May 2018: Blowing Smoke: Managing New Risks in the Workplace

The National Institute of Drug Abuse puts the cost of substance abuse to our nation at $600 billion in terms of crime, lost work productivity and health care. With workplace drug and alcohol testing laws and regulations changing constantly, discover the history and background of drugs and the workplace, medical marijuana and a drug free workplace, establishing impairment levels and workplace challenges.


Title:
Blowing Smoke: Managing New Risks in the Workplace
When/Where:
Webcast

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/11/2018
• 10:30am - 11:30am EDT - 05/16/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/24/2018
  

Speaker:
Jared Millisor
Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits.
By:
LexisNexis

May 2018: Avoiding the Million Dollar Comma: The Use of Forms in Legal Drafting

The use of forms in drafting legal documents is just one way to increase efficiency and work product quality while at the same time mitigating some of the risk associated with each document. Explore source, types and benefits of forms, find appropriate motion templates, using a form bank.

Title:
Avoiding the Million Dollar Comma: The Use of Forms in Legal Drafting
When/Where:
Webcast

• 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT - 05/02/2018
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT - 05/08/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT -  05/18/2018
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT - 05/22/2018

Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits.
By:
LexisNexis

May 2018: Answering the Call: Overcoming Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession #MCLE

In this course, you will examine the characteristics of the legal profession that make attorneys so much more susceptible to substance abuse as well as review the wildly disproportionate disciplinary records.


Title:
Answering the Call: Overcoming Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession
When/Where:

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/02/2018
• 9:00am - 10:00am EDT - 05/07/2018
• 2:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/30/2018
• Next Month:
• 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT - 06/04/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT -  06/06/2018
  

Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits. Often these are ethics credits
By:
LexisNexis

April 30: Working with Immigrants: The Intersection of Basic Immigration, Housing, and Domestic Violence Issues in California 2018

You should attend this training if you would like to provide pro bono services to immigrant clients in the areas of housing, immigration, or domestic violence or you would like to improve your representation of immigrant clients generally. Many immigrant clients require assistance with a constellation of related yet distinct issues. This day-long program attempts to address these particular areas of overlap, develops the practitioner's understanding of the role that immigration law plays in the representation, and provides concrete examples. Experienced practitioners in the areas of immigration, family law, and housing will share their expertise by providing insight into cultural issues that arise when working with immigrant clients, how these areas of law overlap to provide special protections and remedies to immigrants and domestic violence survivors, and how immigration status impacts eligibility for federally subsidized housing.

What You Will Learn

• Cultural issues to be aware of when working with immigrant clients generally and specific issues that arise in housing and domestic violence cases
• What is domestic violence and how does it impact immigrant and LGBT communities
• How immigration status affects eligibility for federally subsidized housing
• Fair Housing laws that protect immigrants and domestic violence survivors
• Special housing protections for domestic violence survivors in the Violence Against Women Act and other California laws
• What family law issues are implicated when working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence
• How to get your client legal immigration status based on domestic violence
• Confidentiality and safety planning for immigrants, both documented and undocumented.

Legal aid and private practitioners who work with immigrant clients or who would like to provide pro bono services to immigrant clients in the areas of immigration, housing, or domestic violence would benefit from attending this program.

Title:
Working with Immigrants: The Intersection of Basic Immigration, Housing, and Domestic Violence Issues in California 2018
When/Where:

April 30, 2018

9:00 AM Pacific

Webcast - Register Now!

Also live in San Francisco, CA
Speakers:

• Co-Chairs:
• Protima Pandey ~ Director, Office of Women's Policy, County Executive Office, County of Santa Clara
• Linda Tam ~ Director, Immigration Practice, East Bay Community Law Center
• Trina Chatterjee ~ Partner, MVTC Family Law
• Katherine Chu ~ Staff Attorney & Program Manager, Housing Rights, Asian-Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
• Melissa Colón ~ Disrupting Displacement Project Manager, Community Economic Justice Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center
• Nicole Ford ~ Law Offices of Nicole Ford
• Eunice Lee ~ Co-Legal Director, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
• Nancy K.D. Lemon ~ Director, Domestic Violence Practicum, Co-Founder and Legal Director, Family Violence Appellate Project, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
• Cindy C. Liou ~ Deputy Director of Legal Services, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
• Jason Luu ~ Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
• Kemi Mustapha ~ Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
• Karlo Ng ~ Supervising Attorney, National Housing Law Project
• Jassmin Poyaoan ~ Director, Community Economic Justice Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center
• Catherine Seitz ~ Legal Director, Legal Services for Children
• Program Attorney: Christina Thompson ~ Senior Pro Bono Program Attorney, Practising Law Institute

