March 12: Webcast - Best Practices in Prior Art Searching in Electrical Engineering

This CLE will examine the tools to that maximize search efforts and walkthrough successful processes to extract relevant data from search results.
Search Strategies Examined:

• Classifying multiple components within various electronic devices
• Searching tips and tricks including EE strategies and examples
• Searching EE specific databases

Topics Covered

• Search Types: What kinds of prior art searches are there?
• Search Strategies: A guide to conducting a good search
• Databases: Patent vs. non-patent, free vs. subscription, as well as which databases specialize in particular subject areas, along with their pros, cons and features

Title:
Best Practices in Prior Art Searching in Electrical Engineering
When/Where:
March 12, 2014
12:00 PM Eastern
Webcast
Speakers:
Feroze Ali & Jeffrey Sobek. Coming from varied technical and management backgrounds, they also bring a wealth of knowledge from more than 40 years of combined experience working with IP professionals from top IP and AmLaw firms to individual inventors.
Legal Advantage has conducted over 3,000 combined searches, with a cross section of experience of searching for patent and non-patent literature in databases mirrored with extensive on-site search experience at the USPTO.
Credit:
1 Hour in CA, FL, IA, VA, ME, MO, MS, NV, UT, WA.
By:
Legal Advantage
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April 7: Webcast - Introduction to Legal Research on Fastcase (2014) #MCLE

Title:
Introduction to Legal Research on Fastcase (2014)
When/Where:
Wednesday, April 7, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Webcast - Preregistration Required
Credit:Typically Fastcase webinars are eligable for free CLE credit in Arizona, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois (ISBA members only), Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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March 10: Webcast - Best Practices in Prior Art Searching Life Sciences #MCLE

Examine the tools that maximize search efforts and walk-through successful processes on extracting relevant data from search results
Search Strategies Examined:

• Active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations 
• Biotech- sequence searching, methods and apparatus
• Medical Devices- mechanical and electrical engineering 
• Industrial and consumer chemistry 
• Food chemistry and nutraceuticals 
• Business and Database methods.

Topics Covered:

• Search Types: What kinds of prior art searches are there?
• Search Strategies: A guide to conducting a good search
• Databases: Patent vs. non-patent, free vs. subscription, as well as which databases specialize in particular subject areas, along with their pros, cons and features

Title:
Best Practices in Prior Art Searching Life Sciences
When/Where:
March 10, 2014
12:00 PM Eastern
Webcast
Speakers:
Feroze Ali & Jeffrey Sobek. Coming from varied technical and management backgrounds, they also bring a wealth of knowledge from more than 40 years of combined experience working with IP professionals from top IP and AmLaw firms to individual inventors.
Legal Advantage has conducted over 3,000 combined searches, with a cross section of experience of searching for patent and non-patent literature in databases mirrored with extensive on-site search experience at the USPTO.
Credit:
1 Hour in AR, CA, DE, FL, ME, MO, MT, NM, NV, TX, UT, VA, WA.
By:
Legal Advantage.
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March 11: Webcast - Best Practices in Biotechnology Prior Art Searching #MCLE

Examine the tools that maximize search efforts and walk-through successful processes on extracting relevant data from search results
Search Strategies Examined:

• Searching devices, protocols and products related to biotechnology
• Sequence searching review
• Preparing sequence listings.

Topics Covered:

• Search Types: What kinds of prior art searches are there?
• Search Strategies: A guide to conducting a good search
• Databases: Patent vs. non-patent, free vs. subscription, as well as which databases specialize in particular subject areas, along with their pros, cons and features.

Title:
Best Practices in Biotechnology Prior Art Searching
When/Where:
March 11, 2014
Webcast
Speaker:

• Feroze Ali & Jeffrey Sobek come from varied technical and management backgrounds; they also bring a wealth of knowledge from more than 40 years of combined experience working with IP professionals from top IP and AmLaw firms to individual inventors.

By:
Legal Advantage has conducted over 3,000 combined searches, with a cross section of experience of searching for patent and non-patent literature in databases mirrored with extensive on-site search experience at the USPTO.
Credit:
CA, FL, ME, MO, MS, NV, UT, VA, WA.
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March 11: Saint Paul + Webcast - Elder Law Basics #MCLE

Title:
Elder Law Basics
When/Where:
March 11, 2014
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Moot Court Room (Room 100)
Hamline Law School
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
Also Webcast
Speaker:
Suzy Scheller JD ’08 of Scheller Legal Solutions in St. Paul
By:
Hamline Law Alumni Board Second Tuesday CLE
Credit:
1 credit applied for
Cost:
Free.

