Webinar

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

This program offers 1 hour participatory MCLE credit; 1 hour in Competency Issues. You must register in advance to participate.  The presentation will provide a brief examination of the prevalence of substance use disorders and mental health disorders, both for the general population and attorneys. Attorney-specific data will show prevalence based on years of practice, type of practice, position in firm, gender, etc. The distinction between moderate drinking and binge drinking will be shown as well as causes of addiction… Read more

How can you properly authenticate social media, text messages, and email at trial? What is the “original writing” of electronically stored information? How do you overcome hearsay objections to social media status messages? Read more

The challenge of enforcing brands online is ever-evolving. In Europe there have been recent developments on both the mechanisms for doing so (ordering ISPs to block websites) and in the rules about which courts have jurisdiction when relying on EU trademarks. Meanwhile, there are open questions before Europe's highest court about the validity (or otherwise) of exhaustive recitations of goods/services. Read more

The personal webbing that ties lawyers in the USA to clients often has a shared understanding within the scope of professional norms. The MeToo# Movement, LBGTQ organizations, and internet social media platforms have changed the norms on what is proper, acceptable and professional. The panelists, who have worked and lived abroad, will analyze the new normal within the global context of statewide ethics, including cultural norms and how-to’s in the mid-East, Russia, Italy, Mexico and other countries. Read more