By:
Practising Law Institute (PLI)
Credit:
Credit in most jurisdictions
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
More Information And Registration

May 16: Legal #Ethics, Judicial Independence, and Political Partisanship

Judicial legitimacy rests on the perception of judicial impartiality. As a partisan gulf widens among the American public, however, there is a growing skepticism of the judiciary’s neutrality on politically sensitive topics. Hardening partisan identities mean that there is less middle ground on political issues and less cooperation among those with differing political views. As a result, the public increasingly scrutinizes judges and judicial candidates for signs of political agreement, distrusting those perceived to support the opposing political party.

Judges themselves are not immune to these political forces. In spite of a strong judicial identity that demands impartiality and judicial conduct rules that require judges to avoid even the appearance of bias, judges have the same unconscious biases and preconceptions as anyone else. Moreover, judges must generally have strong political affiliations to reach the bench at all, regardless of whether they are elected or appointed. Drawing the line between mere political affiliation and an inappropriate appearance of partisan bias can therefore be difficult.

This lecture analyzes the mechanisms available to safeguard judicial impartiality. Although recusal motions are the most common weapon against partisan bias, this Article argues that recusal motions cannot effectively guard against the appearance of bias arising from a judge’s political views. When recusal rules rely on an undefined “appearance” standard, they are susceptible to an interpretive bias that undermines their purpose.

Title:
Legal Ethics, Judicial Independence, and Political Partisanship

Louis C. Greenwood Lecture Series

When/Where:

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Webcast - Register Now!

The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Speaker:

Cassandra Burke Robertson regularly teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility and Secured Transactions, and has also taught Transnational Litigation and Remedies. She directs the law school’s Center for Professional Ethics, whose mission is to explore moral choices across professional lines in a variety of disciplines. Her scholarship focuses on legal ethics and litigation procedure within a globalizing practice of law. She has co-authored a popular casebook in the field of professional responsibility and published articles in the Columbia Law Review, Emory Law Journal and Boston University Law Review, among others.

By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
1 hour of in-person CLE credit, pending approval
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
More Information And Registration
https://law.case.edu/Lectures-Events/EventId/338/e/legal-ethics-judicial-independence-and-political-partisanship-16-may-2018

Continuing Legal Education Readings

• Judicial Impartiality in a Partisan Era

Answering the Call: Overcoming Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession

In this course, you will examine the characteristics of the legal profession that make attorneys so much more susceptible to substance abuse as well as review the wildly disproportionate disciplinary records.


Title:
Answering the Call: Overcoming Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession
When/Where:
Multiple Webcasts April 2018

• 9:00am - 10:00am EDT - 04/02/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/04/20180
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/25/2018
• 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT - 04/30/2018
• Next Month:
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/02/2018

Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits. Often these are ethics credits
By:
LexisNexis

Following, Friending and Pinning: The Intersection of Social Media and Evidentiary Principles

According to the Pew Research Center, 73% of online adults use at least one social media platform. That number grows daily. Learn how to apply evidentiary principles to this medium, discover and build sound strategies to uncover sources and results on an electronic legal research platform and stay up to date on the trends in social media as well as the social media activities of key players in cases as well as gain an understanding of how social media has taken such an important role in society as a whole.


Title:
Following, Friending and Pinning: The Intersection of Social Media and Evidentiary Principles
When/Where:
Webcast

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/09/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/27/2018
• Next Month: 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/04/2018

Speaker:
Cassie Quinn
Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits.
By:
LexisNexis

Silence of All Virtues: Attorney-Client Privilege and Confidentiality in the Digital Age #MCLE

In the fast paced, high information era in which we live, how do you maintain client confidentiality and privilege while still meeting the demands of the client? In this course we will cover the importance of protecting client confidences, understanding electronic media, finding ethical solutions to inadvertent disclosures, ethical implications of using cloud storage and navigating the ethical minefields of social media as legal professionals.

Title:

Silence of All Virtues: Attorney-Client Privilege and Confidentiality in the Digital Age

When/Where:
Webcast

• 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT - 04/05/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/16/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/26/2018
• Next Month: 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 05/03/2018

Speaker:
Nicole Dietz
Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits.
By:
LexisNexis

April 24: Calculating Economic Damages

On April 24, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with forensic economists Nora Ostrofe and Mark Falkenhagen, will present a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Calculating Economic Damages, for all legal professionals. During this presentation, Ms. Ostrofe and Mr. Falkenhagen will discuss:

Personal Injury

• Types of damages
• Possible outcomes to a personal injury
• Example of how wage loss varies depending on outcome
• Life care plans
• Lost household services

Wrongful Death

• Wrongful death or survivorship actions
• Types of damages
• Personal consumption | maintenance.

