The State Bar Association of North Dakota Fall 2015 Gavel Magazine | Page 3
FALL 2015
VOLUME 62, NUMBER 4
UPCOMING EVENTS
GAVEL
THE
November 19-20
Family Law Section Seminar
Fargo
CONTENTS
November Mondays
Casemaker Webinars
FEATURES
Investiture Ceremonies Welcome District Judges........................................................... 6
State Bar Gains New Members...................................................................................... 7
Inside the Practice of Law: Results of the 2014 Survey of Violence by Stephen Kelson...........9
It’s All About Documenting Scope by Mark Bassingthwaite .......................................... 16
Remembering Dewey Kautzmann by Jim Hill......................................................................18
DEPARTMENTS
SBAND President.......................................................................................................... 4
SBAND Executive Director........................................................................................... 5
December 3-4
Real Property, Probate & Trust Law
Section Seminar
Bismarck
December 11
Legal Services North Dakota
11th Annual Christmas CLE
Bismarck
UND Law School by Dean Kathryn Rand, University of North Dakota Law School....... 20
Court System Continues Work to Help Self-Represented Litigants by Mike Hagburg.23
Cybersecurity for Lawyers Part III by Justice Daniel Crothers........................................ 24
ABA Report by Dan Traynor ........................................................................................ 26
Young Lawyers Showcase............................................................................................. 28
Bar Foundation Update................................................................................................. 32
Get to Know Your Board Member............................................................................... 34
Lawyer Discipline and Ethics Opinions....................................................................... 36
The Gavel is published by the State Bar
Association of North Dakota
State Bar Association of North Dakota Officers
Board of Governors
Joseph Wetch, Fargo
President
Charles DeMakis, Minot
President-Elect
Jack McDonald, Bismarck
Immediate Past-President
Aubrey Fiebelkorn Zuger, Fargo
Secretary-Treasurer
Daniel M. Traynor, Devils Lake
ABA Delegate
Connie Cleveland, Fargo
EC Judicial District
Zachary Pelham, Bismarck
SC Judicial District
Peter Welte, Grand Forks
NEC Judicial District
Carrie Francis, Minot
NC Judicial District
Jeff Nehring, Williston
NW Judicial District
Beth Ebert, Dickinson
SW Judicial District
Lee Grossman, Valley City
SE Judicial District
Darcie Einarson, Grafton
NE Judicial District
Kathryn Rand, Grand Forks
Dean, UND Law School
Margaret (Meg) Morley, Grand Forks
Young Lawyers Section
Tony J. Weiler, Bismarck
Executive Director
State Bar Association
of North Dakota
SBAND
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sheldon Smith, Chair
Erica J. Shively
Eeva Greenley
Lynn Block
Michael Hurly
Bradley Myers
Mikayla Jahner
Katy Schaefer
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