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 | This webinar will be taught by Wendy Lascher of Lascher & Lascher - a well known, small boutique appellate litigation firm out of Ventura County. Wendy has taught programs for us for three years and always gets fantastic reviews.
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Lascher & Lascher
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq. is a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law, California Board of Legal Specialization. She has handled more than 300 state and federal appeals and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th and 9th Circuits, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal. She is a board member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a past president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and a former chair of both the State Bar's Appellate Courts Committee and the Board of Legal Specialization's Appellate Law Advisory Committee.
Ms. Lascher graduated from Stanford University in 1970 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. Among her landmark cases are In re Marriage of Pendleton and Fireman (2000) 24 Cal.4th 39, the first California case to hold spouses may waive spousal support in a properly drafted prenuptial agreement, Morehart v. County of Santa Barbara (1994) 7 Cal.4th 725; clarifying appealability of judgments on separately tried issues, and Sanchez v. Hillerich Bradsby (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 703, holding that although the game of baseball includes an inherent risk a player may be hit by a batted ball, where a bat increases the risk above that inherent level, a player does not as a matter of law assume the risk of being hit by a batted ball. Ms. Lascher teaches appellate law at the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law. She is a past president of the Ventura County Bar Association, and has been editor of its magazine, CITATIONS, for several years.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Petitions for Review and Petitions for Certiorari will be taught by Certified Appellate Expert Ben Shatz and Mike Berger both partners in the Appellate Division of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP. Mike has argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court and is one of California's preeminant Appellate attorney.
Michael Berger, Esq.
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Mr. Berger is one of California’s preeminent appellate lawyers and is co-chair of Manatt’s Appellate Practice Group.
Mr. Berger has argued four cases before the United States Supreme Court, as well as cases before appellate courts throughout California, numerous federal courts of appeal and other state supreme courts. He is also the frequent author of amicus curiae briefs in various appellate courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, pressing client interests in important pending cases.
One of the top land use and condemnation lawyers in the United States, his appellate cases have involved planning, zoning, eminent domain, various kinds of business litigation, landslides, contract, due process, equal protection, defective construction, nuisance, insurance and environmental law.
Education
University of Southern California, LL.M., 1968 (in real property).
Yale University, Graduate Law School, 1968. Ford Fellow for work in Urban Law.
University of Southern California, Graduate Law School, 1967.
Title Insurance and Trust Company Fellow for work in Real Property Law.
Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1967. Brandeis University, 1964.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 27, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Addressing evidentiary issues in appellate briefs will be taught by Ethan Schulman, Crowell Moring.
Ethan P. Schulman, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Crowell & Moring LLP
Mr. Schulman's practice involves appeals, representation of public entities, representation of attorneys and law firms, and complex commercial litigation.
He has been a Certified Appellate Specialist since 2003, is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and Vice Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Mr. Schulman joined FLK in 2008 after practicing for many years as a litigation partner in a prominent San Francisco law firm. He is AV Peer Review Rated and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer each year since 2004.
Mr. Schulman received his J.D. in 1983 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Order of the Coif.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 28, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Oral Argument on Appeal will be taught by Faith Pincus of Pincus Communications/Pincus Professional Education & an additional speaker to be announced. Faith has been teaching public speaking for more than 20 years and has been helping attorneys improve their oral arguments and speaking on this topic for the past 6 years. In addition, she has interviewed dozens of justices, judges and court attorneys during the past six years and is the author of the upcoming ABA book "Be Heard: Public Speaking for Attorneys."
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: September 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Working with Trial Counsel & Managing an appellate practice will be taught by Robin Meadow. Robin is one of California's most recognized appellate practitioners and is the author of an upcoming book to be published this summer on Technology for the appellate practice.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: November 16, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| This two-part series will cover procedures and strategies of the typical Chapter 11 case from pre-bankruptcy planning through plan confirmation and beyond. REGISTER NOW
Part I September 28th (90 min) Noon - 1:30 PST
Part II September 30th (90 min) Noon - 1:30 PST
This is an invaluable program for attorneys new to Chapter 11 and is a beginner's course.
Part I September 28th Noon - 1:30 PST
Chapter 11 – director and officer duties/liabilities before bankruptcy (zone of insolvency etc), alternatives to BK (negotiation w/ one or multiple secured creditors, ABCs, receiverships, etc); limits on workouts (regulatory, tax, loan servicer’s lack of authority, dissenting minorities, etc.)
Commencement of chapter 11: (a) ch.7 distinguished (and ch.9, 12, 13, 15), (b) voluntary/involuntary, (c) bankruptcy schedules and statement of financial affairs (SOFA), (d) employment and fee issues with respect to professionals, how are they paid, etc., (e) creditors’ committee, (f) governance during bankruptcy (debtor-in-possession as trustee, fishbowl, appointment of examiner or trustee, conversion, dismissal, etc), (g) trustee compliance / ongoing US Trustee compliance & reporting (monthly op reports, etc).
First day motions: DIP financing, cash collateral pre-petition wages, critical vendors, management incentive plans v. retention plans, limiting notice, utility deposits, maintaining bank accounts, joint administration v. substantive consolidation, etc.
Litigation issues
Procedure - impact of automatic stay (actions by/against debtor, property of estate includes claims belonging to the debtor, void v. voidable, retroactive annulment of stay, etc)
Procedure - venue/forum (core/non-core, contested matters/adversary proceedings, removal, etc)
claims against creditors & others: avoidance actions (strong-arm powers, preferences, fraudulent transfers, etc), non-BK claims (contracts, torts, post-petition claims, etc. – can trustee assert alter-ego and derivative claims? Does in pari delicto defense apply?)
claims by creditors: classification (secured, priority, unsecured), special types of claims - landlords (502(b)(6)), 20-day vendors of goods (503(b)(9), whether vendor can be paid and also use goods as “new value” for 547(c), whether 502(d) applies to 503(b)(9)), etc.
Part II September 30th Noon - 1:30 PST
Executory contracts and leases: cure, assume, assign (non-assignable contracts under the “hypothetical” & “actual” tests, possible solutions), intellectual property (365(n)), etc.)
Sales/settlements small sales that might occur during the course of a bankruptcy case w/out auctions (examples like Lahijani); sales of substantially all assets, 363 v. plan (“melting ice cube,” valuation/depreciation), sales free and clear (Clear Channel case, appeals, etc.)
Plan formulation and confirmation: classification & voting, cramdown, competing plans/exclusivity, pre-packaged & pre-negotiated plans, etc.
Tax issues: preservation of NOL (net operating loss), discharge of indebtedness income, etc.
Special cases: single asset real estate, small business, etc.
Local variances: Delaware v. 9th Circuit, LA v. SF, etc.
Appeals: election to District Court/BAP, proceedings in the bankruptcy court while an appeal is pending, direct appeals to the circuit courts, mandamus and motions, etc.
CLE Specialization Credit
Bankruptcy Specialization Credit Application will be filed with the CA Bar. Check back for approval updates in June.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this seminar has been approved for 3.0 hours of MCLE credit in California.
Applications for CLE credit pending in IL and WA.
Instructors
Mette Kurth, Esq.
Partner
Arent, Fox LLP
Mette Kurth is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group.
Mette’s practice focuses on all aspects of financial restructuring, distressed situations, and bankruptcy issues, and she uses her experience to develop pragmatic and creative solutions to protect her client’s interests. Mette has represented a variety of creditors' committees, debtors, unsecured creditors, acquirers of bankrupt companies, and trustees both in out-of-court workouts and in federal bankruptcy cases.
She also regularly represents other parties in bankruptcy-related litigation and handles other insolvency-related matters such as counseling indenture trustees or boards of directors. She has represented parties in numerous industries, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, imports, healthcare, fitness, financial services, real estate, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, and multi-level marketing.
Mette’s representative work includes:
Represented the official creditors' committee of a regional fitness club in connection with the debtor's efforts to sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor's proposal to sell the company to an insider, accompanied by significant contracts and releases, and instead secured the approval of the highest and best bidder for the debtor’s assets, as selected by the committee, over the objection of the debtor and the unsuccessful insider
Represented the official creditors' committee of a major apparel retailer in connection with the debtor’s efforts to reorganize or sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor’s proposal to sell the debtor’s assets to an insider without the benefit of an investment banker, and ultimately secured the approval of the sale of the debtor’s assets to a strategic buyer, a publicly traded company, for value in excess of that offered by the debtor’s proposed insider transaction
Successfully represented numerous publicly-traded and privately held debtors in all aspects of their Chapter 11 reorganizations, including a multi-level marketing organization that emerged from bankruptcy in less than eight months; a debtor filing a pre-packaged plan of reorganization in California; numerous debtors using the chapter 11 process to conduct orderly going-concern sales, and a debtor that obtained a 105 injunction staying litigation against key management and shareholders to facilitate its reorganization efforts
Successfully represented various companies in out-of-court workouts including a publicly traded, national retailer negotiating numerous lease modification and termination agreements that enabled the retailer to avoid a bankruptcy
Advised financially healthy companies with respect to bankruptcy-related matters such as the risks associated with potential defaults or bankruptcies by third parties such as vendors, customers and landlords; minimizing preference and credit-risk exposure when dealing with financially distressed business; resolving preference litigation and advising companies regarding the use of complex financial tools such as account receivable put option contracts designed to minimize the credit risk
Represented one of the largest commercial banks in the country in its capacity as Indenture Trustee on behalf of holders of over $2 billion in principal amount of senior notes in connection with two separate chapter 11 cases, one in the telecommunications industry and the other in the airline industry
Mette’s professional affiliations include:
Turnaround Management Association
National Board of Directors (2009-Present)
National Standards Committee for Certified Turnaround Professionals (2008-2009)
President, Southern California chapter (2006-2008)
Program Chairman, Southern California chapter (2004-2006)
California Bankruptcy Forum, Conference Co-Chairman (2009)
Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
Secretary (2007-2008)
Board of Directors (2005-2007)
Financial Lawyers Conference
Board of Governors (2005-2007)
American Bankruptcy Institute
American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Los Angeles County Bar Association
State Bar of California, Business Law Section
International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
Publications, Presentations and Recognitions:
“Best Lawyers in America” recently selected Mette for inclusion in its 2009 rankings and she has been recognized by Los Angeles Magazine as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2009 in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights. She was previously selected by Los Angeles Magazine as a Rising Star in 2005, 2006 and 2008. Under Mette’s leadership, the Southern California chapter of the Turnaround Management Association was recognized as “The Most Improved Chapter of the Year” for 2007.
Mette has spoken on numerous panels regarding insolvency-related topics.
Mette received her JD from UCLA (Order of the Coif; Chief Articles Editor, UCLA Law Review) in 1996.
Nathan Cook
Managing Director
AlixPartners
Nathan is an experienced financial advisor and management consultant who focuses on providing advisory services and interim management to distressed companies and their constituents, as well as companies in periods of transition. He has significant experience in crisis management, capital structure refinancing, cash and working capital management, cost reduction plan development and implementation, business plan development, valuation, and bankruptcy.
Most recently, Nathan served as interim Chief Financial Officer of Hilex Poly Co. LLC (“Hilex”), which is the world’s largest plastic bag company. In this role, Nathan helped lead the company through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring and had day-to-day responsibility for managing the company’s accounting, finance, and IT functions. Prior to this role, Nathan served as Hilex’s interim Treasurer. As interim Treasurer, he directly managed the company’s liquidity and working capital activities, and assisted in the implementation of various initiatives, which led to an improvement in the company’s year-over-year EBITDA of almost 50%. During his tenure at Hilex, Nathan assisted in the negotiation and closing of $535 million of debt financing transactions.
Prior to Hilex, Nathan served as an interim accounting Director for Mirant Corporation, a $3 billion competitive energy company. During the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring (the largest filed in the U.S. in 2003), Nathan led a team in the analysis of over $60 billion of inter-company transactions, as well as the resolution of various bankruptcy and litigation claims, which were critical gating items to the company’s emergence from bankruptcy.
Nathan has advised debtors and creditors in various other restructuring matters, and frequently assists in complex bankruptcy litigation, including matters involving fraudulent conveyances, preferential transfers, and substantive consolidation. In addition, he has extensive valuation experience in restructuring, transactional, and litigation contexts.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, Nathan was a Principal Consultant in the Financial Advisory Services group of Price Waterhouse. He was also previously a Senior Associate in the Business Strategy practice of Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc., and a Senior Consultant of Peterson Consulting (now a division of Navigant Consulting). Further, Nathan previously worked at Hewlett Packard (“HP”), where he assisted in the IPO and financial separation of Agilent Technologies from HP.
Nathan holds an MBA in finance and corporate strategy from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he served as President of the Management Consulting Association. He holds a BBA in accounting from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where he graduated with high distinction. Nathan is a CPA and a Level III CFA Candidate, and is a Board member of the Turnaround Management Association – Southern California Chapter. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CFA Institute, and CFA Society of Los Angeles.
Neil Bason, Esq.
Special Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
Neil Bason practices in the area of business reorganization and financial restructuring. Mr. Bason's practice encompasses representation of trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, entities contemplating or initiating bankruptcy cases or workouts, persons who seek to purchase assets out of bankruptcy and third parties whose interests need to be protected in distressed debt situations, including parties to contracts and leases with debtors in bankruptcy.
Prior to joining Duane Morris, Mr. Bason served for eight years as a law clerk to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali in the Northern District of California and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit.
During his tenure, he worked on approximately 70 BAP decisions and numerous trial court dispositions. Before clerking Mr. Bason was in private practice for a decade in Massachusetts and in the Bay Area, during which time he focused primarily on debtor-creditor disputes.
Following law school, Mr. Bason was a law clerk to Chief Justice Paul J. Liacos of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars). Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort.
| Formats Available: Additional CE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: September 30, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 3.00 hours Total General Hours, 0.50 hours Professional Responsibility
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Trademarks for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Robert C. Cumbow
Shareholder
Graham & Dunn PC
Co-Chair/Commentator Robert Cumbow of Graham & Dunn knows IP from virtually every angle. Bob has long analyzed both the transactional and litigation angles of IP risks for movie producers, television stars (“The Deadliest Catch”), books (Amazon.com), professional sports, outdoor recreation (REI), wineries, and myriad international, regional and local retailers. Bob has long been a SuperLawyer®, and Best Lawyer in America. His Avvo score is a perfect 10.
Bob is an excellent teacher, having taught in both law school and film school. In addition to his law degree (with highest honors), Bob holds an M.A. in English, and is known for presentations on law, language and literature. He has presented at scores of IP seminars, and delivered many papers and chapters. He has testified repeatedly as an expert witness, including on the value of trademarks. Because Bob can distill complex issues, he is often chosen to clarify key concepts of IP by groups such as: the International Trademark Association (“Teaching Trademark Law"); the WSBA Corporate Law Department Section (“Trademark and Copyright Tips For Corporate Counsel”); and the National Council of Graduate School Deans (“Intellectual Property Basics”). Trademark World published his quick review: “Protectable Trademark or Mere Ornamentation?”
