Thursday, March 15, 2012

Mar 21/Web: Regulatory and Legal Risks of Mobile Payment Systems

Mobile payment systems have expanded immensely in the past several years, bringing with it new opportunities for companies to connect with consumers and increase collection.
Topics:
  •   Various mobile payment services, platforms and growth trends
  •   Laws and regulations governing mobile payments, including the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act and the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act
  •   Regulatory enforcement: Who is watching over this emerging area? Who has the enforcement power?
  •   Pending legislation that may affect your operation
  •   Liabilities from consumer-related risks
  •   Privacy and security concerns, with emphasis on damages facing financial and telecommunication institutions
  •   Where to look for best practices and industry standards: From the CTIA to the FFIEC.
Title:
Regulatory and Legal Risks of Mobile Payment Systems
Date/Time/Place:
March 21, 2012
2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern
Webinar
Speakers:
  • Timothy McTaggart of Pepper Hamilton LLP 
  • Margo Tank of Buckley Sandler LLP, Todd Daubert of SNR Denton LLP
  • Margaret Mackenzie, Vice President -Acquiring Channels, Plastic Jungle, Inc.
  • Jeffrey Kopchik, Senior Policy Analyst, FDIC – Technology Supervision Branch.
Sponsor:
LexisNexis
More:
http://www.eventsvc.com/LexisNexis_HB/register/4273e414-5354-4ff1-9f5a-6bd8c705d8c2

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Arbitration: Great Expectations, Unfulfilled Promises - On-Demand CLE

John Worden
Want limited appellate recourse, an uneven playing field, questionable objectivity, lack of transparency, increased costs?
Well then, arbitration is for you.
Trial lawyer John Worden examines the concessions that corporate litigants make in selecting arbitration over jury trials, including the virtual absence of appellate rights, no opportunities for dispositive motions, routine flaunting of evidentiary rules, and other downsides that increasingly counsel against mandatory arbitration.
Title:
Arbitration: Great Expectations, Unfulfilled Promises
Speaker:
John Worden -- Schiff Hardin (San Francisco, CA)
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/worden.html

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Mar 15/Web: Virtual Legal Techshow

Virtual LegalTech announces:
"Virtual LegalTech is Thursday, March 15 and we hope you will join us. If you require CLE for any of the webinars at Virtual LegalTech, please follow these mandatory 4 steps to receive your CLE credits. Please note that each session is 60 minutes in length and worth 1 credit each. In order to receive CLE credit for any individual session, you must remain in the session in its entirety. Please note that if you are viewing the webinars to obtain CLE credit you must watch the webinar individually and not as a group. Archived webinars are not CLE Eligible.
Failure to follow these steps will result in the delay or forfeiture of your certificate(s).
Please note that CLE credit is only available for California, Illinois and New York. CLE credit is pending in Florida.*
  1. Log on to Virtual LegalTech (www.virtuallegaltechshow.com) and attend the CLE accredited sessions at the appointed times on March 15th. The sessions will take place in the Virtual LegalTech CLE Auditorium. Keep a copy of the session name(s) for your records. Each session is worth 1 credit each and you must remain in each of the session(s) that you choose for the full 60 minutes in order to receive CLE credit. Your time will be automatically recorded.
  2. NEW YORK ATTORNEYS: During the CLE accredited sessions, a "CLE Verification Code" will be provided. New York attorneys are required to verify their attendance using this code. Pay careful attention and write down the code and name of the session(s) for your records. You must have the verification code for each CLE session to receive your New York credit(s).
  3. CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, AND ILLINOIS ATTORNEYS: Write down the name of each session you attended. Please note that you do not need to retain the verification code to receive CLE credit.
  4. On Thursday, March 22nd, you will be contacted via email by the CLE Department with a link and instructions on how to download and print your CLE certificate(s) from our CLE Center. New York attorneys will be prompted for the CLE verification codes in order to receive their CLE certificates.
The CLE accredited sessions at Virtual LegalTech are as follows:
11:30 am 12:30 pm ET Legal Workflows: Today and Tomorrow - CLE Eligible*

12:45 pm 1:45 pm ET Predictive Coding: Separating Myth from Reality - CLE Eligible*

