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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
CLA Yoga Series: Creating calm, clarity, and confidence using Yoga’s Science of Mind
Stress, overwhelm, anxiety, and distraction. These are just a few of the ruinous enemies of peak productivity—and professional and personal success. Unfortunately, these internal saboteurs have become so commonplace that most of us accept them as a normal and necessary cost of doing business. But here’s what you need to know: they can be stopped in their tracks.
CLA Yoga Series: Restorative Yoga: Learn to Rest Deeply
This virtual class is designed with gentle floor based sequences using bolsters, blankets, and props that support the practitioner to fully relax the muscles, slow down the mental activity of the brain, shift emotional patterns, bring ease to the breath, and tune into the nervous system’s healing capacity. This 1.5 hour long class is perfect for any age or level of student.
Legislative Day
Join us April 19 in Sacramento for Legislative Day
Webinar: California Cannabis Operators in Distress
Please join CLA Cannabis Industry Practitioners Group lawyers Jason Rosell and Kresimir Peharda, along with Scott Yahraus, and Jano Dekermenjian from the Office of California State Senator Toni Atkins, for a webinar on Thursday, April 20th at 12 p.m. (PT) to discuss the distressed cannabis market in California and the legal, regulatory, and policy landscapes surrounding this largest cannabis market in the world.
Free Webinar: Judicial Accountability: A Better Judiciary Makes A Better Society
The Legal Accountability Project (LAP) is a non-profit dedicated to increasing judicial accountability to ensure positive clerkship experiences nation wide. LAP is quantifying the scope of harassment, discrimination and diversity issues in the courts, and using research to craft effective solutions.
Town Hall: Losing Our [Best] Minds
In 2020, the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the D.C. Bar announced their participation in a groundbreaking research project conducted by attorney mental health and well-being expert Patrick Krill and Dr. Justin Anker. The first phase of findings from the study, “Stress, drink, leave: An examination of gender-specific risk factors for mental health problems and attrition among licensed attorneys”, was released in 2021 shedding light on the disparate experiences of women practitioners.
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.