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April 3: Webcast - Blogging for Lawyers: Legal & Ethical Considerations #MCLE

What are the primary legal issues that arise when blogging? We’ll review the basics of getting started with blogging, and cover some of the potential pitfalls that face bloggers in general – and legal bloggers in particular. Lawyers who attend this webinar will learn about:

• The application of attorney advertising rules to legal blogging, and the first amendment considerations involved.
• Defamation, liability for third party comments and the nut and bolts of dealing with takedown requests under the DMCA.
• Special considerations when blogging about clients.

Title:
Blogging for Lawyers: Legal & Ethical Considerations
When/Where:
April 3, 2014 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Webcast
Speaker:
Josh King, General Counsel & VP of Business Development, Avvo.
By:
Avvo.com
Credit:

• 1hr Ethics CLE CA/FL/IL/TX
•  .75hr General CLE/ .25hr Ethics WA

Cost:
Free. Pre-registration required.
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April 9: Denver - How Big Money in State Court Elections Threatens Judicial Independence #MCLE

Title:
How Big Money in State Court Elections Threatens Judicial Independence
When/Where:
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
1700 Lincoln Street 3200 Wells Fargo Center
Denver, CO
Speakers:

• Andrew Cohen, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic; Legal Analyst, 60 Minutes; Chief Analyst and Legal Editor, CBS Radio News
• The Honorable Janice Davidson, Senior Advisor, IAALS; Retired Chief Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals
• Luis Toro, Director, Colorado Ethics Watch
• Donna Red Wing, Executive Director, One Iowa.

By:
The Colorado Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society.
Credit:
CLE Credit pending.
Cost:
Free
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March 28: Cleveland - Government Intervention: The ‘Free Market’ Health Care Industry and the Affordable Care Act

Title:
Government Intervention: The ‘Free Market’ Health Care Industry and the Affordable Care Act
When/Where:
Friday, March 28, 2014
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Moot Court Room
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Speakers:

• Dr. Robert Field, Drexel University School of Law, The “Free Market” Health Care Industry
• Professor David Schweighoefer, Brouse McDowell, Overview of the Affordable Care Act
• Professor Rachel Kabb-Effron, Kabb Law Firm, The Affordable Care Act and the Elderly.

Credit:
Pending
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University
Cost:
Free
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April 3: NYC - Identifying & Representing Victims of Human Trafficking in the Criminal Justice System #probono #MCLE

Learn the extent to which victims of sex trafficking are arrested and criminalized under current police and prosecution practice. This session will provide a basic overview of relevant federal and New York State anti-trafficking law, an examination of how those arrested and prosecuted for prostitution are overwhelmingly victims of trafficking, and how to develop advocacy tools and engage in motion practice to serve this marginalized population. The session will specifically address New York’s new innovative law that allows survivors of trafficking to vacate convictions.

Pre-registration required. Space is limited so register ASAP!
Title:
Identifying & Representing Victims of Human Trafficking in the Criminal Justice System
Part of The Legal Aid Society's 2013-2014 CLE Pro Bono Training Program.
When/Where:
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Registration 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Program: 6:30 -8:30 p.m.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
One Liberty Plaza, New York, NY 10006
Credit:
CLE Credit: 2 Credits Total: 1 hour of professional practice/practice management and 1 hour skills. This program provides transitional credit for newly admitted attorneys.
Speakers:
Faculty Chairs: Kate Mogulescu, Esq.
Cost:
Training is without charge, but attorneys who attend are expected to undertake the pro bono representation of one or more Legal Aid Society clients over the course of the next year. Participants will be enrolled as members of the NYC Pro Bono Center. Participating Attorneys may attend any session, but space is limited and priority is given to law firms whose generosity makes this program possible and who partner with The Legal Aid Society to provide pro bono legal services to low-income New Yorkers. These seminars also are open to SecondActs attorneys transitioning from a full-time legal practice or have retired and wish to contribute their time and expertise on behalf of low-income New Yorkers.  See The Legal Aid Society Website  for more information.about it and its Pro Bono Practice.
By:
The Legal Aid Society

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March 5: Webcast - Understanding Lesser Known Elements of Open Source Licenses for Use in the Connected Enterprise

