Anytime/Web - ABC's of Starting and Managing Your Law Practice

This 2-hour program is designed to provide a complete overview of the critical aspects and interrelated issues involved in establishing and managing a new law practice.  
The Practice Management Advisors (PMAs) of The Florida Bar’s Law Office Management Assistance Service (LOMAS) identify and review the necessary resources for starting a law practice and how to find these resources.  LOMAS PMAs cover step-by-step instructions and discuss practical tips for starting up the practice, preparing a business plan, and discuss the management skills necessary to manage a successful law practice.

Title:

ABC's of Starting and Managing Your Law Practice

CLE Credit Information

Florida: This course has been approved for 2.5 General CLER Credits

Other Jurisdictions: Check your credit-granting authority

This is a complimentary online program produced by The Florida Bar Law Office Management Assistance Service (LOMAS).  For additional information on LOMAS programs and services, please check out www.floridabar.org/LOMAS .

This on-demand, online/downloadable presentation is sponsored by Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company (FLMIC), please check them out at www.flmic.com .

Nov 10/Web - Best Practices: Prior Art Search

Our CLE provides strategies that improves your Prior Art Search making sure you get the relevant results the first time Call us at 800-538-0558 for more information about this CLE, and to learn about how we can present it Live at your firm!   Topics Covered · Highlight key components of an effective search strategy · Understand database strengths and weaknesses · Processes to save you and your clients' time and money · Best practices in dealing with vendors and clients · Cover various searches and benefits · Review basic building blocks
Webinar Details
Best Practices in  Prior Art Search	November 10th, 2011  12:00 PM EDTDuration: 1 Hour
Presenter and Faculty Bio:
Faculty of this presentation - Mirza Baig & Tapan Brahma  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.    Patent attorneys, patent agents and paralegals will find these webinars very useful. This course has helped the attendees manage their patent prosecution matters and searches more effectively and efficiently.
State Credit - 1 Hour   AR, CA, CO, DE, FL, IA, ID, IN, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NJ, NM, OH, OK, SC, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV & WY Waiting for approval from the following states: GA, IL, KY, LA, NE, NV, NY & OR
More: http://legaladvantage.net/CLE/PriorArtSearch.aspx

Nov 15/Web - Intellectual Property As A Business Model

Distinguished Lecture in Law, Technology, and the Arts presented by the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts

Moot Courtroom (A59) 1 of CLE credit available.

Ms. Quatela will discuss Intellectual Property as a Business Model, including the role of patent protection litigation as part of corporate business strategy. It offers a way to recover research, development, and production costs, as well as a way to generate revenue. Using her experience at Kodak as an example, she will describe the value to the company of putting a large number of licensing agreements in place and of pursuing litigation against other companies to protect Kodak’s patents and intellectual property. For example, settlements Kodak has achieved with Samsung and LG Electronics. She will also describe the litigation Kodak has pursued with Apple and Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry.

Laura Green Quatela General Counsel, Senior VP Eastman Kodak Co. Laura G. Quatela was named General Counsel and elected a senior vice president of Eastman Kodak in January 2011. In her role as Chief Intellectual Property Officer, she is responsible for IP strategy and policy, the Senior IP Strategy Council, and external IP affairs. Previously, Ms. Quatela was Managing Director, IP Transactions. In August 2006, the Board of Directors elected Ms. Quatela a vice president of the company. She joined Kodak in 1999 and held various positions on the Marketing, Antitrust, Trademark & Litigation staff in the company’s Legal Department. She was promoted to Director of Corporate Commercial Affairs, Vice President Legal and Assistant General Counsel in 2004. Earlier, Ms. Quatela was Director, Finance Transformation and Vice President, Finance & Administration (2002-03). Prior to joining Kodak, Ms. Quatela worked for Clover Capital Management, Inc.; SASIB Railway GRS; and Bausch & Lomb Inc. In private law practice, she was a defense litigator specializing in mass tort cases. She earned her B.A. (International Politics) from Denison University (1979) and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law (1982). She is proficient in Mandarin.

