April 4, 12+14: Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward

23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana in some form and a few more have decriminalized it. Four of these states and DC have legalized marijuana for recreational use as well as medical use. However, marijuana remains illegal under federal law and employers, regardless of whether or not marijuana is legal, likely will not want their employees using it at work. Please join this class for an overview of current marijuana laws, trends in the medical industry, and insight into how changing times will likely impact our current, drug-free workplaces. After completing this course, you will be able to understand the History of Marijuana Use. Understand the Current Legal Framework surrounding marijuana and its potential volatility. Examine the judicial trends of wrongful termination claims related to legalized marijuana usage. Understand current medical research and what may lie ahead. Explore the Complications of Determining Impairment and develop best practices for employers in this ever changing environment.
Title:
Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward
Webinar Dates And Times:

• 10:30am - 11:30am Eastern - 4/4/2024
• 1:30pm - 2:30pm Eastern - 4/12/2024 
• 4:30pm - 5:30pm Eastern - 4/24/2024

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Speaker:
Patrick Zimmer
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
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April 12: Social Media in the Workplace: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

With over 70% of U.S. adults on social media, workplace implications of social media activity present countless opportunities and pitfalls to employers. Aside from potential reputational damage, there are practical concerns when it comes to hiring practices, implementing social media policies, monitoring social media use, avoiding discrimination and harassment liability, and triggering NLRA issues. This CLE uses real-world examples of employment-related social media activity that “went viral” and provides best practices to avoid legal exposure that can come quickly and unexpectedly.
This program will cover:
• Potential risk of not having or following workplace social media policies
• Required and prohibited social media conduct
• Ownership of work-related social media accounts
• Monitoring employee activity
• Using internal social media networks
• Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation issues
• Avoiding interference with concerted activities subject to the National Labor Relations Act
Title:
Social Media in the Workplace: What could possibly go wrong?
Webinar Dates And Times:
April 12, 2024 

1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time 

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Speakers:
Bobby Puri, Julie Webster-Matthews
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
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LexisNexis

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April 11: Religious Liberty Arguments for Abortion Rights

This panel will explore the history and recent revival of religious liberty arguments supporting abortion rights. The panel will consider this topic from legal, historical, and theological perspectives, drawing on multiple faith traditions and their approaches to gender equality, medical decision-making, sexual morality, and the question of when life begins. The panel will be conducted in a moderated question-and-answer format.
Panelists:

• Rachel Kranson, University of Pittsburgh
• Elizabeth Sepper, University of Texas at Austin
• Toni Bond, Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Moderators:

• Christine Ryan, Columbia University Law Rights & Religion Project
• Jessie Hill, Case Western Reserve University Reproductive Rights Law Initiative

Title:
Religious Liberty Arguments for Abortion Rights
Webinar Date+Time:
Thursday, April 11, 2024
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Eastern Time
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Livestream will be available on the day of the event.
Speakers:

