What would be possible if you could read your client to figure out what she really wants? What if your clients really trusted you because they felt understood? How many clients have you lost because of a personality clash?

This MCLE class will introduce you to the concept of personality as it relates to client communications and interactions. We have all had clients who:

– Never seems to be satisfied with your results
– Wants to have their hand held through everything
– Never gets you the information you request on time
– Seems to be afraid of you, or seems to think you’re mad at them
– Cries a lot in your meetings

Differences in personal styles can be a source of either conflict or increased effectiveness in daily interactions. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is a tool to help individuals increase awareness of their own strengths and preferred styles while enhancing their understanding and appreciation for the styles of others. This workshop introduces the Myers-Briggs and begins an exploration of how it can be used to improve client communication and relationships.

The main topics covered in the course include engaging difficult clients, clients & personality preferences, the action plan and results. Further topics addressed include your brain on stress, the ABCs, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), personality preferences, the four type pairs and the benefits of understanding personality differences. The course addresses these six common client communication issues:
1. Why won’t this client stop talking talking talking?
2. Why doesn’t that client speak up?
3. Hello? What the heck is going on in there?
4. What does your client really want?
5. Why is this client so emotional (or such a jerk?)
6. Why can’t that client do anything on time?

Christy Cassisa is a coach, teacher and consultant who has found her passion in working with attorneys to build awareness and understanding in themselves and others. Logical Harmony Consulting MBTI® workshops for your team or office provide participants with a more in-depth opportunity to learn about preferred means of communication for problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict management.

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Business Law, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property, Sports and Entertainment, Trusts and Estates

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | Delaware (DE) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 08/08/2012

John Isaza teaches attorneys about the legal landscape surrounding legal holds and describes how to avoid ethical trouble, malpractice and jail. The main topics covered include legal holds & spoliation, hold policies and the seven steps for implementing legal holds. Further areas addressed include ESI (Electronically Stored Information), the duty to preserve, the spoliation of evidence doctrine, failure to preserve, sample hold policies, triggering events, the scope of the preservation duty, implementing the hold, enforcing & examining, modifying the legal hold, and monitoring & releasing the hold, and the legal hold oversight committee. Mr. Isaza is an eDiscovery and records information management specialist, with experience as a former trial attorney and General Counsel to a $1 billion market cap publicly traded (NASDAQ) medical device laser manufacturer now owned by Abbott Labs. His experience includes consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and he is a published and award-winning author regarding electronic discovery matters. His specialties include information governance, records and information management, general corporate and complex business litigation.

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Business Law, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property, Trusts and Estates

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | Delaware (DE) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Tennessee (TN) | Texas (TX)

Original Production Date: 06/01/2012

Malpractice – a topic nobody wants to talk about until it’s too late. Still don’t have calendaring software yet? Thinking about going after an ex-client for that last $500 that they owe you? Does an attorney at your firm have a problem with alcohol or drugs? This course examines the tough issues that attorneys face in their everyday practice that can lead to malpractice claims and presents practical tips for how they can be avoided. Topics addressed include the technology trap, missed deadlines and calendaring issues, stress and substance abuse, poor client communications and relations, client intake, conflicts of interest, inadequate research & investigation, and fee agreements and client funds.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Specialty Areas: Legal Ethics

Practice Areas: Business Law, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Family Law, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX) | Washington (WA)

Original Production Date: 04/01/2010

In this comprehensive course, intellectual property attorneys Eric Hanscom and Lionel Bochurberg describe the framework and differences of IP protection domestically and in the EU. The main topics discussed include the framework of IP protection, the PCT application, the patent process, design & utility patents, trademarks, the Madrid Protocol, copyrights, trade secrets, litigation and forum shopping. Other subjects addressed include provisional patents, counseling clients not to file a patent, the inventive step, fair use, NDAs, invention promotion companies, leveraging patents and antitrust laws.

Admitted to both the California and Paris bars, Mr. Bochurberg advises clients on Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, intellectual property and commercial transactions matters, in both domestic and international contexts. His practice focuses on copyright, trademarks & patents assignments & licenses, transfer of technology and distribution agreements. ?He was previously appointed as "Avocat Conseil auprès du Consulat Général de France à Los Angeles" (Legal counsel to the French Consulate in Los Angeles").

Before beginning his own practice Eric utilized his science background and law degree to gain experience in multiple facets of patent, trademark and copyright law and the application of those property rights. Prior to going into private practice, Eric held a number of positions with various companies, including Director of Intellectual Property, a position that offered insight not only into the legal aspects of IP but also the practical use and capitalization upon patent and trademark rights. He has been actively involved in overseeing litigation, contract negotiation and customs issues in the US, Asia, Europe, South American and Australia over matters ranging from patent and trademark infringement to breach of contract.

