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Webinar Replay: Competent Lawyering: How To Work In A Distracted World – The Neuroscience Of Focus
What actually goes on in our brains in a distracted world? Brains are primed to process incoming stimuli for survival – but not for today’s “wired” technological world of smartphones, email, and instant communications. With overwhelming amounts of information and distractions, it is hard to give focus to critical cognitive tasks. And, those distractions increase our stress and may increase depression and anxiety. We’ll discuss how to improve our competence as attorneys by better understanding how to conquer distractions, reduce stress and anxiety, and improve our communication and decision making.
Webinar Replay: Top Courts Tackle Labor & Employment in 2018: Top 5 Take Aways
2018 has offered up some earthquakes in Labor & Employment. Â As we take a look at these decisions, their immediate impact, and the ripples following in their wakes, we look ahead to 2019 and a newly constituted US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court.
Webinar: The Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
The procedures for the taking of evidence followed in international arbitration differ greatly from domestic litigation and arbitration in the US. Depositions, wide ranging document discovery and written interrogatories will generally be excluded and arbitral hearings are often far shorter than what one finds in domestic cases. These differences can often come as a surprise to US counsel who are not experienced in the field.
Webinar Replay: Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility: Lessons from the Tech Trial of the Century
What were the legal issues at the forefront of the marquee trade secrets litigation between Waymo and Uber?  How can companies resolve the tension between California’s policies favoring employee mobility and protecting trade secrets?  What are some key aspects of presenting a trade secrets case at trial?  Join us to learn about these issues and more from two of Uber’s trial lawyers in Waymo v. Uber.Â
Webinar Replay: What Every Litigator Should Know About Attorney Fee Appeals
This webinar will discuss what every litigator should know about attorney fee appeals, including the deadline to appeal and how long it may take, how to collect or stay an attorney fee award pending appeal, recovering attorney fees for the appeal, and many more.
Webinar Replay: Effective Oral Argument
Topics include how to prepare for oral argument, how to answer questions, and how to not lose it.
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.
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