• Rachel Kranson is the Director of Jewish studies and Associate Professor of Religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on the history of American Jewish gender, sexuality, and class in the latter half of the twentieth century. Kranson's co-edited volume, “A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish Women in Postwar America” (Rutgers University Press, 2010) was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Women’s Studies and her monograph “Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America” (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) received an Honorable Mention for the Best First Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Her current research traces the history of American Jewish engagement in the debates over abortion.
  In the Spring 2024 semester, she is serving as a scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. At HBI, Kranson will be completing her final chapters of “Religious Misconceptions: American Jews and the Politics of Abortion.” Drawing on the archival collections of liberal and feminist Jewish organizations from the 1970s through the turn of the 21st century, this study tells the story of the American Jewish lawyers, activists, clergy, and communal leaders who articulated distinctly religious reasons for supporting abortion access in the decades following Roe v. Wade. These Jewish leaders resisted the notion that all religious Americans shared a conservative Christian antipathy to reproductive rights, and challenged those who presented an opposition to abortion as a “Judeo-Christian” value. In the process, they developed new paradigms for how American Jews would engage in public policy and transformed the rituals and rhetoric of liberal American Judaism. This volume therefore asks: how did liberal American Jews influence abortion politics, and how did reproductive politics change liberal American Judaism?
• Elizabeth Sepper is a nationally recognized scholar of religious liberty, health law, and equality. She has written extensively on conscientious refusals to provide reproductive and end-of-life healthcare and on conflicts over religion and insurance coverage. Her recent work focuses on legal theoretical and policy debates related to the antidiscrimination obligations of public accommodations—that is, businesses, social service providers, and membership organizations that are open to the public—under federal, state, and local laws. Sepper’s articles appear in top journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Gender & Law. Her article, Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates, on the issue of religious objections to gay rights won multiple awards, including the 2014 Dukeminier Award for best sexuality law scholarship. She is the editor of Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, & Elizabeth Sepper, eds. Cambridge Univ. 2017). Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Marjorie Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, practiced human rights law with a focus on women’s rights, and was a Center for Reproductive Rights fellow at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining the Texas faculty, she was a professor at Washington University School of Law. During 2018-19, she held the LAPA\Crane Fellowship in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University to work on a project entitled Sex in Public, which explores the history of sex discrimination in public accommodations.
• Toni M. Bond has been a social justice activist for over 30 years. She has worked specifically to elevate the voices of Black women around issues of reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. In 1994, Bond was one of the twelve Black women who gave birth to the concept of “Reproductive Justice,” creating a paradigm shift in how women of color would add their collective voices to the fight for reproductive autonomy and freedom. In 1994, Bond was the first black woman appointed to serve as the executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, one of the oldest abortion funds in the Midwest. In 1996, she co-founded and led the first Black women’s reproductive and sexual justice organization in the country, Black Women for Reproductive Justice.
  Bond is a recognized leader and expert on working at the intersections of religion and reproductive justice. A womanist theo-ethicist, her areas of specialization include gender and sexuality, reproductive health, rights, and justice, Black feminist theory and methodology, womanist theory and methodology, and womanist and Christian ethics. Her scholarly foci are reproductive justice and women of color, religion, faith, and reproductive justice, and womanist theo-ethics and reproductive justice. Publications include “A Womanist Theo-Ethic of Reproductive Justice,” in T&T Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives, eds. Rebecca Todd Peters and Margaret D. Kamitsuka, (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2022); “Laying the Foundations for a Reproductive Justice Movement,” in Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique, eds. Loretta J. Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater Toure (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2017); Review of Rebecca Todd Peters, Trust Women: The Moral Wisdom of Women from Justification to Reproductive Justice, Syndicate Theology; “Aretha’s Funeral and the White Supremacist Imagination,” Sept. 7, 2018, Rewire.News; and “Cherry-Picking the Bible to Mistreat the Stranger: Religion on Family Separation,” June 20, 2018, Rewire.News.
• Moderator Christine Ryan is the Associate Director of Religion and Reproductive Rights at Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project (LRRP). Christine provides academic analysis, technical support, and thought leadership to advance equality-enhancing approaches to religious liberty. In the post-Dobbs era, she is mainly focused on legal strategies relating to religious liberty, abortion access, and pregnancy criminalization.
  Christine joined LRRP from the Global Justice Center (GJC), a women's rights non-profit in New York, where she served as Legal Director. Among other projects at GJC, Christine led a campaign for a new UN treaty on Crimes against Humanity, large-scale reporting on the human rights impacts of U.S. abortion restrictions, and strategies to advance gender justice in the context of atrocity crimes. Prior to that, she served as Senior Legal Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed, where she completed human rights investigations in 8 counties and led a global study on the misuse of the right to freedom of religion or belief. Christine began her legal career as a human rights advisor to the Irish Government.
• Moderator Jessie Hill, JD (she/her), is the Director of the Reproductive Rights Law Initiative, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law. Hill has been writing about and advocating for reproductive rights for over two decades. Hill and the team are currently litigating numerous challenges to abortion restrictions in Ohio, including seeking to protect abortion access in Ohio post-Dobbs through ongoing litigation challenging Ohio's ban on abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy. She currently serves on the board of the National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund and has been invited to speak on reproductive rights law to various national groups, including the National Abortion Federation, the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
• Hill joined the CWRU faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She received her JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and her AB, magna cum laude, from Brown University. Her articles have been published in the Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal and Texas Law Review, among others. She has also appeared in numerous local and national press outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, Ms. Magazine and NPR.

