Lessons from "The Office" - Employment Law Update - On-Demand CLE

Nikki Nesbitt
Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann
Baltimore, MD

Avoid becoming the next Dunder Mifflin as trial lawyer Nikki Nesbitt reviews employment case law developments and litigation trends. Appellate courts appear to be working overtime issuing opinions affecting the workplace. Nikki will fill us in on recent decisions and best practices.
Title:
Lessons from "The Office" - Employment Law Update
Speaker:
Nikki Nesbitt -- Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann (Baltimore, MD)
Credit:
.25 CLE Credit Hours Available for AK AZ CA CO FL GA HI KY LA MO ND NJ NY TX UT WA
Sponsor:
Trial.com
More:
http://www.trial.com/cle/courses/2011-ca/nesbitt.html

Feb 23/Las Vegas - Effects on Custody After Fleeing Domestic Violence

Topics:

• Does the act of fleeing domestic violence rebut the presumption of parental abduction?
• Can a protection order from a state court confer home state jurisdiction even if the child has lived there less than six months?
• How does domestic violence impact relocation where paternity has not been established and no court orders for custody exist?
• Can a fleeing domestic violence victim be deemed to have denied the other parent contact even if the child has lived there less than six months?
• What are the effects on litigation under the Hague Convention regarding international child abduction?

Title:
Effects on Custody After Fleeing Domestic Violence
Date/Time/Place:
Thursday, February 23, 2012
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
JAMS Resolution Center
3800 Howard Hughes Parkway (Wells Fargo Building), 11th Floor, Las Vegas, NV
Located between Sands and Corporate Center Drive at Hughes Center.
Free parking is available.
Bring your own brown bag lunch. Complimentary refreshments provided. 

Presenters: 

• April Green, Directing Attorney, Domestic Violence Project, Legal Aid Center
• Marshal Willick, Esq., Willick Law Group
• The Honorable Robert Teuton, Family Court, Department D

Cost: 
FREE to any attorney willing to accept a pro bono family law case on day of CLE.
Attendees must be Nevada-licensed or Emeritus-certified attorneys and available to accept one new pro bono family law case from Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada at the time of the CLE.
Credit:
2 Hours General Credit
Sponsored by: 
State Bar of Nevada and Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada
TO REGISTER:
http://www.legalspan.com/nvbar/catalog.asp?ItemID=20120127-166130-133558
More:
http://www.lacsn.org/images/stories/Effects_on_Custody_After_Fleeing_Domestic_Violence_CLE_Flyer.pdf

Feb 29/Cleveland - Criminal Justice Forum IV - How to Reduce Crime by Releasing Prisoners

Mark A. R. Kleiman, professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, will discuss the current focus on reducing crime and incarceration by substituting swiftness and predictability for severity in the criminal justice system generally and in community-corrections institutions specifically.
Title:
Criminal Justice Forum IV by Professor Mark Kleiman,
"How to Reduce Crime by Releasing Prisoners" 
Date/Time/Place:
Wed, 02/29/2012
5:00pm - 6:00pm
1801 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 (Moot Court Room) [map]
Sponsor:
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
CLE credit: 
1 free hour approved
More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2012022917001274

Feb 22/Web - Human Factors Applications to Products Liability

EDITTED: THIS EVENT NO LONGER APPEARS ON THE TASA WEBSITE. IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. MY APOLOGIES!
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On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, The TASA Group, Inc, in conjunction with human factors expert Dr. Stephen Wilcox, will present a free, one-hour, interactive program, Human Factors Applications to Products Liability, for all legal professionals.
Title:
Human Factors Applications to Products Liability 
Date/Time/Place:
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Webinar
About the Expert:
Stephen B. Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA, has served as a human factors expert in legal matters for over 25 years. He is a principal and founder of a Philadelphia firm that provides human factors consulting services to industry, primarily for the development of products and equipment. Dr. Wilcox is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America's (IDSA) Academy of Fellows and has been a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for many years. He has served as vice president and member of the IDSA Board of Directors and chair of the IDSA Human Factors Professional Interest Section. He serves on the Human Factors Engineering Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design.
Dr. Wilcox holds a BS in Psychology and Anthropology from Tulane University and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Penn State. He has given many invited addresses to various organizations and has published more than 60 articles and book chapters. 
Sponsor:
Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys (TASA)
Credit:
Consult your credit-granting authority
More:
Human Factors Applications to Products Liability

