Intellectual Property Bundle Includes:

• $125

  Hero-at-Law: The Law and Practice of Representing Comic Book Creators and Publishers

  General Credits: 2.75

  In this CLE course, we present an overview of the comic book industry over the past two years, highlight new areas of litigation and transactional work, and provide the fundamentals of representing comic book industry clients. We will explore the pros and cons of AI-generated works and myriad n...

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• $50

  Preventing Your Worst Tech Nightmare: Protecting Your Firm and Clients from Cybercriminals

  General Credits: 1

  No one likes to think about the worst happening, but when it comes to your firm's technology, it's always better to be safe than sorry. That's why we're here to present Preventing Your Worst Tech Nightmare: Protecting Your Firm & Clients from Cybercriminals, a course that will help you protect your...

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• $75

  Ideas to Cash: Guiding Creative Clients In Monetizing Their Inventions and Other Creations

  General Credits: 1.75

  This CLE course will enable you to turn your client’s ideas into cash. Different forms of protection are described for various creative ideas, followed by steps necessary to procure/secure patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Various types of agreements for different monetizing me...

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• $50

  Basics of Patents: Are You Protected? Fundamentals of US Patents and Inventorship

  General Credits: 1

  An increasing proportion of the value of a company resides in its intellectual property. This makes protection of intellectual property of great importance to company owners, be they sole proprietors or stockholders. Learn the basic ideas of patent law and inventorship in the United States, i...

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• $50

  Handling Current Legal Ethical Issues

  Ethics Credits: 1.25

  This CLE course will address practical ethical issues that lawyers face as they work remotely during a pandemic, as well as when discussing personal legal matters with work colleagues. We will also examine recent examples of attorneys acting as “over”-zealous advocates for their clients, and some r...

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• $75

  Intellectual Warfare: An In-House Counsel's Guide to Bringing and Defending Against Intellectual Property Lawsuits

  General Credits: 1.5

  In this CLE presentation, the Instructor will discuss strategies for identifying valuable intellectual property within one’s organization and how to effectively use that IP for the organization’s business goals. The Instructor will cover the types of IP that exist, the approximate costs in obt...

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• $75

  Successful Negotiations in Presidential History

  General Credits: 1.5

  Negotiations are sometimes referred to as "the art of the possible". This course, entitled "Negotiations and the Modern Presidency" will utilize US presidential history as a backdrop for analyzing successful, and failed, negotiations and what we can learn from them. Topics to be explored are:...

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• $100

  Legal Ethics: Dos and Don’ts for Attorney Advertising

  Ethics Credits: 2

  This CLE program will discuss the ethics rules as they relate to the oft-confusing issues of lawyer marketing, advertising and solicitation. What’s the right balance of advertising, social media, video and client engagement to grow your practice. What’s the difference between and advertisement...

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• $50

  Being a DEIA Agent of Change in The Legal Workplace and Beyond

  Elimination Bias Credits: 1

  Being a DEIA Agent of Change in the Legal Workplace and Beyond is an introductory course to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) concepts and initiatives from a legal perspective. The course begins by discussing the definition of DEIA and related concepts. The course also provi...

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• $50

  PFAS: The New Contaminant of Enormous Concern

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE lecture will discuss the regulation of a new variety of contaminants, PFAS chemicals, also known as “forever chemicals.” As technology evolves, so must the law. We will discuss PFAS chemicals in the context of the federal and state drinking water regulations, with New York State curren...

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• $50

  The Yellow Brick Road of a PERM Case

  General Credits: 1

  The road map of a PERM case is complicated and full of hazards. A typo can sink your case. This CLE course will review the long process to fulfill the regulatory standards and build the required evidence for a successful PERM case. We’ll go through the many PERM case steps, from developing t...

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• $50

  Force Majeure: Constant Contingency In Turbulent Times

  General Credits: 1

  Name your poison: Pandemic? War? Supply Chain Interruption? Government Decree? Regulatory Change? Riot? Weather? Internet Outage? Or what? This timely CLE explores Force Majeure from the practical perspectives of contractual verbiage or absence, qualifying events, transactional effects and cont...

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• $50

  Jury Selection: Mastering the Challenges and Pitfalls

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE course will address the art of jury selection. It will show how to get the jury to share important information as well as how to pick the right juror for the case you are trying. The following Jury Selection topics will be discussed Who is eligible to serve as a juror Questions that w...

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• $50

  ON STRIKE! The Law of Labor Conflict

  General Credits: 1

  Union organizing and strikes are on the rise. While the federal law governing labor-management relations has changed little in decades, recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and evolving methods of workplace protest are changing the landscape of traditional union activity. Th...

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• $100

  Safeguarding Your Business & Investment Clients with Proactive Asset Protection & Estate Planning

  General Credits: 2

  An effective Asset Protection & Estate Planning Program for Business & Investment Clients should address family and legacy considerations, complete asset protection and tax optimization simultaneously. In addition, it should be easy to use, capable of expanding through time to embrace growth in yo...

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• $50

  "Sweat Equity" in Small Businesses and Venture Startups: The Legal and Tax Issues

  General Credits: 1

  When a startup or small business first launches, it is easy to issue shares (almost) tax-free to the company founders. When a shareholder or LLC member receives shares in exchange for his or her labor, or “sweat equity,” the legal and tax issues are a bit more complicated. In this fast-paced,...

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• $50

  ChatGPT and Related Products: The Legal Ramifications

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE presentation is intended to help practicing attorneys better understand the legal consequences of current-day (ex. ChatGPT) artificial intelligence (AI) products. This begins with a discussion of current AI products, their operation, and fundamentally what they are and are not. This fa...

