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 David Hudson serves as an attorney for the First
Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center, which is funded
by the Freedom Forum, seeks to foster a greater public understanding and
appreciation for First Amendment rights and values. Hudson writes for the
Freedom Forum's online publication, The Freedom Forum Online, and other
leading publications devoted to First Amendment issues. He contributes regularly to
the American Bar Association's Preview of United
States Supreme Court Cases, the Commercial Speech
Digest and the ABA
Journal.
Attorneys often must defend their clients in the Court of Public
Opinion as well as the courtroom to fulfill their ethical duty of zealously
representing their clients. Sometimes attorneys are sanctioned for
violating ethical duties regulating extrajudicial speech. This online
course examines the leading Supreme Court case on this issue and then
presents participants with several fact patterns drawn from real appellate
cases.
Click here to take this course.
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