Intellectual Property Bundle Includes:

• $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

  Representing Patent Owners and Inventors in Litigation: Challenges, Insights and Strategies

  General Credits: 1

  Patent owners and inventors play an important role in our society. Based in the Constitution, the monopoly power of a patent is a powerful thing that should be exercised responsibly. This course is designed to provide inside and outside counsel representing the interests of patent owners and in...

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• $50

  The Biggest Cybersecurity Threat of All - Human Behavior: How to Build a Security First Culture to Protect Your Law Firm

  General Credits: 1

  Your firm’s cybersecurity is only as strong as your weakest link: your employees. 95% of all successful cyber breaches are due to human behavior. Human behavior is the biggest threat to your firm’s cybersecurity, and this webinar will show you how to address that threat. You’ll learn how to edu...

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• $50

  Navigating the Uncharted Legal Terrain of Artificial Intelligence

  General Credits: 1.25

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that studies the development and implementation of algorithms and software that allow machines to think and act like humans. AI has many different forms, the most popular of which are machine learning like ChatGPT, natural language proces...

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• $100

  BIZ BUZZ: Starting, Buying and Selling Small Businesses

  General Credits: 2

  Big Buzz covers five different ways small entities enter into or leave small businesses. Starting, buying, selling or franchising a business involves numerous steps, analyses and understandings of the legalities and the realities. The lecturer approaches these multifaceted issues from the stand...

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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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• $50

  All's Fair In The Rules of Professional Conduct: Threats and Fees

  Ethics Credits: 1.25

  This CLE course will address the rules of professional conduct as it relates to fairness with a focus on two components: threats and fees. Part one will address threatening to present, participate in presenting, or presenting criminal or professional disciplinary charges to obtain an advantage in...

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• $50

  Antitrust Merger Enforcement: Significant Regulatory Developments and Issues Explored

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE course provides an in-depth overview of the US merger control process, antitrust agency priorities, forthcoming revisions to the US merger guidelines, and highlights of recent merger challenges. The course is designed to give attorneys a comprehensive understanding of the current state of...

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• $50

  The Ethics of Witness Preparation: Does ABA Ethics Rules Change the Dynamics for Preparing Witnesses?

  Ethics Credits: 1.25

  Our panelists, highly experienced trial and litigation specialists, will discuss the impact of new ABA Formal Opinion 508, dealing with “The Ethics of Witness Preparation”. They will discuss the impact of the opinion on counsel’s approach to working with witnesses, including a client, to testify at...

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• $50

  Employment Law Issues in Telework Environments

  General Credits: 1

  The COVID-19 virus ushered in a new age of remote work all over the world. Since then, the battle between employees wanting to maintain work-from-home status and employers trying to find ways to bring employees back to the office has remained fierce. This CLE course will outline the employment law...

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• $50

  Federal Civil Procedure: Practicing Tips for Federal Litigation

  General Credits: 1

  Step into the federal courtroom with confidence. This CLE course is designed to demystify the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and arm attorneys with the essential knowledge needed to navigate federal civil litigation. Whether you are an occasional federal practitioner or looking to brush up on the...

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• $50

  Why Lawyers Need to Bill Strategically in an Age of Legal Artificial Intelligence

  General Credits: 1

  Artificial intelligence, in terms of developments like ChatGPT, is new to a lot of people, but the idea of using computers to "outsource" certain work -- such as repetitive work -- away from lawyers has been around for a while. Because computers don't get tired, bored, hungry, or distracted, they'...

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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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• $100

  Free Speech, Trademarks and Parody at the Crossroads: “Jack Daniels vs Bad Spaniels”

  General Credits: 2

  Is someone infringing on your trademark? How about your copyright or patent? Do you want to protect your invention with a patent? Is clearing and registering your trademark and your Copyright one of your business objectives? Are you interested in securing a licensing agreement either as a licensor...

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• $50

  Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Navigating Partnership Disputes and High-Impact Partner Departures

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Breakups are never easy and while possibly not as traumatic as divorce, navigating disputes amongst law firm partners can be difficult, as is navigating the departure of a high-impact partner. This informative CLE will explain ethical considerations and how to successfully handle disputes and d...

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• $50

  Legal Ethics: Reasonableness of Fees

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Someone at your firm is in charge of making sure that both legal professionals and other employees comply with the ethics rules. Some firms have ethics committees that do this work. Solos, of course, wear every hat under the sun, including the "ethics guru" hat. In small firms, too, many of you...

