November 30/Chicago+Web: New Lawyer Tool Kit: Basic Skills for New Attorneys

The CBA's New Lawyer Tool Kit program has been designed to satisfy the basic skills course requirement of the Supreme Court of Illinois' minimum continuing legal education rules for new attorneys.
Free to members of the Chicago Bar Association.
Title:
New Lawyer Tool Kit: Basic Skills for New Attorneys-Full Day
When/Where:
November 30, 2012
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM
The Chicago Bar Association
321 S Plymouth Court
Chicago, IL 60632
Also Available As Webcast
Speakers And Their Topics:

• THE IMPAIRED LAWYER: LAWYERS AND ADDICTION
  Robin M. Belleau, Clinical Director, Lawyers' Assistance Program
• ETHICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: WHAT NEW LAWYERS NEED TO KNOW
  Erin Wright Lothson, Associate, DLA Piper
• WORK-LIFE BALANCE: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR NEW LAWYERS
• Juliet Berger, Partner, White, Hughes, Socol 
• Mary Curry, Law Clerk to the Honorable Susan E. Cox (Moderator)
• Bill Oberts, Director, Tribler, Orpett & Meyer, P.C.

Afternoon Sessions

• CIVILITY: HOW TO PLAY NICE
• Daniel Kotin, Corboy & Demetrio (Moderator)
• Jeffrey J. Kroll, The Law Offices of Jeffrey J. Kroll
• Hon. Thomas Mulroy, Circuit Court of Cook County
• Manual Sanchez, Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman
• PRO BONO: SUPREME COURT RULES AND OPPORTUNITIES
  Kelly Tautges, Director of Pro Bono, The Chicago Bar Foundation
• MENTORING: THE VALUE OF MENTORING FOR NEW LAWYERS
• Aurora Abella-Austriaco, Of Counsel, Clark Hill PLC
• David Argentar, Deputy Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (Moderator)
• John Fehr, Fehr Law Group, LLC
• Paula Hudson Holderman, Chief Attorney Development Officer, Winston & Strawn
• ETHICS FOR NEW LAWYERS
  Mary Andreoni, Ethics Education Counsel, ARDC

By:
Chicago Bar Association
Credit:
6.75 IL Basic Skills Course PR Credits
More Information And Registration

Debt and Debt Collection: On-Demand #MCLE

An introduction to debt and debt collection practices in California.
Title:
Debt and Debt Collection
Part of LAAC Armchair Trainings: Consumer Law Series
When/Where:
Anytime/Recording
Speaker:
Megan Ryan of the East Bay Community Law Center
Sponsor:
Legal Aid Association of California
Credit:

• California: Approved for 1 Self-Study Credit
• Other Jurisdictions: Check with your Credit-Granting Authority

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November 15/Indianapolis: Indianapolis Women Working for the Right to Vote: the Forgotten Drama of 1917 #MCLE

Following the passage of Maston-McKinley Suffrage Bill, in the fall of 1917, between 30,000 and 40,000 Indianapolis women registered to vote. The bill, passed earlier that year, granted women the right to vote in municipal elections, school elections, liquor matters, and constitutional convention elections. While the bill did not grant women the right to vote in presidential and state elections, this “limited suffrage” gave them a significantly amplified voice in the public realm.
William Knight, an Indianapolis lumber company owner, quickly filed a lawsuit claiming the legislature did not have the right to extend their voter base through these means. Both the Marion Superior Court and the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of Knight and women lost their right to vote.
Title:
Indianapolis Women Working for the Right to Vote: the Forgotten Drama of 1917
When/Where:
Thursday, November 15, 2012
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Indiana Supreme Court
315 Indiana State House
200 W. Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Registration will be completed at the door.
Credit:
1.5 hours
Speaker:
Jennifer Kalvaitis
By:

• Indiana Supreme Court
• Indiana Commission for Continuing Legal Education

More:
http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/3572.htm

Online Legal Services: Keeping Pace with the Evolving Practice of Law - On-Demand #MCLE

