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From expanding wage data reporting requirements (Pay Transparency), proposing new fast food restaurant standards, extending COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave, and providing protections for cannabis users, the state of California recently passed a...

Program Number
32209
Program Date
2022-11-16
Category
Employee Benefits & CompensationEmployment & Labor LawFederal CourtsLabor & Workforce Management LawLabor LawState Specific - CA
State
California
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

Most legal ethics programs focus on how applicable rules, laws, and related opinions govern a lawyer´s behavior when he or she is practicing law. But what rules apply to a lawyer´s behavior off the clock?  The answer is: ethically, a...

Program Number
32173
Program Date
2022-11-15
Category
Communications and Media LawEthics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligiblePersonal InjuryPrivacy and Data SecurityRegulatory and Administrative Law
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Legal Ethics:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

This program will offer time and cost savings strategies for attorneys representing owners and developers in the negotiation of construction management agreements. The use of term sheets and issues lists will be shown to reduce the need to engage in ...

Program Number
32261
Program Date
2022-11-15
Category
Business Organizations & ContractsConstruction Law SeriesContractsFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleLegal Management
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

On September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a Memorandum supplementing prior DOJ guidance on corporate criminal enforcement policies, titled Further Revisions to Corporate Criminal Enforcement P...

Program Number
32271
Program Date
2022-11-14
Category
Business Organizations & ContractsCorporate and Securities LawCriminal Law & ProcedureCriminal Law & White CollarCriminal Practice & ProcedureFederal CourtsFlorida Eligible
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

This program will highlight recent decisions of interest affecting the practice of trusts and estates, covering such topics as the elective share, breach of fiduciary duty, in terrorem or no contest clauses, removal of a fiduciary, and pre-trial disc...

Program Number
32231
Program Date
2022-11-11
Category
Complex LitigationEstate PlanningEstate Planning & ProbateFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleLegal Research and WritingLitigation and Appeals
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1.25 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1.25

This program will open your mind to the many aspects of a negotiation you may not know existed. It will illustrate and explain the many parallel aspects that must be considered in any negotiation in which there is a lot at stake. It will cover issues...

Program Number
32254
Program Date
2022-11-10
Category
(ADR) Alternative Dispute ResolutionCommunication SkillsComplex LitigationComplex Resolution StrategyFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleLitigation & Litigation SkillsLitigation and AppealsNegotiation SkillsTrial Skills
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1.5 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1.5

At the onset and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many commercial tenants that were unable to pay rent raised legal defenses (including arguments based on the doctrines of frustration of purpose and impossibility as well as the force majeu...

Program Number
32229
Program Date
2022-11-09
Category
Business Organizations & ContractsContractsCorporate and Commercial LawCovid-19Federal CourtsFlorida EligibleHealth Care LawReal Estate
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

The last gasp of opportunity for the appellant's counsel during oral argument is the Rebuttal after the respondent's counsel has rested. At this point there is usually a sliver of time to clear- up any confusion that may exist on the part of the pane...

Program Number
32221
Program Date
2022-11-09
Category
Complex LitigationFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleLaw Practice ManagementLitigation & Litigation SkillsLitigation and AppealsTrial Skills
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

This program will cover some of the common challenges employment attorneys address in three contexts:  Transactional/advisory employment law practice Employment litigation Conducting workplace investigations.  This program will addr...

Program Number
32212
Program Date
2022-11-08
Category
(ADR) Alternative Dispute ResolutionCommunications and Media LawComplex LitigationEmployment & Labor LawEthics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleInformation TechnologyLitigation & Litigation SkillsLitigation and Appeals
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Legal Ethics:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

Today, most commercial contracts contain an arbitration clause. When a defendant files for bankruptcy, the contract and any arbitration award are imperiled. But an arbitration clause can also provide opportunities that are too often overlooked. ...

Program Number
32246
Program Date
2022-11-07
Category
Bankruptcy Law & Creditor RightsBusiness Organizations & ContractsContractsFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleLitigation & Litigation SkillsLitigation and AppealsTrial Skills
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

In meeting ethical obligations, we lawyers tend to focus on the nature of our legal advice and potential conflicts related to our clients’ identities. But there is an entire, deep conversation that centers on our ability to stay focused on our ...

Program Number
32197
Program Date
2022-11-03
Category
Communication SkillsEthics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleLaw Practice ManagementLitigation & Litigation SkillsMental health AwarenessSubstance Abuse
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Legal Ethics: Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 0

Given the heavy imposition of the Rules of Professional Conduct on all lawyers, the power of stigma to conceal unhealthy behaviors is easy to understand. Lawyers know when they are in a danger zone and they are driven to wear a mask of “control...

Program Number
32198
Program Date
2022-11-03
Category
Communication SkillsEthics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleHealth Care LawLaw Practice ManagementLegal ManagementMental health AwarenessSubstance Abuse
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Mental Health Awareness:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

Lawyers are schooled to think analytically not strategically, we are taught to argue, not to persuade, to advocate, not to lead.  Law school education neglects a huge body of knowledge about what it takes to influence other humans, and influenc...

Program Number
32241
Program Date
2022-11-02
Category
Communication SkillsFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleIn-House CounselLaw Practice ManagementLitigation & Litigation SkillsLitigation and AppealsNegotiation SkillsTrial Skills
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

This one-hour ethics course covers such topics current trends in legal ethics, common failures regarding Ethics Codes and disciplinary systems for lawyers, key steps you and your firm can do to improve ethics and generate ethics related legal busines...

Program Number
32248
Program Date
2022-11-02
Category
Administrative Law & RegulationsBusiness Organizations & ContractsEmployee Benefits & CompensationEmployment & Labor LawEthics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligiblePersonal Injury
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Legal Ethics:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

In a recently released transcript, Rudy Giuliani told federal agents it was permissible to “throw a fake” during an electoral campaign. Just weeks before that transcript became public, Giuliani was suspended from the practice of law in Ne...

Program Number
32169
Program Date
2022-11-01
Category
Business Organizations & ContractsComplex LitigationConstitutional LawEthics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligiblePersonal Injury
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Legal Ethics:1 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1