Open source software is fundamentally changing the economics of development. According to Gartner 99% of Global 2000 companies will incorporate open source into their operations by 2016. And software has become an increasingly important part of products of Enterprises beyond traditional “technology” companies, ranging from chemical companies like Monsanto to car companies like General Motors to consumer appliance companies like Bosch.
Any company developing software will use open source software and needs to ensure compliance with the terms of OSS licenses. These challenges are compounded by the spread of software development outside of the IT department. All kinds of companies need to manage the elements of open source that impact their business.
This webinar, will analyze and compare some of the important (though lesser known) elements of the most commonly used open source licenses. Beyond designation as permissive or reciprocal, the licenses differ in a variety of important details.
The webinar will cover:

• The Rise of Open Source in the Connect Enterprise
• Overview of the Most Popular Licenses
• Understanding License Terms Beyond Reciprocity
• Examples of Common Mistakes.

Title:
Understanding Lesser Known Elements of Open Source Licenses for Use in the Connected Enterprise
When/Where:
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
11:30am EDT
Webcast - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Karen Copenhaver, partner at Choate Hall & Stewart and Counsel for the Linux Foundation
• Mark Radcliffe, partner at DLA Piper and General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

By:
Black Duck Software
Credit:
The sponsor says that the event is "MCLE Certified".

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April 8: Seattle - APR 8 – Child Support and Bankruptcy #MCLE

The obligation to pay child support does not terminate with the filing of a petition for bankruptcy. However, support creditors must review their actions in light of bankruptcy law to ensure that their actions do not violate the Bankruptcy Code. Attorney Dan Radin will give attorneys resources to protect clients with child support and maintenance obligations who are considering filing for bankruptcy.

Title:

APR 8 – Child Support and Bankruptcy

When/Where:

April 8, 2014 12-1 p.m.

1501 Fourth Avenue, Suite 1750

Seattle, WA

Speaker:
Attorney Dan Radin
By:
McKinley Irvin
Credit:
1 credit
Cost:
Free
Preregistration:
Please RSVP to this event by sending your name and bar number to cle@mckinleyirvin.com.

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April 2: Minneapolis - Going Undercover as an Attorney: Inside Operation Greylord

Operation Greylord remains one of the FBI's most successful undercover investigations. Come attend this free event to hear the inside story of that investigation and the ethics, courage, dedication, and sacrifice it required. Registration is required since seating is limited. A registration link will be posted shortly.
Title:
Going Undercover as an Attorney: Inside Operation Greylord
When/Where:
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
University Of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis Campus
Minneapolis, MN
Speaker:
In April 1980, after serving four years as a prosecutor, Terry Hake agreed to assist the FBI and the United States Attorney's Office in Chicago in an investigation of the Cook County Court System. For three and one half years, he worked undercover posing as a corrupt prosecutor and accepting bribes from attorneys and later as an attorney in private practice making payoffs to judges and court personnel for the dismissal of cases. The investigation, known as "Greylord", resulted in convictions of 18 judges, 57 lawyers, 10 law enforcement officers, and other court personnel.
By:
Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions
Credit:
Ethics CLE credit has been sought.
Cost:
This event is free and open to the public.

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March 5: Webcast - Best Practices in Patent Illustration

This course provides:

• Techniques that reduce examiner confusion and improve figure clarity 
• Best practices for working with inventors and vendors 
• Quality control - what details are examiners looking for in your illustrations 
• How can you help your vendor complete the drawings in one draft instead of three? 
• Lines, shading, text and fills for Utility and Design patents.

Title:

Best Practices in Patent Illustration

Date/Time/Place:

March 5. 2014

12:00 PM EST

Webinar
Prior Registration Highly Recommended To Ensure Seating!

Speaker: 

Legal Advantage's Hal Pieroway has been conducting webinars focusing on these critical areas over the last year. Coming from industrial design and product design backgrounds, he also bring a wealth of knowledge from more than 10 years of experience working with intellectual property professionals from top IP and AmLaw firms to individual inventors. Patent attorneys, patent agents and paralegals will find these webinars very useful and will be able to manage their patent prosecution in a more effective and efficient way.

Credit:

• 1 Hour in AR, CA, FL, ME, MO, MS, MT, NM, NV, UT, VA, VT, WA.
• Other States: consult your credit-granting authority.

