Pera and Rich Lead Free 2026 Legal Ethics Year in Review CLE

Questions of privilege, work product, and AI; a fast-changing market for law firm ownership; fees; lawyer mental health; and more AI – all these topics and more made 2026 a busy year in legal ethics. On Wednesday, Dec. 9, Adams & Reese Partner Lucian Pera and Holland & Knight Partner Trisha Rich will sort through what changed and what it means for lawyers in their annual “Legal Ethics Year in Review” CLE webinar. The free, live, one-hour program begins at 1 p.m. ET (noon CT).

Co-presented by Adams & Reese and Holland & Knight, the program has become a year-end tradition. Pera and Rich will cover the past year’s ABA guidance, state ethics opinions, and court decisions, with practical examples for lawyers in every practice area.

This year’s topics will include:

• New guidance on conflicts arising from prospective clients
• Attorney-client privilege, work product, and AI
• New law firm and legal service business models, from alternative business structures (ABSs) to management services organizations (MSOs)
• The fourth year of lawyers using AI-hallucinated cases in court
• All the ABA’s 2026 ethics opinions, covering withdrawal, recusal obligations, and representing clients with decision-making limitations

All registrants will receive downloadable course materials, and Pera and Rich will take questions live. Attendees seeking CLE credit must stay for the full program and submit the participation code shown during the webcast through the request form provided at the end. The form closes 48 hours after the program ends.

Register now here.

About Lucian Pera: With more than 40 years of practice, Lucian Pera is one of the nation’s top legal ethics practitioners, representing law firms, lawyers, and those who do business with both. His work in legal ethics dates back more than 25 years to his service as the youngest member of the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission, which rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He is a recipient of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Michael Franck Award and previously served three years as chair of the Center. As part of his national ethics practice, Pera advises law firms, investors, tech companies, and others exploring MSO business models and ABSs. He authored “The Playbook: How to Extend the Reach of an Arizona ABS Law Firm to the Entire U.S.” and has been interviewed by Business Insider, Financial Times, Yahoo, and MSN, among others.

About Trisha Rich: A litigator and one of the country’s foremost lawyers working in the areas 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 experience handling complex business and commercial disputes. 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 on the regulation of the practice of law. She is president of the Chicago Bar Association and a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.