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Case Western Reserve University School of Law Reproductive Rights Law Initiative
Credit:

• Ohio: 1 hour of CLE credit, pending approval
• Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority.

Cost:
Free and open to the public.

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April 10: Renewable Energy Developments in the U.S.

The renewable energy industry has received significant support at both the federal and state level, which is boosting development across the country. This course will provide counsel with an overview of the renewable energy industry in the United States, highlighting activities in the offshore wind and solar industries.
The program will then provide an in-depth review of recent regulations, federal and state initiatives and legal challenges to development of renewable projects. Project developers must adhere to state and federal policies throughout the project to avoid delay or potential litigation, and we’ll cover the aspects of a project’s development and finance.
Finally, the program will review practical resources to assist practitioners in dealing with renewable energy projects to assist you in successfully navigating any of the challenges that can occur in a project.
Title:
Renewable Energy Developments in the U.S.
Webinar Dates And Times:
April 10, 2024

1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time

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Speaker:
Aaron Eberle
Credit:
1 credit hour in most states. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
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April 23: Boilerplate Employment Documents in California: Time to Review and Update to Minimize Risk

The employment relationship generates much documentation. Oftentimes, the routine provisions in these documents are simply recycled from one document to the next and may in fact create, rather than eliminate, legal risks.

In this program, we will explore common provisions in employment documents and the danger lurking in outdated boilerplate provisions including waivers, arbitration clauses, confidentiality, non-disparagement, choice-of-law, forum selection, integration, severability, and survival clauses. We will look at best practices to update your employment documents for 2024.
Title:
Boilerplate Employment Documents in California: Time to Review and Update to Minimize Risk

Webinar Date+Time:

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
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Credit:

CLE is approved in CA, NY, PA, TX, IL, and NV.
MN CLE has been applied for approval.
You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:

Ethan Chernin
Elena K. Hillman
Michele Ballard Miller
Bethany A. Vasquez

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Cozen O'Connor, established in 1970 and ranked among the top 100 law firms in America, has 750 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions.

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April 9, 15, 17, 22+29: The Dawning of a New Era: Combining Extractive and Generative AI for New Possibilities

Chances are, you're already using extractive Artificial Intelligence (AI) in some areas of your legal practice — whether that be for case search, client management, document preparation, or some combination of these. Now, generative AI – the type of AI that powers tools like ChatGPT — is on the verge of changing the way you research again. This CLE will detail how AI can be harnessed in the legal industry, offering examples, resources, and tips. Additionally, the CLE will cover a lawyer's ethical duty to use generative AI responsibly to ensure the information generative AI is accurate and reliable to ensure the best outcome for your clients. 

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

• Understand how extractive Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been already utilized to revolutionize legal research 

• Understand the risks of utilizing generative AI in legal research and how these risks must be mitigated to ensure we are in line with our American Bar Association’s Rules of Professional Conduct. 

• Understand the benefits of utilizing generative AI and how it will fuse together harmoniously with law firms to act as an invisible helping hand in helping conduct legal research, summarize areas of the law and documents, and actually produce documents at speeds that will significantly reduce time spent on monotonous tasks.
Title:
The Dawning of a New Era: Combining Extractive and Generative AI for New Possibilities
Webinar Dates And Times:

• April 9, 2024: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
• April 15, 2024: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
• April 17, 2024: 10:30am - 11:30am
• April 22, 2024: 10:30am - 11:30am
• April 29, 2024: 1:30pm - 2:30pm

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Speaker:
Patrick Zimmer
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
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LexisNexis

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May 7: Impact of Climate Change on Coverage Under Builder’s Risk Insurance Policies for Renewable Energy Projects

This webinar will provide an overview of the risks renewable energy projects face due to the impact of climate change, and its impact on coverage under Builder’s Risk insurance policies. The presenters will focus on the common causes of damage, best practices for claims handling, relevant legal issues and recent case law, mitigation requirements, and underwriting considerations.
Title:
Impact of Climate Change on Coverage Under Builder’s Risk Insurance Policies for Renewable Energy Projects

Webinar Date+Time:

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!