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 08, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Copyrights for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Michael Keyes
Partner
K&L Gates
Michael Keyes is an intellectual property litigator at K&L Gates, which was founded (in part) by Bill Gates, Sr., and is now among the largest firms in the world. Mike has served as Chair of the ABA Copyright Litigation Committee. Mike now is Co-Editor of the ABA Copyright Litigation Handbook. In 2009, he was chosen to write the ABA’s “Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments,” and also to present “The Year in Copyright” at its 2009 Spring Conference.
Mike clerked for a state Supreme Court, and is admitted in three states. His client list includes many of the Fortune 500. His wins for Major Leaguer George Brett could be his most famous.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 15, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Patents and Secrets for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Bodine
Shareholder
Lane Powell PC
Brian Bodine is a leading patent and trade secret litigator. He is a registered patent attorney and chemical engineer. He clerked both for a federal judge and for a state Supreme Court. Brian is admitted to three states’ bars, and has headed both the Patent Law, and the Intellectual Property, associations of the Washington state bar. He has argued IP cases across the country, including many in New York, California, across the Midwest, and before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. He is perennially listed in the Best Lawyers in America, SuperLawyers®, and similar rankings.
Formerly Managing Partner of Merchant & Gould (Seattle), and now with Lane Powell, Brian is well-known for clarifying complex topics; making them practical and tactical. He was selected from among thousands of attorneys for the national “Advanced Patent Litigation Roadshow” of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Brian helps businesses clarify complexity.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 22, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Licensing Agreements for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Myers
Educated in Illinois, Co-Chair/Commentator Brian Myers holds degrees in business and in law, and also has substantial coursework in math, science and engineering. He has advised scores of companies on IP licensing. He now focuses on advising emerging companies and entrepreneurs, and on educating general practice attorneys. He is very active within the MIT Enterprise Forum, having served as its President and as its director of 50 seminars for executives, entrepreneurs and attorneys about key IP commercialization strategies for every stage of a company’s development.
Brian started his career at KPMG, where he helped structure major international transactions. He eventually joined Gray Cary (now in DLA Piper), where he helped on (among many other deals) the big California merger of Active Voice into Cisco Systems. Other representative transactions include lead responsibility for metals, digital/data and transportation clients. Brian has spent 20+ years advising startup entrepreneurs, small/medium companies, and publicly traded corporations.
Brian also teaches law and MBA students. He now practices alone, allowing him a bigger role in helping manage his clients’ businesses. Brian also runs a private equity firm, Medici Northwest.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 29, 2010
| Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| This webinar will be taught by Wendy Lascher of Lascher & Lascher - a well known, small boutique appellate litigation firm out of Ventura County. Wendy has taught programs for us for three years and always gets fantastic reviews.
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Lascher & Lascher
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq. is a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law, California Board of Legal Specialization. She has handled more than 300 state and federal appeals and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th and 9th Circuits, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal. She is a board member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a past president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and a former chair of both the State Bar's Appellate Courts Committee and the Board of Legal Specialization's Appellate Law Advisory Committee.
Ms. Lascher graduated from Stanford University in 1970 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. Among her landmark cases are In re Marriage of Pendleton and Fireman (2000) 24 Cal.4th 39, the first California case to hold spouses may waive spousal support in a properly drafted prenuptial agreement, Morehart v. County of Santa Barbara (1994) 7 Cal.4th 725; clarifying appealability of judgments on separately tried issues, and Sanchez v. Hillerich Bradsby (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 703, holding that although the game of baseball includes an inherent risk a player may be hit by a batted ball, where a bat increases the risk above that inherent level, a player does not as a matter of law assume the risk of being hit by a batted ball. Ms. Lascher teaches appellate law at the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law. She is a past president of the Ventura County Bar Association, and has been editor of its magazine, CITATIONS, for several years.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Petitions for Review and Petitions for Certiorari will be taught by Certified Appellate Expert Ben Shatz and Mike Berger both partners in the Appellate Division of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP. Mike has argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court and is one of California's preeminant Appellate attorney.
Michael Berger, Esq.
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Mr. Berger is one of California’s preeminent appellate lawyers and is co-chair of Manatt’s Appellate Practice Group.
Mr. Berger has argued four cases before the United States Supreme Court, as well as cases before appellate courts throughout California, numerous federal courts of appeal and other state supreme courts. He is also the frequent author of amicus curiae briefs in various appellate courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, pressing client interests in important pending cases.
One of the top land use and condemnation lawyers in the United States, his appellate cases have involved planning, zoning, eminent domain, various kinds of business litigation, landslides, contract, due process, equal protection, defective construction, nuisance, insurance and environmental law.
Education
University of Southern California, LL.M., 1968 (in real property).
Yale University, Graduate Law School, 1968. Ford Fellow for work in Urban Law.
University of Southern California, Graduate Law School, 1967.
Title Insurance and Trust Company Fellow for work in Real Property Law.
Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1967. Brandeis University, 1964.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 27, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Addressing evidentiary issues in appellate briefs will be taught by Ethan Schulman, Crowell Moring.
Ethan P. Schulman, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Crowell & Moring LLP
Mr. Schulman's practice involves appeals, representation of public entities, representation of attorneys and law firms, and complex commercial litigation.
He has been a Certified Appellate Specialist since 2003, is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and Vice Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Mr. Schulman joined FLK in 2008 after practicing for many years as a litigation partner in a prominent San Francisco law firm. He is AV Peer Review Rated and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer each year since 2004.
Mr. Schulman received his J.D. in 1983 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Order of the Coif.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 28, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Oral Argument on Appeal will be taught by Faith Pincus of Pincus Communications/Pincus Professional Education & an additional speaker to be announced. Faith has been teaching public speaking for more than 20 years and has been helping attorneys improve their oral arguments and speaking on this topic for the past 6 years. In addition, she has interviewed dozens of justices, judges and court attorneys during the past six years and is the author of the upcoming ABA book "Be Heard: Public Speaking for Attorneys."
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: September 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Working with Trial Counsel & Managing an appellate practice will be taught by Robin Meadow. Robin is one of California's most recognized appellate practitioners and is the author of an upcoming book to be published this summer on Technology for the appellate practice.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: November 16, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| This two-part series will cover procedures and strategies of the typical Chapter 11 case from pre-bankruptcy planning through plan confirmation and beyond. REGISTER NOW
Part I September 28th (90 min) Noon - 1:30 PST
Part II September 30th (90 min) Noon - 1:30 PST
This is an invaluable program for attorneys new to Chapter 11 and is a beginner's course.
Part I September 28th Noon - 1:30 PST
Chapter 11 – director and officer duties/liabilities before bankruptcy (zone of insolvency etc), alternatives to BK (negotiation w/ one or multiple secured creditors, ABCs, receiverships, etc); limits on workouts (regulatory, tax, loan servicer’s lack of authority, dissenting minorities, etc.)
Commencement of chapter 11: (a) ch.7 distinguished (and ch.9, 12, 13, 15), (b) voluntary/involuntary, (c) bankruptcy schedules and statement of financial affairs (SOFA), (d) employment and fee issues with respect to professionals, how are they paid, etc., (e) creditors’ committee, (f) governance during bankruptcy (debtor-in-possession as trustee, fishbowl, appointment of examiner or trustee, conversion, dismissal, etc), (g) trustee compliance / ongoing US Trustee compliance & reporting (monthly op reports, etc).
First day motions: DIP financing, cash collateral pre-petition wages, critical vendors, management incentive plans v. retention plans, limiting notice, utility deposits, maintaining bank accounts, joint administration v. substantive consolidation, etc.
Litigation issues
Procedure - impact of automatic stay (actions by/against debtor, property of estate includes claims belonging to the debtor, void v. voidable, retroactive annulment of stay, etc)
Procedure - venue/forum (core/non-core, contested matters/adversary proceedings, removal, etc)
claims against creditors & others: avoidance actions (strong-arm powers, preferences, fraudulent transfers, etc), non-BK claims (contracts, torts, post-petition claims, etc. – can trustee assert alter-ego and derivative claims? Does in pari delicto defense apply?)
claims by creditors: classification (secured, priority, unsecured), special types of claims - landlords (502(b)(6)), 20-day vendors of goods (503(b)(9), whether vendor can be paid and also use goods as “new value” for 547(c), whether 502(d) applies to 503(b)(9)), etc.
Part II September 30th Noon - 1:30 PST
Executory contracts and leases: cure, assume, assign (non-assignable contracts under the “hypothetical” & “actual” tests, possible solutions), intellectual property (365(n)), etc.)
Sales/settlements small sales that might occur during the course of a bankruptcy case w/out auctions (examples like Lahijani); sales of substantially all assets, 363 v. plan (“melting ice cube,” valuation/depreciation), sales free and clear (Clear Channel case, appeals, etc.)
Plan formulation and confirmation: classification & voting, cramdown, competing plans/exclusivity, pre-packaged & pre-negotiated plans, etc.
Tax issues: preservation of NOL (net operating loss), discharge of indebtedness income, etc.
Special cases: single asset real estate, small business, etc.
Local variances: Delaware v. 9th Circuit, LA v. SF, etc.
Appeals: election to District Court/BAP, proceedings in the bankruptcy court while an appeal is pending, direct appeals to the circuit courts, mandamus and motions, etc.
CLE Specialization Credit
Bankruptcy Specialization Credit Application will be filed with the CA Bar. Check back for approval updates in June.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this seminar has been approved for 3.0 hours of MCLE credit in California.
Applications for CLE credit pending in IL and WA.
Instructors
Mette Kurth, Esq.
Partner
Arent, Fox LLP
Mette Kurth is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group.
Mette’s practice focuses on all aspects of financial restructuring, distressed situations, and bankruptcy issues, and she uses her experience to develop pragmatic and creative solutions to protect her client’s interests. Mette has represented a variety of creditors' committees, debtors, unsecured creditors, acquirers of bankrupt companies, and trustees both in out-of-court workouts and in federal bankruptcy cases.
She also regularly represents other parties in bankruptcy-related litigation and handles other insolvency-related matters such as counseling indenture trustees or boards of directors. She has represented parties in numerous industries, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, imports, healthcare, fitness, financial services, real estate, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, and multi-level marketing.
Mette’s representative work includes:
Represented the official creditors' committee of a regional fitness club in connection with the debtor's efforts to sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor's proposal to sell the company to an insider, accompanied by significant contracts and releases, and instead secured the approval of the highest and best bidder for the debtor’s assets, as selected by the committee, over the objection of the debtor and the unsuccessful insider
Represented the official creditors' committee of a major apparel retailer in connection with the debtor’s efforts to reorganize or sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor’s proposal to sell the debtor’s assets to an insider without the benefit of an investment banker, and ultimately secured the approval of the sale of the debtor’s assets to a strategic buyer, a publicly traded company, for value in excess of that offered by the debtor’s proposed insider transaction
Successfully represented numerous publicly-traded and privately held debtors in all aspects of their Chapter 11 reorganizations, including a multi-level marketing organization that emerged from bankruptcy in less than eight months; a debtor filing a pre-packaged plan of reorganization in California; numerous debtors using the chapter 11 process to conduct orderly going-concern sales, and a debtor that obtained a 105 injunction staying litigation against key management and shareholders to facilitate its reorganization efforts
Successfully represented various companies in out-of-court workouts including a publicly traded, national retailer negotiating numerous lease modification and termination agreements that enabled the retailer to avoid a bankruptcy
Advised financially healthy companies with respect to bankruptcy-related matters such as the risks associated with potential defaults or bankruptcies by third parties such as vendors, customers and landlords; minimizing preference and credit-risk exposure when dealing with financially distressed business; resolving preference litigation and advising companies regarding the use of complex financial tools such as account receivable put option contracts designed to minimize the credit risk
Represented one of the largest commercial banks in the country in its capacity as Indenture Trustee on behalf of holders of over $2 billion in principal amount of senior notes in connection with two separate chapter 11 cases, one in the telecommunications industry and the other in the airline industry
Mette’s professional affiliations include:
Turnaround Management Association
National Board of Directors (2009-Present)
National Standards Committee for Certified Turnaround Professionals (2008-2009)
President, Southern California chapter (2006-2008)
Program Chairman, Southern California chapter (2004-2006)
California Bankruptcy Forum, Conference Co-Chairman (2009)
Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
Secretary (2007-2008)
Board of Directors (2005-2007)
Financial Lawyers Conference
Board of Governors (2005-2007)
American Bankruptcy Institute
American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Los Angeles County Bar Association
State Bar of California, Business Law Section
International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
Publications, Presentations and Recognitions:
“Best Lawyers in America” recently selected Mette for inclusion in its 2009 rankings and she has been recognized by Los Angeles Magazine as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2009 in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights. She was previously selected by Los Angeles Magazine as a Rising Star in 2005, 2006 and 2008. Under Mette’s leadership, the Southern California chapter of the Turnaround Management Association was recognized as “The Most Improved Chapter of the Year” for 2007.
Mette has spoken on numerous panels regarding insolvency-related topics.
Mette received her JD from UCLA (Order of the Coif; Chief Articles Editor, UCLA Law Review) in 1996.
Nathan Cook
Managing Director
AlixPartners
Nathan is an experienced financial advisor and management consultant who focuses on providing advisory services and interim management to distressed companies and their constituents, as well as companies in periods of transition. He has significant experience in crisis management, capital structure refinancing, cash and working capital management, cost reduction plan development and implementation, business plan development, valuation, and bankruptcy.
Most recently, Nathan served as interim Chief Financial Officer of Hilex Poly Co. LLC (“Hilex”), which is the world’s largest plastic bag company. In this role, Nathan helped lead the company through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring and had day-to-day responsibility for managing the company’s accounting, finance, and IT functions. Prior to this role, Nathan served as Hilex’s interim Treasurer. As interim Treasurer, he directly managed the company’s liquidity and working capital activities, and assisted in the implementation of various initiatives, which led to an improvement in the company’s year-over-year EBITDA of almost 50%. During his tenure at Hilex, Nathan assisted in the negotiation and closing of $535 million of debt financing transactions.
Prior to Hilex, Nathan served as an interim accounting Director for Mirant Corporation, a $3 billion competitive energy company. During the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring (the largest filed in the U.S. in 2003), Nathan led a team in the analysis of over $60 billion of inter-company transactions, as well as the resolution of various bankruptcy and litigation claims, which were critical gating items to the company’s emergence from bankruptcy.
Nathan has advised debtors and creditors in various other restructuring matters, and frequently assists in complex bankruptcy litigation, including matters involving fraudulent conveyances, preferential transfers, and substantive consolidation. In addition, he has extensive valuation experience in restructuring, transactional, and litigation contexts.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, Nathan was a Principal Consultant in the Financial Advisory Services group of Price Waterhouse. He was also previously a Senior Associate in the Business Strategy practice of Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc., and a Senior Consultant of Peterson Consulting (now a division of Navigant Consulting). Further, Nathan previously worked at Hewlett Packard (“HP”), where he assisted in the IPO and financial separation of Agilent Technologies from HP.