An Increasingly Popular Head Injury Claim: Disinhibition and Irresistible Impulses - On-Demand CLE

Jerry Glas

With 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries ("TBI") annually in the U.S. and another 200,000 or so in Canada, plaintiffs are now blaming TBI for lack of restraint, disregard for social conventions, impulsivity and poor risk assessment. Plaintiff counsel are now linking hypersexuality, hyperphagia and aggressive outbursts to prior TBI's. Claims for medical monitoring and 24-hour care are proliferating. Trial lawyer Jerry Glas will describe the phenomenon and educate in-house counsel about what to look for, where to find it, and how to explain accountability.
Speaker:
Jerry Glas -- Deutsch Kerrigan & Stiles (New Orleans, LA)
Title:  An Increasingly Popular Head Injury Claim: Disinhibition and Irresistible Impulses
Sponsor:
Trial.com
Credit:.25 CLE Credit Hours Available for AK AZ CA CO FL GA HI KY LA MO ND NJ NY TX UT WA
More:
http://www.trial.com/cle/courses/2011-ca/glas.html

Feb 8/Boston - Family Law 101 - VLP Training

This introductory training on Domestic Relations Law will give you the basics you need to initiate a divorce case. It will cover filing the Complaint and all the accompanying documents, and serving the opposing party.  Practice materials will be distributed at the training.

VLP trainings are offered free of charge to volunteers. Please see the VLP Training Policy.

Title:
Family Law 101 - VLP Training 
Date/Time/Location:
Wednesday, February 8, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
99 Chauncy Street, Suite 400
Boston MA 02111

Questions?
Contact Isabel Burney
Register Now Before Seats Fill Up:
http://vlp.volunteerhub.com/Events/Event/Summary.aspx?EventID=621919

Feb 16/NYC - Uncontested Divorce - inMotion Training

You must be an attorney at one of inMotion's Corporate Partner firms in order to participate in this training. Attorneys will be trained to represent inMotion clients in uncontested divorce proceedings. Procedural and substantive aspects will be discussed in detail. Training manuals and sample documents will be provided at the training.
New changes in matrimonial law, including no-fault divorce, will be highlighted.
An uncontested divorce case will be assigned at the training or shortly thereafter. Attorneys can work on the case individually or as part of a team of two or more attorneys.
The assigned pro bono case should not require court appearances; judgment is granted following the submission of the appropriate documents.
Title:
Uncontested Divorce
Date/Time/Place:
Thursday February 16 , 2012
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
51 W. 52nd St.
(between 5th Avenue and Avenue of the Americas)New York, NY
[Map]
By: 
inMotion
Contact:
Patricia T. Smith
inMotion, Inc.
ptsmith@inmotiononline.org
646-442-1178
http://www.inmotiononline.org
CLE Credit: 
3 CLE credits upon course completion 1.5 skills / 1.0 professional practice / 0.5 ethics
Up to 6 CLE pro bono credits for providing an inMotion client with direct legal representation (1 skills credit for every 300 minutes, up to a maximum of 6 credits per attorney registration period)
More:
http://www.inmotiononline.org/content/view/77/215/lang,en/

Feb 29/Web - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 - Part II (#ACA)

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2011 (“PPACA” or “ACA") is the catalyst behind some of the most sweeping changes in the American Health Care system in the history of the Country. While much has already been done to interpret and implement the new law, much is still yet to come. This class will provide a broad overview of the legislation, the changes that have already been made to implement the law and a view of the anticipated changes that will take place as the ACA nears its full implementation in January 2014.