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• $75

  Complexities of Acquiring Control: Where the Fed’s Control Rule Meets Other Regulatory Definitions

  General Credits: 1.5

  The Federal Reserve finalized revisions to its approach for determining whether one company has control over another for purposes of the Bank Holding Company Act and the Home Owners’ Loan Act, as amended. While in many respects the final rule codified the Fed’s existing control standards, it also i...

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• $50

  E-Discovery’s Emerging Ethical Challenges

  Ethics Credits: 1

  As the need to produce and examine ESI grows, attorneys will be expected to be technologically educated and sophisticated. This presentation will review the challenges of preserving and gathering this ESI, dealing with the clients use of social media, and the ethical pitfalls that need to be avoide...

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• $50

  Customs and Import Procedures and Classifications

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE course provides an overview of one specific aspect of the international buy-sell transaction, namely the legal mechanics of importing goods into the United States. We will begin with the framework that establishes the principal importation rules, which is the treaty creating the World Trad...

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• $50

  Five Steps to Protect Your Firm from Catastrophic Cyber Attacks

  General Credits: 1

  In this CLE program, you will learn the 5 critical steps needed to protect your law firm and client data from malicious cyber attacks. These crucial steps will dramatically increase your overall security stance and will lessen the chances of you becoming a victim to cybercriminals. Cyber attack...

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• $50

  Ethics in Modern Day Legal Practice: The Current Hot Ethical Topics Found in Client Grievances and Malpractice Suits

  Ethics Credits: 1

  This CLE course focuses on the latest trends in ethics found in modern day legal practice. While focusing on the rules that govern attorney conduct, the course explores application of the rules to the ever changing landscape of practice. Specific addressment includes preservation of electronic data...

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• $175

  Lost in Translation The Pitfalls of Obtaining Testimony Across Boundaries of Language, Culture and Class

  General Credits: 3.75

  Interpretation is an art not a science. That's why obtaining testimony is very often like an under-educated laborer from another universe describing the truth to an artist who then must describe it to an engineer. As an attorney even if you are a native speaker of the language of the witness a lot...

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• $50

  What You and Your Clients Need to Know About the USPTO’s Post-Registration Audit

  General Credits: 1

  Removing “deadwood” (registrations for marks that are not in use in commerce) from the Trademark Register has become an increasingly important priority for the USPTO in recent years. A few years ago, the USPTO instituted a permanent post-registration audit program by which it requires trademark reg...

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• $50

  Business Valuation for Attorneys

  General Credits: 1

  Determination of the value of a client’s business or business interest is often a necessary element in meeting a client’s needs. Understanding the valuation process and the potential results can make a huge difference to the outcome for the client. Divorce, estate planning, and par...

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• $100

  Walk Away With The Check: How To Win A Business Divorce Case

  General Credits: 2

  Helping a client grapple with a bad business partner requires expertise in litigation, negotiation and corporate governance. Millions of dollars and your client’s life’s work, hang in the balance. Avoid costly mistakes, while representing your client like a bulldog. In this fast-moving program,...

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• $50

  Transnational Legal and Cultural Issues Arising when Doing Business Internationally

  General Credits: 1.25

  This CLE course covers issues of concern when documenting transactions which must satisfy more than one legal system (transnational transactions). This will be clarified with examples of American businesses doing business in China. The course emphasizes the need to understand and interpret la...

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• $50

  Ethical Considerations When Responding To Lozada Complaints

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Immigration is a rewarding practice area with a collegial group of practitioners. While immigration law is among the most complex, a great benefit is colleagues who generously share their knowledge and experience with one another. This makes it even more difficult when one lawyer must prepare and...

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• $50

  Changing the Landscape of Diversity, Inclusion & the Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession

  Elimination Bias Credits: 1

  This CLE program will discuss the disproportionate statistics of women and minorities in partner positions at law firms, provide an analysis of the key impediments that have affected women and minorities from advancing and discuss how litigation has been used as a tool not only to combat discrimina...

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• $50

  Diversity and Race in Jury Selection

  Elimination Bias Credits: 1.25

  This course will take a historical look at diversity and race in jury selection and how “all-white juries” have led to infamous miscarriages of justice throughout the years. We will also examine how the Supreme Court has addressed racial discrimination in jury selection from the 1880s to presen...

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• $50

  Cyber Security Compliance Trifecta: Recent Revisions to Three Important Security & Privacy Standards

  General Credits: 1

  Cybersecurity compliance concerns have emerged as a forefront issue for both large and small enterprises. Revisions of three important standards or requirements were published recently and will have far reaching cybersecurity compliance implications. The National Institute of Standards and Tec...

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• $50

  Protecting Your Intellectual Property and Valuable Data Through the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  General Credits: 1

  Bringing a civil action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act requires knowledge and understanding of the statute and its legal requirements. This course will review your ability to bring a civil action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and will also offer a review of its scope, legal requir...

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• $50

  Section 230: Kings of the Internet

  General Credits: 1

  Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) grants immunity from civil liability to the heads of online social media companies, empowering them to delete, modify or censor material they deem “objectionable,” or even ban or de-platform individuals at their discretion. They can do all this...

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• $75

  From NFTs to Andy Warhol to New Legislation: Current Developments in Copyright Law

  General Credits: 1.5

  Do NFTs really raise new copyright law issues? This CLE course features a panel of seasoned speakers who will explain why they do. What is the Supreme Court going to do with the Warhol case? Is there a circuit split in the embedding cases heading for the Supreme Court? Don't miss this annual s...

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