Nathan holds an MBA in finance and corporate strategy from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he served as President of the Management Consulting Association. He holds a BBA in accounting from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where he graduated with high distinction. Nathan is a CPA and a Level III CFA Candidate, and is a Board member of the Turnaround Management Association – Southern California Chapter. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CFA Institute, and CFA Society of Los Angeles.
Neil Bason, Esq.
Special Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
Neil Bason practices in the area of business reorganization and financial restructuring. Mr. Bason's practice encompasses representation of trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, entities contemplating or initiating bankruptcy cases or workouts, persons who seek to purchase assets out of bankruptcy and third parties whose interests need to be protected in distressed debt situations, including parties to contracts and leases with debtors in bankruptcy.
Prior to joining Duane Morris, Mr. Bason served for eight years as a law clerk to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali in the Northern District of California and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit.
During his tenure, he worked on approximately 70 BAP decisions and numerous trial court dispositions. Before clerking Mr. Bason was in private practice for a decade in Massachusetts and in the Bay Area, during which time he focused primarily on debtor-creditor disputes.
Following law school, Mr. Bason was a law clerk to Chief Justice Paul J. Liacos of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars). Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort.
| Formats Available: Additional CE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: September 30, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 3.00 hours Total General Hours, 0.50 hours Professional Responsibility
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Trademarks for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Robert C. Cumbow
Shareholder
Graham & Dunn PC
Co-Chair/Commentator Robert Cumbow of Graham & Dunn knows IP from virtually every angle. Bob has long analyzed both the transactional and litigation angles of IP risks for movie producers, television stars (“The Deadliest Catch”), books (Amazon.com), professional sports, outdoor recreation (REI), wineries, and myriad international, regional and local retailers. Bob has long been a SuperLawyer®, and Best Lawyer in America. His Avvo score is a perfect 10.
Bob is an excellent teacher, having taught in both law school and film school. In addition to his law degree (with highest honors), Bob holds an M.A. in English, and is known for presentations on law, language and literature. He has presented at scores of IP seminars, and delivered many papers and chapters. He has testified repeatedly as an expert witness, including on the value of trademarks. Because Bob can distill complex issues, he is often chosen to clarify key concepts of IP by groups such as: the International Trademark Association (“Teaching Trademark Law"); the WSBA Corporate Law Department Section (“Trademark and Copyright Tips For Corporate Counsel”); and the National Council of Graduate School Deans (“Intellectual Property Basics”). Trademark World published his quick review: “Protectable Trademark or Mere Ornamentation?”
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 08, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Copyrights for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Michael Keyes
Partner
K&L Gates
Michael Keyes is an intellectual property litigator at K&L Gates, which was founded (in part) by Bill Gates, Sr., and is now among the largest firms in the world. Mike has served as Chair of the ABA Copyright Litigation Committee. Mike now is Co-Editor of the ABA Copyright Litigation Handbook. In 2009, he was chosen to write the ABA’s “Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments,” and also to present “The Year in Copyright” at its 2009 Spring Conference.
Mike clerked for a state Supreme Court, and is admitted in three states. His client list includes many of the Fortune 500. His wins for Major Leaguer George Brett could be his most famous.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 15, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Patents and Secrets for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Bodine
Shareholder
Lane Powell PC
Brian Bodine is a leading patent and trade secret litigator. He is a registered patent attorney and chemical engineer. He clerked both for a federal judge and for a state Supreme Court. Brian is admitted to three states’ bars, and has headed both the Patent Law, and the Intellectual Property, associations of the Washington state bar. He has argued IP cases across the country, including many in New York, California, across the Midwest, and before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. He is perennially listed in the Best Lawyers in America, SuperLawyers®, and similar rankings.
Formerly Managing Partner of Merchant & Gould (Seattle), and now with Lane Powell, Brian is well-known for clarifying complex topics; making them practical and tactical. He was selected from among thousands of attorneys for the national “Advanced Patent Litigation Roadshow” of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Brian helps businesses clarify complexity.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 22, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Licensing Agreements for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Myers
Educated in Illinois, Co-Chair/Commentator Brian Myers holds degrees in business and in law, and also has substantial coursework in math, science and engineering. He has advised scores of companies on IP licensing. He now focuses on advising emerging companies and entrepreneurs, and on educating general practice attorneys. He is very active within the MIT Enterprise Forum, having served as its President and as its director of 50 seminars for executives, entrepreneurs and attorneys about key IP commercialization strategies for every stage of a company’s development.
Brian started his career at KPMG, where he helped structure major international transactions. He eventually joined Gray Cary (now in DLA Piper), where he helped on (among many other deals) the big California merger of Active Voice into Cisco Systems. Other representative transactions include lead responsibility for metals, digital/data and transportation clients. Brian has spent 20+ years advising startup entrepreneurs, small/medium companies, and publicly traded corporations.
Brian also teaches law and MBA students. He now practices alone, allowing him a bigger role in helping manage his clients’ businesses. Brian also runs a private equity firm, Medici Northwest.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Additional CLE Credit
| Original Seminar Date: July 29, 2010
| Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| This webinar will be taught by Wendy Lascher of Lascher & Lascher - a well known, small boutique appellate litigation firm out of Ventura County. Wendy has taught programs for us for three years and always gets fantastic reviews.
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Lascher & Lascher
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq. is a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law, California Board of Legal Specialization. She has handled more than 300 state and federal appeals and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th and 9th Circuits, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal. She is a board member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a past president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and a former chair of both the State Bar's Appellate Courts Committee and the Board of Legal Specialization's Appellate Law Advisory Committee.
Ms. Lascher graduated from Stanford University in 1970 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. Among her landmark cases are In re Marriage of Pendleton and Fireman (2000) 24 Cal.4th 39, the first California case to hold spouses may waive spousal support in a properly drafted prenuptial agreement, Morehart v. County of Santa Barbara (1994) 7 Cal.4th 725; clarifying appealability of judgments on separately tried issues, and Sanchez v. Hillerich Bradsby (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 703, holding that although the game of baseball includes an inherent risk a player may be hit by a batted ball, where a bat increases the risk above that inherent level, a player does not as a matter of law assume the risk of being hit by a batted ball. Ms. Lascher teaches appellate law at the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law. She is a past president of the Ventura County Bar Association, and has been editor of its magazine, CITATIONS, for several years.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Petitions for Review and Petitions for Certiorari will be taught by Certified Appellate Expert Ben Shatz and Mike Berger both partners in the Appellate Division of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP. Mike has argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court and is one of California's preeminant Appellate attorney.
Michael Berger, Esq.
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Mr. Berger is one of California’s preeminent appellate lawyers and is co-chair of Manatt’s Appellate Practice Group.
Mr. Berger has argued four cases before the United States Supreme Court, as well as cases before appellate courts throughout California, numerous federal courts of appeal and other state supreme courts. He is also the frequent author of amicus curiae briefs in various appellate courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, pressing client interests in important pending cases.
One of the top land use and condemnation lawyers in the United States, his appellate cases have involved planning, zoning, eminent domain, various kinds of business litigation, landslides, contract, due process, equal protection, defective construction, nuisance, insurance and environmental law.
Education
University of Southern California, LL.M., 1968 (in real property).
Yale University, Graduate Law School, 1968. Ford Fellow for work in Urban Law.
University of Southern California, Graduate Law School, 1967.
Title Insurance and Trust Company Fellow for work in Real Property Law.
Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1967. Brandeis University, 1964.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 27, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Addressing evidentiary issues in appellate briefs will be taught by Ethan Schulman, Crowell Moring.
Ethan P. Schulman, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Crowell & Moring LLP
Mr. Schulman's practice involves appeals, representation of public entities, representation of attorneys and law firms, and complex commercial litigation.
He has been a Certified Appellate Specialist since 2003, is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and Vice Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Mr. Schulman joined FLK in 2008 after practicing for many years as a litigation partner in a prominent San Francisco law firm. He is AV Peer Review Rated and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer each year since 2004.
Mr. Schulman received his J.D. in 1983 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Order of the Coif.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 28, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Oral Argument on Appeal will be taught by Faith Pincus of Pincus Communications/Pincus Professional Education & an additional speaker to be announced. Faith has been teaching public speaking for more than 20 years and has been helping attorneys improve their oral arguments and speaking on this topic for the past 6 years. In addition, she has interviewed dozens of justices, judges and court attorneys during the past six years and is the author of the upcoming ABA book "Be Heard: Public Speaking for Attorneys."
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: September 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Working with Trial Counsel & Managing an appellate practice will be taught by Robin Meadow. Robin is one of California's most recognized appellate practitioners and is the author of an upcoming book to be published this summer on Technology for the appellate practice.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: November 16, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Trademarks for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Robert C. Cumbow
Shareholder
Graham & Dunn PC
Co-Chair/Commentator Robert Cumbow of Graham & Dunn knows IP from virtually every angle. Bob has long analyzed both the transactional and litigation angles of IP risks for movie producers, television stars (“The Deadliest Catch”), books (Amazon.com), professional sports, outdoor recreation (REI), wineries, and myriad international, regional and local retailers. Bob has long been a SuperLawyer®, and Best Lawyer in America. His Avvo score is a perfect 10.
Bob is an excellent teacher, having taught in both law school and film school. In addition to his law degree (with highest honors), Bob holds an M.A. in English, and is known for presentations on law, language and literature. He has presented at scores of IP seminars, and delivered many papers and chapters. He has testified repeatedly as an expert witness, including on the value of trademarks. Because Bob can distill complex issues, he is often chosen to clarify key concepts of IP by groups such as: the International Trademark Association (“Teaching Trademark Law"); the WSBA Corporate Law Department Section (“Trademark and Copyright Tips For Corporate Counsel”); and the National Council of Graduate School Deans (“Intellectual Property Basics”). Trademark World published his quick review: “Protectable Trademark or Mere Ornamentation?”
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 08, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Copyrights for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Michael Keyes
Partner
K&L Gates
Michael Keyes is an intellectual property litigator at K&L Gates, which was founded (in part) by Bill Gates, Sr., and is now among the largest firms in the world. Mike has served as Chair of the ABA Copyright Litigation Committee. Mike now is Co-Editor of the ABA Copyright Litigation Handbook. In 2009, he was chosen to write the ABA’s “Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments,” and also to present “The Year in Copyright” at its 2009 Spring Conference.
Mike clerked for a state Supreme Court, and is admitted in three states. His client list includes many of the Fortune 500. His wins for Major Leaguer George Brett could be his most famous.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 15, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Patents and Secrets for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Bodine
Shareholder
Lane Powell PC
Brian Bodine is a leading patent and trade secret litigator. He is a registered patent attorney and chemical engineer. He clerked both for a federal judge and for a state Supreme Court. Brian is admitted to three states’ bars, and has headed both the Patent Law, and the Intellectual Property, associations of the Washington state bar. He has argued IP cases across the country, including many in New York, California, across the Midwest, and before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. He is perennially listed in the Best Lawyers in America, SuperLawyers®, and similar rankings.
Formerly Managing Partner of Merchant & Gould (Seattle), and now with Lane Powell, Brian is well-known for clarifying complex topics; making them practical and tactical. He was selected from among thousands of attorneys for the national “Advanced Patent Litigation Roadshow” of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Brian helps businesses clarify complexity.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 22, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Licensing Agreements for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Myers
Educated in Illinois, Co-Chair/Commentator Brian Myers holds degrees in business and in law, and also has substantial coursework in math, science and engineering. He has advised scores of companies on IP licensing. He now focuses on advising emerging companies and entrepreneurs, and on educating general practice attorneys. He is very active within the MIT Enterprise Forum, having served as its President and as its director of 50 seminars for executives, entrepreneurs and attorneys about key IP commercialization strategies for every stage of a company’s development.
Brian started his career at KPMG, where he helped structure major international transactions. He eventually joined Gray Cary (now in DLA Piper), where he helped on (among many other deals) the big California merger of Active Voice into Cisco Systems. Other representative transactions include lead responsibility for metals, digital/data and transportation clients. Brian has spent 20+ years advising startup entrepreneurs, small/medium companies, and publicly traded corporations.
Brian also teaches law and MBA students. He now practices alone, allowing him a bigger role in helping manage his clients’ businesses. Brian also runs a private equity firm, Medici Northwest.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 29, 2010
| Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary:
This seminar will show you how to draft a clear, persuasive appellate brief in both federal and state appellate courts and will include writing exercises to let you try out the skills you will learn. With an increasing number of appellate cases submitted on the briefs without oral argument, written advocacy has never been more important. Both new and experienced appellate practitioners will gain valuable insight into effective legal writing from the perspective of long-term appellate court personnel. This seminar will provide concrete and practical tips for writing a persuasive appellate brief from the cover page to the conclusion.
Speakers:
Paul Keller, Esq.
Supervising Attorney
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Paul Keller is a Supervising Attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he has served for more than twenty years. He is also an Adjunct Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, where he teaches Legal Writing & Research, Moot Court, and Appellate Advocacy. Previously, Mr. Keller served as a law clerk for the Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit during his term as Chief Judge. Mr. Keller received his J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1986.
Greg E Wolff, Esq.
Career Judicial Attorney/Senior Research Attorney
An Appellate Court in the CA Court System
A seasoned career court attorney, Greg Wolff has been a judicial attorney in both the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles and at the California Supreme Court for more than twenty years. He currently serves as a senior research attorney for an appellate court in the California court system. As Supervisor of the Appellate Section of the Criminal Branch of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, and in the Appellate Section of the Civil Branch, Mr. Wolff has briefed and argued over 350 appeals and 100 writ proceedings. He has been an Adjunct Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law since 2000, where he teaches Moot Court and Legal Writing & Research. In 1977, Mr. Wolff received his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law, where he was an editor of the law review.
MCLE Credit:
Pincus Professional Education certifies this seminar has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 6.0 credit hours in California and Washington.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: January 22, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 6.00 hours Total General HoursWA Bar: 6.00 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| This webinar will be taught by Wendy Lascher of Lascher & Lascher - a well known, small boutique appellate litigation firm out of Ventura County. Wendy has taught programs for us for three years and always gets fantastic reviews.
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Lascher & Lascher
Wendy C. Lascher, Esq. is a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law, California Board of Legal Specialization. She has handled more than 300 state and federal appeals and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th and 9th Circuits, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal. She is a board member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a past president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and a former chair of both the State Bar's Appellate Courts Committee and the Board of Legal Specialization's Appellate Law Advisory Committee.