Practice Areas: Business Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | Delaware (DE) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Tennessee (TN) | Texas (TX) | Washington (WA)

Original Production Date: 05/01/2012

There are currently over one million nonprofits in the United States with over 50,000 new ones created each year. Everything from labor groups and churches to schools and fraternal beneficiary societies qualify for 501(c)(3) status – if the proper legal formalities are followed. The IRS recently ‘cleansed’ over 275,000 nonprofits, stripping them of their federal tax-exempt status because they failed to satisfy the IRS filing requirement for three consecutive years.

Join Beverly Hills attorney Kent Seton as he reviews the legal landscape of starting and operating a nonprofit organization. The main issues discussed by Mr. Seton include nonprofit formation, income tax, board governance and the solicitation of funds. Further topics addressed include revocation of 501(c)(3) status, setting up a nonprofit, choice of entity, unincorporated associations, charitable trusts, nonprofit charitable corporations, charitable purposes, the private inurement doctrine, self dealing, dissolution, the articles of incorporation, the 501(c)(3) standard, organized and operating for charitable purposes, the source of funding, the board of directors, board meetings, board member transactions, laws regarding the solicitation of funds, Internet fund raising, fund raising professionals & counsel and cause marketing.

Kent E. Seton, Esq., a former collegiate All-American tennis player at the University of Southern California, has spent the last 14 years of his legal career involved in representing charities, foundations and corporations in all aspects of their legal existence. Kent’s experience covers a broad array of philanthropy legal considerations. Kent also has extensive experience in representing business start-ups and established corporations in all types of matters including entity and jurisdiction selection, shareholder agreements, operating agreements and other corporate matters. Seton Law Firm is located in Beverly Hills, California with a satellite office in Irvine, California.

Practice Areas: Business Law

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 06/04/2013

From the least restrictive environment (LRE) to the 8 Semester Rule, Patricia Lewis provides a comprehensive review of Education Law in California and around the country. Ms. Lewis covers five main areas – special education, high school athletics, private post secondary, bullying, and student privacy. Other topics include IDEA, disabilities, IEPs, due process hearings, C.I.F & other sports governing bodies, transfer eligibility for sports, the regulation of vocational & other private post secondary schools, the student loan promissory note, fraud, the student loan bubble, and the privacy right of children. Case law discussed includes Bingham v. Oregon School Activities Association, J.H. v. L.A. Unified School District, Jennifer C. v. L.A. Unified School District, M.W. v. Panama Buena Vista, and Rim of the World Unified School District v. Superior Court.

Attorney Patty Lewis has practiced in the area of Education Law for over 11 years and she represents high school and college students whose rights have been violated by the educational system.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Practice Areas: Education Law

Offered In: Alabama (AL) | Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | Delaware (DE) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | Ohio (OH) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Tennessee (TN) | Texas (TX) | Washington (WA)

Original Production Date: 11/01/2011

Michael K. Ryan, a seasoned real estate expert witness, will discuss in detail the important process of selecting, qualifying, retaining, managing and the deposition and trial preparation of the expert witness to insure an “A+” performance at trial. This seminar is specifically designed to ensure that a proper and through due diligence investigation is adequately conducted on the expert candidate prior to retention. Once designation of the expert is noticed, there is no turning back. Be sure you have the best expert on your litigation team.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Practice Areas: Business Law, Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property, Sports and Entertainment

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | New Jersey (NJ) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 06/01/2009

One of the most vibrant and robust industries, the restaurant and hospitality industry is not without its share of litigation. John Chain Restaurant Earnings and Economics Expert John A. Gordon for an informative look at the legal issues and cases that permeate the restaurant business. Mr. Gordon provides an overview of the industry, details imperatives for survival, and illustrates traditional conflicts and litigation. Mr. Gordon analyzes three main types of litigation – wage and hour, franchise, and securities – by reviewing three recent major cases including Cumbie v. Woody Woo, Brinker v. San Diego Superior Court, and Chou v. Starbucks.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Practice Areas: Business Law, Employment Law, Litigation

Offered In: Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | New Jersey (NJ)

Original Production Date: 06/01/2010

As retirement plans have come to hold an increasing proportion of the nation’s wealth, the number of lawsuits claiming violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security (ERISA) Act has increased exponentially. Unfortunately, ERISA has been called one of the worst and most poorly understood laws ever passed by Congress.

