Webinar

In response to the housing shortage, California has been strengthening the state-mandated housing allocations for regions to assign to local governments. The state now requires streamlined local approval for housing projects in jurisdictions that are not producing enough housing, ties transportation funding to compliance, and is now suing some local governments for inaction. Join outgoing California Department of Housing and Community Development director Ben Metcalf to discuss this process and where policy may go from here. Read more

This program offers 1 Participatory MCLE Credits With laptops, smartphones, and persistent internet, lawyers are only a call, text, or email away from business and client demands. Simple and affordable tools, services, and apps can be used to help busy lawyers reduce stress while delivering superlative client service. Speaker: Adriana Linares Read more

Free webinar! Conversation between Real Property section e-bulletin editor and section Co-chair about RPLS events, and interview with prominent real estate lawyer. Moderator: Neil Kalin. Speaker: John Richards Read more

The webinar will focus on issues concerning the registration of trademarks associated with the sale of various alcoholic beverages, as well as service marks regarding services involving the sale of alcoholic beverages. The webinar will assess the potential for consumer confusion, as well as issues regarding descriptiveness, geographic descriptiveness, genericness, trade dress, and consent agreements when seeking to register a mark used in connection with alcoholic beverages. Read more

This program offers 1 participatory MCLE credit; 1 Elimination of Bias; plus legal specialization in Legal Ethics. You must register in advance to participate. The webinar will address jury challenges, the voir dire process, peremptory and for cause challenges, Batson-Wheeler motions, and jury selection techniques, including questionnaires. The webinar will offer general and legal specialization credit, as well as credit for elimination of bias. (I.e., through the discussion of challenges of members of cognizable groups”). Speaker: Jeffrey A. Aaron Read more

This webinar will provide an overview of the PTAB Trial Practice Guide Update (published on July 15, 2019), discuss recent developments in IPR practice before the PTAB, and offer some practice tips. Specifically, the discussion will focus on issues relating to multiple petitions, claim construction, and testimonial evidence. Read more

Is the Marketing department’s lackadaisical attitude towards external communication keeping you up at night? This webinar will cover the do’s and don’ts of communicating with your business’ customers via email, texts, telephone calls (including call recording), social media, and push notifications. Ed Chansky of Greenber Traurig, LLP will address various compliance regimes, such as CAN-SPAM, TCPA, FTC guidelines, Do-not-call, social media platform rules, and state telemarketing registration laws. Read more

This program offers 1 participatory MCLE credit plus legal specialization in Family Law. You must register in advance to participate. This program will provide attorneys with identification of issues, and problematic provisions in drafting Stipulated Orders and Judgments in Family Law and mechanisms to enforce property and support provisions after the orders have been made. Speakers: Evie Jeang, Ritzel Ngo, and Richard Weissman Read more

This program offers 1 participatory MCLE credit plus legal specialization in Family Law. You must register in advance to participate. In this presentation, Marlis Bruns will discuss various aspects of medical issues in the vocational evaluation process, including how health information is gathered in the context of the evaluation, the integration of medical and health information into a written report, and how to identify red flags in an evaluation where medical issues are considered. Moderator: Roz Bateman Smith. Speaker: Marlis… Read more

This program offers 1 hour participatory MCLE credit in Legal Ethics. You must register in advance to participate. There are unique ethical issues that arise in the context of employment disputes. Whether representing an employee or an employer, employment attorneys should be aware of common ethical pitfalls. The panel will discuss ethical rules that govern pre-litigation and litigation communications, multiple party representation, organizational clients, and settlement/drafting contracts. Speakers: Hina Shah and Alexandra Stathopoulos Read more