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• A Better Deposition: Dealing with Problem Witnesses and Difficult Attorneys

A Better Deposition: Dealing with Problem Witnesses and Difficult Attorneys

If you are a trial attorney you have inevitably been forced to deal with difficult witnesses and hostile attorneys at some point in your legal career. Problem witnesses can take many forms - the dishonest witness, the evasive witness, the hostile witness- the witness that doesn't remember what they had for breakfast. All too often, witnesses try to frustrate the discovery process - and depositions in particular - by their obstructive and abusive behavior. And we all have stories about hostile or bullying opposing counsel.

This CLE course examines strategies to effectively depose some common difficult witnesses and also provides tips on how to deal with difficult attorneys during the deposition process. Join trial attorney Roy Comer as he discusses the hostile witness, the basics of questioning, dealing with the problem witness, the forgetful or unsure witness, the dishonest witness and the obstructing lawyer. Further topics covered by Mr. Comer include controlling the deposition, what doesn't work, the goal of the deposition, the form of questioning, the 4 step process for dealing with the evasive witness, videotaping depositions, looking for visual clues, asking more, quickening the pace, the Duty of Candor, the bullying lawyer, the law is your friend, talking to the witness, the improperly objecting attorney, the lawyer that wants to go off the record all the time, the condescending lawyer and the "I'll fix it later lawyer."

For over thirty-five years Roy L. Comer has been dedicated to handling damage cases, including catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from automobile, truck, motorcycle, medical negligence, defective products, and dangerous premises claims. In addition, Mr. Comer has represented individuals and medium-sized businesses in real estate, landlord-tenant, insurance and contract disputes. Defending these types of claims has provided Mr. Comer with further insight into how insurance companies approach these claims. Mr. Comer's clients depend on his broad experience, coupled with the highest legal, professional and emphatic standards.

Practice Areas: Litigation, Personal Injury

State Accreditations: Alabama (AL) | Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Idaho (ID) | Illinois (IL) | Indiana (IN) | Louisiana (LA) | Maine (ME) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Minnesota (MN) | Mississippi (MS) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Hampshire (NH) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | North Dakota (ND) | Ohio (OH) | Oklahoma (OK) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Carolina (SC) | South Dakota (SD) | Tennessee (TN) | Texas (TX) | Utah (UT) | Vermont (VT) | Virginia (VA) | Washington (WA) | West Virginia (WV) | Wyoming (WY)

Course Expiration: 03/31/2018

Media Type: Streaming Video, MP3 Download, Video Download, MP3 Player, USB

1.50 credit hours

• Bankruptcy, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Bankruptcy, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Dirty money gets produced by organized crime and other criminals though drug trafficking, prostitution, tax evasion, corruption, financial crime and many other sources. Spearheaded by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), world leaders and governments have sought to monitor and suppress money laundering and terrorism financing around the globe. This became even more pressing in our country after the terror attacks on 9/11. Due to our legal system and anonymous entities like LLCs, the United States is an easy place to hide money and terrorists have begun using our financial and legal systems to launder dirty money and clandestinely move it around the world to finance terrorist and other illegal operations. Unfortunately for attorneys, there is a very fine line between assisting clients and taking part in criminal activity.

Peter W. Bowie, the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California, has seen these matters develop first hand from his view from the bench. In this CLE course, Judge Bowie explores the evolving link between bankruptcy, money laundering & terrorist financing and the attorney's duty to investigate. The main topics addressed by Judge Bowie include money laundering around the globe, the use of anonymous entities to hide money and the attorneys increased duty to investigate. Additional topics presented: the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Money Laundering's 40 recommendations, the 2002 ABA Task Force, ABA Formal Opinion 463, risk based client due diligence, how individuals hide money from creditors, the anonymous purchase of numerous high end American properties, the 2016 GlobalWitness.org report, the Panama Papers, confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, Rule 11 and recent case law regarding attorney investigations.


Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Business Law, Criminal Law

State Accreditations: Alabama (AL) | Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | Delaware (DE) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Idaho (ID) | Illinois (IL) | Indiana (IN) | Iowa (IA) | Kentucky (KY) | Maine (ME) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Minnesota (MN) | Mississippi (MS) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Hampshire (NH) | New Jersey (NJ) | New Mexico (NM) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | North Dakota (ND) | Ohio (OH) | Oklahoma (OK) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | Rhode Island (RI) | South Carolina (SC) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX) | Utah (UT) | Vermont (VT) | Washington (WA) | West Virginia (WV) | Wyoming (WY)

Course Expiration: 03/31/2018

Media Type: Streaming Video, MP3 Download, Video Download, MP3 Player, USB

1.00 credit hours

• Combating Colossus: How to Maximize Auto Accident Settlements for Your Clients

Combating Colossus: How to Maximize Auto Accident Settlements for Your Clients

In auto accident claims, more than 70% of all insurers use Colossus and similar software to assess bodily injury claim values and limit settlement offers. Plaintiff's counsel must understand how this specialized software works, how his software impacts insurer settlement offers to claimants and how insurance companies use other considerations like medical factors to formulate settlements. Controlling factors must be thoroughly examined, such as the accuracy of all injury diagnoses as well as the points and drivers to include in your demand, in order to get the best possible settlement for your clients.

In this CLE course, Dr. Frank Liberti provides an in-depth examination of Colossus and similar software used by insurers used to assess auto accident claim values in personal injury cases. Dr. Liberti will demonstrate how to prevent unfair settlements, leverage new style demand letters to obtain higher settlements, increase settlement valuation by four times the average, prevent unfair claims practices and win the greater weight of the evidence challenges. Further topics discussed include the ethics codes of adjusters, litigation obstacles, Business Processing Improvement (BPI), attorneys & consultants, 4 main medical factors, the AMA Guide & impairment evaluation, insurer's unfair claims acts, key decision points & drivers, the checklist of decision points & drivers to include in your demand, inputting values into Colossus, claim values, standard medical records & prognosis, common injury types, the 4 corners of the medical claim, medical expert value factors and eliminating narrative-style demand letters.

Spanning 35 years, Dr. Frank Liberti has consulted over 15,000 doctors and lawyers on the subject of personal injury and often presents on personal injury law issues. Dr. Liberti established a Supreme Court precedent in that Verbal Threshold case establishing the preponderance of evidence and winning the "Great Weight" challenge in proving that soft tissue injuries meet the "serious injury (Verbal) Threshold." His main focus is winning the greater weight of the evidence challenges, even in the presence of unfair claims tactics. His career advice has been published on NBC, CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, and in many career publications. Dr. Liberti is an award-winning speaker and author and he has written five books on personal injury litigation, including Mandates Of Personal Injury Litigation, Verbal Threshold - Overcoming the "Greater Weight" Challenges, and Direct-Cross Exam - Masterful Tactics For The Diligent Medical-Legal Expert. Dr. Liberti has also developed Liberator2 software, a personal injury specific Electronic Medical Record System for physicians and Zeusclaim, an on-line interactive Demand Formulator for plaintiff attorneys.

Practice Areas: Litigation

State Accreditations: Alabama (AL) | Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Idaho (ID) | Illinois (IL) | Indiana (IN) | Maine (ME) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Mississippi (MS) | Missouri (MO) | Nevada (NV) | New Hampshire (NH) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | North Dakota (ND) | Ohio (OH) | Oklahoma (OK) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Carolina (SC) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX) | Utah (UT) | Vermont (VT) | Washington (WA) | West Virginia (WV) | Wyoming (WY)

Course Expiration: 03/31/2018

Media Type: Streaming Video, MP3 Download, Video Download, MP3 Player, USB

1.50 credit hours

• Ethics in Jury Selection

Ethics in Jury Selection

When we try a case, our goal as lawyers is to get an impartial jury. But in reality, anybody who has struck a jury knows this is no easy task. We have to investigate to uncover potential bias to make sure that the jury is going to be as fair as possible. But our investigation of jurors is changing rapidly because of social media and the law related to social media. The question now becomes will the impartial jury be able to exist in the age of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social media websites and apps?

In this CLE course, attorney Sharon Stuart presents a thoughtful and timely discussion on ethical considerations in jury selection in our new world of social media. The main topics addressed include voir google, ethically investigating jurors online, ethical obligations relating to juror misconduct, ethical obligations to disclose juror relationships, medical privacy & voir dire and ethical obligations in post-trial juror interviews. Additional issues covered in this course: social media use by jurors, the benefits of using social media in jury selection, the ethical duty to investigate, ABA Model Rule 1.1 - Competence, Comment to ABA Model Rule 1.1, ABA Model Rule 1.3, the NYSBA Social Media Guidelines, ABA Model Rule 3.5, ethical limitations on juror investigation, best practices when conducing social media research, crossing the ethical line, decorum to the tribunal, United States v. Daugerdas, 867 F. Supp. 2d 445 (S.D.N.Y. 2012), safeguards for jurors' medical privacy and post trial contact with jurors.