Credit:

CE is approved in GA, TX, FL, NC, DE, OR, OK, and WA.
CLE is approved in PA, NY, TX, IL, NV, and CA.
You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:

Paul C. Ferland
Joshua Tumen

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Cozen O'Connor, established in 1970 and ranked among the top 100 law firms in America, has 750 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions.

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April 8: Fordham and Race: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recently stated, “History speaks.” This event brings together panelists to explore Fordham’s complicated history when it comes to race, from Fordham’s ties to the slave trade, to the displacement of the Latine population here at the Lincoln Center campus, to the university/law school serving as a welcome sanctuary to immigrant groups, to Fordham's efforts—beyond land acknowledgments and DEI statements—to create a better racial future.
Title:
Fordham and Race: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Date/Time:
Monday, April 8, 2024

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (ET)
In-person and on Zoom - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Aysha Ames Director of Legal Writing, Fordham Law School
• Brenda Gill ’95 President, Fordham Law Alumni Association
• Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Professor, Department Theology, Fordham University
• Gregory Jost, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, Fordham University
• Ferrell Littlejohn '24, J.D. Candidate; Deborah A. Batts Scholar; Member, DEI Strategic Planning Committee
• Todd G.E. Melnick, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library; Member, DEI Strategic Planning Committee
• Gemma Solimene, Clinical Associate Professor of Law; Member, DEI Strategic Planning Committee.

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This program is presented in conjunction with the Black Law Students Association and the Fordham Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Fordham Law School
Credit:
CLE credit for this program is pending in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for a maximum of 1.0 transitional and nontransitional professional practice credit. In many other jurisdictions, you may be able to self-apply for credit.

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June 6: The 3 Things It Takes to Qualify For A Mortgage Loan

Continuing Educational Services provides seminars geared towards the economy and real estate with a special focus on mortgage lending.
Title:
The 3 Things It Takes to Qualify For A Mortgage Loan
Date+Time of Webinar:
June 6, 2024
8:00 AM EST
7:00 AM CST
6:00 AM MST
5:00 AM PST
4:00 AM AKST
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Speaker:
Khash Saghafi, a nationally renowned speaker in regards to the banking & mortgage lending industry, is He is an approved instructor by the Department of Commerce, Division of Real Estate in Ohio, Florida and California. Khash Saghafi is also an approved instructor by the Ohio Supreme Court in regards to his expertise in the banking and mortgage industry.
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Continuing Educational Services
Credit:
Ohio: 2 Hours. You may be able to self-apply in other states.
Cost:
Free
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April 26: Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Beyond Awareness to Actionable Strategies

Please join Cozen O’Connor’s DEI Strategies & Solutions Group as we discuss neurodiversity awareness and innovative strategies to make your workplace a more inclusive and thriving environment for neurodiverse employees. Moderated by Simeon Brier, panelists Debbie Friedman and Dr. Diedrick Graham will share best practices for law firms and organizations looking to reap the benefits of a neurodiverse workforce and ensure their success. 

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Let's acknowledge the challenges faced by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families, educate the public, and provide resources to remove the stigma of autism.
Title:
Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Beyond Awareness to Actionable Strategies

Webinar Date+Time:

Friday, April 26, 2024
12:00 p.m. EST
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!

Credit:

CLE is approved in NY, PA, TX, IL, NV, and CA. MN, FL CLE has been applied for approval. Other jurisdictions will be applied for upon request.

Speakers:

• Simeon D. Brier, Chair, DEI Strategies & Solutions, Cozen O'Connor
• Diedrick Graham, Vice President, Culture & Strategy, The Healy+ Group
• Debra Steiner Friedman, Member

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Cozen O'Connor, established in 1970 and ranked among the top 100 law firms in America, has 750 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions.

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