The Mezzanine

*follows you back, hopefully not creepily*

But this time, my immediate thought was "So... you've clearly been to John Dean's course on How Not To End Up Like John Dean, then."

I must geek out here, because post-Watergate (and then post-Enron), there were significant reforms in legal ethics, including revising and clarifying various rules about required professional behaviour, what is and isn't covered by confidentiality, and what to do when you know your client is engaging in criminal behaviour (and who your client is when you represent an organization -- the White House counsel does not in fact work for the individual who is President at that moment).

So the Watergate CLE's part of a bigger attempt to teach lawyers not to fuck up like that, basically.

There's an interesting panel from the Chapman U Watergate Symposium where panelists including Jill Wine-Banks and Jim Robenalt (who co-teaches the Watergate CLE) discuss the ethical dilemmas faced by lawyers involved in Watergate, and the post-Watergate reforms of the rules:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?306027-4/legacy-watergate (also on iTunes as a podcast)