Free and open to the public. Reception follows. 1 hr. continuing legal education credit available, pending approval. _____________________ At one-hour CLE activities, Ohio Supreme Court regulations require attorneys to be present for the entire hour to obtain credit. Therefore, registration for one-hour lectures will close at the time the event is scheduled to start. Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture, but we cannot submit CLE credit for late arrivals. At events longer than one hour, we will submit credit based on an attorney’s arrival time and duration of attendance, but no less than the minimum of one full hour of attendance. We encourage attendees to arrive at registration 20 minutes prior to the start of a lecture to sign in, obtain materials, and be seated. _____________________ DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS PARKING There is no law school parking, however, public parking, for a fee, is available in the Cleveland Botanical Garden parking underground garage. Also, meter parking might be available. Recording in any form is prohibited. Supplemental Readings: Bibliography IP Monetization Google to Buy Motorola Mobility Strategic Patents Return On Investment

Anytime/Web - Paperless 101: Ethics and Post-Paper Lawyering

Paperless 101: Ethics and Post-Paper Lawyering is a one-hour, audiovisual, self-study CLE course that discusses the practical and ethical reasons why a lawyer should begin to manage documents digitally rather than with paper files, folders and cabinets. It also introduces the basic principles of digital document management, and digital information management. Additional topics are covered in Paperless 102: Working with PDFs, CaseMap and Mindmanager. As The Irrevereant Lawyer pointed out about the latter program:

"Ironically, the program’s not free in Louisiana. It’s like smelling and tasting the steak for free but it costing you $$$ to digest.
Or in other words, you can watch the CLE program for free but it’s $49 to obtain MCLE credit. But if you’re in another jurisdiction that doesn’t nick you for CLE credit obtained from another state bar, then you’ve got it made."

Title:
Paperless 101: Ethics and Post-Paper Lawyering
Credit:
Check with your jurisdiction's credit-granting organization
More:
http://lalegalethics.org/?page_id=3072

Nov 8/Web - Best Practices: Patent Illustration

Our webinar will demonstrate proven techniques that improve figure clarity  and generate top quality first drafts that reduce office actions    Webinar Details Best Practices in Patent Illustration November 08th, 2011  12:00 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour FREE - sign up now     Topics Covered · 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 · Samples and examples throughout the webinar Presenters' and Faculty Bio: Legal Advantage's Hal Pieroway and Kevin Fitzpatrick have been conducting webinars focusing on these critical areas over the last year. Coming from industrial design and product design backgrounds, they 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.      State Credit - 1 Hour   AR, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, ME, MN, MS, MT, NC, ND, NM, OH, OK, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV & WY Waiting for approval from the following states: IL, KY, LA, NE, NV, NY & OR  MORE:  http://legaladvantage.net/CLE/PatentIllustration.aspx

Nov 9/NYC - Trade Secrets, Track Records and Non-Competes: Employee Mobility in the Financial Services Industry

This program will explore the practical and legal issues that arise when employees transition between financial services firms. When an employee now ends his or her employment at a bank, hedge fund, private equity firm or other financial services firm, both the employer and employee are faced with a complex set of risks and competing interests to protect, many of which involve the use and protection of intangible confidential information. The upheaval occasioned by the financial crisis has greatly increased the number of such transitions, and has raised the stakes for both employers and employees in protecting these interests.

The subject matters addressed in this program will include: (i) the treatment of trade secrets and confidential information; (ii) the portability of “track record” information; and (iii) non-competition agreements. The program will address both civil and criminal aspects of these issues.

While the focus of this presentation will be on the financial services industry, the principles developed in that context have applicability in many other areas. Accordingly, the program should be of interest to a wide range of federal practitioners.
Title:
Trade Secrets, Track Records and Non-Competes: Employee Mobility in the Financial Services Industry
Free of charge to all Federal Bar Council members in good standing. There is a $150.00 charge for CLE credit for non-members.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Time: 6:00 – 7:45 p.m., followed by a networking reception from 7:45 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, Room 850,
8th Floor, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY


More:
http://www.clenewyorkcity.com/2011/10/cle-trade-secrets-track-records-and-non.html

Nov 10/Cleveland - Appellate Advocacy Seminar and 43rd Annual Moot Court Night

Title:

Appellate Advocacy Seminar and 43rd Annual Moot Court Night

Thu, 11/10/2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

1801 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 (Moot Court Room) [map]

The Bench:
The Honorable Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio
The Honorable Benita Pearson, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
The Honorable Dan Aaron Polster, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

CLE credit: 1.5 CLEs

Nov 30/San Francisco - Introduction to Family Law Training

Our Family Law Project assists individuals, families with children or families with domestic violence in matters including marital dissolutions, child custody, child support, restraining orders, guardianships, conservatorships, wills, powers of attorney and probate litigation.
This is a full-scope project in which the volunteer can take the case from start to finish. Depending on the circumstances of each case, cases can last for weeks, months or even years. Before you volunteer with this project, we ask that you attend this free MCLE training session.
This training will be given by VLSP's Supervising Attorneys who will go over the volunteer procedures as well as the forms for completing a simple divorce. The substantive portion of the training must be viewed ahead of time on the Practising Law Institute's Web site. For more information on how to view this webcast and attend our live training, please email Jason Luu at vlsp@sfbar.org or call 415.782.9000 x 8759. Pre-registration is required to attend.
Title:
 Introduction to Family Law Training
Wednesday November 30 , 2011 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Host:
Volunteer Legal Services Program of the San Francisco Bar Association (VLSP)
Location:
BASF Conference Center
301 Battery Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA
Contact:
Volunteer Legal Services Program of the San Francisco Bar Association (VLSP)
vlsp@sfbar.org
www.sfbar.org
CLE Credit : 1.0 Hours
More:
http://www.probono.net/calendar/event.372733-Introduction_to_Family_Law_Training

