April 10: Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance

Are you avoiding the common accounting pitfalls that usually ensnare small law firms?

Are you getting the insights you need to run your business better?
Is your accounting actually helping you maximize billable hours?
You didn’t become a lawyer because you were excited about accounting, but getting the accounting in a good place can help you become a more effective lawyer.
In this CLE-eligible webinar with our friends at Pilot, we’ll explore the most common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

We’ll go beyond the basics to give you a clear picture on best practices to implement, based on what we’ve learned helping our own clients run more efficient firms. We’ll be focusing on specific, actionable tips to boost your bottom line.
You’ll learn:

• Law firm cash flow forecasting
• Partner compensation strategies
• A window into headcount planning & utilization.

Title:
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
Date/Time
April 10, 2024
1p ET/10a PT
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By:
Above the Law and sponsored by "Pilot"

Credit:
The announcement says "CLE credit available to all attendees. " but does not go into details.

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August 3: Security: The Stakes May Be Higher Than You Think

When it comes to IT at firms of all sizes, the security of data should be the No. 1 concern.
For smaller firms in particular, setting security measures that are as seamless as possible can be a challenge.
This is true if they manage their own system either on-premise or manage a cloud or hybrid infrastructure. There is much to do, much to be on top of.
A new study by iManage and Above the Law, The high stakes balance between security, productivity, and collaboration, provides new data on the specific challenges these firms are facing.
Join us for this CLE-eligible webinar, where a panel of tech experts will detail these findings — and how your firm can come out on top.
We’ll explore topics including:

• The challenge of hybrid and remote working
• Insider security threats
• Transitioning to a more secure technology infrastructure
• Alignment of people, process and technology.

Title:
Security: The Stakes May Be Higher Than You Think 

Date/Time
August 3, 2023 

1pm ET /10am PT

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By:
Above the Law

Credit:
The event announcement does not say in what jurisdictions this is eligible for credit; it just says 1.0 CLE Credit Available.

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July 26: Just How Frivolous Is That 'Frivolous' Malpractice Suit?

For most lawyers, facing an even mildly dissatisfied client can be gut-wrenching. Taking on a former client in court? That’s a full-blown nightmare. It’s a nightmare you’re likely to encounter, though, as the majority of lawyers face a claim from a former client at some point in their career.
The expert panel will explore what steps lawyers should consider when a former client complains. You’ll learn:

• How even ‘frivolous’ claims can be more meritorious than they first appear
• Different types of clients and ways to deescalate with each
• Proactive steps to be prepared before it happens to you
• What to do when faced with a malpractice suit.

Title:
Just How Frivolous Is That 'Frivolous' Malpractice Suit?
Date/Time
July 26, 2022
1pm ET / 10am PT

Register Now For This Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
By:
Above the Law +Embroker

Speakers:

• Corrie Hurm
• Aria Eee
• Jared Correia

Cost:
Free in the month of .
Credit:

• The announcement does not say which states are granting this credit; check with your credit-granting authority; you might also be able to self-apply.

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May 19: Powered By Crypto: Your Future Law Firm?

It’s no secret that crypto continues to make mainstream inroads in varied areas of U.S. commerce and legal practice.
For lawyers at small firms, for example, divorces are increasingly giving rise to disputes over crypto, particularly as jilted litigants look to shield their wealth from their former spouse.
And attorneys are increasingly leveraging the blockchain throughout their business — from smart contracts to payment arrangements — while the growth of the metaverse presents myriad opportunities and risks.
Join us for this free webinar + CLE credit presented with our friends at Embroker, where our expert panel will provide practical guidance on the areas where crypto and blockchain are emerging in the life of a law firm.
You’ll learn:

• How crypto is impacting the practice at small law firms
• The business opportunities that blockchain presents
• What lawyers need to know about crypto to be well-positioned for the future.

Title:
Powered By Crypto: Your Future Law Firm?

Date/Time
May 19, 2022
1pm ET / 10am PT

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By:
Above the Law + Embroker

Speakers:

Credit:
The announcement says that the event is eligible for CLE but offers no detail at this time. You may be able to self-apply for credit, or you may wish to contact the sponsor.