If you need help understanding the intricacies of ERISA, Russ Petti provides an excellent overview of pursing an ERISA claim and litigation that has arisen under the statue. The main areas covered include what is an ERISA plan, limitation periods on benefits claims, steps to take before filing a lawsuit, the proper parties, causes of action, evidence in ERISA cases, discovery, the standard of review, reducing the standard of review, ERISA trials and attorney fees. Further topics discussed include self-funded plans, church & governmental exemptions, exhausting administrative remedies, the administrative record, benefits claims under Section 1132(a)(1)(B), breach of fiduciary duty claims under Section 1132(a)(2), claims for appropriate equitable relief, abuse of discretion & de novo review, reducing the amount of discretion by showing conflict, the Hummel factors and the Lodestar standard.

Russell G. Petti is a former Major in the United States Marine Corps. After leaving government service, Mr. Petti became a member of the firm of Bannan, Green, Frank & Terzian LLP. There, he was privileged to represent some of the country’s largest companies, in matters involving ERISA, first party “bad faith” insurance, general commercial law, municipal liability, and “white collar” criminal law. At present he is a sole practitioner, largely representing consumers and working people fighting for their rights. He has tried over a dozen cases, including a jury trial lasting over seven months. He has argued over twenty cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has currently won six reversals in a row before that Court.

Practice Areas: Business Law, Employment Law, Litigation

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 05/02/2013

Have you ever had a case where you thought a document just wasn’t authentic? Mike Wakshull of Q9 Consulting provides an excellent introduction to the tools and the trade of the forensic document examiner. In this well-crafted and highly informative presentation Mr. Wakshull presents an overview of forensic document examination, examines the importance of interwriter & intrawriter variability, describes the techniques that are used to compare handwriting, demonstrates techniques that are used to compare printed documents, and examines the future of document examination in our new Digital World. Topics include the role of document examiners, legal aspects, the document examiner’s tools, standards, ‘Robo’ signing, photocopied documents, fonts, and further pertinent issues. Michael N. Wakshull has been involved in the Forensic Document Examination arena since 1983 and belongs to a number of Document Examination Associations. Mr. Wakshull is currently the President and Sr. Consultant of Q9 Consulting Inc., in Temecula, CA where he concentrates on Forensic document examination as well as Management consulting and training.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Business Law, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property, Trusts and Estates

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX) | Washington (WA)

Original Production Date: 12/01/2011

With nearly 70 million baby boomers hitting retirement, elder abuse will only continue to become a growing problem in America. The financial loss for victims of elder abuse is estimated to be over $3 billion annually. But what can be done for victims of financial elder abuse?

Attorney Joel R. Bryant provides an excellent overview of the principle considerations when handling a financial elder abuse case. The main areas discussed include nursing home cases, helping your clients and pursuing a civil case. Mr. Bryant also discusses civil elder abuse laws, criminal prosecution, undue influence, common plaintiffs, signs of abuse, why elders are especially vulnerable, common offenders, the profile of an elder abuser, mandatory reporters, assessing your case, and the remedies available to victims of financial elder abuse.

Joel R. Bryant is a founding partner of Green Bryant & French, LLP. Mr. Bryant is recognized as one of San Diego's top litigation attorneys handling nursing home abuse, personal injury, financial elder abuse, and will and trust fraud cases. Mr. Bryant has extensive trial experience and enjoys an excellent reputation throughout the legal community. He has received Consumer Attorneys of San Diego's Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award and several Presidents’ Award for Excellence, and was rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.

Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX)

Original Production Date: 02/21/2013

The Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7) is a landmark federal statute passed by Congress in 1890. It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and other organizations suspected of violating the Act. Keeping with the Founding Father’s vision of a competitive marketplace, the Sherman Act prevents monopolies from dominating markets and industries.

For more information on Section 1 of the Sherman Act please join antitrust attorney William Markham for a comprehensive view of the statute. Mr. Markham primarily discusses the elements of the statute, damages, per se offenses, litigation arising under the Sherman Act, the rule of reason, the Cartwright Act, and criminal violations of the statute. Mr. Markham also discusses the enforcement of the statute, attorney’s fees, tort claims, price fixing, bid rigging, horizontal allocation of markets, group boycotts, tying arrangements, the LIBOR scandal, unreasonably restraining trade, proximate damages, cartels, OPEC, the FTC and private litigation. Mr. Markham also addresses some of the main case law that has arisen under the Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

William Markham litigates antitrust cases for both plaintiffs and defendants in federal cases arising under the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, in addition to California cases arising under the Cartwright Act. In particular, he has litigated the following kinds of antitrust claims: price-fixing, bid-rigging, horizontal market allocation, tying agreements, unreasonable restraints of trade, monopolization claims, and related antitrust matters. He has substantial experience litigating major antitrust cases and has handled antitrust matters that have arisen in the following industries: telecommunications and telecommunications infrastructure, petrochemicals and petroleum refining, computer hardware, computer software development and maintenance, marine/harbor infrastructures, and various other lines of commerce. He has also handled criminal cases for "subjects", "targets", and putative defendants in ongoing antitrust investigations, and he has handled amnesty matters that arise under the Department of Justice's guidelines for antitrust amnesty.