Richard S. Granat

Client expectations of legal counsel is changing. Still, lawyers have been behind in integrating technology into their practices while startup companies are coming in and sweeping up clients. 
Learn how to strengthen your practice, connect with clients, and increase revenues with the effective delivery of online legal services. 
Developed and delivered by the Co-Chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section, this program is an absolute must for solo and small law firm partners who want to succeed in a competitive environment. 
Title:
Online Legal Services: Keeping Pace with the Evolving Practice of Law
When/Where:
On-Demand Recording
Speaker:
Richard S. Granat is presently Co-Chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section and most recently a member of the Section Council of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section. He also serves on the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services of the ABA. He has been involved in developing innovative legal services delivery systems for over 30 years, first as part of the initial working group that created the National Legal Services Program, and then later as Director of the Center for Legal Studies at Antioch Law School in Washington, D.C., the nation's first clinical law school, and later President and Dean of the Philadelphia Institute for Paralegal Training, the nation's first paralegal school. He was the founding CEO of Automated Legal Systems, Inc., an affiliate of The Philadelphia Institute, one of the first legal software companies to publish legal applications for the personal computer in the early 1980s. He is an acknowledged expert on the delivery of online legal services.
By:
Lexvid
More:
http://www.lexvid.com/clevideos/view/59

December 4/Web: The Myths and Mysteries of Substance Abuse #MCLE

Many lawyers suffer from substance abuse – more than is typical in the general population.  Fortunately, there are many attorneys who want to help to change that reality, but it’s often hard to know where to start. Would you know how to identify substance abuse?  Once you knew about the abuse, would you know how to help?
So many things about substance abuse are a mystery to us and so many things that we hear are myths.  What’s the truth about substance abuse?
Join this 60 minute webinar to learn facts about substance abuse and how to help.
Title:
The Myths and Mysteries of Substance Abuse
When/Where:
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
Webinar
Speakers:

• Terry Harrell, the Executive Director of the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program
• Ann Foster, the Director of the Texas Lawyers Assistance Program.

Sponsor:
Attorney Protective
Credit:

• Washington State: 0.25 ethics credit and 0.75 general credit (activity 317222)
• Other Jurisdiction: check with your credit-granting authority

More:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/710440672

November 5/Web: Family Member Entitlement to VA Pension Benefits (#Veterans #MCLE)

The CLE webinar of the Texas Veterans Legal Assistance Project will educate attendees on Family Member Entitlement to VA Pension Benefits.  It will provide an overview of (1) who is considered a qualified family member of a Veteran, (2) benefits available to qualifying survivors of a deceased Veteran, and (3) special allowances pursuant to Title 38 of the United States Code and Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Attorneys in private practice who are providing legal assistance to low-income Texas Veterans, on referral from a Legal Aid program or a local bar association volunteer lawyer program, can receive back-up and support from the AmeriCorps Equal Justice Works Fellow in the Texas Veterans Legal Assistance Project.  For further details, or to request such back-up and support, please contact emarfin@tlsc.org.
Who May Attend:
This program is for Texas attorneys providing pro bono service to veterans.
Title:
Family Member Entitlement to VA Pension Benefits
A Texas Veterans Legal Assistance Project WEBINAR
When/Where:
November 5, 2012
Noon Central (11 AM Mountain)
Webinar
Registration:
Please see the webinar registration form at http://www.tlsc.org/calendar/ for further details about the upcoming CLE program on Nov. 5th and to register.
Speaker:
Attorney Janet Totter
By:
Texas Veterans Legal Assistance Project
Credit:
The CLE Program on November 5th has been certified by the State Bar of Texas for one hour a participatory MCLE credit (no ethics credit).  The course number of the program is 901256070.
More:
http://www.tlsc.org/calendar/

November 9/Oxford, MS: The Impact of Concussion Lawsuits on the Future of Football #MCLE

Once thought to be a badge of honor that doctors could quickly “cure” with a sniff of smelling salt, concussions have now become the subject of litigation that could threaten the future of football and other contact sports. Recent medical studies consistently show serious long-term effects for athletes who have had multiple concussions, including serious brain trauma and reduction in life expectancy. Where re-entering the game after a concussion, or even the week after a concussion, used to be common practice, there is an increasing burden on team physicians and the athletes themselves to consider the implications of going back onto the field. In light of this research, the four major American sports leagues have implemented concussion policies and procedures, but many question if these policies alone are sufficient to protect the athletes from permanent injuries.
The pending litigation against the National Football League by over 3,500 of its former players will be the first case to address the question of concussions on a larger scale.  At its heart are tort law questions of duty, causation, and assumption of risk by athletes, trainers, and administrators in responding to these injuries. How should courts allocate liability in such cases?
Further, this is a problem that transcends professional football, extending both to high school athletes and to female athletes. In fact, women’s soccer is the sport with the second highest amount concussions after football, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that nearly two million teenage athletes suffer brain injuries every year.
Presenters include a former NFL player, the lead attorney in the suit against NFL in Mississippi,  a head of the Concussion Center at Vanderbilt University, and two leading sports law professors.
Title:
The Impact of Concussion Lawsuits on the Future of Football
The Mississippi Sports Law Review's 2012 Fall Symposium 
By:
Mississippi Sports Law Review
When/Where:
Friday, November 9, 2012
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM (CST)
Room 1078
University of Mississippi School of Law
Oxford, MS
Speakers:

