Events
Webinar: What Every Litigator Needs to Know About Arbitration: A Primer
Litigators often find themselves representing clients in arbitration, but don’t have the necessary training or experience to fully take advantage of the process for their clients’ optimal benefit.
Webinar Replay: Civility: It’s Not Just a Good Idea. It’s the Law
California Superior Court Judges will discuss civility in litigation practice, including legal requirements and best practices. Topics covered will include: why civility is important, how civility is legally mandated, and best practices in discovery, deposition, oral argument, and motion practice.
Webinar: What’s Up? News, Reviews and Interviews for RPLS Members
Verbal discussion between e-bulletin coordinator and co-chair- of RPLS highlighting important statutory and case law developments, upcoming RPLS sponsored events and featuring interviews with prominent Ex-Com members, CLA leaders and others.
San Luis Obispo County Minor’s Counsel Training
The Cliffs Hotel & Spa 2757 Shell Beach Road, Pismo Beach, CaliforniaThe Family Law Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association (FLEXCOM) is pleased to announce it will be hosting the Third Annual San Luis Obispo County Minor’s Counsel Training Symposium, in Pismo Beach, California on February 16 and 17, 2019. The program will provide a total of 12 hours of total MCLE credit, including 12 hours of Family Law Legal Specialization credit. The symposium will satisfy the annual 8 hours training requirement of Rule 5.242 of the California Rules of Court. Those attorneys needing to satisfy the 12 hours initial training requirement will be able to attend a morning session on February 16 to obtain the additional 4 hours.
Moderator: Stephen D. Hamilton, CFLS and FLEXCOM Chair
Employment Law 101 – Fundamentals for the New Employment Practitioner
The Orrick Building 405 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesGiven the voluminous number of employment laws that are applicable to California employers, representing clients or working as an employment practitioner can be extremely challenging. In this conference, management and employee-side attorneys will cover the fundamentals of a variety of employment laws, including: discrimination, harassment, leaves of absences, wage and hour as well as employment agreements and alternative ways of resolving employment disputes.
Webinar: Antitrust Analysis in Two-Sided Markets
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ohio v. American Express, in which the Court held that AmEx’s anti-steering provisions do not violate the antitrust laws, was closely watched and elicited strong reactions on both sides. While some celebrated the decision’s recognition of two-sided “transaction platforms” as a relevant market with distinct characteristics and concerns, others criticized it as an unwarranted departure from traditional rule of reason analysis. This panel discussion will explore the treatment of two-sided markets in antitrust law, with an emphasis on how the AmEx decision has been interpreted by courts and invoked by litigants thus far and how it is likely to shape legal theories and analysis in antitrust cases going forward.
Webinar: Defending Depositions in Family Law Cases
The focus of our class is the style and strategy of how to approach defending a deposition, much of this is done in the practice of defending your client, knowing when to object, the privileges to assert and when it is appropriate to end a deposition and seek a protective order.
Webinar Replay: Ethical Pitfalls in Gathering Proof
This program surveys the rules governing contact with represented and unrepresented parties, current and former employees, information subject to non-disclosure agreements, inadvertently produced information, and information procured through self-help by clients. Current and proposed California Rules and the ABA Model Rules will be covered.
Webinar: The Do’s and Don’ts of Federal Sentencing
This program covers basic federal sentencing including plea agreements, interactions with the US Probation Department, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and drafting sentencing memoranda and sentencing objections.
Webinar: Practical Impact of SCOTUS’s decision in Helsinn v. Teva on Secret Sales
In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of the “on sale bar” — holding that “Congress did not alter the meaning of ‘on sale’ when it enacted the AIA.” In so doing, the Supreme Court answered affirmatively that a secret sale of an invention, or a sale of a technology under terms that require the invention to remain confidential, is barred under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1), thereby preventing the invention from being patented. In this webinar, our panelists will weigh in on the impact of this decision and offer practical pointers to stakeholders and practitioners when dealing with secret, on-sale offers, activities, or commercialization.
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