Title:

Calculating Economic Damages

When/Where:
April 24, 2018
2:00 p.m. (ET)
Webcast - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Nora Ostrofe has served as a forensic economist for the past 19 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an MBA from St. Mary’s College, and a certificate in accounting with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley.
• Mark Falkenhagen has been a forensic economic for over 25 years with HSNO in the Los Angeles office. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance and accounting from the University of Southern California, Berkeley.

By:
The TASA Group, Inc.
Credit:

• This webinar is approved for CLE credit in CA, IL, MN, NJ, PA, TN, and TX.
• Many states allow attorneys to self-apply for credit: see State Rules

Cost:
Free.

More Information And Registration

Avoiding the Million Dollar Comma: The Use of Forms in Legal Drafting #MCLE

The use of forms in drafting legal documents is just one way to increase efficiency and work product quality while at the same time mitigating some of the risk associated with each document. Explore source, types and benefits of forms, find appropriate motion templates, using a form bank.


Title:
Avoiding the Million Dollar Comma: The Use of Forms in Legal Drafting
When/Where:
Webcast

• 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT - 04/03/2018
• 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT - 04/13/2018
• 10:30am - 11:30am EDT - 04/23/2018
• Next Month: 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT 05/02/2018

Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits.
By:
LexisNexis

April 16: The Continuing Salience of the Terrorism Prosecution

The U.S. government's power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Professor Wadie Said provides an up-to-date dissection of the government's advantages over suspects in criminal prosecutions of terrorism, which are driven by a preventive mindset that purports to stop plots before they can come to fruition. Professor Said also discusses the background for these controversial policies and practices and then demonstrates how they have impeded the normal goals of criminal prosecution, even in light of a competing military tribunal model. Said explores the emergence of a "terrorist exceptionalism" to normal rules of criminal law and procedure and questions whether the government has overstated the threat posed by the individuals it charges with these crimes, resulting in continuing violations of basic constitutional protections for criminal defendants.
Title:
The Continuing Salience of the Terrorism Prosecution
Institute for Global Security Law and Policy Lecture
When/Where:
Monday, April 16, 2018
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Eastern Time
Moot Courtroom (A59)
11075 East Blvd.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Also Webcast
Speaker:
Wadie Said is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, he was a visiting professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida, where he represented one of the defendants in U.S. v. Al-Arian, a complex terrorism conspiracy case. Upon graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and as a litigation associate in the New York office of Debevoise and Plimpton, where he helped coordinate the firm's pro bono political asylum program.
Professor Said's recent scholarship analyzes the challenges inherent in the modern terrorism prosecution, covering such topics as coercive interrogation, the use of informants, and the ban on providing material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. He is currently at work on a book, a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminal terrorist prosecution in the United States, which is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, immigration law, and a seminar on international human rights law.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Credit:
1 hour of in-person CLE credit (Ohio)
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
Continuing Legal Education Readings
Said, Limitless Discretion in the Wars on Drugs and Terror (2018, 39 p.)

More Information And Registration

April 19: The Travel Ban at the Supreme Court: A Briefing on Trump v. Hawaii

On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the much-awaited case of Trump v. Hawaii, the challenge brought by the state asserting, among other things, that the Administration’s executive order barring admission into the U. S. from certain predominantly Muslim countries and suspending refugee admissions violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause and federal immigration law.

Join ACS for a discussion of the legal questions under review by the Court and what’s at stake.

Title:

The Travel Ban at the Supreme Court: A Briefing on Trump v. Hawaii

When/Where:

April 19, 2018

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Eastern

Webcast - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society, Moderator
• Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin, Attorney General of Hawaii March 2015 - February 2018
• Thomas Berg, James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas School of Law
• Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law; Founder and Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Penn State Law

Credit:
This program has been approved for 1 hour MCLE credit for California and California reciprocal states.
By:
ACS
More Information And Registration

April 24: Employee Mobility and Trade Secrets: What To Know When Workers Come -- And Go

