-hour review of the most important developments of the last year in legal ethics and lawyering. 

The 2025 “Legal Ethics Year in Review” CLE webinar will be held on December 10, 2025, at noon central, via an ON24 webcast. Pera and Rich will break down new ABA guidance, state ethics opinions, and court decisions, with real-world examples relevant to every practice area. 

This year’s topic will include:

• Conflicts of interest in joint representation and arising from prospective clients.
• Attorney-client privilege in internal investigations, employee-employee communications, and hot documents.
• Judicial speech by AI avatars and YouTube dissents.
• New law firm and legal-service delivery business models from ABSs to MSOs.
• Risks of lawyer blogging.
• Highlights from all ABA 2025 ethics opinions.
• The continuing crisis in AI lawyer misconduct.

All registrants will receive course materials, and Pera and Rich will also take live questions.

About Lucian Pera: Celebrating 40 years of practice this year, Lucian Pera is one of the nation’s top legal ethics practitioners – representing law firms, lawyers, and those who do business with both. His nationally recognized authority on legal ethics dates 25 years ago when he was the youngest member of the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission. In addition to ethics law, Pera practices commercial litigation, media law, and advises law firms exploring Management Services Organization (MSO) business models and represents investors looking to enter the legal market under an Alternative Business Structure (ABS). Pera authored “The Playbook: How to Extend the Reach of an Arizona ABS Law Firm to the Entire U.S.,” and he has emerged as a leading authoritative source on MSOs and ABSs – interviewed by Business Insider, Financial Times, Yahoo, MSN, and published by Bloomberg Law, ABA’s magazine, among others. 

About Trisha Rich: A litigator and one of the country’s foremost lawyers working in the area of legal ethics, professional responsibility, the business of law, and the regulation of the legal profession, Trisha Rich is a Partner at Holland & Knight with two decades of broad experience navigating complex business and commercial disputes for her clients. Rich leads Holland & Knight’s national Legal Profession Team and regularly counsels lawyers, law firms, in-house legal departments, legal technology companies, investors, and other stakeholders regarding the regulation of the practice of law. She is the first vice president of the Chicago Bar Association and will become president of the organization in June 2026. She is also a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.