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From Pills to Plants
In recent years plant-based diets have gone mainstream. More people are touting the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables and cutting back on meat. The advantages have been well researched, and many people are seeing incredible results. We know we should eat more blueberries and broccoli, but why don’t we? Change is hard!
Colorful Meals for Optimal Health
Health food advocate and plant-based chef, Tracy Childs, joins us for a virtual cooking demonstration of “Pink Pasta”. Learn more about the myriad benefits of plant-based eating including the reversal of many chronic diseases, like heart disease.Â
Free Webinar: The History of Black Lawyers, Black Judges, and Black Bar Associations In California
The Honorable Judge Charles Smiley, who has written a soon to be published book regarding: “The History of Black Lawyers, Black Judges, and Black Bar Associations In California,” will discuss his in depth research over the past 25 years regarding the rich, triumphant, and sometimes heartbreaking history of Black lawyers, Black judges, and Black Bar Associations in California and the United States. This is one very educational Black History Month Program that you do not want to miss.
Free Webinar: Stories of Success: Celebrating Our Black Legal Community
On February 28, join California Lawyers Association for an incredible night celebrating a few of California's most celebrated Black Legal Community Leaders. Like the trailblazers that inspired them, you hear stories of resilience and unwavering determination to stop nothing short of success.
How Texting Increases Efficiency and Helps Protect Attorneys
Join us with Kenect as we review how texting increases efficiency!
CLA Yoga Series: Why Yoga
As we embark on our virtual yoga series, join yoga instructors and legal practitioners for a conversation about why yoga is a valuable component of your wellness toolkit. We will begin with a brief breathing exercise followed by discussion of the mental, physical, and emotional benefits of a yoga practice including connections to ethics and recovery from challenges like cancer and physical injuries.
CLA Yoga Series: Vinyasa with Jay Co
This vinyasa (flow) style asana practice leans toward strength and active mobility involving shorter posture holds and dynamic transitions at a challenging pace. This class is like lifting weights, stretching, and meditating all at the same time.
Bar Leaders Webinar: Accessible Events: Creating, Hosting, and Facilitating
Join us for the quarterly free webinar for California bar association leaders. We will be joined by Theo Ser-Ramin and Alison Corn of LAAC to review process guides, templates, and high-level concepts about in-person and virtual event accessibility in addition to general accessibility practices. Participants will learn accessibility best practices and tools to ensure equitable access for all meeting attendees. Leave this session with tangible actions your bar can take to make your events more accessible to your own members.
California bar association executive and general staff and volunteer leaders (e.g., President/Chair, President/Chair-Elect, Vice President/Chair, etc.) are encouraged to attend.
Webinar: Preventing Recurring Errors on Appeal – Prosecutorial Error
This training explores some of the more common, repeating examples of prosecutorial error that occur in California felony jury trials. Specific case examples illustrate best practices to avoid these errors and address the intersection with instructional error and ineffective assistance of counsel. The goal is to develop a broader understanding of how to approach related issues during trial. Â
CLA Yoga Series: All-Level Yoga
This class has been designed to welcome beginners as well as experienced students of yoga. Gentle movements of the body with stretches and regulated breath-work will energize and relax the mind & body after the session.Â
We are committed to accessibility! Virtual events are equipped with closed captioning. To request an in-person accommodation, send us a note at accessibility@calawyers.org or contact us at 916-516-1760 for assistance.