Ms. Lascher graduated from Stanford University in 1970 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. Among her landmark cases are In re Marriage of Pendleton and Fireman (2000) 24 Cal.4th 39, the first California case to hold spouses may waive spousal support in a properly drafted prenuptial agreement, Morehart v. County of Santa Barbara (1994) 7 Cal.4th 725; clarifying appealability of judgments on separately tried issues, and Sanchez v. Hillerich Bradsby (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 703, holding that although the game of baseball includes an inherent risk a player may be hit by a batted ball, where a bat increases the risk above that inherent level, a player does not as a matter of law assume the risk of being hit by a batted ball. Ms. Lascher teaches appellate law at the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law. She is a past president of the Ventura County Bar Association, and has been editor of its magazine, CITATIONS, for several years.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Petitions for Review and Petitions for Certiorari will be taught by Certified Appellate Expert Ben Shatz and Mike Berger both partners in the Appellate Division of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP. Mike has argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court and is one of California's preeminant Appellate attorney.
Michael Berger, Esq.
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Mr. Berger is one of California’s preeminent appellate lawyers and is co-chair of Manatt’s Appellate Practice Group.
Mr. Berger has argued four cases before the United States Supreme Court, as well as cases before appellate courts throughout California, numerous federal courts of appeal and other state supreme courts. He is also the frequent author of amicus curiae briefs in various appellate courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, pressing client interests in important pending cases.
One of the top land use and condemnation lawyers in the United States, his appellate cases have involved planning, zoning, eminent domain, various kinds of business litigation, landslides, contract, due process, equal protection, defective construction, nuisance, insurance and environmental law.
Education
University of Southern California, LL.M., 1968 (in real property).
Yale University, Graduate Law School, 1968. Ford Fellow for work in Urban Law.
University of Southern California, Graduate Law School, 1967.
Title Insurance and Trust Company Fellow for work in Real Property Law.
Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1967. Brandeis University, 1964.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 27, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Addressing evidentiary issues in appellate briefs will be taught by Ethan Schulman, Crowell Moring.
Ethan P. Schulman, Esq.
Certified Appellate Specialist
Crowell & Moring LLP
Mr. Schulman's practice involves appeals, representation of public entities, representation of attorneys and law firms, and complex commercial litigation.
He has been a Certified Appellate Specialist since 2003, is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and Vice Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the San Francisco Bar Association.
Mr. Schulman joined FLK in 2008 after practicing for many years as a litigation partner in a prominent San Francisco law firm. He is AV Peer Review Rated and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer each year since 2004.
Mr. Schulman received his J.D. in 1983 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Order of the Coif.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 28, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Oral Argument on Appeal will be taught by Faith Pincus of Pincus Communications/Pincus Professional Education & an additional speaker to be announced. Faith has been teaching public speaking for more than 20 years and has been helping attorneys improve their oral arguments and speaking on this topic for the past 6 years. In addition, she has interviewed dozens of justices, judges and court attorneys during the past six years and is the author of the upcoming ABA book "Be Heard: Public Speaking for Attorneys."
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: September 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Working with Trial Counsel & Managing an appellate practice will be taught by Robin Meadow. Robin is one of California's most recognized appellate practitioners and is the author of an upcoming book to be published this summer on Technology for the appellate practice.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 California Appellate Certification units, for a total of 7.5 units.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that each webinar in this series is approved for 1.5 CLE in California. Take all 5 for a total of 7.5 CLE units. CLE approval application pending in IL and WA. Check back soon for an update. (Don't worry, they'll get approved!)
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: November 16, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary:
Bankruptcy practice is a very specialized field. Chapters 7 and 13 involve complicated procedures, law, issues and players. This seminar will provide you with an introduction to handling Chapters 7 and 13 bankruptcy cases. Expert practitioners as well as Trustees and a career bankruptcy court law clerk will guide you through the process.
Bankruptcy Court related topics include: an introduction to the Bankruptcy court, electronic filing issues, motion practice, adversary proceedings, appeals and ethics.
Chapter 7 basics will also include creditor's representation, debtor's representation, and the role of the Trustee. For those representing the debtor, you will learn about the attorney's tool kit, the pre-petition information gathering process, income, expense and means test, credit counseling certificates, filing and its effect, 4002 documents, the 341 meeting, deadlines for discharging the complaint, the financial education requirement, discharge, interaction with the Chapter 7 Trustee and the U.S. Trustee, various types of claim treatment. You will also learn about what happens to the assets. For those representing the creditor, you will learn about creditor's rights, special situations, treatment of secured claims in reorganization cases, judgment lien avoidance, exceptions and objections to discharge, and dismissal and conversion.
Chapter 13 basics will include creditor's representation, debtor's representation, and the role of the Trustee. For those representing the debtor, you will learn about client responsibilities, drafting the Chapter 13 plan, schedules and statements, the means test, filing documents, getting your attorneys feeds paid, the section 341 meeting, and plan confirmation issues. You will also learn about post confirmation issues, debtor financial education and the completion of the plan and discharge. For those representing the creditor, you will learn about creditor's rights, special situations, treatment of secured claims in reorganization cases, judgment lien avoidance, exceptions and objections to discharge, and dismissal and conversion.
The Role of the Trustee will be covered for both Chapter 13 and 7 cases.
Moderators:
Audrey E. Gervasi, Esq.
Law Clerk
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Washington
For the past 12 years, Audrey E. Gervasi has served as a career law clerk for a federal bankruptcy judge at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Washington at Tacoma and the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit. Prior to becoming a law clerk, Ms. Gervasi was an associate in private bankruptcy practice with a Seattle law firm. Ms. Gervasi graduated from Seattle University School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1996, where she served as a Law Review Note and Comment Editor.
Faculty:
Virginia A. Burdette, Esq.
Andrews Burdette
Ms. Burdette was appointed as a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee in 1997. She also serves as a Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 Trustee. Prior to her appointment as trustee, Ms. Burdette's practice was devoted exclusively to representing debtors in consumer bankruptcy cases, with an emphasis on Chapter 13. She is a frequent speaker on consumer bankruptcy issues, including the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, Northwest Bankruptcy Institute, and the U.S. Trustee National Training Seminar. Ms. Burdette has also taught Consumer Bankruptcy at the University of Washington Law School.
Thomas S. Linde, Esq.
Partner
Schweet Rieke & Linde, PLLC
Tom's investigative approach has allowed him to become one of the leading experts in the areas of real estate, and creditor's rights and remedies law. Using the lens of experience that comes from 24 years of specialized practice in the areas of real estate transactions and financing, judicial and non-judicial real property foreclosures, real estate contract forfeitures, evictions, and the representation of creditors in bankruptcy court proceedings, Tom is known for finding resolution in often difficult cases. A good communicator, with an in-depth knowledge of Washington state and federal bankruptcy law, Tom works closely with his clients to develop sensible and strategic plans that he executes with a capable hand. His expertise, forensic approach, ability to think outside the box, and track record of success for problem cases has made him a sought after speaker and educator on creditor's rights and remedies, and bankruptcy in particular. As a result, Tom is often called upon by others to provide counsel and insight on highly specialized cases that cross over into emerging law.
Tom received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in History from the University of Washington where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Washington School of Law. He is a past chair of the Washington State Bar Association CLE Committee, and a past chair of the King County Bar Association Bankruptcy Section.
Kimberly J. MacLeod, Esq.
Law Offices of Kimberly J. MacLeod, P.C.
Kim received her law degree in 1986 from the University of Puget Sound (now known as Seattle University). She earned her undergraduate degree in 1983 from the University of Washington.
From mid-1986 until 1998, Kim was in private practice, concentrating primarily in representation of debtors in consumer and small business bankruptcies. Kim began working as a Staff Attorney for the Seattle Chapter 13 Trustee's office in 1998, and served as Senior Staff Attorney for K. Michael Fitzgerald, the Seattle Chapter 13 Trustee, from 1999 until September, 2009.
On September 14, 2009, Kim opened the Law Offices of Kimberly J. MacLeod, P.C., located in downtown Edmonds. Kim's practice focuses on the representation of debtors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies.
Alan J. Wenokur, Esq.
Alan J. Wenokur has been a sole practitioner since 1991, emphasizing bankruptcy and debtor/creditor law. He regularly represents debtors and creditors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases, as well as creditors in Chapter 11 cases. He also focuses on representation of Chapter 7 trustees, often in cases featuring undisclosed assets or other questionable conduct. A member of the state creditor/debtor section and the American Bankruptcy Institute, Mr. Wenokur frequently speaks on bankruptcy law issues at professional seminars.
Jason Wilson-Aguilar, Esq.
Senior Staff Attorney / Legal Department Manager
Office of K. Michael Fitzgerald, Chapter 13 Trustee
Mr. Wilson-Aguilar is Senior Staff Attorney and Legal Department Manager in the Chapter 13 Trustee's Office. He was previously Vice President and Counsel in the Home Loans and Consumer Lending Division of Washington Mutual Bank's Legal Department. Mr. Wilson-Aguilar has represented both debtors and creditors in consumer bankruptcy cases in Washington and Oregon. He is a frequent writer and speaker on bankruptcy and mortgage lending topics. B.A., University of Oregon; J.D., Lewis and Clark Law School.
MCLE:
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this seminar has been approved for 6.0 hours of MCLE credit in California and Washington, including 0.5 hour ethics credit.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: January 01, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 6.00 hours Total General Hours, 0.50 hours Including EthicsWA Bar: 6.00 hours Total General Hours, 0.50 hours Including Ethics
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| This two-part series will cover procedures and strategies of the typical Chapter 11 case from pre-bankruptcy planning through plan confirmation and beyond. REGISTER NOW
Part I September 28th (90 min) Noon - 1:30 PST
Part II September 30th (90 min) Noon - 1:30 PST
This is an invaluable program for attorneys new to Chapter 11 and is a beginner's course.
Part I September 28th Noon - 1:30 PST
Chapter 11 – director and officer duties/liabilities before bankruptcy (zone of insolvency etc), alternatives to BK (negotiation w/ one or multiple secured creditors, ABCs, receiverships, etc); limits on workouts (regulatory, tax, loan servicer’s lack of authority, dissenting minorities, etc.)
Commencement of chapter 11: (a) ch.7 distinguished (and ch.9, 12, 13, 15), (b) voluntary/involuntary, (c) bankruptcy schedules and statement of financial affairs (SOFA), (d) employment and fee issues with respect to professionals, how are they paid, etc., (e) creditors’ committee, (f) governance during bankruptcy (debtor-in-possession as trustee, fishbowl, appointment of examiner or trustee, conversion, dismissal, etc), (g) trustee compliance / ongoing US Trustee compliance & reporting (monthly op reports, etc).
First day motions: DIP financing, cash collateral pre-petition wages, critical vendors, management incentive plans v. retention plans, limiting notice, utility deposits, maintaining bank accounts, joint administration v. substantive consolidation, etc.
Litigation issues
Procedure - impact of automatic stay (actions by/against debtor, property of estate includes claims belonging to the debtor, void v. voidable, retroactive annulment of stay, etc)
Procedure - venue/forum (core/non-core, contested matters/adversary proceedings, removal, etc)
claims against creditors & others: avoidance actions (strong-arm powers, preferences, fraudulent transfers, etc), non-BK claims (contracts, torts, post-petition claims, etc. – can trustee assert alter-ego and derivative claims? Does in pari delicto defense apply?)
claims by creditors: classification (secured, priority, unsecured), special types of claims - landlords (502(b)(6)), 20-day vendors of goods (503(b)(9), whether vendor can be paid and also use goods as “new value” for 547(c), whether 502(d) applies to 503(b)(9)), etc.
Part II September 30th Noon - 1:30 PST
Executory contracts and leases: cure, assume, assign (non-assignable contracts under the “hypothetical” & “actual” tests, possible solutions), intellectual property (365(n)), etc.)
Sales/settlements small sales that might occur during the course of a bankruptcy case w/out auctions (examples like Lahijani); sales of substantially all assets, 363 v. plan (“melting ice cube,” valuation/depreciation), sales free and clear (Clear Channel case, appeals, etc.)
Plan formulation and confirmation: classification & voting, cramdown, competing plans/exclusivity, pre-packaged & pre-negotiated plans, etc.
Tax issues: preservation of NOL (net operating loss), discharge of indebtedness income, etc.
Special cases: single asset real estate, small business, etc.
Local variances: Delaware v. 9th Circuit, LA v. SF, etc.
Appeals: election to District Court/BAP, proceedings in the bankruptcy court while an appeal is pending, direct appeals to the circuit courts, mandamus and motions, etc.
CLE Specialization Credit
Bankruptcy Specialization Credit Application will be filed with the CA Bar. Check back for approval updates in June.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this seminar has been approved for 3.0 hours of MCLE credit in California.
Applications for CLE credit pending in IL and WA.
Instructors
Mette Kurth, Esq.
Partner
Arent, Fox LLP
Mette Kurth is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group.
Mette’s practice focuses on all aspects of financial restructuring, distressed situations, and bankruptcy issues, and she uses her experience to develop pragmatic and creative solutions to protect her client’s interests. Mette has represented a variety of creditors' committees, debtors, unsecured creditors, acquirers of bankrupt companies, and trustees both in out-of-court workouts and in federal bankruptcy cases.
She also regularly represents other parties in bankruptcy-related litigation and handles other insolvency-related matters such as counseling indenture trustees or boards of directors. She has represented parties in numerous industries, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, imports, healthcare, fitness, financial services, real estate, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, and multi-level marketing.
Mette’s representative work includes:
Represented the official creditors' committee of a regional fitness club in connection with the debtor's efforts to sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor's proposal to sell the company to an insider, accompanied by significant contracts and releases, and instead secured the approval of the highest and best bidder for the debtor’s assets, as selected by the committee, over the objection of the debtor and the unsuccessful insider
Represented the official creditors' committee of a major apparel retailer in connection with the debtor’s efforts to reorganize or sell its business; successfully opposed the debtor’s proposal to sell the debtor’s assets to an insider without the benefit of an investment banker, and ultimately secured the approval of the sale of the debtor’s assets to a strategic buyer, a publicly traded company, for value in excess of that offered by the debtor’s proposed insider transaction
Successfully represented numerous publicly-traded and privately held debtors in all aspects of their Chapter 11 reorganizations, including a multi-level marketing organization that emerged from bankruptcy in less than eight months; a debtor filing a pre-packaged plan of reorganization in California; numerous debtors using the chapter 11 process to conduct orderly going-concern sales, and a debtor that obtained a 105 injunction staying litigation against key management and shareholders to facilitate its reorganization efforts
Successfully represented various companies in out-of-court workouts including a publicly traded, national retailer negotiating numerous lease modification and termination agreements that enabled the retailer to avoid a bankruptcy
Advised financially healthy companies with respect to bankruptcy-related matters such as the risks associated with potential defaults or bankruptcies by third parties such as vendors, customers and landlords; minimizing preference and credit-risk exposure when dealing with financially distressed business; resolving preference litigation and advising companies regarding the use of complex financial tools such as account receivable put option contracts designed to minimize the credit risk
Represented one of the largest commercial banks in the country in its capacity as Indenture Trustee on behalf of holders of over $2 billion in principal amount of senior notes in connection with two separate chapter 11 cases, one in the telecommunications industry and the other in the airline industry
Mette’s professional affiliations include:
Turnaround Management Association
National Board of Directors (2009-Present)
National Standards Committee for Certified Turnaround Professionals (2008-2009)
President, Southern California chapter (2006-2008)
Program Chairman, Southern California chapter (2004-2006)
California Bankruptcy Forum, Conference Co-Chairman (2009)
Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
Secretary (2007-2008)
Board of Directors (2005-2007)
Financial Lawyers Conference
Board of Governors (2005-2007)
American Bankruptcy Institute
American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Los Angeles County Bar Association
State Bar of California, Business Law Section
International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
Publications, Presentations and Recognitions:
“Best Lawyers in America” recently selected Mette for inclusion in its 2009 rankings and she has been recognized by Los Angeles Magazine as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2009 in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights. She was previously selected by Los Angeles Magazine as a Rising Star in 2005, 2006 and 2008. Under Mette’s leadership, the Southern California chapter of the Turnaround Management Association was recognized as “The Most Improved Chapter of the Year” for 2007.
