Faculty:

Jim Jesse

Duration:

1:01

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Learn the law and stories behind the most famous music copyright cases of all-time.

Wed, Mar 10, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:01am PST

Faculty:

David Berlin |  David Spaulding

Duration:

1:30

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification (“Form I-9”) is used to document identity and work authorization of persons employed in the United States. Every employer is required to correctly execute them within three days of an employee beginning to work for pay but many organizations find the process challenging. Not all companies have Form I-9 policies and many which do, have not ...

Fri, Mar 12, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:25am PST

Faculty:

Roy Ginsburg

Duration:

1 Hour

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Are you a soon-to-be retired solo practitioner? You may be able to strategically sell your practice to enhance your retirement portfolio, as well as secure qualified counsel for your long time clients.  It is critical that you know what your practice is worth, who your optimal buyers are and how to find them, as well as how to structure a fair and balanced deal.  If you’re ...

Wed, Mar 17, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am PDT

Faculty:

Steve Hughes

Duration:

1:01

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

How would you like to snap your fingers and instantly judges, jurors, and clients would agree with your position? It may not be that easy, however you can dramatically improve your chances for success if you understand how people make decisions and what causes them to act. This dynamic CLE program draws on the latest scientific research to illustrate how you can ethically influence

Fri, Mar 19, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:03am PDT

Faculty:

Cynthia Sharp |  Becky Howlett

Duration:

1 Hour 5 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

As attorneys, chronic stress is often a part of our job. If we do not effectively manage chronic stress, however, it has the potential to cripple our productivity levels. Chronic stress can also make it physically, mentally, and emotionally impossible to advocate for our clients and communicate with them effectively and competently. Further, we run the risk of violating the rules of professional ...

Wed, Mar 24, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:05am PDT

Faculty:

Lenné Espenschied

Duration:

1:02

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Got ethics? This program will explore ethical issues from a transactional lawyer's perspective. Using the ABA's Model Rules of Professional conduct as a guide, we'll consider sticky situations that often arise in the course of negotiating and drafting contracts, like these:

Thu, Mar 25, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:01am PDT

Faculty:

Daniel J. Siegel

Duration:

1:03

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

The adage that all publicity is good is not always true. The press is filled with stories about how lawyers end up in hot water by filing improperly-redacted documents, disclosing confidential information to family and friends, and allowing technological ignorance to prejudice clients.

Fri, Mar 26, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:05am PDT

Faculty:

Jeffrey R. Schoenberger, Esq.

Duration:

1 Hour 4 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Legal technology is a double-edged sword; it can cause malpractice, or it can guard against it! Most of the top causes for malpractice and grievance issues are related to organization, communication, and law office management. As such, they are largely preventable. How do you properly communicate confidential information with clients? How do you properly negotiate documents with opposing counsel?

Tue, Mar 30, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:04am PDT

Faculty:

Philip Bogdanoff

Duration:

1:02

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

As the "Me Too" movement shines a light on sexual misconduct and sexually inappropriate actions, it's time for lawyers of both genders to examine the effects of this kind of conduct in the legal community. When speaking on this issue, presenter Philip Bogdanoff has found that sexual misconduct and bias is a recurrent issue in our judicial system and that many attorneys are hesitant to report this misconduct. In this presentation Bogdanoff will review disciplinary cases involving inappropriate sexual conduct by judges, prosecutors, and attorneys. This interactive presentation even gives you the chance to pit your opinions about the violations against the actual rulings by the Ethics review boards in each case.

Wed, Mar 31, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am PDT

Faculty:

Daniel J. Siegel

Duration:

1:00

Short Description:

IOLTA account mismanagement is one of the most common reasons attorneys find themselves in disciplinary hot water. In most cases, the attorney has never been trained how to handle a trust account, or what the best practices are for handling one. In this program, attendees will learn about the relevant Rules of Professional Conduct, and how they can use best practices to account for all client and

Thu, Apr 01, 2021 - 10:00am PDT

Faculty:

Philip Bogdanoff

Duration:

1:00

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

There are unwritten rules of professionalism in baseball based upon respect for the game.  One of these rules is that you do not break up a no hitter by bunting in the ninth inning.  However, in the legal profession, courts have noted a lack of professionalism and civility among attorneys even though these traits are the mainstays of our profession and the foundations upon which lawyers ...

Faculty:

Graham Thatcher |  Brian T. Guthrie |  Anna Marie Thatcher |  Alicia Garcia |  John M. Stuart |  Barry R. Vickrey

Duration:

2 Hours 28 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

In 1535 one lawyer chose personal conscience over public loyalty and so threatened those in power that they killed him! Some have called Sir Thomas More the first "modern man." He was certainly the quintessential Renaissance man ... lawyer, statesman, philosopher, linguist, raconteur, Chancellor of England ... and author of one of the great books of western civilization, Utopia. Despite all of that, Sir Thomas More was beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1535 for high treason.

