Join us for a discussion of what it actually takes to move from being a strong family law practitioner to building a firm that runs well and grows intentionally.

The session covers five practical levers for growth:

• defining a clear vision that guides real decisions,
• creating freedom through smarter delegation and systems,
• hiring and retaining the right talent for your firm’s environment,
• building a consistent and predictable revenue engine, and
• operationalizing client experience to improve both satisfaction and profitability.
• Drawing on real examples from family law firms, the program is designed to help firm owners make better decisions and build a business that scales without sacrificing quality or control.

Why do attorneys desire to pursue real estate law?

What skills are required for attorneys to be successful?

This CLE will provide an experienced panel of real estate attorneys from all areas: solo and small firm; midsized and Big Law; in-house corporate; and government. The panel will share their career experiences in their distinctive fields of real estate law. They will compare the different levels of real estate legal practice and explain what skills are required, which makes them unique and different from one another.

They will also elaborate on how attorneys continue to uphold and enforce the rule of law.

Marvin Gaye was a popular singer who was part of the Motown sound, creating such hit songs as How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) and I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Yet his life was not all glamour and fame, as he spent a period in Europe as an involuntary tax exile due to a battle with the IRS in the early 1980s. He also had a longstanding conflict with his father, a preacher in the Hebrew Pentecostal Church and a believer in a strict moral code that he harshly enforced on his four children. Despite the family tension, Marvin moved back into his parents’ home in late 1983 due to battles with depression, debt, and cocaine abuse.

On the morning of April 1, 1984, the eve of his 45th birthday, Marvin was shot and killed by his father in the family home after an argument. His father received a six-year suspended sentence and five years of probation, but there was little accountability for the killing.

Join us for a discussion of this fascinating story, lessons learned, and enduring legacy.

The pre-trial deposition stage is a critical point in any litigation. Indeed, many personal injury and commercial cases are either won or lost during the deposition phase.

Our panel of experts provides practical guidance while teaching basic deposition skills, techniques for handling commonly encountered problems, how to use depositions at trial, how to seek rulings from a trial judge, and how to conduct virtual depositions.

Demonstrations of how to conduct depositions in commercial and personal injury cases are also reenacted.

Some of the specific issues addressed include:

• How to control a witness
• Dealing with evasive witnesses
• How to discover and authenticate documents for trial
• What objections can be raised
• When to prevent a witness from answering
• What to do when your witness volunteers information
• How to cut your losses in light of unexpectedly damaging testimony
• How to use depositions at trial to impeach witnesses, introduce testimony of absentee witnesses, and more
• Virtual depositions
• Whether to conduct a virtual deposition … or insist on a live deposition