Litigation Bundle Includes:

• $50

  Home is Where The License Is: Ethical Considerations for Lawyer Relocation During and After the Pandemic

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Many lawyers relocated during the pandemic, either to escape perceived risk or simply because they could due to remote working. This CLE program will assess the legal and ethical ramifications of relocation to states beyond where one is licensed, addressing both authorization to practice, juri...

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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

  Know What Evidence You Have and How to Use That Evidence at Trial

  General Credits: 1

  In order to persuade the factfinder, whether judge or jury, a trial lawyer, whether it’s a civil or criminal trial, must not only uncover the evidence that proves or disproves the cause at issue, but consider how this mixed question of fact and law may result in the evidence being admitted to have...

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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

  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

  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

  The Ten Worst Ethics Nightmares You Can Have

  Ethics Credits: 1.5

  This program will be a rapid analysis of the 10 disastrous errors you can make in the world of Legal Ethics that will give you nightmares or even derail your career. These groups of errors are not totally inclusive of the challenges that face a modern practitioner but anyone who is actively eng...

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• $50

  Pre-Trial Preparation for Success at Trial

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE lecture is offered to assist the trial attorney in how to prepare for trial. It will provide you with tried and tested methods to gather information and store it in a way that will permit you to utilize it in the courtroom to aid you in securing a jury verdict in favor of your client.

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• $50

  Virtual Isolation: Is Hyperconnectivity Helping or Harming the Legal Professional?

  Mental Health/Abuse Credits: 1

  If we stop to think about what we look at most during the day, the answer would probably not be our family or friends, nor our clients or colleagues. The most feasible option would be our mobile phone. Smartphones are now our companions for work, social, leisure and even family life. However, exces...

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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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• $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

  Advance Depositions: Strategies for Taking Depositions in Insurance Bad Faith Cases

  General Credits: 1.25

  This CLE program will focus on effective techniques for taking depositions in insurance bad faith cases with an emphasis from the plaintiff/insured’s perspective. Whose depositions do you take and when do you not take the deposition of a witness. What questions do you ask for key insurance wit...

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• $75

  Is There Any Evidence For This Evidence: What Experienced Trial Lawyers Must Know About The Evidence Code

  General Credits: 1.75

  This CLE program provides practical application of the Evidence Code under Federal Rules of Evidence (with reference to some state codes), including sections on Scope (when rules apply, preliminary questions, limitations on admissibility, etc.). Judicial Notice (when courts can assume the truth...

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• $100

  Avoiding Liability Under The FDCPA

  General Credits: 2

  The material presented in this seminar is intended to provide the audience with an overview of some of the key areas of compliance regarding a third-party debt collector’s use of debt collection communications via the telephone and in writing. Recently, the collection industry has been confron...

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• $50

  Drafting the Bullet Proof Civil RICO Complaint

  General Credits: 1

  Civil RICO Complaints are very powerful weapons when prosecuting civil actions in Federal Court where the defendants have engaged in criminal or quasi-criminal conduct. However, many Federal judges are wary of Civil RICO cases and set up automatic check-lists or automatically set up OSC hearings to...

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• $50

  Equity & Inclusion Confusion: Discrimination and Other Trending Employment Law Topics for Non-Employment Lawyers

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE will introduce non-employment lawyers to employment law, beginning with the unusually challenging question of employee vs. independent contractor and the implications of worker classification. We will summarize federal laws governing the employment relationship including Title VII, The...

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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

  Following the Money: A Primer on Fraudulent Transfer Litigation for the Uninitiated

  General Credits: 1

  Collecting debts can become extremely difficult and complicated if the debtor decides to play dirty. Debtors facing large lawsuits may try to make themselves judgment-proof by giving away assets to friends, family and other insiders, leaving little or nothing for the creditor to take. This CLE...

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• $50

  Depositions in Motor Vehicle Crashes

  General Credits: 1.25

  In this CLE course, you will learn how to conduct depositions across the country and leverage the defendant as a free expert witness to secure victory in your motor vehicle crash case. You will also discover how to establish the defendant's negligence using the "Holy Trinity" of motor vehicle crash...

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• $75

  Discovery, Evidence, and Motion Practice Under Section 1983 Police Liability

  General Credits: 1.5

  This practical CLE will cover three main topic areas that are at the core of any successful police misconduct practice under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. First, discovery: what law enforcement files are kept, which ones the plaintiff should request and how the defense can protect them, including incident...

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• $50

  Ethics in Debt Collection Law

  Ethics Credits: 1

  The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) can subject lawyers to ethical and liability traps for those collecting and prosecuting consumer debts. This CLE course will break down the particular and common rules of professional responsibility that also cause liability under the FDCPA. The...

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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

  Anatomy of a Slip and Fall Case from Start to Finish

  General Credits: 1

  A major nor’easter brought accumulating snow to much of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. As a result of this storm, numerous slip and fall injuries on snow and ice have resulted in ongoing litigation. In this CLE course we will step through a hypothetical slip and fall case from the perspective...

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• $100

  Weaponizing Rule 1.7 Against Insurance Defense Counsel

  Ethics Credits: 2

  Hundreds of thousands of times per year in all American jurisdictions, liability insurers agree to defend their policyholders against liability disputes and hires pre-approved panel of defense counsel to do two things: protect the insurer’s interests as potential indemnitor and represent the policy...

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• $50

  Challenging the Impermissible Use of Race in Jury Selection

  Access Justice Credits: 1

  The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Curtis Flowers highlighted the fact that far too often prosecutors in our nation impermissibly use race when exercising peremptory challenges. This CLE presentation will provide criminal defense attorneys with the tools they need to fight against t...

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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

  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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• $100

  Securing Social Security Disability Benefits

  General Credits: 2

  As technology moves forward in an ever-changing world we must not only adapt as individuals but also as attorneys. Securing benefits through the Social Security Administration has moved onto the world wide web allowing representation of clients nationally. This CLE program will discuss the enti...

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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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• $50

  Diversity and Race in Jury Selection

  Access Justice 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

  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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• $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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• $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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