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March 31: What Lawyers Need To Know About Cannabis

While you may have had limited experience in cases that deal with cannabis, its growth throughout the U.S. means you’re likely to encounter it in your practice. This is particularly so as states lift restrictions and marijuana appears in various forms, accessories, and laws.
Join us for this webinar presented by Embroker, in which our expert panel will uncover some of the legal risks that can arise for your law firm and clients.
This webinar will cover:

• Emerging policy developments and forward-looking trends
• How to support your clients on cannabis-related matters
• How to provide services to “plant-touching” businesses
• The risks and rewards cannabis may pose for law firms.

Title:
What Lawyers Need To Know About Cannabis
Date/Time
March 31, 2022
Time: 1pm ET / Noon CT / 11am MT / 10am PT

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By:
Above the Law and Embroker.

Credit:
The announcement does not give details on credit amounts and jurisdictions.  Check with your credit-granting authority; you might be able to self-apply.

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Voting Rights Litigation Today: Strategies for Moving from Voter Suppression to Election Protection (Throughout July 2021)

Across the country, and especially in the Deep South, a concerted assault on voting rights is taking place. Since the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – one of the most successful pieces of civil rights legislation designed to increase voter registration, turnout, and fair electoral schemes – we have seen a proliferation of policies that do just the opposite. Georgia and Florida have passed severe voter restrictions following the historic 2020 elections, Alabama has enacted onerous photo ID requirements, counties continue to close polling places at an alarming rate, and state legislators in general are erecting burdensome voter eligibility requirements. The Supreme Court also has upheld extreme forms of partisan gerrymandering and approved of discriminatory voter purge procedures. In response, the Southern Poverty Law Center and partner organizations have mounted a massive campaign to challenge these regressive policies, improve access to the ballot box, and demand government accountability. This course will address these issues and many more as we gear up for the 2021 redistricting cycle and 2022 mid-term election season.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key federal voting rights cases recently decided or currently before the federal courts, including a pending decision before the Supreme Court regarding the Voting Rights Act's scope of coverage
• Discuss legal theories and strategies from plaintiffs' and defendants' perspectives in litigating these kinds of cases
• Suggest techniques for incorporating civic education and media tools in shaping the public narrative around voting as a right rather than a privilege.

Title:
Voting Rights Litigation Today: Strategies for Moving from Voter Suppression to Election Protection

By:
Above the Law + Lawline 

Speaker:
Nancy G. Abudu of  The Southern Poverty Law Center.
Cost:
Free in the month of July 2021.
Credit:

• 1 credit in most but not all states. See list.

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February 25: Effectively Manage Client (IOLTA) Trust Funds To Stay Complaint And Boost Cash Flow

As a practicing attorney, you and your law firm are required to follow strict State Bar requirements when managing Client (IOLTA) Trust Funds. The attorney-client retainer agreement must contain language that is clear and concise about how and when trust funds are spent.
Join us at 2pm ET on Feb. 25th to learn best practices to stay compliant, along with tips and tricks to boost cash flow! CLE Credit available for attending this webinar.
In addition, to providing best practices on Client Trust Fund management, the presentation will provide tips and tricks on:

• Monitoring work-in-progress and costs advanced against Client Trust Funds
• Why paying costs direct from Client Trust Funds boosts cash flow
• Tricks on sending Client Trust Fund replenishment invoices mid-month
• Why accepting electronic payments with LawPay will boost cash flow
• Tips on “what not to do with” Client Trust Funds .

Title:

Effectively Manage Client (IOLTA) Trust Funds To Stay Complaint And Boost Cash Flow

Date+Time:

February 25, 2021

2pm ET / 11am PT 

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By:
Above the Law 

Speakers:

• Rosemary Kupfert is a Product Expert, Core Legal at BQE Software. She has more than 30 years experience as a firm administrator and then a consultant to over 1,000 law firms nationwide, helping to improve their workflow and administrative efficiency through business and technology
• Paul S. Padda has served both as a civil litigator and as a federal prosecutor.

Credit:
The announcement says CLE credit is offered but doesn't say for which states.

