Go to the Movies with Paul Newman
    Legal Ethics
    Detecting/Preventing Substance Abuse
    Eliminating Bias in the Legal Profession

July 23, 2009 Pasadena
December 11, 2009 San Francisco

Cinema verité, anyone? Movies provide delicious slices of humanity to study ethics, substance abuse, and bias in the legal profession. And don’t forget those niggling questions about law, justice, and morality.

For our second Go to the Movies cycle (2009-2011), we’ve collected clips from the movies of the remarkable Paul Newman.  Newman’s flawed heroes and winning antiheroes — from the lawyers in The Young Philadelphians and the Verdict to the rebellious Cool Hand Luke, Hombre and others — provide the perfect spark to discuss day-to-day issues that arise in a public interest/legal services practice.

You’ll learn strategies to pursue in a public interest practice
that recognize and deal with
            • Key ethical issues
            • Possible alcohol abuse in colleagues
            • Bias against our clients in the justice system

Experience Benchmark’s trademark training methods - interactive learning that incorporates knowledge and perspectives relevant to public interest practice.

What some people are saying about Go to the Movies:
“Three hands up…way up.”
“If you go to anything this year….[G]o to the [M]ovies.”

Join us in celebrating Paul Newman — actor, director, race car driver, philanthropist, and political activist who used his fame to support causes he believed in passionately. “I wasn’t complacent and didn’t cop out,” he said. “I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”

Here’s to you, Paul Newman, the quintessential public interest advocate.

For Information Contact
Marie Contreras
Marie@benchmarkinstitute.org