Mette has spoken on numerous panels regarding insolvency-related topics.
Mette received her JD from UCLA (Order of the Coif; Chief Articles Editor, UCLA Law Review) in 1996.
Nathan Cook
Managing Director
AlixPartners
Nathan is an experienced financial advisor and management consultant who focuses on providing advisory services and interim management to distressed companies and their constituents, as well as companies in periods of transition. He has significant experience in crisis management, capital structure refinancing, cash and working capital management, cost reduction plan development and implementation, business plan development, valuation, and bankruptcy.
Most recently, Nathan served as interim Chief Financial Officer of Hilex Poly Co. LLC (“Hilex”), which is the world’s largest plastic bag company. In this role, Nathan helped lead the company through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring and had day-to-day responsibility for managing the company’s accounting, finance, and IT functions. Prior to this role, Nathan served as Hilex’s interim Treasurer. As interim Treasurer, he directly managed the company’s liquidity and working capital activities, and assisted in the implementation of various initiatives, which led to an improvement in the company’s year-over-year EBITDA of almost 50%. During his tenure at Hilex, Nathan assisted in the negotiation and closing of $535 million of debt financing transactions.
Prior to Hilex, Nathan served as an interim accounting Director for Mirant Corporation, a $3 billion competitive energy company. During the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring (the largest filed in the U.S. in 2003), Nathan led a team in the analysis of over $60 billion of inter-company transactions, as well as the resolution of various bankruptcy and litigation claims, which were critical gating items to the company’s emergence from bankruptcy.
Nathan has advised debtors and creditors in various other restructuring matters, and frequently assists in complex bankruptcy litigation, including matters involving fraudulent conveyances, preferential transfers, and substantive consolidation. In addition, he has extensive valuation experience in restructuring, transactional, and litigation contexts.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, Nathan was a Principal Consultant in the Financial Advisory Services group of Price Waterhouse. He was also previously a Senior Associate in the Business Strategy practice of Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc., and a Senior Consultant of Peterson Consulting (now a division of Navigant Consulting). Further, Nathan previously worked at Hewlett Packard (“HP”), where he assisted in the IPO and financial separation of Agilent Technologies from HP.
Nathan holds an MBA in finance and corporate strategy from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he served as President of the Management Consulting Association. He holds a BBA in accounting from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where he graduated with high distinction. Nathan is a CPA and a Level III CFA Candidate, and is a Board member of the Turnaround Management Association – Southern California Chapter. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CFA Institute, and CFA Society of Los Angeles.
Neil Bason, Esq.
Special Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
Neil Bason practices in the area of business reorganization and financial restructuring. Mr. Bason's practice encompasses representation of trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, entities contemplating or initiating bankruptcy cases or workouts, persons who seek to purchase assets out of bankruptcy and third parties whose interests need to be protected in distressed debt situations, including parties to contracts and leases with debtors in bankruptcy.
Prior to joining Duane Morris, Mr. Bason served for eight years as a law clerk to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali in the Northern District of California and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit.
During his tenure, he worked on approximately 70 BAP decisions and numerous trial court dispositions. Before clerking Mr. Bason was in private practice for a decade in Massachusetts and in the Bay Area, during which time he focused primarily on debtor-creditor disputes.
Following law school, Mr. Bason was a law clerk to Chief Justice Paul J. Liacos of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars). Substitutions may be made at any time.
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| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: September 30, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 3.00 hours Total General Hours, 0.50 hours Professional Responsibility
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The CA CLE deadline for Group 1 (A-G) is February 1, 2010.
The WA CLE deadline for Group 3 is December 31, 2009. Group 3: Admitted in 1984 through 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008.
Don't miss this interesting and entertaining program by Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, a dynamic speaker who keeps things moving along.
This program was designed to meet your bias special CLE unit requirement while, at the same time, providing you with an interesting and informative program that teaches you about identifying and handling these issues in the work place.
Whether you need to advise your clients, know what is going on in your own law firm, need an bias update, or just meet your special CLE unit requirements, this class is for you.
What You Will Learn if You Attend This Seminar
Elimination of Bias
In order to eliminate bias in the workplace, you not only need to educate your employees, but you also need to recognize that it is taking place by paying attention to what is going on in your workplace environment.
In this interactive seminar, Ms. Mazzarella will teach you a simple and effective framework for “reading” your employees, co-workers and even your boss. This seminar will bring alive the methods and techniques discussed in Ms. Mazzarella’s book, Reading People (Random House 2008) co-authored with internationally renowned jury consultant Jo-Ellan Dimitrius.[1]
As a former hate crime prosecutor and a lifetime member of the San Diego Hate Crimes Coalition, Ms. Mazzarella is very familiar with issues relating to bias and discrimination. She has published some of this knowledge as a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan Reference 2007) and Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies (SAGE 2004). This educational seminar will also cover applicable laws and statistics regarding bias and discrimination in and out of the workplace, and effective training of employees in this area.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity has been approved in the amount of:
1 ethics hours in IL;
1 MCLE hours, in CA; and,
1 credit hours in WA
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Speaker
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, Esq.
Trial Attorney
San Diego County
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella is a Trial Attorney, named by her peers as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript in both 2008 and 2007. She began her legal career as a trial attorney with the San Diego County Deputy Public Defender’s Office. Most of her practice is trial work; she has completed approximately 140 trials including 92 criminal jury trials ranging from stalking, to torture, to first-degree murder. In her current assignment in the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division she prosecutes cases involving vice, child molestation, and sexually violent predators. She received her Bachelors degree in psychology from the University of California Los Angeles, and her Law Degree from California Western School of Law. Her legal education included study in Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, and interning at a Barrister firm in London, England. Ms. Mazzarella is admitted to practice law in California, the United States District Court in the Southern District of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Mazzarella is the former Chair and a current member of the San Diego County Bar Association’s Ethics Committee, one of 16 members of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC), and an accomplished public speaker on the topic of ethics both nationally and internationally. She teaches ethics around the country on a regular basis for various legal and business organizations, and is an Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) certified instructor for law enforcement. Ms. Mazzarella has been featured as a media topic area expert on the radio as well as on both local and international television.
In a different genre of programs, Ms. Mazzarella presents motivational seminars, keynote speeches, and workshops nationwide. She is a frequent conference opening speaker around the country on the subjects of “Reading People” and “How to Make a Great Impression,” and she also presents at business retreats and workshops on the topics of “Effective Communication with Difficult People,” “Leadership,” “Building Partnerships,” and related subjects.
Ms. Mazzarella is published on a regular basis. She is co-author of Reading People (Random House 2008), and was a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan Reference 2007), and Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies (SAGE 2004). She has her own ethics column in the San Diego Daily Transcript, a regular column in Law Enforcement Quarterly, is a columnist and editorial Board member for San Diego Lawyer, and has been published multiple times in California District Attorneys Association publications and the California State Bar Criminal Law Journal. She has also been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, has contributed several MCLE ethics articles for the California Bar Journal, and has been published in The Professional Lawyer, published by the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility and the Standing Committee on Professionalism. She is a contributing ethics author for Doing Justice and The Practical Prosecutor (National College of District Attorneys national publications).
Ms. Mazzarella sits on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Criminal Law Section and is a Master in the Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court. She is a past Vice President of the SDCBA, a past Vice President and Programs Chair of the Lawyers Club of San Diego, and a past Board member of the San Diego Crime Victim’s Fund.
Ms. Mazzarella has been recognized for her legal work as well as her work in the community. She received the Service to the San Diego County Bar Association Award from the San Diego County Bar Association in 2005, the Friend of the Community Award from the Tom Homann Law Association in 2003, and was recognized as one of San Diego Metropolitan Magazine’s 40 under 40 honorees in 2001.
On a personal note, Ms. Mazzarella holds a purple belt in Shorin-Ryu karate, is a concert violinist with the La Jolla Symphony, and plays the electric violin professionally with a rock band, performing both locally and in Hollywood. Regarding Ms. Mazzarella’s true passion in life, she holds a Master of Divinity degree summa cum laude from Bethel Seminary San Diego where she co-chaired the Student Senate, and was awarded the 2009 Excellence in Preaching Award and the Zondervan Biblical Languages Award.
[1] This new book is a revision of the 1998 New York Times bestseller Reading People (Random House 1998), authored by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: December 17, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1 hour Total General HoursIllinois MCLE Board: 1 hour Total General MCLE HoursWA Bar: 1 hour Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| A two-part teleseminar/webinar with a dynamic speaker that lets you pick up ethics/bias units without ever leaving your office! | Summary
The CA CLE deadline for Group 1 (A-G) is February 1, 2010.
The WA CLE deadline for Group 3 is December 31, 2009. Group 3: Admitted in 1984 through 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008.
Don't miss this interesting and entertaining program by Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, a dynamic speaker who keeps things moving along.
This program, delivered over two lunch hours, was designed to meet your bias special CLE unit requirement and help fulfill your ethics requirement as well.
This Teleseminar/Webinar helps you achieve these goals, while at the same time providing you with an interesting and informative program that teaches you about identifying and handling these issues in the work place.
Whether you need to advise your clients, know what is going on in your own law firm, need an ethics requirement update, or just meet your special CLE unit requirements, this class is for you.
What You Will Learn if You Attend This Seminar
Hot Topics in Legal Ethics
The seminar will cover the latest hot topics in legal ethics. Participants will learn the applicable ethical rules, statutes, and case law, and how this authority is commonly applied to a variety of common ethical dilemmas.
Taught by Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, a prosecutor with a lengthy background in legal ethics, this seminar will teach you the practical reality of how the latest issues in legal ethics commonly arise, how they can be avoided, and how they can best be addressed.
Elimination of Bias
In order to eliminate bias in the workplace, you not only need to educate your employees, but you also need to recognize that it is taking place by paying attention to what is going on in your workplace environment.
In this interactive seminar, Ms. Mazzarella will teach you a simple and effective framework for “reading” your employees, co-workers and even your boss. This seminar will bring alive the methods and techniques discussed in Ms. Mazzarella’s book, Reading People (Random House 2008) co-authored with internationally renowned jury consultant Jo-Ellan Dimitrius.[1]
As a former hate crime prosecutor and a lifetime member of the San Diego Hate Crimes Coalition, Ms. Mazzarella is very familiar with issues relating to bias and discrimination. She has published some of this knowledge as a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan Reference 2007) and Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies (SAGE 2004). This educational seminar will also cover applicable laws and statistics regarding bias and discrimination in and out of the workplace, and effective training of employees in this area.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity has been approved in the amount of:
2 ethics hours in IL;
2 MCLE hours, including 1 hour of ethics and 1 hour of bias in CA; and,
2 credit hours in WA, including 1 hour of ethics credit.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Speaker
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, Esq.
Trial Attorney
San Diego County
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella is a Trial Attorney, named by her peers as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript in both 2008 and 2007. She began her legal career as a trial attorney with the San Diego County Deputy Public Defender’s Office. Most of her practice is trial work; she has completed approximately 140 trials including 92 criminal jury trials ranging from stalking, to torture, to first-degree murder. In her current assignment in the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division she prosecutes cases involving vice, child molestation, and sexually violent predators. She received her Bachelors degree in psychology from the University of California Los Angeles, and her Law Degree from California Western School of Law. Her legal education included study in Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, and interning at a Barrister firm in London, England. Ms. Mazzarella is admitted to practice law in California, the United States District Court in the Southern District of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Mazzarella is the former Chair and a current member of the San Diego County Bar Association’s Ethics Committee, one of 16 members of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC), and an accomplished public speaker on the topic of ethics both nationally and internationally. She teaches ethics around the country on a regular basis for various legal and business organizations, and is an Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) certified instructor for law enforcement. Ms. Mazzarella has been featured as a media topic area expert on the radio as well as on both local and international television.
In a different genre of programs, Ms. Mazzarella presents motivational seminars, keynote speeches, and workshops nationwide. She is a frequent conference opening speaker around the country on the subjects of “Reading People” and “How to Make a Great Impression,” and she also presents at business retreats and workshops on the topics of “Effective Communication with Difficult People,” “Leadership,” “Building Partnerships,” and related subjects.
Ms. Mazzarella is published on a regular basis. She is co-author of Reading People (Random House 2008), and was a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan Reference 2007), and Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies (SAGE 2004). She has her own ethics column in the San Diego Daily Transcript, a regular column in Law Enforcement Quarterly, is a columnist and editorial Board member for San Diego Lawyer, and has been published multiple times in California District Attorneys Association publications and the California State Bar Criminal Law Journal. She has also been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, has contributed several MCLE ethics articles for the California Bar Journal, and has been published in The Professional Lawyer, published by the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility and the Standing Committee on Professionalism. She is a contributing ethics author for Doing Justice and The Practical Prosecutor (National College of District Attorneys national publications).
Ms. Mazzarella sits on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Criminal Law Section and is a Master in the Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court. She is a past Vice President of the SDCBA, a past Vice President and Programs Chair of the Lawyers Club of San Diego, and a past Board member of the San Diego Crime Victim’s Fund.
Ms. Mazzarella has been recognized for her legal work as well as her work in the community. She received the Service to the San Diego County Bar Association Award from the San Diego County Bar Association in 2005, the Friend of the Community Award from the Tom Homann Law Association in 2003, and was recognized as one of San Diego Metropolitan Magazine’s 40 under 40 honorees in 2001.
On a personal note, Ms. Mazzarella holds a purple belt in Shorin-Ryu karate, is a concert violinist with the La Jolla Symphony, and plays the electric violin professionally with a rock band, performing both locally and in Hollywood. Regarding Ms. Mazzarella’s true passion in life, she holds a Master of Divinity degree summa cum laude from Bethel Seminary San Diego where she co-chaired the Student Senate, and was awarded the 2009 Excellence in Preaching Award and the Zondervan Biblical Languages Award.
[1] This new book is a revision of the 1998 New York Times bestseller Reading People (Random House 1998), authored by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: December 17, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 2.00 hours Total General Hours, 1 hour Including Ethics, 1 hour Including BiasWA Bar: 2.00 hours Total General Hours, 1 hour Including EthicsIllinois MCLE Board: 2.00 hours Total General MCLE Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The CA CLE deadline for Group 1 (A-G) is February 1, 2010.