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January 2021: COVID-19 & the ADA: Maintaining Healthy & Compliant Workplaces

This program will cover how to best guide businesses in ADA compliance when responding to COVID-19’s effects on health in and out of the workplace. The program will focus attention on recent EEOC guidance that incorporates both CDC best practices and ADA requirements. In particular, the program will discuss conducting health checks and the use of PPE in the workplace, what to do if an employee comes down with COVID-19, how to administer FMLA and other leave, and responses to mental health issues resulting from the pandemic and quarantine.

This CLE will empower business and employment advocates to understand the EEOC guidance, spot issues before they arise, and avoid liability for their clients. 

Title:
COVID-19 & the ADA: Maintaining Healthy & Compliant Workplaces

Speaker:

Presented by Kristen Prinz, the Founder and Managing Partner of the Prinz Law Firm, P.C., an employment and business consulting practice in Chicago, this program will benefit employment and business attorneys seeking to provide current and helpful guidance to business clients desiring to follow best practices for health and safety in the workplace as it relates to COVID-19, without falling afoul of the ADA and other regulations.
By:  
Lawline + AboveTheLaw
Cost:
Above the Law readers are offered 1 free CLE course each month, thanks to Lawline. This is the free programs for the month of January 2021. 

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May 28: When Lawyers Get Sued - Learn How To Protect Your Law Firm

80% of lawyers will get sued for legal malpractice in their careers, and sometimes insurance doesn’t even respond. Owners need to pay attention to other exposures like employment suits, cyber and other exposures today.

This 60 minute program boils it all down to make insurance a bit less painful & confusing:

• What are the key exposures for law firms?
• How to avoid getting claims declined?
• What can be done to reduce insurance rates?

Join Brad Barkin, VP of Law and Accounting of Embroker and Bob Ambrogi, lawyer and legal journalist, as they discuss the radical way law firms can find the right insurance.

Title:
When Lawyers Get Sued - Learn How To Protect Your Law Firm
Webinar Date+Time
May 28, 2020
1 pm ET / 10 am PT
Preregistration Required
By:

• Above the Law
• Embroker

Speakers:

• Join Brad Barkin, VP of Law and Accounting of Embroker
• Bob Ambrogi, lawyer and legal journalist.

Cost:
Free.
Credit:
The announcement does not list CLE credit; you may be able to self-apply according to the rules of your jurisdiction.
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December 2019: How to Craft A Global Social Media Policy

Social media has transformed society, and that includes interactions between employers and employees, interactions among co-workers, and staff interactions with the outside world.

No organization can predict when its next employee —or its latest ex-employee—will “go viral” with a post linking the company to controversial political positions, criticizing the business on an internet review site, chat room or blog, taunting a supervisor, harassing a subordinate, spreading rumors or lies about the brand, disparaging company products, leaking trade secrets, or haplessly touting company products in a way that violates advertising laws.
In today’s social media environment, multinationals need a harmonized global approach regarding employee social media activity, but multi-jurisdictional legal challenges arise whenever a multinational employer crafts, launches, implements, and enforces a social media policy across its worldwide operations. Global social media policy projects can get complex because they must comply with inconsistent laws worldwide. This session offers practical strategies and how-to guidance for crafting or updating a workable cross-jurisdictional social media policy.
Learning Objectives:

• Identify when or whether a single global approach to an employee social media policy is appropriate to apply across a multinational’s global operations
• Explore how to account for U.S. domestic labor law restrictions in a global social media policy
• Discuss off-duty social media activity, including off-site and on employees’ own tech equipment, in a global social media policy
• Examine what topics a global social media policy should cover
• Recognize what logistical steps are necessary to launch an enforceable social media policy worldwide.