Nov 17/Web - Attorney Client Privilege in the Corporate Setting (#legal education)

The way that privileged information is handled by in-house counsel has its own set of challenges that differs greatly from those that outside counsel face. In-house counsel must adhere to certain requirements for the handling of privileged information, as well as fulfill a unique role in litigation. Also, they must make special considerations when dealing with offices, outside firms and even foreign jurisdictions.

The panel of experts at this complimentary webinar will provide some fundamental information about what is privileged communication and attorney-client privilege under the American Bar Association model rules. The panel will also discuss how in-house counsel should treat and protect privileged information, as well as who can waive privilege and how to handle inadvertent disclosures. It will also discuss some special considerations for counsel in dealing with outside firms, offices, and even foreign jurisdictions.
Title:
Attorney Client Privilege in the Corporate Setting
On November 17, 2011 from 2:00-3:30 PM, ET, Kay Baxter of Swetman, Baxter, Massenburg, LLC, Daniel Wills, Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Tyler Mercer, Senior Litigation Counsel, Valero Energy Corporation and Christy Benton, Assistant General Counsel for John Crane, Inc. will discuss the following topics:

• What is “privileged communication”? (ABA Model Rules 1.6, 1.13 and 1.18)
• Definition of attorney-client privilege
• How to treat and protect privileged information (ABA Model Rule 1.6)
• Who can waive privilege and what to do about inadvertent disclosures
• The role of the in-house counsel and the possible concerns regarding their role in the corporate setting (ABA Model Rules 1.7 and 1.13)
• Special considerations for companies dealing with offices, outside firms, attorneys and others in foreign jurisdictions In-house counsel
The experts will also answer your questions on this important topic.
*CLE is in the process of approval. LexisNexis is approved for telephonic/webinar training in the following mandatory CLE states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York†, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Contact the LexisNexis® CLE Group for eligibility requirements.

†Only experienced (having completed their first 32 hours of CLE) NY attorneys may take telephonic training for CLE. New York regulation requires that all CLE sessions must be conducted by a JD or an attorney in good standing.

More Information And Registration

Nov 10/Cleveland - Current E-Discovery Issues

Electronic discovery or "e-discovery" has  emerged as  a significant pre-trial element of civil litigation in state and federal courts that burdens both  courts and litigants.  This half-day conference, co-sponsored with the Cleveland-based e-discovery firm JurInnov,  brings together judges, litigators, corporate counsel and industry experts to discuss many of the pressing issues in e-discovery practice.
The conference opens with opportunities to tour C|M|LAW's new state-of-the art electronic courtroom followed by an introduction to the current issues and recent e-discovery rulings and a practitioner's roundtable to discuss those issues and cases.  After a short break, several local judges together with industry experts provide a judicial perspective on these same issues.  At the end of the conference participants are invited to join a new Northern Ohio E-Discovery Roundtable that will convene periodically to discuss current trends and practice alternatives.
Title:
Current E-Discovery Issues

Thu, 11/10/2011 - 8:30am - 11:30am

1801 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 (Moot Court Room) [map]

Speakers:
The Honorable Dan Aaron Polster, Northern District of Ohio
The Honorable James R. Knepp, II, U.S.M.J., Northern District of Ohio
The Honorable Nancy A. Vecchiarelli, U.S.M.J., Northern District of Ohio
Peter Hardin-Levine, Thorman & Hardin-Levine Co., LPA
Ted Hiser, Jones Day
Elizabeth Rader, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Elizabeth Grove, Lubrizol Corporation
J. Jay McCracken, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Scott Kane, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP
Timothy M. Opsitnick, JurInnov Ltd.
Brian Ray, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Please note - Tours of the new trial room will take place from 7:30 to 8:30 am.  The program begins at 8:30 in the Moot Court Room.

Download CLE Materials

Agenda
Mini Conference on Preservation and Sanctions summary
NDOH Appendix K
Judicial Resources CLE Handout
(Full information here)
Legal Holds CLE handout
(Full information here)
CLE credit:
2.75 free hours approved

More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2011111008301202