The WA CLE deadline for Group 3 is December 31, 2009. Group 3: Admitted in 1984 through 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008.
Don't miss this interesting and entertaining program by Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, a dynamic speaker who keeps things moving along.
This program will help fulfill your ethics requirement while, at the same time, providing you with an interesting and informative program that teaches you about identifying and handling these issues in the work place.
Whether you need to advise your clients, know what is going on in your own law firm, need an ethics requirement update, or just meet your special CLE unit requirements, this class is for you.
What You Will Learn if You Attend This Seminar
Hot Topics in Legal Ethics
The seminar will cover the latest hot topics in legal ethics. Participants will learn the applicable ethical rules, statutes, and case law, and how this authority is commonly applied to a variety of common ethical dilemmas.
Taught by Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, a prosecutor with a lengthy background in legal ethics, this seminar will teach you the practical reality of how the latest issues in legal ethics commonly arise, how they can be avoided, and how they can best be addressed.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity has been approved in the amount of:
1 ethics hours in IL;
1 MCLE hours in CA; and,
1 credit hours in WA
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Speaker
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, Esq.
Trial Attorney
San Diego County
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella is a Trial Attorney, named by her peers as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript in both 2008 and 2007. She began her legal career as a trial attorney with the San Diego County Deputy Public Defender’s Office. Most of her practice is trial work; she has completed approximately 140 trials including 92 criminal jury trials ranging from stalking, to torture, to first-degree murder. In her current assignment in the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division she prosecutes cases involving vice, child molestation, and sexually violent predators. She received her Bachelors degree in psychology from the University of California Los Angeles, and her Law Degree from California Western School of Law. Her legal education included study in Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, and interning at a Barrister firm in London, England. Ms. Mazzarella is admitted to practice law in California, the United States District Court in the Southern District of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Mazzarella is the former Chair and a current member of the San Diego County Bar Association’s Ethics Committee, one of 16 members of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC), and an accomplished public speaker on the topic of ethics both nationally and internationally. She teaches ethics around the country on a regular basis for various legal and business organizations, and is an Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) certified instructor for law enforcement. Ms. Mazzarella has been featured as a media topic area expert on the radio as well as on both local and international television.
In a different genre of programs, Ms. Mazzarella presents motivational seminars, keynote speeches, and workshops nationwide. She is a frequent conference opening speaker around the country on the subjects of “Reading People” and “How to Make a Great Impression,” and she also presents at business retreats and workshops on the topics of “Effective Communication with Difficult People,” “Leadership,” “Building Partnerships,” and related subjects.
Ms. Mazzarella is published on a regular basis. She is co-author of Reading People (Random House 2008), and was a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan Reference 2007), and Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies (SAGE 2004). She has her own ethics column in the San Diego Daily Transcript, a regular column in Law Enforcement Quarterly, is a columnist and editorial Board member for San Diego Lawyer, and has been published multiple times in California District Attorneys Association publications and the California State Bar Criminal Law Journal. She has also been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, has contributed several MCLE ethics articles for the California Bar Journal, and has been published in The Professional Lawyer, published by the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility and the Standing Committee on Professionalism. She is a contributing ethics author for Doing Justice and The Practical Prosecutor (National College of District Attorneys national publications).
Ms. Mazzarella sits on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Criminal Law Section and is a Master in the Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court. She is a past Vice President of the SDCBA, a past Vice President and Programs Chair of the Lawyers Club of San Diego, and a past Board member of the San Diego Crime Victim’s Fund.
Ms. Mazzarella has been recognized for her legal work as well as her work in the community. She received the Service to the San Diego County Bar Association Award from the San Diego County Bar Association in 2005, the Friend of the Community Award from the Tom Homann Law Association in 2003, and was recognized as one of San Diego Metropolitan Magazine’s 40 under 40 honorees in 2001.
On a personal note, Ms. Mazzarella holds a purple belt in Shorin-Ryu karate, is a concert violinist with the La Jolla Symphony, and plays the electric violin professionally with a rock band, performing both locally and in Hollywood. Regarding Ms. Mazzarella’s true passion in life, she holds a Master of Divinity degree summa cum laude from Bethel Seminary San Diego where she co-chaired the Student Senate, and was awarded the 2009 Excellence in Preaching Award and the Zondervan Biblical Languages Award.
[1] This new book is a revision of the 1998 New York Times bestseller Reading People (Random House 1998), authored by Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella.
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| Original Seminar Date: December 16, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1 hour Total General HoursIllinois MCLE Board: 1 hour Total General MCLE HoursWA Bar: 1 hour Total General Hours
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| Summary
Do you or your law firm have any medical or healthcare-related clients? If so, in February 2010 you will almost surely be subject to brand-new contracting and data security rules under HIPAA.
Now you, and your law firm – not just your healthcare clients – are at risk under HIPAA. Do you know how to comply with these tough new rules? Many firms (especially if you don’t do very much work for healthcare clients, or have a small healthcare group) are unaware of these new rules, which were enacted as part of last February’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”), also known as the “stimulus package”.
Register now for this 90-minute Teleseminar/Webinar to help you avoid the risk of substantial civil and even criminal penalties, DSHS and other investigations, and malpractice and ethical violations.
These brand-new rules create important new legal, ethical and practical risks for any attorney who uses medical or health data for healthcare clients. This Teleseminar/Webinar will ensure you know these new risks and in just 90 minutes will provide you greater familiarity with most of the critical issues.
No one can better help you plan for and reduce these risks than John R. Christiansen, a 25+ year attorney who specializes in the law of healthcare data security. John is known for prescribing specific governance, policy and contracting tools to minimize risk – for both practical solutions, and legal strategies, that better protect his clients. He will be joined for this Teleseminar/Webinar by Michael Simon, CTO of Creation Logic, who can answer technical questions.
This Teleseminar/Webinar is Co-Sponsored by Emerald Education.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this activity has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 1.50 General MCLE units in CA and WA.
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity is approved for 1.50 hours of Ethics credit in CA & IL.
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity is approved for 0.25 hours of Ethics credit in WA.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
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| Original Seminar Date: December 11, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General HoursIllinois MCLE Board: 1.50 hours Total General MCLE HoursWA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours, 0.25 hours Including Ethics
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| Learn about identifying and addressing challenges in the work place and privacy law constraints related to these topics | Course Summary
This program is designed to meet all of your special CLE unit requirements: Ethics, Bias and Substance Abuse, while providing you with an interesting and informative program that teaches you about identifying and handling these issues in the work place. Whether you need to advise your clients, know what is going on in your own law firm, or just meet your special CLE unit requirements, this class is for you.
The seminar helps you recognize the signs of bias, substance abuse and illegal or unethical activities in a legal work place environment. It also informs you about current privacy laws that affect your ability to monitor your employees (or your client's ability). If you or your clients go over the line, you could end up defending yourselves, and be hamstrung in your efforts to address your concerns.
In this seminar, Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, co author of the newly re-released New York Best Seller, “Reading People,” will teach you a simple and effective framework for “reading” people in the law practice environment, as well as how you can keep your clients from making mistakes with their employees.
Andrew Serwin, a top Privacy Law expert, will present the latest privacy law updates and issues that govern how much information you can legally acquire about your employees in the workplace.
This interactive seminar gets everyone involved, with valuable input solicited from the audience members used to supplement and enhance the information provided by the speakers. This seminar is an essential tool for all attorneys, created especially for attorneys, from big firm lawyers to employment specialists, corporate counsel, government attorneys to sole practitioners. The techniques you learn will serve you well outside of the work place environment, as well as within it.
Speakers
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella, Esq.
Trial Attorney
San Diego County
Instructor Portrait
Wendy Patrick Mazzarella is a Trial Attorney, named by her peers as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript in both 2008 and 2007. She began her legal career as a trial attorney with the San Diego County Deputy Public Defender’s Office. Most of her practice is trial work; she has completed approximately 140 trials including 92 criminal jury trials ranging from stalking, to torture, to first-degree murder. In her current assignment in the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division she prosecutes cases involving vice, child molestation, and sexually violent predators. She received her Bachelors degree in psychology from the University of California Los Angeles, and her Law Degree from California Western School of Law. Her legal education included study in Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, and interning at a Barrister firm in London, England. Ms. Mazzarella is admitted to practice law in California, the United States District Court in the Southern District of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Mazzarella is the former Chair and a current member of the San Diego County Bar Association’s Ethics Committee, one of 16 members of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC), and an accomplished public speaker on the topic of ethics both nationally and internationally. She teaches ethics around the country on a regular basis for various legal and business organizations, and is an Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI) certified instructor for law enforcement. Ms. Mazzarella has been featured as a media topic area expert on the radio as well as on both local and international television.
In a different genre of programs, Ms. Mazzarella presents motivational seminars, keynote speeches, and workshops nationwide. She is a frequent conference opening speaker around the country on the subjects of “Reading People” and “How to Make a Great Impression,” and she also presents at business retreats and workshops on the topics of “Effective Communication with Difficult People,” “Leadership,” “Building Partnerships,” and related subjects.
Ms. Mazzarella is published on a regular basis. She is co-author of Reading People (Random House 2008), and was a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan Reference 2007), and Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies (SAGE 2004). She has her own ethics column in the San Diego Daily Transcript, a regular column in Law Enforcement Quarterly, is a columnist and editorial Board member for San Diego Lawyer, and has been published multiple times in California District Attorneys Association publications and the California State Bar Criminal Law Journal. She has also been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, has contributed several MCLE ethics articles for the California Bar Journal, and has been published in The Professional Lawyer, published by the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility and the Standing Committee on Professionalism. She is a contributing ethics author for Doing Justice and The Practical Prosecutor (National College of District Attorneys national publications).
Ms. Mazzarella sits on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Criminal Law Section and is a Master in the Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court. She is a past Vice President of the SDCBA, a past Vice President and Programs Chair of the Lawyers Club of San Diego, and a past Board member of the San Diego Crime Victim’s Fund.
Ms. Mazzarella has been recognized for her legal work as well as her work in the community. She received the Service to the San Diego County Bar Association Award from the San Diego County Bar Association in 2005, the Friend of the Community Award from the Tom Homann Law Association in 2003, and was recognized as one of San Diego Metropolitan Magazine’s 40 under 40 honorees in 2001.
On a personal note, Ms. Mazzarella holds a purple belt in Shorin-Ryu karate, is a concert violinist with the La Jolla Symphony, and plays the electric violin professionally with a rock band, performing both locally and in Hollywood. Regarding Ms. Mazzarella’s true passion in life, she holds a Master of Divinity degree summa cum laude from Bethel Seminary San Diego where she co-chaired the Student Senate, and was awarded the 2009 Excellence in Preaching Award and the Zondervan Biblical Languages Award.
Andrew B. Serwin, Esq.
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
Mr. Serwin will be presenting on Privacy law issues that govern how much information you can legally acquire about your employees in the workplace. Andrew B. Serwin is a partner in the San Diego office of Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation, Information Technology and Outsourcing, General Commercial Litigation, and the Trademark and Copyright Practice Groups. He is also a member of the Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Life Sciences, and Health Care Industry Teams. Mr. Serwin has extensive experience in privacy and security matters, including state, federal and international restrictions on the use and transfer of information, security breach compliance, incident response, marketing restrictions, and the drafting and implementation of privacy and security policies. Mr. Serwin also advises media and Internet companies regarding online contracting issues, licensing issues, domain name issues, and intellectual property issues. Mr. Serwin also has broad experience in technology and business law, including corporate finance, partnership law, securities, e-commerce, software development and licensing, intellectual property licensing and protection, manufacturing and distribution arrangements, joint ventures, information technology transactions, as well as real estate transactions. He has advised hedge funds and broker dealers in a variety of transactions. Mr. Serwin's litigation practice includes unfair competition matters; intellectual property litigation; corporate governance disputes; complex commercial litigation; e-commerce matters; partnership disputes and real property matters.
Andrew is the author of “Information Security and Privacy: A Comprehensive Guide to Federal, State and International Law,” a 2,000 page treatise that examines all aspects of privacy and security laws, published by West Legalworks. Mr. Serwin is also the author of the “Internet Marketing Law Handbook,” published by West Legalworks, which covers topics such as privacy and security, commercial e-mail laws, spyware and unfair competition law. He is also the author of the advertising section of the “ABA Model Web Site: A Knowledge Management Approach to E-Business Model Web Site” that provides guidance on “best practices” for Internet issues, as well as Co-Chair and principle author of the Privacy and Security Section of the ABA’s new publication, “Selling Products and Services and Licensing Software Online: An Interactive Guide With Legal Forms and Commentary to Privacy, Security and Consumer Law Issues.” (June 2007)
Mr. Serwin was recently recognized as a “Southern California Super Lawyer,” and was previously identified as one of the leading intellectual property attorneys by the Daily Transcript in its 2005 “Top Attorneys List.” He is also the former Co-Chair of the California State Bar’s Cyberspace Law Committee, and the former chair of the San Diego County Bar Association's Web site Committee from 2002-2004. Mr. Serwin is also a frequent presenter and commentator on technology and legal matters. He is also a columnist for The Daily Transcript on technology issues.
Mr. Serwin also serves on the editorial board of the Cyberspace Lawyer, and on the Publications Board of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Serwin is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1995) where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. He earned his B.A. in political science, cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego in 1992. Mr. Serwin is admitted to practice law in California.
Andrew L. Dieden, Esq.
Andrew L. Dieden Law Office
Andrew L. Dieden, Esq. is a recovering alcoholic and board Vice President of the National Council on Alcoholism and other Drug Addictions – Bay Area (NCADA-BA). Andrew has been sober 8 years and has been a practicing attorney since 1993.
Andrew has found addiction and recovery far easier to understand and execute by relating his recovery program to the familiar language and lessons of sports. He wrote his book, The Sport’s Lover’s Guide to Recovery to help addicts and those who love them find happiness through recovery and sports.
Mr. Dieden has been an addiction recovery center speaker for Kaiser Permanente, Promises Treatment Centers, Support Homes and Sequoia Center. In addition, Andrew has been a radio guest and television guest on national broadcasts speaking on the subject of recovery.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity has been approved in the amount of 3.5 credit hours, including: 1 credit hour of ethics, 1 credit hour of bias and 1 credit hour of substance abuse.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
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| Original Seminar Date: December 01, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 3.50 hours Total General Hours, 1 hour Including Ethics, 1 hour Including Bias, 1 hour Including Substance Abuse
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| A one hour teleseminar/webinar to meet your Substance Abuse special CLE units without leaving your office | Summary
This is your chance to earn your required CA Substance Abuse units while sitting in the comfort of your own office. Whether you need these units now or in the future, now is the time to get it done. You may be much busier later!
You will learn about Substance Abuse from someone who has been there and who has a meaningful story to tell. You will be moved by his story and by hearing his story you will learn to recognize the warning signs in others or yourself.
