Faculty:

Lenné Espenschied, Esq.

Duration:

1:00

Short Description:

If you could choose your own superpower, what would it be?  The power of persuasion enables virtually all other pursuits, so it ranks high on the list of preferred superpowers for lawyers.  In this program, Part 4 of Logic, Argumentation, and Persuasion, we’ll showcase four different methods to enhance your power of persuasion.  We’ll consider ...

Wed, Aug 24, 2022 - 10:00am PDT

Faculty:

Carole Levitt |  Mark Rosch

Duration:

1:00

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Casemaker4 is an online legal research system that lawyers in many states (such as Maine, New Hampshire and others) can access for free through their bar association memberships. Casemaker updated its entire platform and re-launched it as Casemaker4 on June 5, 2019. Casemaker4 includes a variety of legal research resources: Cases, statutes, session laws, codes, court rules, rules, and regu

Faculty:

Robert Musante, Esq.

Duration:

2 Hours 2 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Taking high-quality adverse depositions is the most important teachable litigation skill. Taking a high-quality adverse deposition requires the conscientious application of an integrated set of logical cross-examination rules, the very set of rules that law schools should have offered to their students in a full-semester course, and litigation law firms should have taught their newbies (and their

Faculty:

Lenné Espenschied, Esq.

Duration:

1 Hour 12 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Indemnification is the key mechanism for shifting risk under a contract. In this program, we will describe six different types of indemnification and show you how to break the basic indemnification provision into seven negotiable components. We'll discuss first-party indemnification provisions, and how to negotiate like a pro even in low leverage situations.

Faculty:

Carol Schiro Greenwald, PhD

Duration:

1 Hour 1 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Videoconferencing is supposed to be the pandemic equivalent to in-person meetings, from meeting with a client to appearing before a judge. It is equivalent, in the sense that you can still  meet or network “in-person,” but the person is encapsulated in a tiny square. It isn’t equivalent when you realize that most participants are sitting at home in the corner of their ...

Author:

Judy K. Davis, Esq |  Carole Levitt

Publication Date:

May 26, 2020

Short Description:

Internet Legal Research on a Budget directs lawyers to useful and reliable free (and low-cost) resources and explains how to use them effectively. This edition has updated information about resources discussed in the first edition, new resources, and expanded chapters on Casemaker and Fastcase.

Faculty:

Lenné Espenschied, Esq.

Duration:

1 Hour 3 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Classical logic is built upon premises that are presumed to be true, but what exactly is “true” and how does it differ from fact?  A recent Pew Survey revealed that 64% of knowledgeable, savvy Americans could not distinguish properly between five factual statements and five opinion statements; the unknowledgeable, unsavvy Americans fared far worse.  In this fascinating program...

Faculty:

Alan Blumenfeld |  Katherine James |  Act of Communications |  Anna Marie Thatcher

Duration:

2:15

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

How many times have you thought you prepared a witness perfectly only to have that witness fail – either just a little, or completely and disastrously? Do your problem witnesses keep you awake at night?  Do some witnesses affect YOUR performance? You are not alone. Every attorney knows exactly what a “star witness” looks like, acts like, and performs like. A star witness is...

Faculty:

John Federico, Esq.

Duration:

1:05

Format:

Audio and Video

Short Description:

Microsoft Word includes powerful tools to create the highly formatted documents attorneys must create. Microsoft Word combines font and paragraph formatting into something called Styles.  Styles are applied to all text whether you want them or not; and there is no way to turn off the feature.

Faculty:

Lenné Espenschied, Esq.

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 ...