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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is intended to “prohibit discrimination and guarantee that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstream of American life -- to enjoy employment opportunities, to purchase goods and services, and to participate in State and local government programs and services.” For the past 10 years the DOJ has remained mostly silent on the issue of website accessibility, which silence has led to an onslaught of private litigation. However, in March of 2022, the DOJ publicly released its "Guidance on Web Accessibility and the ADA" purportedly establishing "how state and local governments and businesses open to the public can make sure that their websites are accessible to people with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).” This course will explore:
The history of the DOJ's position and enforcement actions related to Web Accessibility What clarification, if any, did the recent DOJ's Guidance on Web Accessibility and ADA provide to demonstrate how local governments and businesses can make their websites accessible?
Update on the recent trend of DOJ Web Accessibility enforcement actions and key takeaways from the settlement terms and conditions

The topic of Website Regulatory Compliance is made up of a complex set of federal regulatory rules and guidelines to ensure that business websites and digital communications are honest and truthful, accessible to people with disabilities and compliant with financial services requirements.  These rules and guidelines can be found under: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The Americans with Disabilities’ Act (ADA);The Federal Communications Commission (FCC); and
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

In this program, Heath Cheek looks at the hit TV show, Ted Lasso, the
story of a Kansas college football coach who becomes a Premier League
“football” (soccer) coach in London. Heath will show how Ted’s lessons
can help litigators, in-house counsel, transactional lawyers, and others
improve their practice by using positivity, kindness, warmth, and humor
(attributes not always associated with lawyers). Viewers of this course
will learn how to improve their communication and relationships with
clients, colleagues, and opposing counsel, as well as how to recover
from mistakes with grace.

With so many hearsay exceptions, where is a busy litigator to start? This refresher course breaks down Federal Rule of Evidence 804 and its exceptions in a comprehensive and clear manner. Fun pop culture examples are used to reinforce the material after the review. Brush up on these useful hearsay exceptions and be better prepared for your next trial.

This presentation will address two different topics that might be more related than you think at first. Mistakes in the practice of law are both inevitable and avoidable, and when they occur they trigger a variety of ethical issues and obligations for the lawyers involved. When they happen in the course of representing clients for whom it was a mistake to agree to be their lawyer in the first place, they can be doubly unpleasant. So, in addition to addressing ethical obligations brought about by mistakes, this course will also discuss ways that lawyers can try to avoid taking on “unworthy” clients in the first place.

In this program, Quimbee faculty member Alyssa Johnson and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) consultant Dr. Erika Powell will explore the dimensions of DEI work and race literacy work. You will learn how race trauma is held in the body and how generational trauma affects current behaviors. Workplace race dynamics are examined including how confirmation bias and racism affect the legal profession. Allyship is also discussed with a focus on how White women have been loyal to White supremacy. We will also explore methods for dismantling White supremacy in the legal profession and beyond.

Whether it is the Yorkshire terrier in the carrier on the airplane or the emotional support rat on the shopper’s shoulder in the grocery store, one encounters people insisting on and resisting about the use of animals to assist them with a variety of activities in the world. What are the allowable options in that regard? What does the law permit, what does the law prohibit, and what does the law simply not pay attention to at all when it comes to the service animal, the assistance animal, or the emotional support animal in a public setting. This seminar examines both the sense and the nonsense of not just the players involved but the rules that are imposed on those players – which can include not simply the animal owner but the merchant, bystander, government agent, and affected consumer as well. We do so by ferreting out the scope of regulations across jurisdictions, by specifying the questions that can and cannot be asked of certain participants, and by trying to glean what rationalizations lay behind protections and penalties in the use and abuse of dogs, cats, rabbits, horses and other animals in the service of people.

Selling or transferring a company can be a once in a lifetime event and understanding the value of the company when transferring it can be a difficult challenge. This course will focus on how to value a company and how to successfully transfer the company and capture its value while minimizing the tax liability and the estate planning that follows. Roman Basi will teach participants the methods used in valuations, succession planning, estate planning, and much more.

This course is an introduction to the nonprofit practice area. Specifically, we will review the process for forming a nonprofit and seeking tax exemption under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Attorneys will learn the compliance requirements for nonprofits as well as the unique tax issues nonprofits face. Attorneys will feel empowered to expand their practice area to include nonprofit law. This course will also explore fiduciary duties of nonprofit board members. For attorneys interested in volunteering as a board member for a nonprofit, this course will examine the best practices to protect yourself from potential liability.

Advertising and marketing is heavily regulated in the United States, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is aggressively enforcing the rules. This program will provide an overview of the FTC’s advertising-related enforcement authority and will discuss the FTC’s current enforcement priorities. Topics to be discussed include advertising claims, substantiation, online disclosures, endorsers and influencers, environmental marketing, dark patterns, artificial intelligence, responsibility for corporate commitments, and other hot topics.