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April 8: Cleveland - An Academic Conflict : Pharma's Increasing Influence on Medical Education #MCLE

Nida F. Degesys

The line between pharmaceutical public relations and medical education are blurring. Many might think that the biggest cost that a pharmaceutical company incurs is from the research and development that is needed to bring a new medication to market. To be sure, these costs are significant, often more than $1 billion dollars. But a recent British Medical Journal (BMJ) study unveiled a far greater cost. That study showed that pharmaceutical companies actually spend 19 times more on marketing and promotion than they do on research and development. Much of this cost is from direct marketing to physicians and physicians-in-training (medical students and residents) through small gifts like lunches, pens, prescription pads, samples, and continuing medical education credits. But while these gifts are seemingly nominal, the effects are not. Moreover, industry sponsored clinical research, comprising roughly 80% of all funded research, is increasingly influential on the way that physicians practice. But those studies are far more likely to have outcomes favoring the industry sponsor than studies with other sponsors. As a result, even “pharma” sponsored lunchtime lectures can greatly impact the prescribing patterns of physicians-in-training.


Title:
An Academic Conflict : Pharma's Increasing Influence on Medical Education

The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum
When/Where:
April 8, 2014
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
Speaker:
Nida F. Degesys is the National President of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), representing over 35,000 physicians-in-training. After graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio University, she served in the United States Peace Corps as a community economic development volunteer in Panama where she helped a women’s cooperative gain sustainability and taught children oral hygiene and nutrition. She received her M.D. from Northeast Ohio Medical University where she was awarded Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) as well as Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) memberships.  Dr. Degesys served as AMSA’s National Secretary and Vice President for Internal Affairs, Nida prior to her Presidency. She also served as AMSA’s Chair of Medical Education when she developed a medical education leadership institute curriciulum “Teaching Tomorrow’s Teachers Today,” in Washington, D.C. In 2009-2010 she was the Education Coordinator for the committee on the culture of medicine where she lead a national study on medical student knowledge on patient safety . Dr. Degesys has presented her research on patient safety, students’ attitudes towards disabilities, and educational pedagogy both internationally and nationally which have won her several research awards.  Dr. Degesys was appointed by Governor Strickland of Ohio to serve as a Trustee on the Northeast Ohio Medical University Board of Trustees from 2010-2012. She is currently interviewing for emergency medicine residency.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
1 hour of CLE credit available, pending approval
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
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April 1: San Francisco + Webcast - California Public Benefits: The Basics for Non-Profit and Pro Bono Advocacy #MCLE

Low-income clients need your help to protect their rights to potentially life-saving benefits. Many low-income clients have difficulty navigating the confusing and bureaucratic process to establish and maintain eligibility for public benefits. Without legal assistance and advocacy, large numbers of clients go without the benefits to which they are entitled, which can often lead to unnecessary hunger and homelessness. Attorneys who work with low-income people, or pro bono attorneys interested in working on these types of case, can learn the basics of public benefits law.
What you will learn

• Overview of CalWORKs, CalFresh, General Assistance
• Overview of Medi-Cal and other health benefits, including implementation of the Affordable Care Act
• Overview of Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, and CAPI
• Understanding of common issues that result in Administrative hearings
• Understanding of strategies and procedures for filing writs

Who should attend
Attorneys assisting pro bono clients with benefits matters through representation or in clinical settings, firm pro bono coordinators and partners, corporate law department pro bono managers, law clinic students and faculty, public interest and non-profit organization attorneys and staff, benefits advocates, and benefits agency attorneys and staff.
Title:
California Public Benefits: The Basics for Non-Profit and Pro Bono Advocacy 
When/Where:
San Francisco, CA
April 1, 2014
9:00 AM Pacific
Also Webcast - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Chair: Steven Weiss ~ Staff Attorney and Regional SSI Advocacy Coordinator, Bay Area Legal Aid
• Antionette Dozier ~ Staff Attorney, Western Center on Law & Poverty
• Jen Flory ~ Senior Attorney, Western Center on Law & Poverty
• Judith Gold ~ Staff Attorney, Public Interest Law Project
• Stephanie Haffner ~ Senior Litigator, Western Center on Law & Poverty
• Amy P Lee ~ Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
• Lisa Lunsford ~ Managing Attorney, Homeless Action Center
• Lisa M. Newstrom ~ Managing Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
• Patti Prunhuber ~ Staff Attorney, Public Interest Law Project
• Richard A Rothschild ~ Director of Litigation, Western Center on Law & Poverty
• Shirley E Sanematsu ~ Senior Attorney, Western Center on Law & Poverty
• Kristen Washburn ~ Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
• Program Attorney: Christina Thompson ~ Program Attorney, Practising Law Institute.

