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Webinar: Building Persuasive Damages Models for Business Cases and Related Contract Drafting Tips
The panel will discuss compelling damage models in business cases. Attention will be given to limitations of damages, evidentiary issues, pre-trial motions, expert testimony, strategic and tactical decision-making, and contract drafting techniques.
Webinar: Litigation Funding in Bankruptcy Cases: How to Get it & Potential Pitfalls (Help Me Legalist, You’re My Only Hope)
Litigation financing is being used by attorneys, bankruptcy trustees, and debtors to address the financial challenges associated with insolvency litigation & reorganizations.
Webinar: Default Interest Considerations in Bankruptcy
The panelists will discuss the timely and highly disputed issues relating to default interest in the bankruptcy context.
Webinar: Efficient Trial Presentation Strategies for Data-Rich Cases
This seminar will focus around a case study of a complex accounting dispute in which a voluminous amount of documents required extensive discovery and review for the important content. The session will next focus on suggestions for organizing the relevant documents for a concise and understandable presentation at a trial.
Webinar: Two Roads Converge: Navigating the Intersections of Insolvency and Insurance Law
The Insurance Law Committee and the Bankruptcy Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association are jointly presenting a webinar panel to explore the various intersections between bankruptcy and insurance matters. A debtor’s or third party’s insurance policies are often viewed as a source of recovery by trustees and debtors-in-possession. Spotting and navigating such issues is oftentimes complicated by the fact that in the context of an appointed trustee there may not be anyone at the client to identify the claims or walk the trustee through the debtor’s documents.
Webinar: Managing Professionals Professionally: A Guide for Lawyers
This program will explore the ethical responsibilities of attorneys working in a law firm. Topics include; properly maintaining a system to run conflict checks; the types of things to check for; imputation of conflicts of interest; effective ethical screens; use of contract lawyers; multijurisdictional practices; lawyers performing non-legal functions; and supervision.
2022 Business Law Symposium
Join us for the 2022 Business Law Symposium for three excellent sessions you won't want to miss.
Fearless Female Founders Attack Microaggressions
"Fearless Female Founders Attack Microaggressions: What are they and how can we eliminate them in the practice of law?" It features a diverse, intersectional group of female founders and partners at law firms discussing topics such as how law firms can develop meaningful policies and procedures to attack microaggressions and train staff and attorneys how to recognize microaggressions and to avoid being complicit when witnessing microaggressions in the workplace.
Webinar: Current Legal Issues in Use of Pesticides
There have been a number of legal developments over the past several years affecting the use of pesticides in agriculture, from the Ninth Circuit’s ruling that EPA violated FIFRA in issuing dicamba registrations, to California’s ban on chlorpyrifos, to Prop. 65 enforcement actions involving pesticides.
Letting Go Can Be Hard to Do – the Current State of Non-Consensual Third Party Releases in Chapter 11 Cases
Non-consensual third party releases in Chapter 11 plans (in which parties that have not filed bankruptcy nevertheless benefit from broad release provisions that are included in the Chapter 11 plans) have been a controversial topic in business bankruptcy cases for many years.
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