- The early warning signs of impairment, with special emphasis on stress and burnout.
- Symptoms of stress and burnout that are particularly prevalent among members of the legal profession;
- Discussion will include the basic stress reactions, both physical and psychological; the difference between healthy stress and distress, with emphasis on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The transition from distress to burnout and how we can recognize and identify the sources of stress in our lives before burnout develops.
- Guidelines for a “master plan”, including realistic prevention strategies that work.
- Why lawyers and judges are at especially high risk to develop mental health and substance use disorders.
- The free services that Lawyers Assistance Programs provide to lawyers, judges, their family members and law students.
- The barriers that prevent lawyers and judges from seeking the help they need.
- The role that education plays in breaking the stigma and fear associated with alcoholism, substance use disorders and mental illness in the legal profession.
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The Burned Out Lawyer- Recognition and Prevention Strategies If there is one word we heard during our journey through the pandemic and continue to hear more than any other term as we navigate into the Post-COVID “new normal” world, it is “burnout.” But what is burnout? What does it look like and feel like? More importantly, what can we do to prevent the normal stress and “lawyer anxiety” so common in our profession from developing into the physically and emotionally draining state known as Burnout? Recent studies have shown that there has been a dramatic increase in impairment due to alcoholism, addiction and mental health disorders among members of the legal profession. The statistics are compelling and clearly indicate that 1 out of 3 attorneys will likely have a need for substance use or mental health services at some point in their careers. Agenda
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Domestic violence as intimate terrorism: mitigation for criminal defense lawyers
Abuse of domestic partners in the form of physical, psychological, financial, sexual, and related forms of abuse tends to be systemic in nature causing complex trauma to the victim who suffers overwhelming psychological and emotional stress leading to various psychiatric issues forcing the victim to contend in unhealthy ways while experiencing deep feelings of helplessness, hopeless despair, and pain. This program will provide a detailed understanding of the victim’s experiences and challenges for the criminal defense lawyer in such cases.
Agenda
- To understand the types of abuses that victims suffer.
- To understand the concept of complex trauma and how it can be applied to victims of domestic abuse to understand their trauma for defense purposes.
- To understand the major psychiatric diagnoses associated with victims of domestic violence.
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Complex Trauma in Criminal Mitigation Cases: How Abuse and Neglect Cause Abnormal Development
Many criminal defendants have suffered complex trauma that must be explicated through presentence reports by mitigation experts. This seminar will focus on major approaches to conceptualize the harm that many of our clients have suffered in childhood and a developmental perspective focusing on the effects of abuse and neglect. The seminar will also consider how these matters are assessed in a psychosocial evaluation and major psychopathology that results from complex trauma.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the ACE criteria in the context of complex trauma.
- Understand a developmental perspective of abuse and neglect in the context of complex trauma.
- Understand how psychosocial evaluations by mitigation experts consider complex trauma.
- Understand the major areas of psychopathology that result from complex trauma.
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Attorney’s Guide to Online Defamation & Website Removal This program, presented by internet defamation attorney and published author Paul Sternberg, will provide an overview of what constitutes online defamation. Mr. Sternberg will discuss in detail the complex web of laws governing defamatory statements including the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, recent case law, and more. Other topics to be discussed include the difference between libel and slander and considerations for determining if and when to file suit for defamatory conduct. The mechanics of a defamation suit will then be explored in great detail, including a review of cease and desist letters, anti-SLAPP laws, discovery exceptions, and much more.
- The First Amendment and Protected Speech
- Determining the Defaming Party
- Understanding Liability Under the CDA and the DMCA
- Legal Strategies to Consider in Defamation Cases
- Building a Defamation Case or Defense and Removing a Website
- Libel vs. Slander
- Weighing the Decision to Sue
- Deploying a Cease and Desist Letter
- SLAPP and ANTI-SLAPP Laws
- The Streisand Effect
- Elements to Prove
- Statutes of Limitation
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How Marijuana Use Can impair an Attorney’s Ability to Perform Legal Services with Competence: The Mental, Physical, Addictive, and Impairing Side Effects Many attorneys have not heard how much stronger marijuana is today. In this timely presentation, Heidi will provide basic information about the new high potency products. By understanding the side effects these new products present, a lawyer can recognize the warning signs and reduce his/her risk for addiction, mental illness and impairment. Heidi Anderson - Swan’s brother was a homeless drug addict with schizophrenia who went to jail eighteen times. In this CLE, she will begin by sharing their personal stories. She will continue with up-to-date information about the risks of marijuana use every lawyer should know. Agenda -Heidi & Kirk: Occasional User and Chronic User of 1970’s Pot -Marijuana and Psychosis/Schizophrenia, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide -How Weed Has Changed Since the 1970’s -High Potency Products: What Are They? What Are Their Side Effects? -How to Detect Warning Signs -Potential for Impaired Driving
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Benefiting from New Markets Tax Credits In this timely and compelling CLE program, attorneys, Julia Fendler and Trey Parker present “New Market Tax Credits”. The New Markets Tax Credit (“NMTC”) Program is administered by the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (the “CDFI Fund”) of the United States Department of the Treasury. The NMTC Program is a federal statutory program, created in 2000 and currently extended through 2025, that is designed to encourage capital investment in low-income communities that have had inadequate access to capital. It is codified in Section 45D of the Internal Revenue Code. This program is for any attorney. Agenda:
- Program Basics
- Major Players and Definitions
- Application and high level NMTC allocation facts
- What can NMTC proceeds be used for?