Credits:
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
By:
Practising Law Institute
Cost:
Free
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April 1: NYC - The Law of Prisoners’ Rights: Prisoners’ Civil Litigation in Federal Court (Part One) #MCLE #probono

Learn the basics of representing prisoners in civil rights litigation in Federal Court, including proper defendants, immunity issues, relationship of §1983 and habeas corpus, and navigating the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Pre-registration required. Space is limited so register ASAP!
Title:
The Law of Prisoners’ Rights: Prisoners’ Civil Litigation in Federal Court (Part One)
Part of The Legal Aid Society's 2013-2014 CLE Pro Bono Training Program.
When/Where:
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Registration 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Program: 6:30 -8:30 p.m.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
101 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10178
Speakers:
Faculty Chairs: John Boston, Esq., Prisoners’ Rights Project, and
Betsy Ginsberg, Esq., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Credit:
2 credits total: 1 hour of professional practice/ practice management and 1 hour skills. This program provides transitional credit for newly admitted attorneys.
Cost:
Training is without charge, but attorneys who attend are expected to undertake the pro bono representation of one or more Legal Aid Society clients over the course of the next year. Participants will be enrolled as members of the NYC Pro Bono Center. Participating Attorneys may attend any session, but space is limited and priority is given to law firms whose generosity makes this program possible and who partner with The Legal Aid Society to provide pro bono legal services to low-income New Yorkers. These seminars also are open to SecondActs attorneys transitioning from a full-time legal practice or have retired and wish to contribute their time and expertise on behalf of low-income New Yorkers.  See The Legal Aid Society Website  for more information.about it and its Pro Bono Practice.
By:
The Legal Aid Society

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March 3: Webcast - Best Practices in Prior Art Search

This CLE provides strategies that improves your Prior Art Search
making sure you get the relevant results the first time. This course has helped attendees manage their patent prosecution matters and searches more effectively and efficiently.
Topics:

• Key components of an effective search strategy
• Database strengths and weaknesses
• Processes to save you and your clients' time and money
• Best practices in dealing with vendors and clients
• Various searches and benefits
• Review of basic building blocks.

Title:

Best Practices in Prior Art Search

Date/Time/Place:

March 3, 2014

12:00 PM EST

Webinar
Prior Registration Highly Recommended To Ensure Seating!
Speakers: 

Feroze Ali & Jeffrey Sobek: Coming from varied technical and management backgrounds, they also bring a wealth of knowledge from more than 40 years of combined experience working with IP professionals from top IP and AmLaw firms to individual inventors.
Legal Advantage has conducted over 3,000 combined searches, with a cross section of experience of searching for patent and non-patent literature in databases mirrored with extensive on-site search experience at the USPTO.   

Credit:

AR, CA, DE, FL, ME, MO, MS, MT, NM, NV, UT, VA, VT, WA.

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April 2: Cleveland + Webcast - 40 years in Tax – a Look Backward (As Well as Forward) #MCLE

Don Korb has been involved in the practice of tax law for over 40 years, both as a private practitioner and as a tax administrator. He plans to talk about how the U.S. federal income tax system has changed over his career as well as how the role of tax advisors and practitioners has evolved over that same time period. He will speak from the standpoint of someone who has moved back and forth between the private and public sectors and not only has sat on “both sides of the table” but he has also occupied leadership positions at the IRS (Assistant to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the mid-1980’s and Chief Counsel for the IRS from April, 2004 through December, 2008) which allowed him to play a significant role in some of the changes to the tax system and the evolution of the role of tax advisors/practitioners which have occurred since he began practicing law in the early 1970’s.
Title:
40 years in Tax – a Look Backward (As Well as Forward)
When/Where:
April 2, 2014
4:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
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Speaker:
Donald L. Korb is a tax partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where he leads the firm’s Tax Controversy Practice. Prior to joining Sullivan & Cromwell, Don served as the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service from April 2004 until December 2008.
As Chief Counsel, Don was the chief law officer for the IRS, supervising approximately 1,500 attorneys who were assigned to the IRS National Office and among the major operational divisions of the agency. He played a prominent role in increasing the effectiveness of the Chief Counsel’s Office, and is best known for developing the litigation strategy that led to the stunning success by the government in litigating tax shelter cases during his four-and-a-half-year tenure.
Among the individual matters with which Don was personally involved while Chief Counsel was serving as the lead negotiator in resolving a landmark transfer pricing dispute. As part of the settlement, the taxpayer made the largest single payment ever made to the IRS to resolve a tax dispute.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
Approved for 1 hour of CLE credit
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.