Practice Areas: Business Law, Litigation

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 04/12/2013

Join David T. Armstrong, founder and headmaster of the Institute for Conflict Management, for a thorough, in-depth discussion of commercial arbitration. The course runs through a sample arbitration in order to teach some fine points of communicating with the parties, including how to recognize and neutralize individual biases and filters to ensure just decisions, how to diffuse "Power Distance" issues, and neutralizing the controlling behavior of dominant parties. Armstrong also teaches how to recognize high-context and low-context communication styles and Mono-chronic and Poly-chronic cognitive perspectives and how to get the most from both types of people.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Practice Areas: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Offered In: Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Florida (FL) | Illinois (IL) | Texas (TX)

Original Production Date: 11/01/2008

Protecting your client’s assets is not always a guarantee … but it’s a better option than doing nothing and watching your client lose everything. Join one of the nation's leading experts on asset protection, Los Angeles attorney Jacob Stein, as he provides a comprehensive overview on protecting your client’s assets and property.

Mr. Stein covers specific planning strategies and solutions designed to protect specific assets common to all clients – houses, bank & brokerage accounts, rental real estate, businesses and professional practices and retirement plans. The main areas addressed include the goal of asset protection, the typical case, fraudulent transfers, asset planning in the context of marriage, choosing the appropriate business entity and the use of trusts in asset protection. Further topics addressed include practical goals & limitations of asset protection, practical implications for planning, choosing the right structure, understanding fraudulent transfers, badges of fraud, corporations, community property, separate property, transmutation agreements, LLCs, limited partnerships, living trusts, irrevocable trusts and foreign trusts.

Mr. Stein is one of the nation's leading experts on asset protection and is one of California’s best known attorneys, teaching dozens of legal seminars each year on the subjects of asset protection and advanced tax planning. He is a Certified Tax Law Specialist and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Stein is the author of numerous articles on asset protection and tax planning, and is the author of Asset Protection Planning (Education Foundation, 2009) and Advanced Tax Planning Techniques (Education Foundation, 2009). He is an adjunct professor of taxation at the CSU, Northridge Graduate Tax Program, and has been an instructor with the California CPA Education Foundation and National Business Institute for many years. He is also a frequent guest speaker at various Bar, Estate Planning Council and CPA group meetings. Mr. Stein is admitted to practice in California and before the United States Tax Court.

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Business Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property, Taxation, Trusts and Estates

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX)

Original Production Date: 03/14/2013

The addicted brain is a hijacked brain. Clinical and Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Nathan Lavid delves deep into the neuroscience of addiction and details how attorneys are especially sensitive to the ills of addiction. Indeed, many attorneys that face discipline from the state bar abuse alcohol and other substances. However, many state bars are receptive to the problem and offer resources to get attorneys the help that they need.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Specialty Areas: Substance Abuse

Practice Areas: Substance Abuse

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX) | Washington (WA)

Original Production Date: 03/01/2010

Join Susan K. Fox as she sheds insight into the role of a professional fiduciary in providing services to clients. This course covers many aspects of the private fiduciary including licensing, credentials, regulation, the five roles (trustee, conservator, power of attorney, agent, executor), responsibilities & duties, thinking outside the box, and selected questions from the audience. Susan K. Fox, the Principal and Founder of Liberty Fiduciary Services, has more than fifteen years experience of providing direct services to vulnerable individuals. Susan was licensed by the California Professional Fiduciary Bureau on the first day that they granted licenses, July 1, 2008.

Course Type: Participatory & Self-Study

Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates

Offered In: Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Florida (FL) | New Jersey (NJ)

Original Production Date: 11/10/2010

In this course, attorney Michael Freeland discusses ways that employers can avoid employee wage claims. The main issues discussed by Mr. Freeland include potential employer liability, avoiding wage claims, common issues in wage claims cases, other payment of wage issues and practical tips for employers to avoid these types of claims.