This course will address five of the most common ethical blunders that attorneys encounter in the practice of law, including emails, the unauthorized practice of law while working remotely, the attorney-client relationship, and interacting with opposing counsel. We will address how to recognize these potential traps and explore best practices for staying within the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Estate planning is a common and needed area of legal services. The need is only growing. So are low cost and no cost non-attorney alternatives. Learn what a comprehensive estate plan is and the strategies only attorneys can provide, so that you can provide value to your clients and they ultimately leave your office with a manageable to-do list.

In this program, Gary Reing, former Chair of the Lawyers Assistance Committee of the NYS Bar Association and NYC Bar Association, talks about his own addiction struggles and path to recovery, including his reinstatement to the practice of law. Additionally, he will address issues of substance use and addiction within the legal profession and discuss ways to identify attorneys in trouble and explore resources where attorneys can get help.

In a legal system where not everybody speaks English, court interpreters are crucial to overcome language barriers. This one-hour presentation is designed to provide attorneys with valuable information that will benefit their work with court interpreters during legal proceedings.

COVID has fundamentally transformed employer/employee relationships worldwide. Now, as we emerge from the pandemic―or as COVID becomes endemic―employers are reversing, undoing or altering their height-of-the-pandemic approach to telecommuting. Of course, multinationals have lots of questions about the global transition back to the physical work site: ∙ Should employees returning to physical worksites be able to telecommute more than pre-pandemic? ∙ How can an employer revamp or relax height-of-the-pandemic workplace safety precautions―vaccine screening, mask mandates, exposure notifications and the like? ∙ What communications should an employer make, to convince staff that the workplace is safe? ∙ And: How does a multinational employer align its return-to-worksite initiatives across borders? This fast-paced session offers a multinational employer global strategies for getting staff back to the workplace post-pandemic, or during a COVID endemic.

This program will review the process of settling a final account and discharging a guardian in a Mental Hygiene Law Article 81 proceeding in New York– i.e., ending the guardianship completely or facilitating the appointment of a successor guardian. The course will give a practical overview of how to prepare a motion to settle a final account a/k/a discharge application, governing law, step-by-step procedure, procedural intricacies, how the process differs from county to county (and sometimes from judge to judge), and other court customs. The course will review the many reasons a guardian (or their ward) may seek discharge of the guardian, including regaining mental capacity, death of the incapacitated person, the transfer of a ward to a nursing home when the guardian is a community guardian program, discharge for wrongdoing, and other purposes.

In August 2021, The Washington Post released a transcript of a February 2018 interview in which Rudy Giuliani told federal agents it was permissible to “throw a fake” during an electoral campaign. Just weeks before that transcript became public, Giuliani was suspended from the practice of law in New York for baselessly asserting that thousands of felons and dead people voted during the 2020 presidential election and that Georgia voting machines had been manipulated. This program will examine the ethics rules implicated by Giuliani’s recent conduct—ABA Rules 3.3, 4.1, and 8.4—and provide guidance on how to avoid suffering Rudy’s fate.

This module provides an overview of the skills needed to conduct thorough, effective, and actionable workplace investigations. Participants will learn how to sift through a variety of material using best practices and clearly present results that businesses rely on when making important decisions. The basic questions an investigator might have will be addressed: what constitutes a complaint, when to investigate, who should investigate, and how to investigate. It also addresses issues of confidentiality, provides tools to better determine witness credibility, and underscores the necessity of unpacking one’s own biases prior to undertaking an investigation. This CLE will benefit in-house and general counsel, third-party attorneys who regularly conduct investigations, HR personnel, and anyone else involved in determining who did what at work.

Our country’s criminal justice policies intersect with voting rights through felony disenfranchisement. Voting is a fundamental right and the cornerstone of democracy. Yet over 5 million U.S. citizens are denied the right to vote due to a previous conviction, even though many of them have returned to their communities or completed their full sentence. This CLE will first provide a definition of felony disenfranchisement and the process of rights restoration. We will then summarize felony disenfranchisement policies and their practical effect on our democracy. The course will then discuss case law on felony disenfranchisement and focus on the difficulty of protecting the voting rights of those with a prior conviction in federal courts. We will then turn to state court challenges to felony disenfranchisement and differing state policies on rights restoration. We will end with a discussion of developing litigation strategies, and opportunities for protecting the right to vote of citizens with a conviction through advocacy.

Although the social significance of the female body has changed over time, the undercurrents of power, control, and stigmatization have remained constant. Following the digital health revolution, new technologies have emerged with the potential to quantify and further ostracize women under the guise of liberation. The female health technology (femtech) market promises to increase scientific and personal understanding of women’s bodies and destigmatize female sexuality. However, portions of the femtech industry have been built on inaccurate and stereotypical assumptions of women’s health and preferences. This presentation explores the legal and ethical challenges of the femtech sector and seeks to foster a dialogue on the legal and ethical pitfalls of monetizing women’s health data and equating women’s health with reproductive health and sexuality. The topics addressed in this presentation include (1) data inaccuracies and algorithmic bias; (2) faulty products and skewed research data; (3) design flaws and the “othering” of specific sub-categories of the female population; and (4) monetization of femtech data.