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Webinar: Setting Up Yourself For Mediation Success
This webinar will discuss practical tips on conducting a successful mediation session.
Webinar Replay: How to Get More Out of your Mediator and your Mediations
Why don’t more cases settle in mediation?  Surely, mediation can be more successful than it usually is.  Few situations re more uncomfortable than driving away from a mediation with your client in the car, after a case didn’t settle.  This webinar looks at what attorneys can do in mediation, when advocating for their clients, to increase the probability that their mediations actually settle. Seasoned mediators have taken hundreds of hours of classes and workshops in mediation and negotiation strategy, and have facilitated hundreds or thousands of negotiations.  Most attorneys never get to see all of the skills a mediator has because they never make the mediator work hard enough to see their mediator to utilize those skills.
Webinar Replay: Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Series: Voir Dire
Panelists will share their thoughts and practical advice on the art and science of jury selection.
Webinar Replay: 2018 Annual Litigation Summit: Litigator’s Update
This star-powered panel will bring the latest developments in federal and state procedure, substantive developments in the courts and the latest from the California Legislature. This one-stop approach to updates just for litigators was one of the highlights of last year’s Summit.
Webinar: Ethical Witness Preparation and Presentation
This program tackles how the new California ethics rules, case law, and ethics opinions apply to witness preparation and presentation.
Webinar Replay: Examining Opening Statement Strategies for Plaintiffs and Defense Attorneys
This program will examine the key strategies for delivering effective opening statements.
Webinar: ADR Case and Legislative Update: Recent Developments in Mediation and Arbitration (Jan 2018 – Jun 2019)
This course canvases some of the most recent and significant cases and legislative developments in mediation and arbitration– at state and federal level - and puts them into historical perspective.Â
Webinar Replay: A Beginner’s Guide to Civil Writ Practice in the Courts of Appeal
This program will explore a civil writ practice, procedures and techniques. Â Panelists will teach you the criteria used for granting or denying a writ petitions, and how to avoid common drafting mistakes.Â
So, You Want to Be a Judge? Pathways to the Bench
Join us for this informative session on pathways to the bench! Have the opportunity to hear about best steps and approaches by both Martin Jenkins, Judicial Appointments Secretary to Governor Gavin Newsom; and Diane Bellas, JNE Commission Chair!
Webinar Replay: SB 766 – The International Arbitration California Gold Rush!
This program offers 1 participatory MCLE credit. You must register in advance to participate: https://bit.ly/2ROEoHo Historically, there was uncertainty whether California prohibited out-of-state and foreign lawyers to provide legal services in international commercial arbitrations conducted in California. Such uncertainty created a significant disincentive to the selection of California as an international arbitration venue and prevented…
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