Don’t Get Bit by the Ethics Rattlesnake

Cost: $50 PFAC Member – $70 Non-Member

Speaker: Professor Roberta K. Flowers, esq.

CEU Awarded: 1.0 Ethics

Presented Date: 10/10/2020

 

About the Course

Rattlesnakes are known to strike quickly, without warning, and cause fatal and near fatal injuries. For the unwary fiduciary, ethical mistakes can happen without warning and be fatal to their career. Using the California Fiduciary Code and the Best Standards for Pooled Trusts, this interactive presentation will look at the ways that a fiduciary can avoid making those career altering mistakes. The presentation will consider issues such as conflicts of interest, confidentiality breaches, and failures to apply substituted decision-making.

Professor Roberta K. Flowers, Esq.

Roberta K. Flowers is a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. Within the Elder Law LL.M. program, Professor Flowers teaches Ethics in an Elder Law Practice. She also teaches Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Professional Responsibility. While at Stetson, Professor Flowers has successfully coached trial teams, arbitration teams and moot court teams to national championships. She has served as the director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy and as the William Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor in Professionalism. During her time at Stetson, Professor Flowers has received the university-level Excellence in Teaching Award, Most Inspirational Teacher Award from the Student Bar Association, and an award from the Student Bar Association for supporting student life. She also has received the university-level Homer and Dolly Hand Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Service, and been awarded the Distinguished Service Award four times. In 2005, the Florida Supreme Court awarded Professor Flowers the Faculty Professionalism Award.