Wed, Apr 07, 2021 - 10:00am to 12:28pm PDT

Faculty:

Jennifer Ellis

Duration:

1:01

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Whether you choose to be online or not (and you should be online) your clients will write you reviews. Unfortunately, angry clients are much more likely to write about you than happy clients. This webinar will explore the ethical and practical issues surrounding getting good reviews as well as discuss how you should respond when someone bashes you online. Lawyers have been disciplined for their...

Fri, Apr 09, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:03am PDT

Faculty:

Tom O'Connor

Duration:

1 Hour 4 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Most attorneys in private practice are employed by law firms with fewer than 20 lawyers and, in fact, half of all U.S lawyers in private practice are solos. When e-discovery came on the scene, these attorneys viewed it as the exclusive domain of large firms with large cases in Federal court. But with the increase in digital activity by people in all areas of their lives, e-discovery has become an

Wed, Apr 14, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:04am PDT

Faculty:

Sharon D. Nelson |  John W. Simek

Duration:

1:00

Short Description:

Deepfakes can impact our relationship to information and the tools we use to work with it. How will this new horizon impact the trustworthiness of evidence and will the legal profession have the tools needed to test what they see or hear? What are the implications for the Rule of Law and our democracy? Topics our presenters will cover include:

Fri, Apr 16, 2021 - 10:00am PDT

Faculty:

Becky Howlett |  Cynthia Sharp

Duration:

1:00

Short Description:

Join Cindy Sharp and Becky Howlett for this timely educational webinar as they unpack implicit bias—what it is, why it matters, and reveal strategies to become aware of our own unconscious biases and ultimately enhance mindful decision-making. Overall, this program will support your ability to recognize these biases and implement strategies to curtail their harmful effects in your ...

Wed, Apr 21, 2021 - 10:00am PDT

Faculty:

Philip Bogdanoff

Duration:

3:15

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Tiger King was the number one rated show on Netflix drawing over 34 million viewers in its first 10 days.  However, the documentary reveals only part of the story.  In this interactive presentation attendees will learn the complete story of the trial of Joseph Maldonado-Passage for two counts of Murder for Hire in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1958 (a) and several misdemeanor wildlife offenses.  We will examine the trial testimony and discuss the prosecution attempts to use other acts...

Thu, Apr 22, 2021 - 10:00am to 01:15pm PDT

Faculty:

Lenné Espenschied

Duration:

1:01

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

If you’ve got an hour to invest, you can improve your contracts by 100%, because one simple step can produce powerful results.  In contract drafting it's important to know which terminology is most reliable.   In this program, we'll consider 10 ways you can immediately improve your drafting simply by developing a consistent system for signaling specific legal ...

Fri, Apr 23, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:01am PDT

Faculty:

Roger J. Dodd |  Olivia Espinosa |  Steve Hohman

Duration:

2:00

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

To litigate in the COVID-19 era you need more than the traditional cross-examination techniques you’ve always relied on. COVID-19 has dramatically changed the face of litigation...kick-starting a technology shift in the practice of law that has already taken place in almost every other area of society. Zoom, Webex, and other remote platforms are now a regular part of the litigation and ...

Wed, Apr 28, 2021 - 10:00am to 12:01pm PDT

Faculty:

Philip Bogdanoff

Duration:

59 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

When the late Justice Ginsburg was asked when will we have enough woman on the United State Supreme Court, she famously said, “When there are nine.” In 1981, when I started practicing law as an Assistant Summit County prosecutor in Akron, Ohio every one of our seven Common Pleas judges was male.  In 2020, every one of these judges is female.  Because of this change, does this...

Thu, Apr 29, 2021 - 10:00am to 10:59am PDT

Faculty:

Becky Howlett |  Cynthia Sharp

Duration:

1 Hour 5 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

The ABA and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s (ABA/HBFF) groundbreaking 2016 study confirmed devastatingly high rates of both mental health concerns and substance abuse amongst lawyers. For example, between 21-36% of attorneys qualify as problem drinkers—3-5x higher than the general population. Moreover, 25-30% of attorney disciplinary matters, 60% of all malpractice claims, and 85% of

Fri, Apr 30, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:05am PDT

Faculty:

Philip Bogdanoff

Duration:

1 Hour 34 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

The Rules of Professional Conduct indicates that an attorney who possesses unprivileged information that a judge has violated the Rules of Judicial Conduct shall inform the appropriate authority and that that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to knowingly assist a judge in conduct that is a violation of applicable rules of judicial conduct. Therefore it is incumbent for every attorney to

Tue, May 18, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:34am PDT