And today’s guest performer…

Ya just can’t make crap like this up! Now why didn’t they have classes like this when I was in school? The Periodic Table Blues by Howlin’ Wolf. Yeah!

Ethics Rock! — A Live Legal Ethics Program Performed to the Tunes of ’60s Rock and Roll

There are no CLE seminars like those from the Ethics in Tune program. Apart from the novelty and entertainment elements of this approach, the musical presentation has teaching advantages as well. Participants have found that the songs help them remember the ethical dilemmas portrayed, and that the format as a whole holds their interest through the program on a topic that is renowned for its capacity to bore.

The latest Ethics in Tune seminar is the most popular yet: Ethics Rock! The tuneful and nostalgic legal ethics seminar presents complex legal ethics scenarios as expertly performed parodies of some of the greatest rock-and-roll hits of the ’60s, accompanied by acoustic guitar and sung by professional classic rock performers. The Beatles, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, and many others find their works transformed into new versions that tell stories of lawyers facing ethical difficulties while somehow retaining the flavor and spark of the original hit songs.

Among the song parodies included and the issues addressed:
• Overture: “Tommy” Medley. Basic duties in the attorney-client relationship.
• The Ballad of Fagin Snow (“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”). Supervisor/subordinate, deceptive tactics, candor toward the tribunal.
• A Day in the Court (“A Day in the Life”). Courtroom tactics, dirty tricks, fraud on the court, false evidence and misrepresentations.
• What 1.6 Is for (“When I’m Sixty-Four”). Ethical considerations when changing firms, conflicts, confidentiality.
• The Dentist (“The Boxer”). Joint representations, hearing too much, conflicts, confidentiality, the incompetent client.
• Scum and Pain (“Fire and Rain”). Former clients, duty to warn, confidentiality, conflicts, competing duties.
• The Day My Ethics Died (“American Pie”). Sarbanes-Oxley, communication, honesty, organization representation, and more.

What, no Stairway to Heaven on the ethics of euthanasia???