Unemployment is low. Demand for skilled workers is high. And employees have more job mobility than ever before. The opportunity to recruit new talent and leadership can be a boon for businesses. But increasing mobility also carries risks. Your trade secrets and confidential information may be vulnerable, and if you’re not careful, new hires may join with a competitor’s sensitive information in hand. Do you know what it takes to protect your company when hiring and when employees depart? Join Miller Law Group for a look at recent developments in the landscape of employee mobility and trade secrets, including a discussion of restrictive covenants, administrative agency requirements around confidentiality provisions, social media concerns, and more. We will also provide practical steps businesses should consider to protect their valuable assets and to avoid liability with competitors.
Title:
Employee Mobility and Trade Secrets: What To Know When Workers Come -- And Go
When/Where:

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM PDT

Register Now!
By:
Miller Law Group

More Information and Registration

April 18: Belgian Marxist Academics, Plenary Power, Animal Sacrifice, and LBJ: A Primer on Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0

Since President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, he has issued three different orders banning the entry of nationals from predominantly Muslim countries. From the moment the first order went into effect, the travel ban has been the subject of ongoing litigation.
Professor Avidan Y. Cover will address the competing claims at issue in the litigation over the President’s latest iteration of the travel ban. The lecture will explore the history of the federal government’s broad authority to limit immigration and address national security, to which courts have generally afforded great deference, while also addressing the continually developing anti-discrimination laws that protect people’s civil rights, which the Judiciary has zealously upheld.
Title:
Belgian Marxist Academics, Plenary Power, Animal Sacrifice, and LBJ: A Primer on Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0
Louis C. Greenwood Lecture Series
When/Where:
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Also Webcast
Speaker:
Avidan Y. Cover is Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy. Cover teaches in the Civil Rights and Human Rights Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, where he supervises students representing clients in civil lawsuits primarily in the areas of civil rights, including freedom of speech, unlawful force, and housing discrimination as well as documenting human rights abuses. He also teaches courses in constitutional law, race and American law and international humanitarian law. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX News and Court TV.
Prior to his appointment at Case Western Reserve, Cover taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law, where he supervised the Urban Revitalization Project in Newark, New Jersey. In addition, he was a Gibbons Public Interest and Constitutional Law Fellow from 2007 to 2009 during which time he litigated prisoner’s rights, same-sex marriage, national security and education cases in federal and state court. Cover also served as Senior Counsel in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program where he researched and analyzed U.S. military and intelligence agencies’ interrogation and detention policies and practices.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
1 hour of in-person CLE credit, pending approval
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
More Information And Registration

Continuing Legal Education Readings

• Muslim ban and separation of powers (2018, 21 p.)
• Constitution and the Trump Travel Ban (2018, 15 p.)

Blowing Smoke: Managing New Risks in the Workplace - Webcast #MCLE

The National Institute of Drug Abuse puts the cost of substance abuse to our nation at $600 billion in terms of crime, lost work productivity and health care. With workplace drug and alcohol testing laws and regulations changing constantly, discover the history and background of drugs and the workplace, medical marijuana and a drug free workplace, establishing impairment levels and workplace challenges.


Title:
Blowing Smoke: Managing New Risks in the Workplace
When/Where:
Webcast

• 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT - 04/12/2018
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT - 04/19/2018
  

Speaker:
Jared Millisor
Credit:
1 credit hour in most states that allow online credits.
By:
LexisNexis

April 10: Workplace Violence #MCLE

On April 10, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with law enforcement and safety expert Timothy Dimoff, will present a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Workplace Violence, for all legal professionals. During this presentation, Tim Dimoff will discuss:

• The motivations that can cause workplace violence -- work and non-work related
• What a business’s responsibility is and how to protect employees and visitors
• How to identify and define various types of workplace violence
• How to take a proactive approach to preventing violence
• How to identify various levels of violence and how to properly respond to them
• The process for terminating a violent employee.

Title:
Workplace Violence
When/Where:
April 10, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Webcast - Register Now!
Speaker:
Timothy A. Dimoff, founder and president of SACS Consulting & Investigative Services, Inc., is considered one of the nation’s leading authorities in high-risk workplace and human resource issues, security, vulnerability assessments and crime. As a consultant to law enforcement and the media, Timothy has been called upon to examine evidence from crime scenes and victim and witness reports to develop an offender profile. He has testified as an expert witness in many trials throughout the years.
By:
The TASA Group, Inc.
Credit:

• This webinar is approved for CLE credit in CA, FL, IL, MN, MO, NC, NJ, OH, PA, TN, TX, and WI.
• Many states allow attorneys to self-apply for credit: see State Rules

Cost:
Free.
More Information And Registration

May 1: Abdominal Emergencies #MCLE

On May 1, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with ER Physician Dr. Evan Cohen, will present a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Abdominal Emergencies, for all legal professionals.