Further issues addressed include employee rights, state vs. federal laws, administrative agencies, the court system, failing to classify, wage orders, exempt vs. non-exempt employees, classifying employees as managers, the legal basis for classifying employees, employees vs. independent contractors, failing to designate the work week, rate of pay, entitlement to pay, recording time worked, failing to pay after termination and employment contracts. Mr. Freeland also specifically covers common law firm employment issues and analyzes common wage claims involving interns, paralegals, law clerks and office managers. These are serious cases because under federal law employers can be held personally liable for failure to pay wages or overtime.

Michael M. Freeland has conducted state and federal trials, arbitrations and administrative hearings. He is proficient in litigation and motion practice, mediation, arbitration and depositions. Mr. Freeland also has extensive appellate court experience, and has been the attorney of record in three published opinions from the Fourth District Court of Appeal in California. A published contributor to the Foothills Bar Association, San Diego Update Magazine and the San Diego Daily Transcript, Mr. Freeland is also a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association, in addition to the Foothills, San Diego County and the California State bar associations.

Practice Areas: Business Law, Employment Law, Litigation

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 04/22/2013

Legal Malpractice – two words attorneys hope they never have to hear in their legal career … unless they are taking a CLE course. There are many avenues that can lead to a malpractice claim, from failing to return your client’s calls and emails to improperly calendaring important dates. Join attorney James King for an excellent review of how to avoid ethical violations from the state bar and legal malpractice claims from your clients. The main topics discussed include the Golden Rules, the attorney client relationship, avoiding legal malpractice during the representation and the end of the attorney client relationship. Further topics discussed include communicating with clients, procrastination, keeping current on fees, substance abuse, representing multiple clients, potential conflicts, clarifying & limiting the scope of the attorney client relationship, the retention agreement, clients who habitually change attorneys, suing for legal fees, withdrawal, handling matters promptly, staying current on the law, the “rescue attorney,’ mistakes, keeping a clear record and client papers.

James E. King is the Founder of the King Law Corporation in San Diego. Mr. King specializes in attorney fee disputes, legal ethics, and advises corporate counsel and law firms on litigation costs. Mr. King has testified as an expert witness on numerous attorney-client fee disputes and has skillfully represented prominent clients such as Prince Fahd Aziz of Saudi Arabia and Heisman Trophy winner Rashan Salaam. Mr. King serves as a Special Master for the State Bar of California and is Vice-Chair of the Fee Arbitration Committee for the San Diego County Bar Association. Jim also lectures and publishes works on attorney fee ethics and other related topics.

Specialty Areas: Legal Ethics

Practice Areas: Ethics

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX)

Original Production Date: 10/31/2012

Eric Sherman teaches attorneys about the inner workings of Hollywood and entertainment law. The main topics addressed include ownership of intellectual property, writer-for-hire contracts vs. “spec” buys, negotiations, and raising production funds. Mr. Sherman also discusses what content is copyright protectable, life rights, documentaries, options vs. purchase agreements, the component of an option agreement, spec screenplays, the goal of negotiations, creating the documents, ways to raise production funds, private money, IRS Reg 10D, 501(c)(3), crowdfunding and the three types of producers. Eric Sherman was born in Los Angeles and grew up on the Hollywood backlots watching his father, Vincent Sherman, direct films starring many of the industry’s greatest figures, including Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Richard Burton, Paul Newman, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner. Eric Sherman’s long experience with all phases of the entertainment industry led to his becoming a consultant and, when necessary, an expert witness for entertainment law firms.

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property, Litigation, Sports and Entertainment

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | Oregon (OR) | South Dakota (SD)

Original Production Date: 04/01/2012

Join Jonathan Ames as he discusses utilizing contract litigation insurance to protect clients from prevailing party provisions and to minimize a client’s exposure to paying an adversary’s attorneys’ fees. Mr. Ames first provides an overview of prevailing party provisions, and then addresses insurance coverage for the opposing party’s attorney’s fees, coverage through supplementary payments provision clause, contract litigation insurance policies, best practices & ethical duties, communications with clients regarding new insurance coverage that mitigates exposure to prevailing party payouts, and new language to consider in attorneys fees provisions. Case law discussed includes Deane Gardenhome Association v. Dentkas, Prichard v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co., Santisas v. Goodin, Lockton v. O’Rourke [Quinn Emanuel], and Mepco Services.

Course Type: Self-Study

Practice Areas: Business Law, Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Personal Injury, Real Property

Offered In: Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Illinois (IL) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Dakota (SD) | Tennessee (TN) | Texas (TX)

Original Production Date: 08/01/2011