April 19: Research & Drafting Techniques For Corporate Law

The digital age has augmented the practice of corporate and securities law through the accelerating development of brand new ways of identifying answers and locating critical intelligence. In doing so, it has also simultaneously created an environment that can overwhelm through the sheer quantity of available tools. 

This course will demystify the corporate law research experience by focusing on a series of practical, relevant examples and demonstrating best practices for approaching them.
Title:
Research & Drafting Techniques For Corporate Law
Webinar Dates And Times:
April 19, 2024 

1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time 

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Speaker:
Tracy Duplantier
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, 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 17: Mastering Witness Examination: Strategies for Skillful Preparation and Effective Cross-Examination

Master the art of handling challenging witnesses in both jury and nonjury trials. Explore effective tactics for managing your own witnesses and those presented by opposing counsel. Gain insights into integrating witnesses into your case strategy and learn best practices for expert witness preparation and examination. Additionally, discover how to interpret vital nonverbal signals in the courtroom, and review key ethical principles that will shape your approach to witness examination. Elevate your legal skills and strategy with this comprehensive guide.
Title:
Mastering Witness Examination: Strategies for Skillful Preparation and Effective Cross-Examination
Date+Time:
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

3:00pm to 4:00pm CDT
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - register now!
By:
LawPay
Speaker:
Claude Ducloux, LawPay's director of education, ethics and compliance, has nearly four decades of experience practicing law. Claude has earned many professional honors for his dedication to educating attorneys, including the Gene Cavin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Continuing Education.
Credit:

Typically, LawPay programs are granted credit in most states, but this may not be listed on the sponsor's website for this program yet.

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April 17: Complex Cases Simplified: Gaining Logistical Control from Calendaring to Courtroom

Are you looking to untangle your complex case logistics and gain control? This presentation includes tools, tips and tactics for streamlining and simplifying the details of Complex Cases. Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success. Discover how establishing a strategic logistical framework including shared case calendars, standing orders and helpful depositories can ease future complications.
This  webinar will review:

• Addressing Security Concerns
• Organizing with Document Depositories
• Establishing Scheduling Logistics
• Conducting Remote Proceedings
• Managing Exhibits
• Tips for Virtual Trials/Hearings.

Title:
Complex Cases Simplified: Gaining Logistical Control from Calendaring to Courtroom
Date/Time:
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
The number of seats is limited. Register and reserve your seat today!
Credit:
This webinar is pending approval in the following states: Alabama, Minnesota, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin. NY CLE Credit Provided via NYCLE “Other Approved Jurisdictions” Policy. Attorney must provide correct listening code; not available for Transitional Attorneys. The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement. This activity may qualify for up to 1 hours toward your annual CLE requirement for the State Bar of Arizona, including 0 hour(s) of professional responsibility.  There is no formal approval process for organizations that want to provide MCLE courses in Connecticut. If an organization’s MCLE program or course has bene approved by the authority authorized to approve MCLE courses in another jurisdiction, then the organization’s MCLE course is automatically approved in Connecticut. New York CLE is provided via NYCLE "Other Approved Jurisdictions" Rule. In other jurisdictions, you might self-apply for credit.

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Veritext

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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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April 17: Navigating Representation and Warranty Insurance in M&A Transactions for In-House Counsel

In the context of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), representation and warranty insurance serves as a form of protection for both the buyer and the seller against financial losses resulting from breaches of representations and warranties made during the deal.
The in-house lawyer and the outside M&A lawyer have different roles in assisting their client in obtaining representation and warranty insurance for a transaction
Join us on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 12pm ET / 9am PT for the next edition of our IHC Deep Dives Series, as Joseph Cosentino and James Grayer of Clifford Chance will focus on areas of particular interest for the in-house lawyer, including:

• Understanding the reasons for using reps and warranties insurance in lieu of a more traditional indemnity structure (including a discussion of the prevalence of the use of representation and warranty insurance in the current deal environment);
• The current state of the market;
• Defining the scope of diligence;
• Advising internal stakeholders on how the RWI policy may shape the agreement negotiations;
• The interplay of underlying business insurance and representation and warranty insurance; and
• How to get the best out of the underwriting call process. 

This Webinar will also briefly touch on other transactional risk products for in-house lawyers to consider in and outside of M&A transactions.
Who should attend:
In-house counsel, compliance officers, risk managers and legal operations professionals who participate in or manage mergers and acquisitions.

Title:

Navigating Representation and Warranty Insurance in M&A Transactions for In-House Counsel

Date+Time:

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

12pm ET / 9am PT
Live Zoom Continuing Legal Education Program - Register Now!

Speakers: 

• Joseph Cosentino
• James Grayer 

By:
In-House Connect.

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April 16: Judicial Review of Public Health Laws: From Deference to Indifference with Wendy E. Parmet

For most of American history, courts granted significant deference to public health officials. This deference, which could be and was at times abused, was justified by numerous factors including the broad authority that legislatures granted to health agencies, respect for scientific expertise, and the high value that the law gave to public health, as expressed by the maxim salus populi suprema lex. 

This tradition of judicial deference to public health authorities eroded during the COVID-19 pandemic as courts heard thousands of challenges to COVID-19 related public health orders. Although most courts upheld most uses of public health powers during the pandemic, many courts, including the Supreme Court, replaced deference with deep skepticism of expertise and indifference to the public health effects of their decisions. This shift was especially apparent in Free Exercise challenges to public health orders, as well as cases reviewing the scope of authority of federal officials under the novel major questions doctrine.
Building upon the book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts and Public Health, this talk will review the shift from deference to indifference during the pandemic and discuss its post-pandemic spillover, including in challenges to the authority of the FDA and EPA and childhood vaccine laws. The talk will also examine the connections between the decline of deference and threats to democracy and consider what this new judicial era may augur for public health.
Title:
Judicial Review of Public Health Laws: From Deference to Indifference with Wendy E. Parmet.
Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum
Webinar Date+Time:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Eastern Time
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Speaker:

Professor Parmet

Wendy E. Parmet is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, where she is the faculty director of the Center on Health Policy and Law. An associate editor for the American Journal of Public Health, her most recent book is Constitutional Contagion: COVID, The Courts and Public Health (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:

• Ohio: 1 hour of online 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 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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LexisNexis

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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
Register Now For This Free Continuing Legal Education Livestream!
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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LexisNexis

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