• Dean André Douglas Pond Cummings-Indiana Tech Law School
• Dr. Andrew Gregory- Vanderbilt University
• Dean Jeffrey A. Standen-Willamette University College of Law
• Philip Thomas, Esq.- Philip Thomas Law Firm
• Todd Wade- Retired NFL Offensive Tackle
• Moderator: Dr. William Berry III.

Credit:
Two free hours of CLE.
By:
The MISSISSIPPI SPORTS LAW REVIEW (MSLR) is a bi-annual journal that addresses current legal issues that arise in collegiate and professional sports.
As the lone representative sports law journal in the Southeastern Conference, the MSLR hopes to contribute to the growth of Sports Law as an academic discipline and add to its growing legitimacy in the academic community.
More:
http://msconcussionsymposium.eventbrite.com/

December 4/Web: The Myths and Mysteries of Substance Abuse #MCLE

Many lawyers suffer from substance abuse – more than is typical in the general population.  Fortunately, there are many attorneys who want to help to change that reality, but it’s often hard to know where to start. Would you know how to identify substance abuse?  Once you knew about the abuse, would you know how to help?  So many things about substance abuse are a mystery to us and so many things that we hear are myths.  What’s the truth about substance abuse? 

Join this 60 minute webinar to learn facts about substance abuse and how to help. Terry Harrell, the Executive Director of the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program and Ann Foster, the Director of the Texas Lawyers Assistance Program both help lawyers suffering from substance abuse. Learn from their real-life experiences.

Title:

The Myths and Mysteries of Substance Abuse

When/Where:

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Webinar

Speakers:

• Terry Harrell, Executive Director of the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program
• Ann Foster, Director of the Texas Lawyers Assistance Program 

By:

Attorney Protective

More:

http://www.attorneyprotective.com/webinar

November 7/Rockford, IL: Leadership Integrity: How Good People Lose Their #Ethics And What Can Be Done To Stop It

This presentation will help professionals in all fields to develop, inspire and maintain a culture of integrity in their organizations.
While chronicling failures of integrity from the cubicle to the corner office, Mr. Lanza provides a positive framework for hiring employees with high integrity and creating an environment which helps ensure that company personnel maintain their moral compass. Real FBI case examples help the audience understand the root causes of unethical behavior and to facilitate the achievement of corporate goals at all levels with employee’s morality and integrity intact.
Title: 
Leadership Integrity: How Good People Lose Their Ethics And What Can Be Done To Stop It.
Credit:
2.00 hrs
When/Where:
November 7, 2012
7:30 AM TO 11:30 AM
Radisson Hotel
200 S Bell School Rd
Rockford, Winnebago County, IL 61108
Pre-Register ASAP by contacting:
Paula K. Smith
Paula.Smith1@usbank.com
Speaker:
Jeff Lanza, Retired FBO Agent
The Lanza Group
www.thelanzagroup.com
By: 
U.S. Bank

Bankruptcy & Divorce - On-Demand #MCLE

William Allan Burns Jr.

How does a bankruptcy affect divorce proceedings for one or both spouses? This program examines Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies in the divorce context. Mr. Burns covers the key issues to be aware of and recent changes in the law, including the automatic stay, domestic support obligations, tax issues, and nondischargeable debt.
Title:
Bankruptcy & Divorce
When/Where:
On-Demand Recording
Speaker:
William Allan Burns Jr. is a partner of Cravens & Noll in Richmond, VA. Mr. Burns' practice focuses primarily on family law and bankruptcy.

By:
Lexvid
More:
http://www.lexvid.com/clevideos/view/83