A Lawyer's Guide to Improving Well-being - August 30, 2022

Emotional Intelligence: A Lawyer's Guide to Improving Well-being in the Workplace and Beyond

Sponsored by Smokeball

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) - the ability to understand and manage your own and others' emotions - plays a significant role in the success and satisfaction of individuals. Yet within the legal professions, EQ skills are not often discussed or learned. Due to the high-stress, relationship-based nature of legal work though, it's extremely important that legal professionals take the time to develop high EQ.  

Join this free webinar with lawyer-turned-psychotherapist Chelsy Castro and learn how to increase your EQ. With her help, you'll cultivate skills that improve your communication, enhance your relationships and equip you to be more effective, compassionate leader at your law firm.

In this free CLE webinar, you’ll learn: 

• What Emotional Intelligence is and why it matters
• The role of Emotional Intelligence in the context of the legal profession
• How to identify opportunities for practicing skills that increase Emotional Intelligence
• Tools and techniques to increase your Emotional Intelligence

Moderator:

Chelsy Castro, JD, MA, MSW, LCSW

​​FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

For further information see:

https://go.smokeball.com/improving-well-being-in-the-workplace-and-beyondRegistration is a little tricky.

Building a Virtual Law Firm - July 12, 2022

How to Build the Best Virtual Law Firm

Sponsored by Clio

Join industry experts to discover how to run a successful virtual law firm. In this CLE-eligible* webinar, you’ll learn about the:

Benefits of building a virtual law firm

Ethical and regulatory requirements to follow

Technologies to help you work efficiently and elevate the client experience (along with resources to guide you)

Speaker:

Anne-Marie Rábago - Founder & Principal, Modern Juris LLC

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 11 a.m. PT

For registration go to:

https://tinyurl.com/y6j27hm4

or

https://www.clio.com/events/webinar-best-virtual-law-firm/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cle-webinar-cultural-competence-for-law-firms-attendees-nam-prospects&utm_content=body3&mkt_tok=MDQ4LUFDUi05MzAAAAGE41ahdRiv92m2t73E4M9ErdPcM5BF9xnsFlJF8v-ziv0b6zpCCnHXwyUlBgp5xYl_NWms_W-jbwMZrjUSHB-OKtGGWyQt0C2Mn8cXu55PM3ClVw

Declarations in Immigration Court - July 13, 2022

Using Universal Expert Declarations in Immigration Court

Sponsored by the Center for Gender Refugee Studies

This webinar discusses filing universal expert declarations in immigration court as evidence in asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims. During this one-hour training we will familiarize advocates with universal expert declarations and their uses. We will also provide an overview of the evidentiary framework and provide litigation strategies and arguments advocates can use to push back against common admission and weight challenges to universal expert declarations in immigration court.

Speakers:

Anne Peterson, Senior Staff Attorney - CGRS

Julie Bourdoiseau, Staff Attorney - CGRSFREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 10:00 AM Pacific Time

For registration go to:

https://uchastings.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zNTwm6FuSt2Y2QLDVfVdeQ

Privacy By Design - July 19 2022

Privacy By Design: Considerations for Products, Transactions, and Vendor Management

Sponsored by Bloomberg Law

Learning objectives include:

Gain practitioner insights on applying privacy by design principles early on in a manner that allows for scaling and modification of organizational privacy programs against a backdrop of evolving laws and regulations

Study practitioner techniques for identifying and managing privacy and cybersecurity risks in commercial contracts through pre-transaction risk assessments

Obtain insights on the negotiation of enterprise cloud arrangements from the perspective of a service provider

Learn about key components of vendor management programs to help ensure the consistent application of privacy and data security controls across outsourced services

Speakers:

Nishant Bhajaria - Director of Privacy Engineering, Architecture and Analytics, Uber

Eugenia Birman - Senior Product Counsel, Google

Razvan E. Miutescu - Partner, Whiteford Taylor Preston LLP

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Tuesday, July 19 2022, 10:00 AM PDT

For registration go to:

https://learning.bloomberglaw.com/catalog/product.xhtml?eid=39706

'Frivolous' Malpractice Suits - July 26, 2022

Just How Frivolous Is That 'Frivolous' Malpractice Suit?

Sponsored by Above the Law

The expert panel will explore what steps lawyers should consider when a former client complains.

You’ll learn:

How even ‘frivolous’ claims can be more meritorious than they first appear

Different types of clients and ways to deescalate with each

Proactive steps to be prepared before it happens to you

What to do when faced with a malpractice suit.

Speakers:

Corrie Hurm - Embroker

Aria Eee - Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar

Jared Correia - Red Cave Legal

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Monday, July 26, 2022, 10:00 am PT

For registration go to:

https://info.breakingmedia.com/just-how-frivolous-is-that-frivolous-malpractice-suit

Witness Examination - July 27, 2022

Strategies for Witness Examination (Yours & Theirs)

Sponsored by LawPay

In both jury and nonjury trials, dealing with difficult witnesses is a crucial skill for attorneys. This session will explore the best tactics for handling your own witnesses, as well as opposing counsels'. We'll step back to examine how witnesses fit into your overall case strategy, and then outline best practices to master the art of witness prep and examination. We'll also explain how to tune in to important nonverbal signals in the courtroom, and we'll review some key ethical principles to guide your witness examination tactics.

Speaker:

Claude Ducloux -  LawPay director of education, ethics and compliance

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

For registration go to:

https://www.lawpay.com/solutions/education/witness-examination-strategies-cle/

Don't Delete That! - June 8, 2022

Don't Delete That! How to Preserve Social, Text & Collaboration Apps for Litigation

Sponsored by Exterro

Companies and firms alike have greatly expanded their usage of different communication and collaboration platforms during the past 2 years, ranging from email, Microsoft Office 365, Slack, Box and others. These changes present a variety of new legal hold and preservation challenges organizations face to prevent sanctions and ensure defensibility in court.

Watch this webcast to learn how to empower your legal team to effectively and efficiently preserve data, including:

How to create processes to preserve and collect data from new collaboration tools that may be relevant to litigation

Understand how evolving case law is redefining what are "reasonable steps" to preserve potentially relevant data to litigation

What ways technology can automate, streamline legal hold and preservation activities

Speakers:

Ron Hedges, Senior Counsel - Dentons

Linda Luperchino, Director of Information Governance - The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.

Mike Hamilton, Vice President, Marketing - Exterro

FREE!

Online

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

For registration go to:

https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3783407/E7CB6B1E2CF122436D78C4DCC15DE10E?partnerref=MC