Washington MCLE - Trial Skills Courses
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Ethics of Legal Writing
This CLE course will look at five areas where attorneys sometimes get into ethical trouble through legal writing: frivolous writing, failure to cite adverse authority, incivility in legal writing, ghostwriting and plagiarism. In each of these areas, an attorney can help a client by knowing what the line is between ethical and unethical writing. The goal of the course is to help clarify how to figure out whether certain conduct is appropriate advocacy, or whether the conduct crosses the... More Info
$501Ethics Credit -
Fundamentals of Orthopedics for Lawyers: Anatomy, Injuries, and Common Procedures
Many legal proceedings with an injury component include an orthopedic procedure either to fix an injury or a case involving a defective product such as total knee implant, pedicle screw, or biologic, such as Norian. This course should leave lawyers with an understanding of the following items: 1. Relevant cases and procedural considerations 2. Relevant anatomy 3. Detailed explanation of common orthopedic surgical procedures More Info
$501Law & Legal Proc. -
Front Loading the Litigation: The Keys to Pretrial Advocacy
Today cases are won or lost in the pretrial process. In their book, Pretrial Advocacy, Authors Reuben Guttman and JC Lore refer to the pretrial process as “front-loaded.” Guttman and Lore explain that changes to the standards governing pleading, class certification, discovery, summary judgment, and experts -- along with the advent of electronic information including social media – have changed the face of litigation. In this CLE, Guttman and Lore will highlight: The key evidentiary an... More Info
$751.5Law & Legal Proc. -
Spy Torts: When the Other Side Overreaches
This CLE course will review statutory and common law causes of action for invasion of privacy, wiretapping, tracking devices, trap and trace methods, and video/non-video surveillance. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the wide variety of invasion of privacy case law and how that can affect claims in family law, employment and civil litigation. More Info
$751.5Law & Legal Proc.