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  • videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month February 19, 2026 @ 1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Ethics and Specialty Credits
  • schedule 90 minutes

Ethics 2026: Artificial Intelligence, Joint Representation, Corporate Transparency Act, and UPL

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will discuss four of the most predominant and pervasive legal ethics issues practitioners will need to face in 2026, why these new ethics issues are inescapable, and why they are evolving so quickly, as well as offer insights and strategies for ensuring compliance and avoiding missteps.

Description

The program will address four key issues that are creating new ethical issues. The Corporate Transparency Act will be discussed in terms of compliance and law firm management. Law firms must resolve these issues if they are involved in preparing or filing formation documents.

Common pitfalls inherent in joint representations continue to present unique questions. From getting informed consent and conflict waivers to analyzing issues that arise when the clients' interests cease to align, attorneys representing multiple parties must ethically navigate their way through the representation.

Artificial intelligence raises many ethical concerns, but as firms move forward, they must develop and then maintain appropriate policies and procedures to ensure compliance with a lawyer's duty to supervise lawyer and non-lawyer staff both inside and outside of the courtroom.

Finally, the panel will take up current unauthorized practice of law issues related to remote practice and multijurisdictional practice. This portion of the seminar is designed to provide practitioners with a general framework for analyzing whether conduct is permissible multijurisdictional practice or whether it crosses the line into UPL territory.

Listen as this preeminent panel targets both key and pressing issues for practitioners to keep in mind throughout their practice in 2026.

Presented By

Joel A. Osman
Partner, General Counsel
Parker Shaffie LLP

Mr. Osman is Partner, General Counsel at Parker Shaffie LLP. He concentrates his practice on litigation and trials. Prior to joining Parker Shaffie LLP in 2014, Mr. Osman was principal of Osman & Associates a private law firm in South Pasadena. Prior to setting up his private practice, he managed a similarly named entity which was part of staff counsel to Travelers Indemnity Company. For Travelers, Mr. Odman was responsible for all aspects of managing its Southern California liability practice, its multi-million dollar budget and 54 employees engaged in defense of Travelers insureds in all manner of general liability, auto, fire and subrogation matters.

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Adam Telanoff
Senior Counsel
Parker Shaffie LLP

Prior to joining Parker Shaffie in 2024, Mr. Telanoff had an eclectic career. As a litigator, his career combines extensive experience in professional liability, as well as commercial litigation representing a variety of clients from small to large businesses. Mr. Telanoff successfully litigated cases before Administrative Tribunals, Arbitrators, and State and Federal courts. Most of his matters have been in California, but Mr. Telanoff has handled litigation in Colorado, Connecticut, and Georgia. He also brings a business perspective to litigation, Mr. Telanoff was General Counsel for GameWorks Entertainment, a national Family Entertainment Center and Cascade Finance Partners, a private equity fund. In addition, he was co-Founder and General Counsel for Filmhub, an online film distribution startup funded by Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms. Mr. Telanoff is also an experienced educator, having taught law classes at UCLA Extension and Los Angeles Mission College.

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

  • An excellent opportunity to earn Ethics CLE credits. Note: BARBRI cannot guarantee that this course will be approved for ethics credits in all states. To confirm, please contact our CLE department at pdservice@barbri.com.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Thursday, February 19, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

I. Introduction and applicable ethical rules

II. Corporate Transparency Act (Model Rules 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, and 1.16

III. Avoiding pitfalls of joint representations (Model Rule 1.7)

IV. Artificial intelligence and the duty to supervise (Model Rules 1.1, 1.6, 3.3, 5.1, and 5.3 and FRCP 11)

V. Unauthorized practice of law issues (Model Rule 5.5)

A. Remote practice

B. Multijurisdictional practice

The panel will review these and other critical issues:

  • What compliance and law firm management considerations are created by the Corporate Transparency Act?
  • When should lawyers be concerned to take on joint representations?
  • AI programs and the ethical implications
  • What types of conduct put lawyers at risk for engaging in UPL?