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March 6: Saint Paul + Webcast - Current Developments in Privacy & Security Rule Enforcement

As privacy becomes an ever more public issue for Americans, how are privacy protections for health care information being administered?
The Chief Regional Civil Rights Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Jerome Meites, will discuss HHS’s administration of the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules. Mr. Meites will comment on coordination between HHS’s Office for Civil Rights, the HHS agency that enforces the HIPAA regulations regarding privacy, and state Attorneys General. He will also talk about HHS’s administration of the omnibus regulations, which became fully effective in the fall of 2013, as well as the privacy and security compliance audits that OCR and KPMG recently conducted. Mr. Meites will also discuss steps that covered entities can take proactively to prevent breaches of their patients’ protected health information and advice that lawyers may want to give to covered entities on these issues.
Title:
Current Developments in Privacy & Security Rule Enforcement
When/Where:
Thursday, March 6, 2014
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Presentation
5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Reception

School of Law Room 105 (Presentation)

School of Law Peterson Lounge (Reception)

Hamline Law School
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
Available via live webcast.
Speaker:
Jerome Meites, Chief Regional Civil Rights Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Region V, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
By:
Hamline University School of Law
Credit:
1 standard CLE credit applied for.
Cost:
Free.

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February 25: Minneapolis - A View from the Bench

Title:
A View from the Bench.
Perspectives on the history of the Minnesota Supreme Court from former Chief Justices Sandy Keith, Kathleen Blatz, and Eric Magnuson
With opening remarks by Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea.
When/Where:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Location
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Schulze Grand Atrium
1000 LaSalle Ave.
Minneapolis, MN
Speakers:

• Former Chief Justices Sandy Keith, Kathleen Blatz, and Eric Magnuson 
• With opening remarks by Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea.

By:
Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions
Credit:
1.5 Credits Pending
Cost:
This event is free and open to the public.

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March 10: NYC - Legal Issues in Workplace Harassment: Is There Such a Thing as “Safe Sex” at Work?

This program will focus on the legal issues in workplace harassment. Specific issues that will be addressed include: the statutory basis of harassment claims, the types of behaviors that rise to the level of statutory violations and how the courts address these issues. The panelists will use case studies and video clips to illustrate concepts and will then discuss the policies and practices employers must implement to prevent harassment from occurring in the first instance and the best practices that should be adopted to resolve any complaints raised.
Title:
Legal Issues in Workplace Harassment: Is There Such a Thing as “Safe Sex” at Work?
When/Where:
March 10, 2014
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
New York, NY
Speaker:

• Linda Dwoskin
• Nicolle L. Jacoby

By:
Dechert
Credit:
CLE credit is pending in CA, NC, NJ, NY, PA and TX.
Cost:
No charge

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March 20: Webcast - Fracking, Water Quality and Public Health: Examining Current Laws and Regulations

Improved technology developments in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking," have resulted in an oil and gas production boom nationwide. Fracking involves pumping pressurized water, sand, and chemicals down wells to crack bedrock, freeing petroleum and natural gas. Wastewater discharges, hydraulic fracturing fluid releases, and other accidental spills pose potential water quality risks, sparking concern for public health. This webinar will examine the laws and regulations governing water quality issues related to fracking, recent state court decisions affecting regulations, and implications for public health.
Preregistration Required
Title:
Fracking, Water Quality and Public Health: Examining Current Laws and Regulations
When/Where:
Thursday, March 20, 2014
1:00pm - 2:00pm (ET)
Webcast - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Kathleen Hoke, J.D., Director, Network for Public Health Law - Eastern Region
• Jill Krueger, J.D., Senior Attorney, Network for Public Health Law — Northern Region (Moderator)
• Matt Samelson, J.D., Attorney, Consultant for University of Colorado’s Intermountain Oil and Gas Best Management Practices Project

By:

• ASLME : American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Credit:
You may qualify for CLE credit. ASLME is an approved provider of continuing legal education credits in several states. ASLME will also apply for CLE credits in other states upon request. Past ASLME webcasts have received credit in states such as Washington.

