Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Ethics for Inside Counsel - March 30, 2022

Everyday Ethics for Inside Counsel

Sponsored by Law Practice CLEs

Focusing on in-house corporate counsel, this course seeks to educate counsel on the ethical implications and challenges of advising and representing corporations. The course will discuss such topics as Licensing and Multijurisdictional Practice of Law; multiple roles; recording conversations; ghostwriting communications; conflicts of interest; protecting attorney-client privilege; contract management; use of and emails. Throughout the session, real-life examples will draw from the life sciences industry.

Course Instructor:
Jon G. Furlow, Esq.

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit Ethics

Wednesday,  March 30, 2022,  9:00 am  to 10:00 am PT

For further information see:

https://lawpracticecle.com/courses/everyday-ethics-for-inside-counsel/

Risk Management - April 6, 2022

Contracts: Principles of Risk Management

Sponsored by Law Practice CLE

The course will review key contract interpretation principles, differentiate between commercial terms, risk management terms and dispute resolution terms and then use a scenario-based method to explore various types of risk transfer provisions, liquidated damages provisions, attorney fee provisions, ADR provisions, and punitive damage provisions.

Course Instructor:
Jon G. Furlow, Esq.

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday,  April 6, 2022,  9:00 am  to 10:00 am PT

For further information see:

https://lawpracticecle.com/courses/contracts-principles-of-risk-management/

Combatting Legal Burnout - April 18, 2022

How Mindfulness can Combat Legal Burnout

Sponsored by the Law Practice CLEs

During this session, the instructor will discuss the specific factors that make lawyers vulnerable to high levels of stress and anxiety, which often leads to burnout. Attendees will be introduced to the benefits of mindfulness and be given the building blocks for sustainable, tangible methods for managing stress and increasing mental wellness. The program does this by discussing the physical and emotional manifestations of stress, how this can impact a lawyer’s professional life, and how mindful meditation can be a tool to effectively manage these ailments. In addition, the session focuses on how mindful meditation can help lawyers hone the skills that are so pivotal in the profession including effective collaboration, team building, and active listening.

Course Instructor:

Darrell Jones

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit  (Notes do NOT say that this meets the Competence requirement)

Monday,  April 18, 2022,  12:00 pm  to 1:00 pm PT

For further information see:

https://lawpracticecle.com/courses/how-mindfulness-can-combat-legal-burnout/

Ethical Issues with Social Media - April 20, 2022

Don't Be ‘Socially' Unacceptable: Ethical Issues with Social Media in Your Practice 

Sponsored by the Attorney Protective

Practicing law in the Digital Age is rife with ethical minefields. Changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct have ushered in new expectations as attorneys are now held to a higher standard of digital competence. Ethics opinions across the country are addressing issues like the limits of advising clients about what to "take down" from their Facebook pages, contact with witnesses via social media, and even researching the online profiles of prospective jurors. Join speakers John Browning, J.D. and Sally Field, J.D. to discuss this ever-evolving topic. As a lawyer and the author of The Lawyer's Guide to Social Media and two more books on social media and the law, John Browning has spent a great deal of time examining this issue and will offer some valuable insight into emerging issues. Sally Field is an attorney of more than 30 years and has spoken on numerous ethics topics over the years. She will offer attendees perspective on how the Model Rules of Professional Conduct translate to social media.

Speakers:
Sally Field - President, Attorney Protective

John Browning - Partner, Spencer Fane LLP

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday,  April 20, 2022,  10:00 am  to 11:00 am PT

For further information see:

https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1524037&tp_key=0a1c0f82ed

Creating Careful Contracts - April 20, 2022

Boiled Up in "Boilerplate" Contract Provisions: Creating Careful Contracts

Sponsored by LawPay

In this webinar, LawPay will explore the dangers of using “my old form” for standard contract provisions as well as numerous ethical situations and implications of negligent drafting. This presentation will cover the following:

Defining boilerplate, examples, and usage;

Strategies for ensuring that both the lawyer and client understand the effects;

The necessity for consideration if additional provisions expand duties;

The danger of choice of law provisions;

Torts under choice of law provisions;

Use of waivers and additional dispute resolution requirements like arbitration;

Defining damages (consequential and otherwise), profits, and indemnity;

Ruined by severability clause of merger clauses to change the agreement;

Ethical rules and specific ethical situations related to contracts;

Strategies to protect yourself and final advice; and

Best practices for contract provisions.

Moderator:
Claude Ducloux -  
Director of Education, LawPay

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Friday,  April 20, 2022,  1:00 pm  to 2:00 pm PT

For further information see:

https://www.lawpay.com/solutions/education/rethinking-boilerplate-contract-provisions-cle/

EDRM and Microsoft Teams - April 20, 2022

EDRM and Microsoft Teams

Sponsored by Innovative Driven

Workplace collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams present several complex eDiscovery challenges for clients and counsel. From issues with retention settings to indexing and search limitations, collection and production difficulties abound. Fold in emerging court decisions on the issues and it becomes readily apparent why Microsoft Teams presents unique discovery challenges even for experienced eDiscovery counsel. This program will analyze these issues as they relate to Microsoft Teams and offer practical insights on a particularly compelling discovery practice area.