- Project Requirements
- Secondary criteria
- Typical Transactions
- What Other subsidies work with NMTCs?
- Conclusion
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South Carolina 8 Credit Bundle with 2 Ethics and 1 Substance Abuse Credit All Courses Approved in South Carolina. Bundle Courses Include: Story Telling in the Courtroom (1.57 Credits) The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.53 Credits)
Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2.03 Credits)
Unauthorized Practice of Law: Ethical Dilemmas and the Rule of Law (1.15 Ethics Credits) Intervention Strategies for Helping the Legal Professional (1.02 Substance Abuse/Mental Health Credit) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1.08 Ethics Credits) -
Nevada Silver State 13 Credit Bundle with Ethics and Substance Abuse - Esquire CLE is An Accredited Provider in Nevada Bundle Courses Include: Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 1 (1.5 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 2 (1 Credit) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 3 (1 Credit) Immigration Basics: Coming to America and Staying (1 Credit) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1 Credit) Shackled to Our Screens: How Technology Has Imprisoned the Legal Profession (1 AAMH Credit) Ethical Issues - Pro Bono Representation: Help the Profession Help Others (1 Ethics Credit) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1 Ethics Credit)
Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Credit Hours)
The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.5 Credits) Information Law Firms Collect and Store – What to do in the Event of a Cyber Breach? (1 Credit) -
Indiana 36 Credit Bundle With 3 Ethics - All Courses Approved in Indiana Courses include: Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 1 (1.5 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 2 (1.3 Credit) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 3 (1 Credit)
Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Credits)
Immigration Basics: Coming to America and Staying (1 Credit) Ethical Issues - Pro Bono Representation: Help the Profession Help Others (1 Ethics Credit) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1 Ethics Credits) Intervention Strategies for Helping the Legal Professional (1 Ethics Credit) The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.5 Credits) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1 Credit) Information Law Firms Collect and Store – What to do in the Event of a Cyber Breach? (1.5 Credits) Overview of the Freedom of Information Act (2 Credits) How the IRS Reconstructs Income in Tax Fraud Cases (1.5 Credits) Cross Examination Made Simple (1.5 Credits) Eating, Sex, and Exercise Disorders for Lawyers (1 Credit) Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) - (1.3 Credits) Opening Statement As a Story - 101 (1 Credit) Evidence 102 (1.3 Credit) Technology & Bias Spreading It And Stopping It (1.3 Credit) Direct Examination: Making the Witness Look Good (1.3 Credits) Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (1 Credit) Everything You Want to Know About Distressed Lawyers (1 Ethics Credit) Intervention Strategies for Helping the Legal Professional (1 Ethics Credit) Lemon Law (1.2 Credits) Civil Settlement Techniques (1.8 Credits) Be it Resolved - Striving for A (Realistic) Work/Life Balance (1 Credit) When Good Enough Isn't Good Enough - Perfectionism in the Legal Profession (1 Credit) Ethical Obligation for Clients with Mental Health Impairments (1 Ethics Credit) Navigating Malpractice: Critical Elements and Legal Defenses (1.5 Credits) -
The Art and Science of Hourly Billing In this compelling and timely program, attorney, Colt Dodrill presents “The Art and Science of Attorney Billing.” The program begins with an explanation of why billing is important, the relevant ABA model rules, and fee agreements. Mr. Dodroll continues the program with a narrative explanation and adding value .The program also covers efficiencies and time management principles. The program concludes with client billing guidelines and tips. This program is for any attorney. AGENDA Introduction
- Why billing is Important
- ABA Model Rules
- Fee agreements
- Rejected time entries
- Elements of Time Entry
- Syntax
- Verbs
- Nouns
- Basis
- Kickers
- Block Billing
- Value Triangle
- When to be ambiguous
- When to be specific
- Brevity is the soul of wit
- Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)
- Rules of Thumb
- Time Management
- Client Billing Guidelines
- Tips
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Oregon 45 Credit Bundle with Ethics, A/J, Child/Elder Abuse, & Mental Health - All Courses Approved in Oregon Bundle Courses Include:
Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) - (1.25 Credits)
