March 5: Top Strategies for Improving Your Firm's Client Intake

Make it easy for new clients to find and get on board with your firm. When it comes to taking on potential new clients at your firm, first impressions matter. And yet, the client intake process at most firms feels like an afterthought—not because firms don’t understand its importance but more so because fixing the current process feels like a big undertaking.
We feel you. That’s why in our upcoming CLE webinar, a panel of experts will provide practical, easy-to-implement solutions for the common challenges faced by firms when attracting and onboarding new clients.
In this CLE-eligible* webinar, you’ll learn how to:

• Make your law firm easily accessible to clients, including best practices to attract new business
• Identify and fix gaps in your current client intake process using the right tools
• Ensure the right prospective clients get in touch with your firm—and that they feel confident about their choice

Title:
Top Strategies for Improving Your Firm's Client Intake 

Learn about the tools and tactics you need to fix the inefficiencies in your intake process.
Date+Time:
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
11 a.m. PT | 2 p.m. ET
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Credit:
Clio has partnered with the ABA to seek eligibility for CLE and CPD credits to lawyers with licenses to practice in the United States and Canada who join the live session of this webinar. States typically decide whether a program qualifies for MCLE credit in their jurisdiction 4-8 weeks after the program application is submitted. For many live events, credit approval is not received prior to the program.
Speakers:

• Liz Hudson, Customer Marketing Manager, Clio
• Ryan Dahlen, Director of Operations, Uptime Legal

Sponsor:
Clio

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March 1: HIPAA - Understanding Enforcement, Penalties & Research Strategies

HIPAA concerns, enacted in 1996 continue to be a very real compliance concern for the healthcare industry. Enforcement of HIPAA regulations and penalties are always on the minds of healthcare attorneys and their clients. Concerns about HIPAA compliance and the potential penalties for noncompliance drive an ongoing need for training employees and staff of hospitals and health systems, medical practices, and other healthcare organizations about HIPAA and its requirements.
Title:
HIPAA - Understanding Enforcement, Penalties & Research Strategies
Webinar Dates And Times:
March 1, 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time
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Speaker:
Robin McManigal
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin . If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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February 20+29: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Legal Implications of Using AI in Employment Decisions

In this CLE, the presenter will present emerging issues and trends of any employer’s use of artificial intelligence for employment decision making. Discussion will include the new Equal Employment Opportunities Commission’s new Strategic Enforcement Plan and other attempts from state and local governments to combat the growing trend of bias and discrimination that is weaving its way into employers hiring, promotion, and firing decisions. Finally, this CLE will discuss the implications and ethical responsibilities of lawyers have surrounding this topic as well as how lawyers should advise their employer clients. 

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

1. Analyze the nature of AI, how it is being used in employment decision-making and emerging issues.

2. Recognize the impact of EEOC and USDOJ concerns and guidelines involving the use of AI in employment decisions. 

3. Federal, State, and Local Regulations in effect 

4. Discuss the future of AI in employment and a look forward.
Title:
Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Legal Implications of Using AI in Employment Decisions
Webinar Dates And Times:

• February 20, 2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time
• February 29, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern Time

Register Now for this Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Shelby Boyd
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

February 28: Cross-Border Dispute Resolution in China

This seminar will cover China ADR and litigation, including an overview of structure, policy trends, client considerations, and practice applications.

Title:

Cross-Border Dispute Resolution in China 
Webinar Date+Time:
February 28, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!
Speakers:

• Arthur J. Chiu - Cyan Law, Beijing, China
• Ye Wanhe - Cyan Law, Beijing, China

By:
Washington State Bar Association; Developed in partnership with the WSBA International Practice Section.
Credits:

• Washington State: 1.50 Law & Legal Procedure
• Other States: Certificate of attendance provided upon request.

Cost:
Free.

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February 28: ESG: All You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

This series brings nationally and internationally known environmental scholars to Widener Law Commonwealth to deliver presentations to the law school community on a variety of timely and important environmental topics.

Title:

ESG: All You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Environmental Law Distinguished Speaker Series
Date & Time: 

February 28, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

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By:
Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

Speaker:

Heidi B. Friedman is a partner in Thompson Hine’s Environmental and Product Liability Litigation practice groups and co-chair of the firm’s ESG Collaborative. She focuses her practice on environmental, health and safety counseling in business, regulatory and legislative matters; environmental and toxic tort litigation; environmental enforcement actions; site remediation; product stewardship; and compliance with environmental regulations. Friedman serves as national environmental counsel for many large corporations, including Fortune 500 companies. Friedman is co-chair of the ESG Collaborative, Thompson Hine’s multidisciplinary team that was created to assist investors, customers, employees and other stakeholders in evaluating their collective conscientiousness for environmental, social and governance factors while responsibly weighing potential risks and exploring growth opportunities within their organizations. As co-chair, she partners with clients to meet their evolving ESG needs and objectives and provides guidance on formulating or expanding sustainability, diversity and social stewardship strategies. She has repeatedly been recognized in publications including Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America® and inducted as a Fellow by the American College of Environmental Lawyers.

Credits:

One substantive CLE credit available in Pennsylvania (subject to approval).

You may be able to self-apply in other states; check with your credit-granting authority.

By:

Widener University Commonwealth Law School is the Pennsylvania capital’s only law school, with three specialized centers of legal scholarship through its Law and Government Institute, Environmental Law and Sustainability Center, and Business Advising Program.

This series is sponsored by McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC.

