Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit: Five Favorite Ideas to Avoid Ethics Complaints
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Presenters Karin Ciano and Amanda Siefman will share insights from their experiences working within the Office of Lawyer Professional Responsibility that might help attorneys avoid issues with their clients and potential ethic complaints.
Speaker: Karin Ciano
Karin Ciano is a Senior Assistant Director at the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility. Before joining OLPR in 2021, Karin litigated civil rights and employment discrimination cases at her own firm as well as contested probates of counsel with Mason & Helmers; she also worked as a freelance lawyer helping other lawyers with writing and litigation projects. In addition to teaching CLE sessions on ethics and writing, Karin has taught classes at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, the University of Minnesota Law School, and New York University School of Law. An enthusiastic transplant to Minnesota, Karin believes in the power of solo and small firms to close the justice gap. Karin is OLPR liaison to the Fourth District Ethics Committee and a member of the Rotary Club of Saint Paul.
Speaker: Amanda Siefman
Amanda Siefman serves as an Assistant Director at the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility. Prior to moving to Minnesota in 2025, she previously worked as the supervising staff attorney in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Florida for eleven years. During this time, she assisted the circuit’s judges with a variety of cases, from local government disputes and civil litigation to post-conviction ineffective assistance of counsel claims and death penalty prosecutions.