Taking Off the Gloves: What to Expect in U.S. Tax Court (1.5 Credit) How the IRS Reconstructs Income in Tax Fraud Cases (1.5 Credit) Cross Examination Made Simple (1.5 Credit) Direct Examination: Making the Witness Look Good (1.25 Credits) Anatomy of a Civil Tax Controversy (1.5 Credits) Opening Statement As a Story 101 - (1 Credit) Opening Statements As a Story - 102 (1.5 Credits) Closing Arguments (1.75 Credits) Fair Debt Collection Practices Act - (1 Access to Justice Credit) Information Law Firms Collect and Store – What to do in the Event of a Cyber Breach? - (1.25 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 1 - (1.5 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 2 - (1.25 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 3 - (1 Credit)Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Credits)
The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.5 Credits) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1 Credit) NCAA & Name, Image, Likeness – Updates & Anarchy in America! (1.25 Credits) Paying for Referrals: A Danger to the Payor and Recipient's Freedom (1.25 Credits) Dealing with the Disruptive Practitioner in a Legally Compliant Manner (1 Credit) Psychosocial Evaluations and Consultation in Civil Litigation: Strategies to Understand and Humanize the Client - (1.25 Credits) The Anti-Kickback Statute (1 Credit) The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act: How to Achieve Immunity in Your Peer Review Process (1 Credit) Physician Employment Agreements: Problem Areas that can be Landmines (1 Credit) NFL Contract Advisors – “So You Want To Be An Agent" (1.75 Credits) Order in the Court: Ethical Interaction With Judges (1 Ethics Credit) Effective and Ethical Use of Experts (1 Ethics Credit) Ethical Issues - Pro Bono Representation: Help the Profession Help Others (1 Ethics Credit) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1 Ethics Credit) Unauthorized Practice of Law: Ethical Dilemmas and the Rule of Law (1 Ethics Credit) The Impact Of Internet and Sports Betting for Lawyers (1 Mental Health/Substance Abuse Credit) Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession: Both Personally and Professionally (1 Access to Justice Credit) Technology & Bias Spreading It And Stopping It (1 Access to Justice Credit) Immigration Basics: Coming to America and Staying (1 Access to Justice Credit)Understanding Oregon's Legal Landscape for Child and Elder Abuse (1 Abuse Reporting Credit)
Evidence 101 (1.5 Credits) Evidence 102 - (1.25 Credits) Microsoft Office 365 For Attorneys (1 Credit) -
Washington State 45 Credit Bundle with Ethics and Equity/Inclusion - All Courses Approved in Washington Bundle Courses Include: Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 1 (1.5 Credits) Story Telling in the Courtroom Part 2 (1.25 Credits) Online Civility and Professionalism for Attorneys (1 Ethics Credit) Closing Arguments (1.75 Credits) Civil Settlement Techniques (1.5 Credits) The Fifth Amendment’s Essential Role in Offshore Audits (1.5 Credits)
Basics of How to Obtain a Patent (2 Hours)
Gambling Addiction for Lawyers (1 Credit) The Art and Science of Hourly Billing (1 Credit) Intermediate Topics: Title IX (1.5 Credits) Civil Settlement Techniques (1.5 Credits) Pre-sentence Investigation (PSI) Critique: Mitigation as Counter Strategy in Child-Pornography Cases (1.25 Credits) Is That a Worker or an Employee? Questions & Answers on Worker Classification (1.25 Credits) Cyber Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (1.25 Credits) Criminal Mitigation: Pre-Pleas & Pre-Sentencing Strategies (1 Credit) Information Technology for Lawyers (1.25 Credits) Ethics Compliance for Solo Practitioners (1.25 Ethics Credits) A Lawyer's Guide to Raising Capital (1.25 Credits) Anti Money Laundering for Business Lawyers (1.25 Credits) Entity Formation 101 (1.25 Credits) Athlete Agency Law (1.25 Credits) Ethics in Business Law (1.25 Ethics Credits) Copyright for Artists (1.5 Credits)NFL Contract Advisors – “So You Want To Be An Agent" (1.75 Credits)
Cultural Competence: Recognizing Implicit Bias (1 Ethics Credit) Leveling the Playing Field: The Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession (1 Ethics Credit) Principles for a Successful Jury Trial (1 Credit) No One Makes It Out Unscathed: The Effects of Personal Trauma and Stress On Our Lives (1 Credit) Overview of the Freedom of Information Act (2 Credits) Evidence 101 (1.5 Credits) Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession: Both Personally and Professionally (1 Equity, Inclusion and Mitigation of Bias Credit) Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (2.25 Credits) Ethical Obligations for Clients with Mental Health Impairments (1 Ethics Credit) Anatomy of a Civil Tax Controversy (1.5 Credits) How the IRS Reconstructs Income in Tax Fraud Cases (1.5 Credits) Taking Off the Gloves: What to Expect in U.S. Tax Court (1.5 Credits)