Topics covered include:

•    A general overview of workplace collaboration tools, in particular Microsoft 365, including features and functionality that affect discovery considerations

•    Practice tips for addressing challenges with collecting and producing messages and other ESI from Microsoft 365

•    A review of pertinent court decisions on the issues

Speakers:

Seth Eichenholtz - Head of eDiscovery | Head of Insider Threat Risk Management, Mastercard

Natalie Carter - Associate General Counsel | Head of eDiscovery, Duke Energy

Todd Itami - Special Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP

Gregg Parker - Consultant, Structured Data Analyst, Innovative Driven

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday,  Aprill 20, 2022,  11:00 am  to 12:00 pm PT

For further information see:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2231642888915336459?source=GTW
or write cle@driven-inc.com

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

West Virginia v. EPA: Climate Regulation - March 4, 2022

The Implications of West Virginia v. EPA for Climate Regulation in the United States

Sponsored by the American Constitution Society

The decade-long battle over EPA's authority to regulate carbon pollution from power plants will finally be heard by the Supreme Court on February 28, 2022. West Virginia v. EPA could be decided on narrow grounds, such as whether the EPA properly repealed the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan, or it could have significant implications for the power of the Clean Air Act to stem climate-change causing emissions from the largest sources in the country, or even impact the ability of agencies to issue rules interpreting and carrying out their statutory duties.

Join us for a discussion of these important issues. The discussion will be moderated by Kathryn Hoffman, the CEO of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, which is a party in the case. She will be joined by four environmental and administrative law attorneys who have been integral to the development of this case since its inception, and will read the tea leaves following following this week’s argument.

Panelists:
Jay Duffy, Attorney, Clean Air Task Force
David Doniger, Senior Strategic Director in the Climate & Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director of the Energy and Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School
Steven Wu, Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the New York State Attorney General

Moderator:
Kathryn Hoffman, CEO, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Friday,  March 4, 2022,  10:00 am  to 11:15 am PT

For further information see:

https://getinvolved.acslaw.org/component/events/event/1014?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event&utm_source=20220302_MSP_Climate_Regulation

“Double Trouble” – State and Federal Developments - March 7, 2022

 “Double Trouble” – State and Federal Developments

Sponsored by the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association

A pithy discussion of current state and federal legislative and regulatory developments


Speakers:

Kevin Gould, California Bankers Association, EVP, Director of Government Relations

Maureen Young,  Bank of the West, Senior Managing Counsel, Senior Regulatory Counsel, SVP

 

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  0.75 units

Monday, March 7, 2022, 12:00 pm  to 1:00 pm PT

For further information see: 

https://www.sfbankattorneys.com/double-trouble-state-and-federal-developments/

Zoom meeting details:

 

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Protect Your Clients and Firm - March 16, 2022

How to Protect Your Clients and Firm in the Event of Death, Disability, or Retirement\

Sponsored by LawPay

Learn the best way to protect your clients and firm when an attorney exits the practice due to death, disability, or retirement. 

You’ll learn:

  • The danger and likelihood that many lawyers have failed to plan for retirement or disability, including dementia and disease;

  • How local and state bars have been handling these increasing problems;

  • How to clean up “messy” (i.e., unplanned) attorney departures from practice;

  • Intervening and interviewing the declining lawyer;

  • Communications with clients, courts, and opposing counsel in messy departures;

  • Appointment of receivers and court intervention;

  • The planning every lawyer should be making, regardless of age and future intention.

Speaker:

Claude Ducloux, Esq. 

​​FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit Ethics

Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 1:00 pm  to 2:00 pm PT

For further information see:

https://www.lawpay.com/solutions/education/protect-clients-lawyer-exit/

eDiscovery Experts and Neutrals - March 23, 2022

Considerations for eDiscovery Experts and Neutrals

Sponsored by Innovative Driven

The complexities of eDiscovery may require parties to secure expert testimony to offer evidentiary support of eDiscovery-related motions or to serve as a 30(b)(6) witness. In addition, an eDiscovery expert can serve as a court-appointed neutral to assist in addressing and resolving specific technical and process issues related to eDiscovery conflicts. This program provides an overview of the issues and examines key considerations surrounding the use of experts and neutrals in addressing and resolving eDiscovery issues.

Topics to be covered include:


  • Scenarios that merit the use of an eDiscovery expert or neutral
  • Rules regarding use of experts
  • The risks of not obtaining expert testimony in support of motion practice
  • How courts resolve the battle of the experts
  • Important factors in the appointment of eDiscovery neutrals


Speakers:

- Hon. Michael Robinson, Special Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Cases - Ronni D. Solomon, Partner, Trial and Global Disputes, King & Spalding - Kevin F. Brady, Senior Counsel, E-Discovery & RIM, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. - Eric P Mandel, Consultant, Innovative Driven

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday,  March 23, 2022, 11:00 am  to 12:00 pm PT

For further information see:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3527101781774797835?source=nl