This is your opportunity to not only meet your mandatory CLE requirements, but also learn something valuable and potentially life and/or career saving.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this activity has been approved for 1.0 hour substance abuse credit in California.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
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| Original Seminar Date: December 08, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1 hour Total General Hours, 1 hour Including Substance Abuse
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| Summary
Don't miss this enlightening seminar taught by 9th Circuit staff attorneys and immigration experts.
This program is designed to give immigration practitioners a comprehensive overview of handling their cases at the 9th Circuit level.
Our experienced faculty will include tips on motions practice (procedural, emergency and substantive motions) and brief writing related to immigration cases. They will also provide an overview of jurisdictional issues arising in the immigration context, discuss the impact of criminal convictions on available relief and judicial review, and provide a substantive discussion of U.S. protection law, including asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention against Torture.
Our panel will provide practical litigation tips as well as substantive law updates.
Please note that this is not a course for the beginning immigration attorney. This course assumes attendees have a working knowledge of immigration law.
This course will focus on improving your immigration practice at the appellate level - the 9th Circuit.
If you are interested in immigration practice at the BIA level, please attend our upcoming BIA program or purchase the 2009 BIA audio CD.
Speakers
Hon. (ret.) Bruce J. Einhorn
United States Immigration Judge (Retired)
The Honorable Bruce J. Einhorn served as a United States Immigration Judge in Los Angeles from July 29, 1990 through January 31, 2007. In that capacity, he presided over prosecutions initiated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) against non-citizens in the United States whose lawful presence here has been placed into question by counsel for the government, including alleged terrorists. Judge Einhorn presided over bench trials in which DHS seeks the removal or deportation of non-citizens based on the circumstances of their entry into the country and/or their conduct (including their alleged terrorist and criminal conduct) following their arrival in the United States. Judge Einhorn also adjudicated the claims for relief of those non-citizens, including their applications for asylum and relief under the United Nations Convention against Torture. As a young lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice in 1980, Judge Einhorn helped draft the final version of the Refugee Relief Act which, for the first time in U.S. history, gave non-citizens the right to apply for asylum in the United States. Judge Einhorn thus adjudicated claims under the very statute of which he was a principal draftsperson. He has served as the Presiding Immigration Judge for Los Angeles and has also served as an instructor at the training academy for newly appointed immigration judges. In November 2007, Judge Einhorn hosted a National Conference on Asylum at Pepperdine University.
On matters of immigration law, Bruce Einhorn has argued cases before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth, Sixth, and other Circuits, and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has given numerous lectures on federal appellate and trial advocacy.
Bruce Einhorn has lectured on issues of international humanitarian law before the International Association of Refugee Law Judges, and has served with its Committee on Vulnerable Peoples. He has also conducted continuing legal education seminars for the American Immigration Law Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Finally, he has conducted seminars on the interplay of federal immigration law and California criminal law before the Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges’ Conference, the State Public Defenders’ Conference, and several law school classes of several universities. He has also appeared on ABC television and CNN to discuss and advocate immigration reform, and National Public Radio to discuss national security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 world. Einhorn has also spoken to the Muslim Students Association of UCLA Law School on the dangers of ethnic and religious profiling post-9/11. Judge Einhorn was the judge who dismissed deportation proceedings against the last of the “L.A. Eight,” Palestinians accused of engaging in terrorist activities. Einhorn found the government’s failure to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence against the respondents to constitute a denial of the latter’s due process and statutory rights. The Department of Homeland Security decided to drop its appeal of Judge Einhorn’s dismissal of the cases.
As an immigration judge, Bruce Einhorn issued major decisions on the granting of asylum to the following persecuted peoples: religious minorities, including Muslims from Europe, Evangelical Christians from the Middle East, China, and Russia, and Jews and Bah’ai members from Iran; women facing “honor killings,” victims of female genital mutilation and of rape in Africa, South Asia, and parts of the Arab world; racial and ethnic minorities from Nigeria, the Sudan, and Indonesia; and political dissidents, gays, and lesbians from many countries. Bruce Einhorn was also the first immigration judge to grant asylum to HIV-positive individuals and disabled children who faced socially-based persecution and the denial of available medical treatment in their native countries. Einhorn is currently working on his professional autobiography, and on a book about the legal and political culture of citizenship in the West, and particularly the United States.
Since 1991, Judge Einhorn has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law, International Human Rights Law and War Crimes Studies, and Legal Ethics at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. He also sits on the Law School’s Board of Visitors. In 1997, Judge Einhorn received the Law School’s David McKibbin Excellence in Teaching Award.
In 1999, Bruce Einhorn was honored for his ADL activities with the Daniel Ginsberg National Leadership Award in Civil Rights, presented to him in the presence of President Bill Clinton at a ceremony at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the home church of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He has also been honored for his ADL activities by Representatives Howard Berman and Xavier Becerra of the U.S. House of Representatives, the California State Legislature, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the Los Angeles City Council. As a Jewish communal leader, Einhorn has also received a Lifetime Professional Achievement Award from the State of Israel.
Bruce J. Einhorn received his B.A. degree in history in 1975, magna cum laude, from Columbia College of Columbia University, and his J.D. degree in 1978 from New York University Law School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the national honors fraternity. In 1986, Judge Einhorn received NYU Law School’s Recent Graduate Award. From September 1978 to September 1979, Einhorn served as a judicial law clerk with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. In 1979, he was accepted into the U.S. Justice Department’s Honors Program for Distinguished Law Graduates and Clerks. He is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, the American Bar Association, the American Academy of Political Science, the American Civil Liberties Union, the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, the Organization of American Historians, the Abraham Lincoln Association, and the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Bruce Einhorn has also participated as a presenter in continuing legal education seminars for health care professionals and attorneys in matters of medical malpractice law. He is occasionally engaged in arbitration and mediation work with Alternative Resolution Centers in Century City, California. Einhorn has also been involved in Bar conferences on the economic impact of immigration and on copyright and intellectual property law.
Robert B. Jobe, Esq.
Robert B. Jobe is widely recognized as one of the nation’s finest immigration litigators. He has litigated at all levels of the federal court system (including the United States Supreme Court), testified in the United States House of Representatives, authored numerous articles and a leading treatise on the law of asylum, and lectured widely on immigration-related issues. In recognition of his achievements, Mr. Jobe has been awarded the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Jack Wasserman Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation (Houston, Texas 1998), the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s Phillip Burton Award for Outstanding Immigration Lawyering (San Francisco, California 1993), and the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom's Constitutional Rights Award For Outstanding Legal Service Against the Use of Secret Evidence (Washington, D.C. 2001). In 2005, 2006 and 2007, he was named one of Northern California’s “Super Lawyers” by San Francisco magazine.
Mr. Jobe has served as counsel in several of the most significant immigration cases of the last decade: Asylum: Through his litigation efforts, Mr. Jobe has defined the contours of asylum law in the western United States on issues ranging from the definition of persecution and whether the threat of persecution must exist country-wide to whether an alien who has engaged in "terrorist activities" can be barred from asylum as a danger to national security. See Bhasin v. Gonzales, 423 F.3d 977 (9th Cir. 2005), Lolong v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 1215 (9th Cir. 2005), Narayan v. Ashcroft, 384 F.3d 1065 (9th Cir. 2004); Cheema v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 848 (9th Cir. 2004); Li v. Ashcroft, 356 F.3d 1153 (9th Cir. 2004)(en banc); Kankamalage v. INS, 335 F.3d 858 (9th Cir. 2003); Sidhu v. INS, 220 F.3d 1085 (9th Cir. 2000); Borja v. INS, 175 F.3d 732 (9th Cir. 1999)(en banc); Harpinder Singh v. Ilchert, 63 F.3d 1501 (9th Cir. 1995); Hardev Singh v. Moschorak, 53 F.3d 1031 (9th Cir. 1995); Surinder Singh v. Ilchert, 69 F.3d 375 (9th Cir. 1995); Jagraj Singh v. Ilchert, 801 F. Supp. 313 (N.D.Cal. 1992); Matter of N-M-A-, Int. Dec. 3368 (BIA 1998).
Criminal Aliens: Mr. Jobe has litigated a wide variety of cases relating to criminal aliens, including Murillo-Salmeron v. INS, 327 F.3d 898 (9th Cir. 2003) (simple drunk driving is not a crime involving moral turpitude); Kankamalage v. INS, 335 F.3d 858 (9th Cir. 2003) (the particularly serious crimes bar to asylum does not apply to guilty pleas obtained before the bar's enactment); Park v. INS, 252 F.3d 1018 (9th Cir. 2001) (to be a crime of violence, an offence must have a mens rea of at least recklessness); Lujan-Armendariz v. INS, 222 F.3d 728 (9th Cir. 2000) (convictions for simple possession of a controlled substance which have been expunged pursuant to a state rehabilitative statute can not be a basis for deportation); Aguilera-Medina v. INS, 137 F.3d 1401 (9th Cir. 1998), (lawful temporary resident aliens who have been convicted of alien smuggling within five years of a "brief, casual, and innocent departure" are not deportable).
Suspension of Deportation: Mr. Jobe was at the forefront of efforts to blunt the impact of legislation (enacted in 1996) which restricts the availability of suspension of deportation (a defense to deportation which had been available to aliens who have lived in this country for more than seven years). In Barahona-Gomez v. Reno, 167 F.3d 1228 (9th Cir. 1999), aff'd 236 F.3d 1115 (9th Cir. 2001), Mr. Jobe challenged the government’s refusal to adjudicate applications for suspension of deportation until the legislative restrictions took effect. Through that litigation, Mr. Jobe and his co-counsel obtained an injunction against the deportation of hundreds of class members.
In Guadalupe-Cruz v. INS, 250 F.3d 1271 (9th Cir. 2001), Castillo-Perez v. INS, 212 F.3d 518 (9th Cir. 2000), and Matter of N-J-B-, 21 I & N Dec. 812 (BIA 1997), Mr. Jobe challenged the government’s application of the new "stop time" rule, which requires a suspension of deportation applicant to demonstrate that he or she had accumulated seven years physical presence in the United States before the commencement of deportation proceedings. In Guadalupe-Cruz, the court precluded INS from applying the stop time rule to applicants who had hearings before April 1997. In Castillo-Perez, the Court ruled that the stop time rule can not be applied to aliens who would have had a hearing on their application for suspension of deportation before April 1997 but for the ineffective assistance of a former attorney.
Visa Processing: In 1995, Mr. Jobe and his best friend from law school, Daniel Wolf, spearheaded a pro bono legal challenge to the Department of State's policy of refusing to issue immigrant visas to Vietnamese boat people detained in Hong Kong. See,Legal Assistance for Vietnamese Asylum Seekers v. Dep’t.of State, 45 F.3d 469 (D.C. Cir. 1995)("LAVAS I"); Legal Assistance for Vietnamese Asylum Seekers v. Dep’t. of State (LAVAS II), 74 F.3d 1308 (D.C. Cir. 1996); and Vo Van Chau v. Dep’t. of State, 891 F. Supp. 650 (D.D.C. 1996). In LAVAS I, the D.C. Circuit declared the State Department’s policy unlawful. The State Department appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case. Shortly before oral argument in the United States Supreme Court, Congress amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to specifically override the D.C. Circuit's decision in LAVAS I. The Supreme Court then vacated LAVAS I and remanded for reconsideration of the legislative changes. As a result of the litigation, however, over 100 Vietnamese nationals living in refugee camps in Hong Kong were able to immigrate to the United States.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Maravilla-Maravilla v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 855 (9th Cir. 2004) (to establish prejudice, aliens alleging ineffective assistance of counsel must show only plausible grounds of relief); Matter of N-K- and V-S-, I & N Dec. 879 (BIA 1997), (an attorney's failure to notify an alien of the date, time, and place of her exclusion hearing constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel and requires reopening of an exclusion proceeding conducted in absentia). On May 8, 1996, Mr. Jobe testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights about the need to enact legislation to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture.Before going into private immigration practice, Mr. Jobe investigated violations of the laws of war in El Salvador on behalf of Americas Watch (now Human Rights Watch) and contributed to a lengthy report on human rights violations in El Salvador, The Civilian Toll (New York: Americas Watch 1987). He also served as the Supervising Attorney at La Raza Centro Legal (July 1988-January 1990), was an associate attorney at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (August 1987 - July 1988), and a legislative aide in the Michigan House of Representatives (1982-83).
Allison Taylor, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Allison Taylor has been a career Staff Attorney in the Motions Unit for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since January of 2006. Her focus is on immigration litigation, civil rights cases and habeas corpus petitions. Prior to joining the Ninth Circuit, Ms. Taylor was an Assistant Chief Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in San Francisco, handling immigration cases. Ms. Taylor previously worked as a Federal Public Defender.
Jonathan Westen, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Jonathan Westen is a Staff Attorney in the Research Unit of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and has been with the court since October 2004. He currently serves as the legal adviser of the Immigration-Asylum group and for the past two years Mr. Westen has trained new staff attorneys on immigration issues.
Prior to joining the Ninth Circuit, Mr. Westen clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Bruce D. Black in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and subsequently served as a dedicated clerk to Chief U.S. District Court Judge James A. Parker for the espionage trial of Wen Ho Lee. Mr. Westen also spent several years as an associate at Heller Ehrman. Mr. Westen graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1999, where he was a member of the inaugural class of the International Human Rights Clinic.
CLE Specialization Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies that this seminar has been approved for 3.5 hours of Appellate Specialization Certification credit in California.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this seminar has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 3.5 credit hours in California and Illinois.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
An application for CA Certified Legal Specialization Credit in Immigration and Nationality is currently pending with the State Bar of CA. Please check back soon for the status on this additional CLE Certification Credit approval.
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This purchase is for the audio recording of this event, not to attend the event. You will have access the audio recording shortly after the event takes place. | Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: March 04, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 3.50 hours Total General Hours, 3.50 hours Appellate Specialization Certification Illinois MCLE Board: 3.50 hours Total General MCLE Hours
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| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Trademarks for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Robert C. Cumbow
Shareholder
Graham & Dunn PC
Co-Chair/Commentator Robert Cumbow of Graham & Dunn knows IP from virtually every angle. Bob has long analyzed both the transactional and litigation angles of IP risks for movie producers, television stars (“The Deadliest Catch”), books (Amazon.com), professional sports, outdoor recreation (REI), wineries, and myriad international, regional and local retailers. Bob has long been a SuperLawyer®, and Best Lawyer in America. His Avvo score is a perfect 10.
Bob is an excellent teacher, having taught in both law school and film school. In addition to his law degree (with highest honors), Bob holds an M.A. in English, and is known for presentations on law, language and literature. He has presented at scores of IP seminars, and delivered many papers and chapters. He has testified repeatedly as an expert witness, including on the value of trademarks. Because Bob can distill complex issues, he is often chosen to clarify key concepts of IP by groups such as: the International Trademark Association (“Teaching Trademark Law"); the WSBA Corporate Law Department Section (“Trademark and Copyright Tips For Corporate Counsel”); and the National Council of Graduate School Deans (“Intellectual Property Basics”). Trademark World published his quick review: “Protectable Trademark or Mere Ornamentation?”