Sharon Stuart devotes her practice to civil trial work and arbitration. She focuses on complex commercial and insurance litigation, and she handles a variety of pharmaceutical and medical device products liability litigation as national, regional or local counsel. Her trial experience includes a wide range of business tort claims, contract disputes, commercial and insurance fraud and bad faith suits, and wrongful death cases. She has defended dozens of class action lawsuits in areas as diverse as product liability/toxic tort, financial products, insurance and employment law.

Specialty Areas: Legal Ethics

Practice Areas: Criminal Law, Ethics, Litigation, Personal Injury

State Accreditations: Alabama (AL) | Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | Delaware (DE) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Hawaii (HI) | Idaho (ID) | Illinois (IL) | Indiana (IN) | Iowa (IA) | Kansas (KS) | Kentucky (KY) | Maine (ME) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Minnesota (MN) | Mississippi (MS) | Montana (MT) | Nevada (NV) | New Hampshire (NH) | New Jersey (NJ) | New Mexico (NM) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | North Dakota (ND) | Ohio (OH) | Oklahoma (OK) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | Rhode Island (RI) | South Carolina (SC) | South Dakota (SD) | Texas (TX) | Utah (UT) | Vermont (VT) | Virginia (VA) | Washington (WA) | West Virginia (WV) | Wyoming (WY)

Course Expiration: 03/31/2018

Media Type: Streaming Video, MP3 Download, Video Download, MP3 Player, USB

1.00 credit hours | 1.00 Legal Ethics

• What Me Worry? Professional Responsibility, Evolving Technology and Why I Might

What Me Worry? Professional Responsibility, Evolving Technology and Why I Might

Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram - every new day seems to bring a new social media website and a new electronic fad. How can attorneys harness these new technologies in their legal practice without running afoul of the ethical rules? Can you ethically post the big verdict from your trial on your website? Are you required to keep copies of all your blog posts? Can you counsel clients to remove embarrassing photos from their Facebook page two weeks before trial? What if your friend endorses you for Maritime Law on LinkedIn -- but you're a family law attorney? These increasingly common electronic scenarios vex ethics regulators and attorneys alike.

In this incredibly timely course, attorney Ed McIntyre provides practical, common sense guidance so you can remain ethical in our brave new electronic world. The main issues discussed in this CLE course include legal ethics & risk mitigation, old ethics rules vs. new technologies, communicating electronically with clients, the ethics of cybersleuthing and counseling clients to delete information from social media accounts. Additional subjects covered: the ABA Model Rules, the California Rules of Professional Conduct, the Duty of Competence, the Duty of Confidentiality, the Duty of Communication, the legal advertising rules, websites & blogs, Twitter, disclaimers, confidentiality & social media, your website & the attorney-client relationship, friending parties & individuals involved in litigation, the no contact rule, suppression of evidence, the Virginia "I Heart Hot Moms" case and LinkedIn endorsements.

A veteran trial attorney, Edward J. McIntyre practices complex business litigation in federal and state courts. An expert on the topic of professional responsibility, he also now advises and represents attorneys on issues of professional responsibility, risk mitigation and professional negligence issues. He testifies as an expert witness in court, writes a monthly column on professional responsibility in the San Diego Lawyer Magazine and frequently lectures on this topic. He is also a member and chair of the San Diego County Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee and received the 2013 Top Lawyers of San Diego distinction.

Specialty Areas: Legal Ethics

Practice Areas: Ethics

State Accreditations: Alabama (AL) | Alaska (AK) | Arizona (AZ) | California (CA) | Colorado (CO) | Connecticut (CT) | District of Columbia (DC) | Florida (FL) | Georgia (GA) | Hawaii (HI) | Idaho (ID) | Illinois (IL) | Indiana (IN) | Iowa (IA) | Louisiana (LA) | Maine (ME) | Maryland (MD) | Massachusetts (MA) | Michigan (MI) | Minnesota (MN) | Mississippi (MS) | Montana (MT) | Nevada (NV) | New Hampshire (NH) | New Jersey (NJ) | New York (NY) | North Carolina (NC) | North Dakota (ND) | Ohio (OH) | Oklahoma (OK) | Oregon (OR) | Pennsylvania (PA) | South Carolina (SC) | South Dakota (SD) | Tennessee (TN) | Texas (TX) | Utah (UT) | Vermont (VT) | Virginia (VA) | Washington (WA) | West Virginia (WV) | Wyoming (WY)

Course Expiration: 03/31/2018

Media Type: Streaming Video, MP3 Download, Video Download, MP3 Player, USB

1.00 credit hours | 1.00 Legal Ethics