1. Title: Retirement 202: How to Find Gold Nuggets in Your Retirement Years
Date Recorded: 11/09/2011
Hours: 2 hrs CLE credit, including 1 hr Ethics credit
Description: A distinguished panel of experts in elder law, taxation law, and legal ethics will discuss how to best protect assets acquired during your earning years to preserve them for you and your loved ones.
The speakers will discuss IRAs, SEP IRAs, Keoghs, 401Ks, 403(b)s, eligibility for Social Security and Medicare, and estate planning documents for yourself, a well spouse, or a disabled spouse or child, including healthcare documents to authorize and implement your wishes for end-of-life planning.
The panelists will also discuss retiring from a law firm or selling a legal practice and the applicable rules of professional conduct relating to withdrawing from representation, the handling of client files, fee issues, law firm retirement payments, handling proceeds from the sale of a practice, and IRS considerations.
2. Title: Ethics: All You Need to Know
Date Recorded: 12/03/2011
Hours: 4 hrs CLE credit, including 4 hrs Ethics credit
Description:
This program will explore and discuss the cross-cultural differences that exist in the international law practice setting and provide useful guidance to avoid miscommunications and gaffes caused by lack of understanding of such differences.
The panel will touch upon the topics of traditions, customs and practices as found in cultures and subcultures around the world and how these can impact interactions with foreign clients, foreign attorneys and foreign opposing parties.
The panelists will specifically discuss certain cross-cultural differences that exist with cultures and subcultures from China, Japan and some European and Latin American countries.
3. Title:. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Client Trust Accounting but Were
Afraid to Ask
Date Recorded: 12/07/2011
Hours: 1 hr of CLE credit, including 1 hr Ethics credit
Description:
Suzan Anderson of the State Bar will discuss rules and case law governing the fiduciary duties applicable to client trust accounts, including what must (and what cannot) go into a client trust account, the difference between advance fees and a true retainer, and record keeping and reconciliation issues.
4. Title: How to Be a Zealous Advocate for Your Client's Project without Violating the Brown Act
Date Recorded: 12/14/2011
Hours: 1 hr of CLE credit, including 1 hr Ethics credit
Description: The panelists will discuss the Ralph M. Brown Act, Sections 54950 et seq. of the Government Code, which governs open meetings for local legislative bodies and provides consequences for its violation. When does the law apply, and what do practitioners need to know about assisting their clients, local bodies, or private parties that deal with local bodies in avoiding violations of the Brown Act?
5. Title: Preventing Substance Abuse and Eliminating Bias
Date Recorded: 1/26/2012
Hours: 2 hrs CLE credit, including 1 hr Elimination of Bias credit and 1 hr Substance Abuse credit
Description: This two-hour program will provide an opportunity to learn about two important areas of concern in the legal profession, prevention of substance abuse and elimination of bias. The two presentations will give you a head start on fulfilling your New Year's resolutions to improve the legal profession, and they're presented just in time to fulfill one hour of hard-to-get MCLE credit for Prevention of Substance Abuse and Elimination of Bias.
6. Title: Breakfast at the Bar: Fundamentals of E-Discovery
Date Recorded: 2/28/2012
Hours: 1 hr CLE credit
Description:
Join the LACBA Litigation Section to learn about the fundamentals of e-discovery. Panelists Allan D. Johnson and Amy J. Longo will discuss best practices in preservation and collection, search tools and techniques, and privilege assertion. This program is designed for anyone in need of a refresher in e-discovery and for new attorneys and support staff.
7. Title: How Will Capital Be Deployed in 2012? Financing Parameters for M&A and Growth
Date Recorded: 3/13/2012
Hours: 1 hr CLE credit
Description: Learn firsthand from our panel of industry experts the deal terms and financing structures that will work for you and your clients in today's environment. The following subject matters will be discussed:
- How capital will be deployed in 2012
- The current state of the M&A market and the debt and equity markets
- Which deals are being financed
- The deal terms and financing structures that will work best for your deal
8. Title: Exploring the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Date Recorded: 2/24/2011
Hours: 1 hr CLE credit
Description: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is designed to establish a coherent regulatory scheme over broker-dealers and investment advisers. This program will discuss the Dodd-Frank Act's revised regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers, and specifically address the act's impact on the regulation of hedge funds.
9. Title: Financing Distressed Debt Purchases
Date Recorded: 4/20/2011
Hours: 1 hr CLE credit
Description: This timely program will address the many steps and structures being used to acquire distressed debt secured by real property and thereafter obtain ownership of such real property through workouts or foreclosure. The discussion should be of interest to lawyers and business people alike given the vast amount of commercial property that now is, or soon will be, saddled with debt that can't be repaid either because the property income is insufficient or the property value has decreased significantly.
While in many instances the best way to gain control over these properties is through the lender rather than the owner, acquiring distressed debt is a different process and includes different pitfalls than acquiring property directly from the owner.
In addition to describing these processes and pitfalls, we will also be describing the transactions that are happening now and what we expect to see in the future.