2:00 pm 3:00 pm ET Living in the Cloud? How Escrow Protects SaaS Investments for Application Continuity - CLE Eligible*

3:15 pm 4:15 pm ET - Simple Strategies to Improve Knowledge Management in Your Firm Today - CLE Eligible*
Note: Schedule is subject to change without notice.
NOTE: ALL WEBINARS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE VIRTUAL LEGALTECH CLE AUDITORIUM. Once you Log In, you can enter the Virtual LegalTech CLE Auditorium by clicking on the Virtual LegalTech CLE Auditorium image on the main campus or by clicking “Auditoriums” in the toolbar at the top of your screen.
Show Hours are 9:00 am - 5:45 pm ET.
More: http://www.virtuallegaltechshow.com

Monday, March 12, 2012

Apr 5/Cleveland + Web: How Rejection Affects People

Roy F. Baumeister
If the need to belong is one of the most important foundations of human motivation, then social rejection, which thwarts that need, should produce striking effects.
This talk covers the past decade’s work in Professor Baumeister's laboratory on how social rejection affects people. Their behavior changes drastically, including effects on aggression, helping, self-defeating behavior, intelligent performance, self-regul
Title:
How Rejection Affects People
Date/Time/Place:
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Also available as webinar.
Sponsor:
Elmer F. and Ellen Laws Burwig Lecture
presented by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution  
CLE Credit:

1 of CLE credit available.
Speaker:
Roy F. Baumeister is the Eppes Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1978, having done his dissertation under the direction of the pioneering social psychologist Edward E. Jones. After a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor Baumeister joined the psychology department at Case Western Reserve University. Over the next two decades, he worked his way up through the ranks, at one point being the youngest full professor in the university and eventually holding the Elsie Smith Professorship in the Liberal Arts. In January of 2003 he moved to Florida State as head of their new social psychology graduate program. He has also worked at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich, Germany, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Prof. Baumeister has over 450 publications (including 28 books) spanning many topics in social and personality psychology, including self-control, the need to belong and interpersonal rejection, decision making, aggression and violence, sexuality, culture, and how people find meaning in life. According to the Institute for Scientific Information, his research has been cited over twelve thousand times by other scientists, making him one of the most influential social psychologists in the world. Prof. Baumeister’s research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and by the Templeton Foundation. He and Brad Bushman have recently authored a social psychology textbook, Social Psychology and Human Nature.
More:
http://law.cwru.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=293

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Common Landlord Tenant Issues in Bankruptcy: an On-Demand CLE

Michael D. Fielding
In the current economic climate, commercial landlords are commonly faced with tenants who file for bankruptcy. This program helps bankruptcy and real estate attorneys alike understand the impact of a bankruptcy filing on a commercial lease and what can be done to protect both landlords and tenants when such a situation arises.
Topics include:
  • The automatic stay
  • Continued performance of a lease obligation
  • Assumption or rejection of unexpired lease agreement
  • The statutory cap on damages.
Title:
Common Landlord Tenant Issues in Bankruptcy
Speaker:
Michael Fielding is an experienced bankruptcy attorney and partner at Husch Blackwell. He regularly represents secured and unsecured creditors, unsecured creditors committees, Chapter 7 and 11 trustees, and Chapter 11 debtors in complex bankruptcy proceedings.
Over the years, Michael has prosecuted or defended hundreds of preferential transfer and fraudulent conveyance actions. As part of his extensive work in this area, he has developed a sophisticated computer program which enables him to quickly analyze a client’s payment history and identify optimal defensive positions to take. By combining technology with his vast experience in this area of the law, Michael has been able to negotiate very favorable settlements for his clients while simultaneously minimizing their litigation expenses. He has also published several articles nationally and internationally in various well-respected bankruptcy publications.
Sponsor:
Lexvid.com
More:
http://www.lexvid.com/clevideos/view/46

Apr 3/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, April 3, 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=369939

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Mar 16/Web: Contract Standardization - TDLP #6

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:
Contract Standardization
Date/Time/Place: 
 Friday, March 16, 2012
2pm-3pm Eastern (Note Time Zone!)
Webcast With Homework
Register Here!
Can't participate live? Recording will be posted at the same link within a day or two. 
Speaker:
Kingsley Martin
Kingsley Martin, President
kiiac.com & contractstandards.com 
Credit:
The hosts have not applied for CLE credit. This appears not to be because they have an adverse opinion as to its suitability for CLE credit, but because they're addressing an academic audience and don't need to go through the hassle and expense of applying for credit.
As a result, attorneys will have to go to the effort of 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 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.

