Ethics and Professionalism for the Land Use Practitioner and Government Lawyer
Why Attend?
This timely ethics program explores key ethical considerations for land use practitioners, covering both legal ethics and professionalism issues in the planning and zoning decision-making context. Lawyers, planners, architects, members of planning and zoning boards/commissions and local elected officials all operate under both common and different ethical rules and guidelines. This course provides an overview of these issues and reviews recent case law from across the country defining the ethical obligations of private practitioners and government lawyers in land use practice.
This interactive seminar affords the opportunity to submit questions in advance and/or during the program for discussion by the faculty.
Faculty
Frank Schnidman, Chair and Moderator, is Senior Fellow at the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University. For more than 25 years he has organized and chaired the ALI-ABA Land Use Institute and in 2006 has expanded the Land Use Institute concept to include a teleseminar series. This is the third program in the series.
Patricia E. Salkin is a Associate Dean, Professor and Director of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School in Albany, NY. Salkin is co-editor of the Planning and Zoning Report, editor of New York Zoning Law & Practice Report, author of New York Zoning Law & Practice, 4th Edition, and co-author of Land Use in a Nutshell. Since 2001 she has served as editor of the annual Zoning and Planning Law Handbook. Dean Salkin teaches a course in Planning Ethics at the University of Albany, and regularly writes and lectures on land use ethics across the country.
Eastern 12 noon - 1 pm Central 11 am - 12 noon Mountain 10 am - 11 am Pacific & Arizona 9 am - 10 am Alaska 8 am - 9 am Hawaii 7 am - 8 am
Program Schedule
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 1
Suggested Prerequisite: Limited experience in legal practice in land use planning and development regulation.
Educational Objective: Provision of information on recent legal developments; maintenance of professional competence as a practitioner.
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