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February 7, 9, 23, 26+27: Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward

23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana in some form and a few more have decriminalized it. Four of these states and DC have legalized marijuana for recreational use as well as medical use. However, marijuana remains illegal under federal law and employers, regardless of whether or not marijuana is legal, likely will not want their employees using it at work. 

Please join this class for an overview of current marijuana laws, trends in the medical industry, and insight into how changing times will likely impact our current, drug-free workplaces. After completing this course, you will be able to 

• Understand the History of Marijuana Use. 
• Understand the Current Legal Framework surrounding marijuana and its potential volatility.
• Examine the judicial trends of wrongful termination claims related to legalized marijuana usage.
• Understand current medical research and what may lie ahead. 
• Explore the complications of determining impairment
• Develop best practices for employers in this ever-changing environment.

Title:
Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward
Webinar Dates And Times:

• 2/7/2024 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time
• 2/9/2024 - 10:30am - 11:30am Eastern Time  
• 2/23/2024 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm Eastern Time 
• 2/26/2024 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm Eastern Time 
• 2/27/2024 - 9:00am - 10:00am Eastern Time 

Register Now for this Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Shelby Boyd
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

August 28: Leveraging Technology to Prepare Briefs with Greater Efficiency and Accuracy

This course focuses on the importance of accuracy and efficiency in the review and preparation of briefs and motions. In particular, it stresses an attorney’s duty of competence, which includes an obligation to accurately cite and quote legal authorities in the briefs presented to the courts, as well as the duty to cite only valid legal authorities and to disclose adverse authorities. Additionally, it addresses the duty lawyers owe to their clients to work as efficiently as possible in the preparation of briefs and motions, which includes a concomitant obligation to leverage available technologies to assist in performing these tasks.
Ultimately, the course illuminates the legal technologies currently available to assist lawyers with reviewing and preparing briefs accurately and efficiently.
Topics of Discussion:

• Explanation of the relevant ABA model rules requiring attorneys to keep abreast of legal technology to assist in servicing clients (10 minutes)
• Retrieving and reviewing cited authorities more efficiently with legal technology, (10 minutes)
• Validating citations more accurately and efficiently with legal technology, (10 minutes)
• Validating quotes more accurately and efficiently with legal technology, (10 minutes)
• Preparing and updating tables of authorities more efficiently with legal technology, (10 minutes)
• Researching concepts from an opponent’s brief more efficiently with legal technology, (5 minutes)
• Gathering intelligence efficiently regarding companies, law firms, judges and other entities in an opposing brief using legal technology, (5 minutes)

Title:
Leveraging Technology to Prepare Briefs with Greater Efficiency and Accuracy
Webinar Dates And Times:
August 28, 2024
3:30pm - 4:30pm Eastern Time 

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Speaker:
Jacquelyn LaCorte
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyomings. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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March 26: Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts

American business man and former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer once stated, “The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” 

The goal of this course today is to harnessing the potential as attorneys to learn things about online legal research you didn’t think you could learn before. This course is going to be a deeper dive into online legal research. 

According to the model rules of professional conduct, attorneys need to maintain competency, and a component of maintaining competency is to keep abreast of the benefits and risks of relevant technology. By the end of this course you all will be made aware of advanced online legal research methods to harness your potential as a researcher and to maintain a standard of competency in the legal profession. 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Discover how online legal research can assist you in search methodology 
• Leverage provided connections, common terms, and formatting of content. 
• Obtain visual representations of the validity of cases and statutes. 
• Learn how online legal research platforms provide organization methods, delivery methods, and recovery methods so you can better maintain your research. 
• Gather information by practice area, topic, jurisdiction or publisher. 
• Realize alternative and advanced ways to begin research with statutes. 
• Acquire archived materials in multiple ways. 
• Find connections between results of separate searches.

Title:
Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts
Webinar Dates And Times:
March 26, 2024 

9:00am - 10:00am Eastern Time 

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Speaker:
Shelby Boyd
Credit:
1 credit hour in most states. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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April 24: Generative Artificial Intelligence Current Trends in Practice

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) AI technology has become part of our daily lives, even in the legal profession. The pace of advancement in Generative AI has given rise to unexpected and somewhat concerning challenges in the field of law. 

Adapting to emerging technology requires careful consideration among attorneys in technology-heavy practices. It is crucial for legal professionals to grasp how to confidently advise clients in intellectual property (IP), data security, and healthcare practices given the rapid pace of AI development.
Title:
Generative Artificial Intelligence Current Trends in Practice
Webinar Dates And Times:
April 24, 2024 

3:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time

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Speakers:

• Jen Stringfield
• Robin McManigal

Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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March 21: Country Conditions Research and Evidentiary Submissions in Affirmative Asylum Proceedings

This webinar will provide an overview of why country conditions evidence is important to support asylum claims. CGRS-California staff will discuss how to conduct country conditions research, including sources and databases to consider, and how to organize evidentiary submissions for the asylum office. 

This webinar is suitable for both non-lawyers and lawyers interested in learning about effective methods and strategies for compiling country conditions evidence. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions on the registration form.

Title:
Country Conditions Research and Evidentiary Submissions in Affirmative Asylum Proceedings

Date + Time:

Thursday, March 21, 2024

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Register here by Wednesday, March 20, 2024, end of day.

By:
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies

Presenters:

• Neela Chakravartula, Managing Attorney
• Laura Malfavn lvarez, CGRS Legal Program Associate

Credit:
1 General CA MCLE
You may be able to self-apply in other states.

By:
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies

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