Cost:
Free

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March 6: Minneapolis - Monitoring Domestic Violence in Mongolia

This CLE will focus on “Implementation of Mongolia’s Domestic Violence Legislation,” a newly-released report that analyzes the real-life results that followed the Mongolian government's enactment of the Law to Combat Domestic Violence in 2004. The Advocates for Human Rights and its partner, the National Center Against Violence (NCAV), headquartered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, co-authored the report, which was released in January 2014.
Specifically, the report points to the challenges obtaining restraining orders; the consequences of domestic violence not being directly addressed by penal legislation; the barriers the country’s Family Law poses to obtaining a divorce; and the results of the lack of shelters and essential social services and support.
This session will also explore the two fact-finding missions The Advocates and NCAV conducted in Mongolia in January and March 2013. Representatives of the organizations traveled to seven cities throughout Mongolia, conducting 137 interviews with ministry officials, non-governmental organizations, victims, social workers, police, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, governors, and health care workers.
Click here for registration. Registration closes February 27.
Title:
Monitoring Domestic Violence in Mongolia
When/Where:
Thursday, March 6, 2014
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Robins, Kaplan, Miller &Ciresi
Conference Center, 29th floor (*check-in on 28th floor)
800 LaSalle Avenue
2800 LaSalle Plaza
Minneapolis, MN 55402

Speakers:

• Aviva Breen, a board member of The Advocates, is a long-time volunteer with the organization's Women’s Human Rights Program. She has participated in training on domestic violence law reform and advocacy, including training for advocates, judges, police officers, health care professionals, and social workers. Previously, Breen was director of the Legislative Commission on the Economic Status of Women in Minnesota. Prior to her work with the Commission, she was an attorney with the Legal Services Advocacy Project.
• Kate Bruce is a judicial law clerk with the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Previously, she was an attorney at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. Kate has provided extensive pro bono work, representing victims of domestic violence and asylum seekers. She has also worked with the Hague Domestic Violence Project, where she developed training resources for and provided technical assistance to attorneys representing battered mothers in cases brought under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. In 2013, she had the honor of working with The Advocates as a volunteer for the domestic violence-related fact-finding mission in Mongolia.
• Erdenechimeg “Chimgee” Haltarhuu was born in Mongolia. As a child, she frequently witnessed her father beating her mother. After graduating from the prestigious Mongolian Circus School, she joined the Mongolian State Circus. While performing across Mongolia, Russia and Europe, she married a fellow circus performer and became a victim of domestic abuse. She suffered many injuries, including a broken jaw and the loss of teeth. Because of her experiences, Chimgee spreads awareness of domestic violence and what women can do. The Ministry of Culture in Mongolia has honored her with its highest citizen award, the “Foremost Cultural Worker” for her work to prevent domestic violence. Last year, she received the “2012 Amazing Woman” award at the Mongolian Women’s Conference in Chicago. Now happily remarried, she lives in Minneapolis and works through her charity, Mission Manduhai, to aid those in her homeland.
• Helen Rubenstein is deputy director of The Advocates’ Women’s Human Rights Program. She has conducted fact-finding missions in Mongolia and co-authored a report on the implementation of domestic violence legislation in that country. At the request of non-government organizations in Mongolia, Kazakhstn, Uganda, and Somalia, she has evaluated laws in those countries according to international human rights principles. She also has developed training programs for legal professionals in Eastern Europe and Central Asia on violence against women.

By:

The Advocates for Human Rights
www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org
Credit:
Application submitted for 2 standard CLE credits
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March 14: Minneapolis - Domestic Violence: Asylum and Related Relief

This training is targeted at attorneys interested in learning about relief available to non-citizen victims of domestic violence. The training will explain how to evaluate claims for asylum and U-Visa for victims of domestic violence. It will guide attorneys through the basic elements of each of these forms of relief and explore their procedural and evidentiary similarities and differences. The training will also focus on working with victims of domestic violence and preparing strong applications for either form of relief.
Title:
Domestic Violence: Asylum and Related Relief
When/Where:
Friday, March 14, 2014
Noon-1:00 p.m.
The Advocates for Human Rights' Office
330 2nd Avenue South #800
Minneapolis, MN
Also Webcast - Register now
By:
The Advocates for Human Rights
www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org
Credit:
Application will be made for 1 CLE credit.
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March 18: Cleveland - 21st Century Problems – 20th Century International Law

