Expanded Version of Instructional Ethics Videos Available

Last year, Scalia Law and GMU-TV produced a series of ten instructional video vignettes to assist in the teaching of legal ethics to law students and lawyers.

Those vignettes, each depicting hypothetical situations that trigger ethical dilemmas that lawyers often face, have been found highly valuable by law professors and lawyers around the country in the teaching of legal ethics. Following the positive response received from the national legal community to these videos, Scalia Law and GMU-TV have now produced an additional eight vignettes, to create an expanded set of eighteen, which will cover an even broader range of ethical issues addressed in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

The issues encompassed by this expanded set of videos include, among other things, several types of conflicts of interest, duties when representing an organization, preparation of client-witnesses for trial testimony, motions to withdraw as counsel, motions to disqualify counsel, billing, lawyers moving to new law firms, fee-sharing, and holding funds for clients and third parties. Five of the eighteen videos depict hypothetical court hearings filmed in one of the law school’s moot court rooms.

As with the original set of ten videos, this new set of vignettes are available for free to law professors and lawyers for educational use, whether in law school classes or in CLEs, seminars, lawyer conferences, and in-house teaching by law firms and legal departments. To access the videos, click the button below or view them on YouTube.

The visionary behind the videos, Adjunct Professor Arthur D. Burger, is scheduled to participate in three separate CLE programs on legal ethics this October and November. Each of them will use selected video vignettes. These programs are:

Ethical Issues in Withdrawing from a Representation
October, 20, 2025 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm EST by myLawCLE
Co-presenter: German Gomez, Esq., Assoc. General Counsel to White & Case LLP

Ethical Duties When Representing an Organization
November 13, 2025 1:00 pm to 3:10 pm EST by myLawCLE
Co-Presenter: Ronald C. Minkoff, Esq., Partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz P.C.

Ready Set Action: Applying the Ethics Rules in the Real World
November 18, 2025 10:00 am to 12:10 pm EST by the D.C. Bar
Co-Presenter: Hope C. Todd, Esq., Assoc. Director of Legal Ethics, D.C. Bar