Events
Paraprofessional Program Working Group Update & Status – Get All Your Questions Answered
In 2020, the State Bar’s Board of Trustees directed formation of a California Paraprofessionals Working Group, charged with developing recommendations for consideration by the Board of Trustees for the creation of a paraprofessional licensure/certification program. Join the State Bar’s Executive Director and CLA’s appointed member on the Working Group for a discussion of the Working Group’s final set of recommendations and background leading up to those recommendations, covering areas that include licensing requirements; regulation; discipline; practice areas and permissible scope of services; and program implementation.
Webinar Replay: Who Really Signed the Document? Liability Issues arising from Common E-Signature Practices
This panel will discuss the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, impersonation and forgery, wire fraud and wire instructions and best practices to ensure that the person claiming to sign a document was actually the one who signed it.
October Membership Meeting and Interview of Chetan Gupta, Twitter Sr. Legal Counsel, Privacy and Data Production
The Privacy Law Section invites all members to come together for the latest section news and updates, opportunities for leadership and networking, and an interview with Chetan Gupta, Twitter Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy and Data Production about his award-winning paper, “The Market’s Law of Privacy: Case Studies in Privacy/Security Adoption.”
Webinar: Accelerating Change From our Blind Spots in International Dispute Resolution
Where are our blind spots when it comes to culture and diversity in international dispute resolution? Arbitration and mediation are processes premised on their constituencies agreeing to resolve future or existing disputes with the assistance of an independent neutral or group of neutrals. In arbitration, we rely on the arbitrator to fairly decide the merits; in mediation, we rely on the mediator to facilitate a sound settlement. A key component in these arrangements is an inherent trust in not only the decision-making systems and rules but also the independent character of all the individuals involved in the dispute resolution process.
Webinar: At the Intersection: Trade Dress, Design Patent and Copyright Protection of Product Designs and Packaging
Packaging and product designs pose unique challenges and concepts for IP prosecutors and litigators.
Webinar: Litigating Alter Ego Claims
The Hon. Elizabeth Feffer and Everett L. Green will discuss the alter ego doctrine and the appropriate and inappropriate uses of the doctrine, pleading requirements, and strategies to minimize the risk of alter ego liability.
30th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite
The Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® is nationally recognized as the largest and most prestigious gathering in California of leaders in environmental, land use, and natural resources law.
Webinar: The New Landscape of NCAA NIL (Name/Image/Likeness) Dealmaking
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Alston v. NCAA, the NCAA changed its policy to permit college athletes to market their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) without losing their amateur status.
ELS Book Club: Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, by Caroline Finney
Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.
Webinar Replay: Conquering Chronic Disease & Preexisting Conditions in the Age of Covid-19; How Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Disease
My interest and motivation: Chronic disease devastated my family – My mother and her father died of a stroke in their 40’s! – My father: kidney and prostate cancer, on dialysis & miserable for the last 10 - 15 years of his life – My grandfather on my dad’s side had heart disease and diabetes; his physician recommended a leg be removed.
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