Apr 3/Cleveland + Web: Taxing Families: The Troubling Disconnect Between State and Federal Law

Patricia A. Cain
Federal tax law has always been dependent on state laws defining family and property rights. Recent changes by states, recognizing alternative forms of families, including same-sex marriage, civil union, and domestic partnerships, have created tension with federal tax law.
For example, DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) prevents the federal government from treating same-sex couples as spouses for federal tax purposes, while IRS rules recognize state property rights of same-sex couples. Further, federal law simply fails to recognize alternative family forms such as civil unions and domestic partnerships. In addition to denying tax benefits to same-sex couples, this leads to absurd results and causes confusion for taxpayers trying to report their income accurately.
As DOMA is being challenged in the courts and bills are introduced in Congress to repeal it, questions arise: What can the IRS do now, with DOMA in force, to tax all couples fairly and accurately? How should substantive tax law change if and when DOMA falls? And, what transition problems should tax authorities be thinking about?
Title:
Taxing Families: The Troubling Disconnect Between State and Federal Law
Date/Time/Place:      
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Also Available As Webcast
Sponsor: 
Norman A. Sugarman Tax Scholar-in-Residence Lecture
presented by the Center for Business Law and Regulation
CLE Credit: 
1 of CLE credit available.
Speaker:  Patricia A. Cain is the Inez Mabie Distinguished Professor of Law  at Santa Clara University and Aliber Family Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Iowa. Cain is a graduate of Vassar College and received her J.D. from the University of Georgia. She began her academic career at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of the faculty for 17 years, before moving to Iowa in 1991. She is the author of Rainbow Rights: the Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement (Westview Press 2000) and Sexuality Law (2nd ed. Carolina Academic Press 2009, with A.S. Leonard). Professor Cain is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She teaches federal taxation, property, wills and trusts, and sexuality and the law. Her recent scholarship focuses on tax planning for same-sex couples. She has recently launched a blog, Same Sex Tax Law.       
Cost: 
Free and open to the public. Reception follows.
More: 
http://law.cwru.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=292

Friday, March 9, 2012

Mar 30/Cleveland: Visiting Scholar Philip Hamburger: Censorship and Death


Americans like to believe that prior licensing of speech and the press came to an end in the seventeenth century.  This was the sort of censorship that the Inquisition imposed on Galileo, that the English abandoned in 1695, and that the First Amendment most clearly prohibited.  Nonetheless, the federal government has revived the licensing of speech and the press.  It does this by means of committees known as "Institutional Review Boards," and although it claims that it imposes the licensing to protect Americans, it thereby licenses much academic speech and publication.  Professor Hamburger will discuss this reversion to seventeenth-century censorship and its consequences for Americans.
Professor Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is widely published in the area of constitutional law and its history.
Title:
Censorship and Death
Date/Time/Place:
Tuesday 3/20/2012
5:00pm - 6:00pm
1801 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(Moot Court Room) [map]
Speaker:
Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School
CLE credit: 
1.5 free hours
More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2012032017001281

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Mar 28/Stillwater, MN: Rule 20 of the Criminal Rules of Procedure

The Washington County Law Library (http://www.co.washington.mn.us/info_for_residents/law_library ) presents this program in coordination with the Washington County Bar Association (http://wcba-mn.org/ ), but membership in the Association is not required for attendance. 
Title:
Rule 20 of the Criminal Rules of Procedure
Date/Time/Place:
March 28, 2012
Noon-1pm
Conference Room 21 (lower level) of the Washington County Government Center
14949 62nd Street North
Stillwater, MN 55082-0006
Credit:
One standard CLE credit will be applied for
Speaker:
James Zuleger, Asst. Washington County Attorney

Suggestions for programs are always welcome and should be directed to the County Law Librarian, who may be reached at 651-430-6330
MORE:
http://www.co.washington.mn.us/info_for_residents/law_library/continuing_legal_education