During this presentation, Dr. Cohen will discuss:

• Demographics of abdominal complaints
• Social and economic impact
• Abdominal emergencies every ER doctor and malpractice attorney needs to know
• Malpractice
• Disability
• Duty of providers
• Documentation

Title:

Abdominal Emergencies
When/Where:
May 1, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Webcast - Register Now!
By:
The TASA Group, Inc.
Speaker:
Dr. Evan Cohen is a board-certified emergency physician. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ and has been practicing emergency medicine for the past eight years. He is currently the associate director of the emergency department at New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital.
Credit:

• This webinar is approved for CLE credit in CA, FL, IL, MN, MO, NJ, OH, PA, TN, and WI.
• Many states allow attorneys to self-apply for credit: see State Rules

Cost:
Free.
More Information And Registration

April 5: Unplanned Events or “Black Swans” and How to Avoid Them

On April 5, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), The TASA Group, in conjunction with engineering expert David Russell, will present a free, one-hour interactive webinar presentation, Unplanned Events or “Black Swans” and How to Avoid Them, for all legal professionals. During this presentation, David Russell will discuss:

• Evaluating, discussing and presenting industrial risk
• Analyzing risks
• The value of fat-tailed statistical thinking
• Predicting various types of events
• The difference between the EU’s approach to risk management thinking vs. the US approach

Title:
Unplanned Events or “Black Swans” and How to Avoid Them
When/Where:

April 5, 2018

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Webcast - Register Now!
Speaker:
David L. Russell, PE is a professional engineer and the president of Global Environmental Operations, Inc., in Lilburn, Georgia. He has over 40 years in the environmental and chemical business and has written several books on environmental and security topics. He lectures on security and risk, as well as practical environmental and industrial topics in the Middle East and Far East. He has been involved in several high profile remedial investigations, including Aguinda vs. Texaco (2004), and Sytek vs. Siemens (1995), and others. He has investigated contamination and remediation all over the world, and has lectured on handling of hazardous wastes and materials, as well as safety and security.
By:
The TASA Group, Inc.
Credit:

• This webinar is approved for CLE credit in CA, FL, IL, MN, MO, NC, NJ, OH, PA, TN, and WI.
• Many states allow attorneys to self-apply for credit: see State Rules

Cost:
Free.
More Information And Registration

May 2018/Seattle: 2018 Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson 1L Appellate Advocacy Competition

On behalf of the Moot Court Honor Board at the University of Washington School of Law, I am pleased to invite you to participate as a judge in our 2018 Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson 1L Appellate Advocacy Competition. The competition will be taking place Monday, May 7^th through Thursday, May 10, 2018.

We welcome attorneys from all practice areas to participate. Volunteer judges are invaluable to the continued success of MCHB and the in-house competition program. As a judge, you will provide valuable feedback and evaluate the participants’ performance. For your service as a judge you will receive:

3 free CLE credits and 2.5 credits for each additional night judged*
Free parking in the Central Parking Garage after 4:00 pm.
Dinner

 

Register to serve as a judge for this competition using this online sign up form.

 

If you are unable to serve as a judge for this competition, but would like to receive invitations to judge future competitions, please let us know via the sign-up sheet. Questions can be sent to judges@uw.edu. 

 

Title:

2018 Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson 1L Appellate Advocacy Competition

When/Where:

Monday, May 7th: Preliminary Round #1

5:30-6:00 p.m. Judge check-in and dinner; chance to review problem.

6:00-6:30 p.m. Mandatory training for judges.

6:30-9:00 p.m. Competition round and feedback. 

Tuesday, May 8th: Preliminary Round #2

5:30-6:00 p.m. Judge check-in and dinner; chance to review problem.

6:00-6:30 p.m. Mandatory training for judges.

6:30-9:00 p.m. Competition round and feedback. 

Wednesday, May 9th: Quarterfinal Round

5:30-6:00 p.m. Judge check-in and dinner; chance to review problem.

6:00-6:30 p.m. Mandatory training for judges.

6:30-9:00 p.m. Competition round and feedback. 

Thursday, May 10th: Semifinal Round

5:30-6:00 p.m. Judge check-in and dinner; chance to review problem.

6:00-6:30 p.m. Mandatory training for judges.

6:30-9:00 p.m. Competition round and feedback. 

By:

University ofWashington Moot Court Honor Board

Registration