Lawyers have an ethical responsibility to combat a “post-truth” environment that if left unchallenged, threatens the rule of law, warns veteran FIU law school professor and trial attorney Scott Fingerhut.

“Lies are nothing new, but they are being presented to America in a new way that many people seemingly are on board with,” Fingerhut says. “It’s a dangerous thing that makes a lawyer’s job more difficult, and it puts the profession in peril, because at bottom, confidence in the rule of law is all we have.”

On June 10, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Bar’s Annual Convention, Fingerhut will join a panel of experts for the 2021 Masters Seminar on Ethics. (Course No. 4375 is authorized for 4.0 hours of General CLE and 4.0 hours of Ethics CLE. To register, click here.)