Our guest speaker this month is Gina L. Hendryx, General Counsel with Oklahoma Bar Association. She will be speaking on “Current Issues in Attorney Discipline”.
Key takeaways:
- Attorney Grievance Procedures
- Proper Uses of AI
- Duty to Supervise Non-Lawyer Assistants
About Gina Hendryx:
Gina Hendryx is the General Counsel for the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA). A licensed
attorney for more than 30 years, Ms. Hendryx received her Juris Doctor and Bachelor of
Science degrees from Oklahoma City University.
As General Counsel she is the chief disciplinary counsel, supervising a staff of 15 and
serves as the association’s counsel on other legal matters. Ms. Hendryx works with the
Professional Responsibility Commission and serves as a liason to the OBA Board of
Governors, OBA committees, the courts, and other local and national entities concerning
lawyer ethics issues.
From 2003 until April 2009, Ms. Hendryx served as the OBA’s first Ethics Counsel fielding
questions from the associations’ 17,000 members pertaining to ethical dilemmas faced in
the day to day practice of law. In addition to the ethics help line, Ms. Hendryx implemented
and directed the OBA Discipline Diversion Program. The Discipline Diversion Program is
designed to provide awareness and remedial education of ethical obligations and
responsibilities to those attorneys whose actions constitute certain types of misconduct that
reflect adversely upon the legal profession and are harmful to the administration of justice
and the provision of legal services to the public.
Ms. Hendryx is a frequent lecturer in the areas of professional responsibility and
compliance with ethical standards. She has spoken to numerous private, public and
governmental sector groups including state and county bar associations, legal services
groups, and Judge Advocate General training programs.