Title:
21st Century Problems – 20th Century International Law
When/Where:
March 18, 2014
12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Ave. #200
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Speaker:
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. He returned to Yale Law School in January 2013 after serving for nearly four years as the 22nd Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. He first began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985 and served as its fifteenth Dean from 2004 until 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he took leave as the Martin R. Flug ’55 Professor of International Law to join the State Department as Legal Adviser, service for which he received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award. From 1993 to 2009, he was the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and from 1998 to 2001, he served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
By:
Klatsky Seminar in Human Rights, Frederick K. Cox Center International Humanitarian Award
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
Approved for 1.5 hours of CLE credit
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
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March 3: Cleveland - Posthumous Motherhood? Brain Death and Pregnancy

The recent case of the Texas woman who was 14 weeks pregnant when she was found unconscious on her kitchen floor raised a series of ethical and legal questions. Who should decide what happens in these cases-- the family, the hospital or the courts? Do laws about either surrogate decision making or brain death apply differently during pregnancy? If so, why?
Title:
Posthumous Motherhood? Brain Death and Pregnancy
When/Where:
March 3, 2014
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
Speakers:

• Kavita Shah Arora, M.D., M.B.E. is an Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, as well as a practicing general obstetrician/gynecologist at MetroHealth Medical Center. She received her BS with a minor in Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University. In 2009, she graduated with both an MD from Jefferson Medical College and a Master's Degreein Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in 2013. Dr. Arora is primarily based at MetroHealth Medical Center as a practicing general ob/gyn. She is an active member of the hospital's ethics committee. Her research interests include reproductive ethics, reproductive technology, perinatal decision making, conscience, HIV care in pregnancy, and feminist bioethics. She is also interested in medical education, especially with the intersection of ethics education.
• Mark P. Aulisio, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case, where he serves as Director of the Bioethics Ph.D. Program, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics of the MetroHealth System. He has authored over 70 articles and book chapters on clinical bioethics, ethics consultation, organ donation and transplant, double effect and related areas and is a sought after speaker nationally and internationally. In 2009, Dr. Aulisio was honored with the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ (ASBH) Distinguished Service Award for having helped to lead three national projects that resulted in Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation (1998), Status of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Graduate Training Programs in the North America Report (2002), and Improving Competencies in Ethics Consultation: An Education Guide (2009) respectively. Dr. Aulisio also has extensive international bioethics experience which includes serving: as PI on clinical bioethics projects with colleagues at Kyoto University (2003-2004) and the University of Tokyo (2004-2006); as a co-investigator in University of Paris led 11 nation project on bioethics education (2006-2008); as co-investigator on a bioethics and citizenship project with Spanish colleagues at the University of Salamanca (2010-2011); and as a contributor to the Canadian Blood Services sponsored forum on the possibility of developing a National Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplant Program (2011).
• Sheryl A. Kingsberg, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and a renowned sexual health expert. She is the chief of behavioral medicine at MacDonald Women’s Hospital/University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Professor in Reproductive Biology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. Her areas of clinical specialization include sexual medicine, female sexual disorders, cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, menopause, pregnancy and postpartum mood disorders, psychological aspects of infertility, and psychological and sexual aspects of cancer. Dr. Kingsberg’s primary research interests are in treatments for female sexual disorders and the psychological aspects of infertility and menopause. She has numerous publications in many national and international journals, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine and sits on the editorial board of the journal Menopause. She has also authored numerous book chapters on topics including perimenopause and sexuality, oocyte donation, infertility and aging, the treatment of psychogenic erectile dysfunction and sexuality after cancer.

By:
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
1 hour of CLE credit available, pending approval
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
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March 19: Cleveland -The Impact of DNA Profiling in Criminal Prosecutions

Title:
The Impact of DNA Profiling in Criminal Prosecutions
When/Where:
March 19, 2014
8:30 A.M. - 9:30 P.M.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue #200
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Speaker:
Paul C. Giannelli is Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor, Distinguished University Professor,  Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
By:
Case Downtown Lecture Series
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
Approved for 1 hour of CLE credit
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
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March 5: Cleveland + Webcast - Shale Gas, Climate Change and Ohio’s Economic Opportunity

This celebration of the joys of fracking can earn you 2 credits.

Title:
Shale Gas, Climate Change and Ohio’s Economic Opportunity
When/Where:
March 5, 2014
4:00 P.M. - 6:30 P.M.
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
Also Webcast
Speakers:

• Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. and a former Republican Representative in Congress.
• Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and contributing editor to National Review Online.
• Juscelino Colares is a specialist in the intersystemic aspects of the law on international trade, climate change and civil procedure.
• Dr. Iryna Lendel is the Assistant Director of the Center for Economic Development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, and an economist from the former Soviet Union.

By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
Approved for 2 hours of CLE credit
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
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