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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

  Ethics in the Digital Era: What Attorneys Need to Know

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Law firms are facing challenges in safeguarding against and dealing with data breaches. With the introduction of Ethical Rules of Conduct, as well as your state's professional conduct regulations for lawyers, and the actual possibility of financial and other penalties, it's imperative that you reco...

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• $50

  The Ethics and Art of Settlement at Mediation

  General Credits: 1

  This course will focus on the best way for attorneys to benefit from mediation, including presentation, psychology, strategy and the moves that help to get the best results. The course will examine the mediation process and how ethical behavior can ultimately lead to success. The presenter will...

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• $50

  Effective Mediation: What the Mediator Needs to Know to Resolve Your Case

  General Credits: 1

  The latest statistics indicate that well over 95% of all civil cases settle before trial. Mediation is an effective tool that contributes to this high pretrial resolution. This CLE course is designed for beginners and seasoned attorneys to assist in streamlining written and oral presentation...

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• $50

  Defamation and The First Amendment of Speech

  General Credits: 1

  The First Amendment has a complicated history with issues such as defamation, hate speech, and incitement. This CLE course will cover some significant and evolving elements that specifically relate to how defamation intersects with the First Amendment. The course will provide practitioners with...

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• $50

  Mandatory Abuse Reporting for Oregon Attorneys

  Abuse Reporting Credits: 1

  Oregon’s elusive education requirements for child and elder abuse reporting can be met in this one, exciting, thrilling story-based CLE. So, while this will certainly be less entertaining than the latest superhero blockbuster, we will use real life examples of what elder abuse and child abuse...

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• $50

  The Ethics of Social Media and Attorney Competency

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Join us for a CLE program exploring the requirements for ethically using social media to build your referral network and the interplay of Rules of Professional Conduct on advertising, solicitation and attorney communications. This program will cover the Rules of Professional Conduct related to...

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• $100

  Hot Topics in Employment Law Since #MeToo

  General Credits: 2

  The #MeToo movement has been a transformational groundswell that rolled out from breaking news several years ago. The bombshell exposé published by The New York Times brought to light decades of sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, launched the movement...

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• $50

  Staying Safe and Sound: Maintaining a Realistic Work/Life Balance in Uncertain Times

  Mental Health/Abuse Credits: 1

  We know that you may still be getting bombarded with messages about Covid related issues, whether that be on television, social media, or in your work and community networks. In uncertain times like these, anxiety, stress, fear, and negative thoughts can easily take control. You may still be worr...

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• $50

  No One Makes It Out Unscathed: The Effects of Trauma, Stress and Burnout On Our Lives

  Mental Health/Abuse Credits: 1

  Attorneys hopefully recognize that like many other professionals, their lives are filled to the brim with stress. It’s important to be proactive in dealing with it. The consequences of shrugging it off can be catastrophic - not only for them but for their family, staff and friends. And then the...

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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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• $50

  Recent Trademark Decisions Practitioners Should Know About

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE program will review significant recent trademark decisions from the Federal Courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that trademark practitioners should know about. Last year, these trademark tribunals visited an array of trademark issues, from protective orders and color marks to s...

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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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• $75

  Representing the Founders and Initial Investors in a Startup Technology Company

  General Credits: 1.5

  The startup phase of a technology company is a very volatile time, as the startup's management team is being assembled, its products and services are being developed and tested, intellectual property protection and marketing strategies are being researched, and (most importantly) the company's init...

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• $50

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

  Access Justice 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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• $200

  Statutory Interpretation: Do the Words “because of… sex” Include “Sexual Orientation” and “Transgender Identity”?

  Access Justice Credits: 4

  “…because of sex.” They seem like simple words, but are integral in the context of employment discrimination. This CLE course will address prior United States Supreme Court litigation such as Hopkins and Oncale regarding whether sexual orientation and transgender identity were included in the...

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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

  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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• $75

  Metaverse Law: Intro to ARVR, Issues, IP Ownerships, Monetization, Cyber Currency, and Licensing

  General Credits: 1.5

  With apologies to the Beatles, tech is flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, it slithers unregulated across the Metaverse. From AltCoin to Web 3.0, this course addresses the breadth of tech law in the Metaverse. The lecturer will review some of the basic terminology (in plain Engli...

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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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