Title:
How to Craft A Global Social Media Policy
When/Where:
Free Here for the month of December 2019
By:
Above the Law + Lawline
Speaker:
Donald C. Dowling has extensive experience advising U.S.-based companies on outbound international labor and employment laws. Don provides counsel on a wide variety of global employment law matters, including codes of conduct and HR policies that guide operations in multiple jurisdictions, international compensation and benefits issues, whistleblower hotlines, and cross-border internal investigations and HR compliance audits. He regularly advises clients on employment matters that arise with international restructurings, reductions in force, mergers, acquisitions, and outsourcing. Additionally, Don helps clients properly engage independent contractors overseas, manage expatriate programs, and develop employment agreements and employee handbooks.
Earlier in his career, Don served as in-house international employment counsel for a Fortune 500 company in Paris and as an employment law consultant for a global consulting firm. He has delivered hundreds of presentations on international employment law issues in English and Spanish in countries around the world, and regularly publishes articles and teaches courses on a variety of global employment law topics.
Credit:

• Alabama - self apply
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• Other Jurisdictions: Check with your credit-granting authority; you might be able to self-apply.

Cost:
Free in the month of December 2019.

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December 5: Hello? The Phone Is The Most Important Piece of Legal Tech

Lawyers today are inundated by an endless stream of hype aimed at getting them to embrace the latest technological flavor-of-the-month: AI! Predictive Analytics! 5G! Blockchain! And on and on... Overlooked amidst the buzz is the indisputable fact that, for a legal practice, there is no more important piece of technology than...the telephone. You may license the most cutting-edge practice management platform, but if your phone system is outdated, overpriced, and immobile than your client service will suffer and along with it, your bottom line.

Learn from the experts from our friends at Ooma all about the benefits of a truly efficient, economical phone system fully integrated into your attorney workflow.

Title:
Hello? The Phone Is The Most Important Piece of Legal Tech
When/Where:
Thursday, December 5, 2019
4pm Eastern
Webinar - Register Now!
By:

• Above the Law
• Ooma

Speakers:
This webinar will be moderated by Jared Correia. 
Credit:

• California
• New Jersey
• New York
• Other Jurisdictions: Check with your credit-granting authority; you might be able to self-apply.

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November 2019: International Trade and National Security Policy: 2019 Update

Although often discussed as separate considerations, international trade matters and national security policy naturally intersect, sometimes in unexpected ways for trade law practitioners. This has been particularly true during the Trump Administration. This program, taught by Laura Fraedrich and Lindsey Nelson of Jones Day, will explore the various considerations that tie together international trade and national security policy, with a focus on economic sanctions and recent developments under the current administration.
The course will also review recent changes to the review of foreign direct investment by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Defense Security Service. Finally, the program will cover recent developments in tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration, particularly those relating to imports from China.
Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the interplay between international trade and national security
• Identify current trends and policies, and recent developments in these areas
• Analyze best practices for dealing with recent tariffs

Title:
International Trade and National Security Policy: 2019 Update
By:Above the Law + Lawline
Speakers:

• For more than 20 years, Laura Fraedrich of Jones Day has been helping clients achieve their goals in complex international trade matters, including CFIUS, economic sanctions, export control, customs, and trade remedy matters. Clients in the energy, semiconductor, telecommunications, aerospace and defense, and transportation sectors have relied on Laura to handle their CFIUS filings.
• Lindsey Nelson of Jones Day focuses her practice on advising clients regarding compliance with government regulations, with a particular concentration on compliance with international trade regulations. She represents individuals and public and private entities in all aspects of counseling and internal investigations, as well as in civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions. Lindsey assists companies and organizations with compliance with the U.S. export controls, including the sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Such compliance activities include determining and obtaining proper licenses, conducting internal investigations, and advocating for clients in disclosures to and negotiations with relevant government agencies. Lindsey has significant experience drafting documents necessary for export control compliance and enforcement activities, including voluntary self-disclosures and responses to government inquiries, commodity jurisdiction requests, commodity classification requests, license applications, and compliance manuals. She also conducts training programs for clients on export control compliance. Lindsey has also represented government contractors in False Claims Act matters, including qui tam litigation, and other government contract regulatory matters. She also has experience advising clients with regard to other facets of international laws and regulations administered by the U.S. government, including compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Credit:

• Alabama (self-apply)
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• Other Jurisdictions: Check with your credit-granting authority; you might be able to self-apply.

Cost:

Free through the month of November 2019.

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