LAKEPORT, Calif. – At noon on Friday, Jan. 23, the Lake County Bar Association will welcome the Hon. Donald F. Miles of the State Bar Court, Los Angeles, who will address professional responsibility in the legal profession.

Members of the Bar will earn 1.5 hours of mandatory continuing legal education for attending.

The seminar will be held on the second floor of the Courthouse Museum, directly in front of the current courthouse on Forbes.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Miles to the State Bar Court in 2006.

Judge Miles is a former member of the California Legislature’s Joint Committee on Tort Law and served as a member of the California State Bar’s Attorney Civility Task Force.

He has been an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law, teaching evidence and advocacy, and he has taught trial practice programs for Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), NITA, Hastings Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, and the Federal Practice Program for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Miles is now a frequent lecturer on the professional obligations of attorneys, and also is the author of numerous publications.

Cost for attorneys is $10 for members of the Lake County Bar Association and $30 for nonmembers. Cost for paralegals is $15.

This seminar is only open to attorneys, paralegals and private fiduciaries.

Annual membership in the Lake County Bar for 2015 is $35.