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 7 days prior to the event for teleseminars and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 7 days of an event, but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend?: If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD or audio streaming/download. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be emailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to shortly before the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 08, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Copyrights for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Michael Keyes
Partner
K&L Gates
Michael Keyes is an intellectual property litigator at K&L Gates, which was founded (in part) by Bill Gates, Sr., and is now among the largest firms in the world. Mike has served as Chair of the ABA Copyright Litigation Committee. Mike now is Co-Editor of the ABA Copyright Litigation Handbook. In 2009, he was chosen to write the ABA’s “Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments,” and also to present “The Year in Copyright” at its 2009 Spring Conference.
Mike clerked for a state Supreme Court, and is admitted in three states. His client list includes many of the Fortune 500. His wins for Major Leaguer George Brett could be his most famous.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 15, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers in this series have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Patents and Secrets for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Bodine
Shareholder
Lane Powell PC
Brian Bodine is a leading patent and trade secret litigator. He is a registered patent attorney and chemical engineer. He clerked both for a federal judge and for a state Supreme Court. Brian is admitted to three states’ bars, and has headed both the Patent Law, and the Intellectual Property, associations of the Washington state bar. He has argued IP cases across the country, including many in New York, California, across the Midwest, and before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. He is perennially listed in the Best Lawyers in America, SuperLawyers®, and similar rankings.
Formerly Managing Partner of Merchant & Gould (Seattle), and now with Lane Powell, Brian is well-known for clarifying complex topics; making them practical and tactical. He was selected from among thousands of attorneys for the national “Advanced Patent Litigation Roadshow” of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Brian helps businesses clarify complexity.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 22, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
| | MORE INFO |
| Summary
The Basics Every Attorney Should Know About
Trademarks
Copyright
Licensing
Patents Secrets
Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small. Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?
Do you know what to do – and what Not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case? Can you effectively defeat a “cease & desist” letter? Protect a new domain name?
Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse? What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?
If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is Not for you.
If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of 4 CLEs is for you. Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone. Forever. You will learn a lot in these 4 hours.
Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?
Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.
The 4 speakers have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.
Licensing Agreements for Everybody
Featured Speaker
Brian Myers
Educated in Illinois, Co-Chair/Commentator Brian Myers holds degrees in business and in law, and also has substantial coursework in math, science and engineering. He has advised scores of companies on IP licensing. He now focuses on advising emerging companies and entrepreneurs, and on educating general practice attorneys. He is very active within the MIT Enterprise Forum, having served as its President and as its director of 50 seminars for executives, entrepreneurs and attorneys about key IP commercialization strategies for every stage of a company’s development.
Brian started his career at KPMG, where he helped structure major international transactions. He eventually joined Gray Cary (now in DLA Piper), where he helped on (among many other deals) the big California merger of Active Voice into Cisco Systems. Other representative transactions include lead responsibility for metals, digital/data and transportation clients. Brian has spent 20+ years advising startup entrepreneurs, small/medium companies, and publicly traded corporations.
Brian also teaches law and MBA students. He now practices alone, allowing him a bigger role in helping manage his clients’ businesses. Brian also runs a private equity firm, Medici Northwest.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this webinar series has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4.0 credit hours in California. Each individual webinar is approved for 1.0 CLE in California. CLE approval applications pending in WA and IL.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
Policies
Recording policy: No audio or video recording of the program is permitted.
Cancellations: Should you be unable to attend for any reason, please inform us in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event (7 days prior for teleseminars) and a credit voucher will be issued. If you prefer, a refund, less a $50 non-refundable deposit, will be issued. No refunds will be given for cancellations received within 14 days of an event (7 days for teleseminars), but we will gladly issue a credit voucher. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Can’t Attend? If you cannot attend a seminar, you may pre-order the audio CD. Course materials are included with your recording purchase. For Teleseminars, course materials will be mailed or sent to you in a .pdf file prior to the seminar. Recorded packages are shipped approximately two weeks after the event.
Return/Refund Policy for Tapes/CDs/DVDs: Tapes, CDs and DVDs are returnable if defective for a full refund or replacement, within 90 days of purchase. Click here to contact us.
Reminder: Meeting room temperatures are hard to predict and control. Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download, Webinar + Archive
| Original Seminar Date: July 29, 2010
| Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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| Summary:
These days lawyers are at the forefront of the news.
Whether you’re an attorney, in-house counsel, or firm executive you may some day need to deal with the media. It is important to always remember you not only represent your clients in a court of law, but also, and sometimes more importantly, you must represent them in the court of public opinion.
This 90 minute teleseminar will teach you how the media works, how you can avoid common mistakes, maximize media opportunities, and how to develop positive media relations.
Speaker:
Angela Chee TV Anchor, Journalist, Media Consultant AC Communications
Angela Chee is an award-winning journalist who has worked as an Anchor, Host, and Reporter for KNBC-TV and KCBS/KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, Fox 6 in San Diego, E! Entertainment Television, The International Channel, Channel One News - a national news network broadcast to high schools. Ms. Chee also helped launch Entertainment Tonight China for Paramount Pictures.
Her career has taken her across the country and her work has been seen around the world. With more than a decade of experience in the broadcast industry, Ms. Chee has interviewed prominent politicians, business executives, and officials as well as the leading actors in Hollywood. Prior to launching her broadcasting career, Ms. Chee worked in advertising and public relations. With her extensive media experience on both sides of the communications fence Ms. Chee knows how to get the story and communicate effectively.
Many of her stories included high profile court cases from the Robert Blake Murder Trial to the Michael Jackson Molestation Trial to the Danielle Van Dam murder and David Westerfield Trial. In 2002, Ms. Chee also got an exclusive jailhouse interview with Tanya Hadden, the California school teacher convicted of having sex with her 15 year old student.
She received a B.A. in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After college she lived in China and studied at Nanjing University. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. She also serves as a motivational speaker for businesses and community organizations.
MCLE: This program does not qualify for CLE credit.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: June 17, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | | MORE INFO |
| Summary:
Public speaking and oral argument are acquired skills. Unfortunately, they are not taught in law school. This workshop will teach you basic and advanced public speaking techniques that have been around for centuries. Learn how to use your voice, your words and your body to enhance your presentation style and get your message heard. Get tips on oral argument, opening statements, and organization. Learn how to give a better presentation before your clients, potential clients, a bar event or your team. This program will help you improve your oral presentation skills on a variety of levels.
This seminar focuses on teaching public speaking skills for specific attorney related speaking situations, such as: before the judge or jury, staff/legal team meetings, in-house legal department board and committee presentations; in-house training; presenting CLE's, presenting at bar association/committee meetings, presenting to clients, or presenting to potential clients
Seminar attendees will learn the skills and techniques that will make them a successful public speaker – every time.
Faith Pincus and Sandy Linville have more than thirty years of combined communication skills training experience. Some of Faith and Sandy's speaking engagements and clients include: Office of General Counsel, Social Security Administration; Farella Braun +Martel; Amgen; American Bar Association; Mission Measurement; Los Angeles District Attorneys' Office; Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick; Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles; McNutt & Litteneker, LLP; Marla Lander, M.D., Desert Women's Health & the Breast Health Center; Public Counsel; American Diabetes Association; Schmid & Voiles; California Public Defenders Association; Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Pro Choice Committee; Junior League of Los Angeles; Kern County Bar Association; Merced County Bar Association; American Association of Corporate Counsel; Planned Parenthood.
Speaker:
Faith Pincus Faith Pincus is a dynamic, accomplished and experienced speaker who will boost your self-confidence and give you the tools you need to succeed at public speaking. Faith is an expert at public speaking who has trained elected and appointed officials, candidates, CEO's, attorneys and management at non-profit associations for more than two decades. As a licensed attorney, she is also uniquely positioned to understand the speaking skills required of attorneys.
Faith has an innate ability to see what works in the public speaking context. She has an unbridled passion for public speaking and for making people better communicators. Faith is an expert in the art of persuasion and an accomplished speechwriter.
Prior to opening Pincus Communications, Faith ran more than 25 political campaigns, including campaigns for congress, the California state assembly and senate, and various mayoral, city council and county supervisor races throughout California. Faith has created public affairs campaigns for non-profit associations, city governments, the building and transportation industries and cable TV.
Faith has taught various public speaking courses at the university level for several years, including rhetoric (persuasion), public speaking, and interpersonal and small group communication. She has published a variety of articles on communication and persuasion, including an analysis of major war announcement speeches.
Faith has a Masters in Communication from the California State University at Fresno, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Iowa. She is a former Judicial Clerk for the honorable Oliver W. Wanger of the United States District Court, Eastern District of California and a Member of the Order of the Coif. Ms. Pincus litigated for one of the top AmLaw 20 law firms before returning to her passion and specialty - teaching public speaking.
MCLE:
Pincus Communications certifies that this activity has been approved in the amount of 3.5 MCLE units in California and Washington.
Pincus Professional Education certifies this seminar is pending approval for MCLE credit in the amount of 3.5 credit hours in Illinois. Please check back soon for status.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Download
| Original Seminar Date: November 01, 2007
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 3.50 hours Total General HoursWA Bar: 3.50 hours Total General HoursIllinois MCLE Board: 3.50 hours Total General MCLE Hours
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| Course Summary
Personal information is everywhere. It is in employment records, patient files, customer purchase histories and Internet usage. Because of the potential sensitivity of this data, regulators are increasingly active enforcing non-compliance.
Concurrently, regulators are increasingly prescriptive in mandating how a firm must protect the information it collects. These myriad rules create a difficult environment for companies that wish to comply but have conflicting obligations between different jurisdictions.
If you have employees in California, Illinois and Massachusetts and customers across the US and Europe, compliance with the applicable rules requires thought, planning, and sometimes compromises.
Our panel of experts includes in-house counsel and FTC representatives as well as experts in privacy, data security, and e-discovery.
By attending, you will take away a broad understanding of the issues as well as key practical tips for advising your clients in this area.
What You Will Learn if You Attend This Seminar
Internet and Consumer Privacy
From behavioral advertising and social networking to the extensive FTC enforcement for potentially unfair or deceptive trade practices, this is the area in which almost all companies face risk due to their Internet presence.
Enforcement
Outside of the financial and health arenas, the Federal Trade Commission has the broadest and one of the most active enforcement portfolios with respect to the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of employee and consumer information.
Litigation and e-Discovery
Almost all information these days is originated and maintained in electronic form. The revised Federal Rules concerning discovery requests and responses have therefore become significantly more complicated.
Data Security Compliance
Regulators in the US and in many foreign countries are becoming increasingly prescriptive in how personal information must be protected. This directly impacts your IT and information security policies and compliance in this area will affect any liability for any data incident that arises. Learn how to develop best practices and reduce duplication of your efforts.
International Considerations
Most companies have employees and/or customers outside the United States, and the rules toward privacy are significantly more restrictive and aggressively enforced. Learn what steps you need to do for compliance in this area.
Managing Data Breaches
It is a matter of when, not if. Data incidents happen to all firms and key to managing the fallout (whether the incident was a malicious outsider or a neglectful insider) is to have a plan. Find out what crisis management and other steps you should take to mitigate the impact of these events.
Agenda
MORNING SESSION (9:00 AM CT- 12:15 PM CT)
Internet and Consumer Privacy (John Tomaszewski, TRUSTe)
From behavioral advertising and Facebook to the extensive FTC enforcement for potentially unfair or deceptive trade practices, this is the area in which almost all companies face risk due to their Internet presence.
Enforcement (Steve Baker, FTC)
Outside of the financial and health arenas, the Federal Trade Commission has the broadest and one of the most active enforcement portfolios with respect to the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of employee and consumer information.
Litigation and e-Discovery (Steve Teppler, Kamber Edelson)
Almost all information these days is originated and maintained in electronic form. The revised Federal Rules concerning discovery requests and responses have therefore become significantly more complicated.
AFTERNOON SESSION (1:15 PM CT - 4:30 PM CT)
Data Security Compliance ( Tom Smedinghoff, Wildman Harold)
Regulators in the US and in many foreign countries are becoming increasingly prescriptive in how personal information must be protected. This directly impacts your IT and information security policies and compliance in this area will affect any liability for any data incident that arises. Learn how to develop best practices and reduce duplication of your efforts.
International Considerations (Peter McLaughlin, Foley & Lardner LLP)
Most companies have employees and/or customers outside the United States, and the rules toward privacy are significantly more restrictive and aggressively enforced. Learn what steps you need to do for compliance in this area.
Managing Data Breaches (Vicky Gage, Allstate)
It is a matter of when, not if. Data incidents happen to all firms and key to managing the fallout (whether the incident was a malicious outsider or a neglectful insider) is to have a plan. Find out what crisis management and other steps you should take to mitigate the impact of these events.
MCLE Credit
Pincus Communications, Inc. certifies that this seminar has been approved for 6.0 hours of CLE credit in Illinois and California, including .5 Ethics units.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Live Webcast, Download
| Original Seminar Date: March 19, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 6.00 hours Total General Hours, 0.50 hours Including EthicsIllinois MCLE Board: 6.00 hours Total General MCLE Hours, 0.50 hours Including Professional Responsibility
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| Course Summary
Join us for a hands on intermediate to advanced SLAPPinar on the elusive "gravamen" concept that has permeated California anti-SLAPP jurisprudence since the 2002 High Court decision in City of Cotati v. Cashman (2002) 29 Cal.4th 69.
Subsequent cases have mangled and misapplied the “gravamen” concept by applying it to the first prong analysis of mixed causes of action, adding to the confusion surrounding an already difficult cause of action.
The significant disagreement among the various Appellate Districts, as to the proper formulation and application of the "gravamen" rule, will be pointed out and discussed.
To make matters more complex, there is an often missed reverse "gravamen" rule that applies on the second prong analysis designed to help plaintiffs survive SLAPP motions on the probability of prevailing - merits prong.
The speaker will analyze actual complaints when explaining the "gravamen" issue.
Finally, there will be a brief discussion of the recent exception to the no amendment rule and how expert declarations in SLAPP fee motions can dramatically affect the result.
Agenda
- Identifying the Gravament of the Cause of Action - Prong one (Arising From)
- Caselaw
- Example - Westrich v. Feinberg
- Mixed Causes of Action - Mann/Borjal
- Mann Rule - Prong Two - How a plaintiff can beat a SLAPP motion if any part of the claim has merit and get around the litigation privilege.
- Example - Drell complaint
- The No Amendment rule and recent exceptions
- Example - Nguyen-Lam v. Cao
MCLE Credit
Pincus Professional Education certifies this seminar has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 1.5 credit hours in CA.
Upon request, we will assist attorneys in asking for CLE credit in other states.
| Formats Available: Streaming, Webinar, Download
| Original Seminar Date: April 13, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: CA Bar: 1.50 hours Total General Hours
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