Title:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 - Part II

Provider: 

BlueCross BlueShield Association
Live Teleconference
Course Dates:
2/29/2012-2/29/2012
Total CLE Hours:        
2.00 hrs
Credit:
AZ CA DL FL IL IA ME MT NB WA
Register Now:
http://www.cvent.com/d/bcq7hq/4W

Virtual Law Practice: Topics In Digital Law Practice #1

Topics In Digital Law Practice (TDLP) takes a new approach to legal education: a nine-session webinar inviting participant interaction and collaboration, open to any person anywhere, developed for law faculty and students, but of utility to lawyers and technologists as well.
Title:
Virtual Law Practice
Date/Time/Place: 
 Friday, February 10, 2012
2pm-3pm Eastern (Note Time Zone!)
Webcast With Homework
Recording Now Available!    Speaker: 

Stephanie L. Kimbro

Stephanie L. Kimbro has operated a virtual law office in North Carolina since 2006. She is the recipient of the 2009 ABA Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering and has won the Wilmington Parent Magazine Family Favorite Attorney Award five years in a row for her virtual law office. She is the author of Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online, ABA/LPM Publishing (2010) and was named a “Legal Rebel” in 2010 by the ABA Journal. She is also the co-founder of Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC (VLOTech), which was acquired by Total Attorneys, a Chicago-based company, in the fall of 2009.
In addition to her virtual law practice, Kimbro is a technology consultant providing assistance to other legal professionals interested in the online delivery of legal services. Kimbro writes about the ethics and technology issues of delivering legal services online and is interested in the use of technology by legal professionals to increase access to justice in our country. She has presented continuing legal education (CLE) courses on a variety of topics for the ABA, ALI-ABA, and different state bar groups and law schools. Kimbro also teaches a course on virtual law practice as a faculty member of Solo Practice University, a Web-based legal education community, and is currently teaching a course on virtual law practice for Concord Law School’s Small Business LLM program.
Kimbro serves on the advisory board of the International Legal Technology Standards Organization (ILTSO) and is a member of the ABA eLawyering Task Force, the Vice Chair of the ABA LPM’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Task Force, a member of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) Law Practice Management (LPM) Council, and the NCBA Tech Advisory Committee.
See the Virtual Law Practice Blog for a list of published articles and presentations by Stephanie Kimbro.
Credit:
Washington State:
Live program approved to 1 general credit, Activity ID 309811. Recordings of typically granted 1 AV credit.
Other states:
Attorneys are responsible for applying for credit on their own. This appears to me to be a reasonable approach; let those of us who want the credit, apply for the credit! Either way, the educational value of the experience and community is unchanged.Topic:
This course provides an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with respect to technology.
Structure:
The TDLP series runs for one hour a week for nine weeks and will feature a different guest speaker each week. Each class will be delivered via webcast and will have a 30 minute lecture presentation followed by a question & answer period and an online, interactive homework assignment for all course students to complete. IMO this interactivity offers an exceptional educational value; how often have you wanted to hang around after a CLE and talk things over with the other participants, but didn't because you had to rush off to some other business!
Access:
The audience for this seminar is primarily law students and law faculty who will be given priority. Anyone else can join the course for one or all of the sessions. The presentations will be recorded and posted to the course blog.
Cost:
Free.
Registration:
Register for the course.
Host:
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of over 200 US law schools. Non-US law schools, law firms, business schools, paralegal programs and individuals can also join CALI to support its mission. More information about CALI membership: http://www.cali.org/faq/8054.

More:
Please see this FAQ if you have more questions about the course.

Feb 22/San Francisco - Consumer Bankruptcy Practice

Learn the basics of bankruptcy practice from experienced bankruptcy attorneys.  Discussion will focus on representation of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 individual consumers with a bit of business and creditor tips thrown in.
The AIDS Legal Referral Panel will provide this free MCLE training to educate attorneys on the legal issues faced by people living with HIV/AIDS. This training is free. In exchange, attorneys are requested to join the ALRP Panel and accept two referrals in the next year.
Title:
Consumer Bankruptcy Practice 
Date/Time/Place: 
February 22, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
San Francisco Bar Association Board Room
301 Battery Street 
San Francisco, CA 
Map: maps.google.com

Presenters:
Martha Simon, Esq.

Patrick McMahon, Esq.

Credits:

1.5 General CLE Credits

To RSVP: 

Email trainingsvlsp@sfbar.org or call 415-782-9000 ext. 8651

Contact:
Jennifer Schuster

AIDS Legal Referral Panel

jennifer@alrp.org

415-701-1200 ext. 303

http://www.alrp.org

Who Can Attend?
This training is free. In exchange, attorneys are requested to join the ALRP Panel and accept two referrals in the next year.

More:
http://www.alrp.org/events