Arizona bundle (2024)

You’ve identified a great client, but now you need make sure that you’re properly establishing that attorney-client relationship. You’ve withdrawn from a case, but now you need to make sure the client understands that your representation has ended. As with any relationship, knowing how to establish the parameters of an attorney-client relationship, and how to successfully terminate that relationship, is key. Participants in this course will gain an understanding of the importance of successfully establishing an attorney-client relationship, and how to address the end of that relationship.

Trade Secret Law is rather atypical among legal causes of action, including particularly intellectual property claims. In particular, depending on whether the claim is brought based on the law of a specific state—for example, Utah, Texas, or Wisconsin—or whether the claim is brought based on federal law, the elements one will need to prove may differ. In this introduction to Trade Secret Law, attorneys learn the basics of Trade Secret Law. The presentation is broken down into four sections—one for each possible element needed to be proven to prevail on a Trade Secret claim. In addition, a sample case addressing each element of the identified Trade Secret claim is thoroughly analyzed and discussed.

Representing both the husband and wife in estate planning? Assisting with the divorce of your favorite friends? Asked to represent co-defendants or multiple family members in a criminal, personal injury, or immigration case? New clients want to pay you with stock in their enterprise? From family law, trust and estates, and business law to criminal, personal injury, and immigration law, conflicts of interest exist as a fundamental concern in the practice of law. If ignored or misunderstood, fundamental concerns can create significant problems for the unwary lawyer. What’s a lawyer to do? Step one: assess whether there is a conflict of interest. Step two: analyze whether it is consent-able or impermissible. Step three: proceed accordingly. This course will explore these steps in the context of the conflict of interest rules and their applications in the everyday practice of law.

Chapter 7 and 13 are the primary chapters of bankruptcy relief available to consumers who find themselves in over their heads with debt. This course will explain the basics of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases for consumer debtors. The first half will explain the basics of both chapters, the elements of each one and the players and their roles in each type of case. The second half of the course will walk through the handling of a case from inception to discharge.

Noncompetes are clauses in employment contracts that restrict employees from taking new jobs with competitors. As a type of restrictive covenant, they have been around for centuries. In this course, Russell Beck will go over different sorts of noncompetes and how have they've been regulated historically. He will also cover the economic impacts of noncompete agreements and recent legislative and regulatory proposals at the state and federal levels to help you advise your clients about noncompetes.

Students and faculty alike are protected from discrimination in education under Federal Law. If an educational program receives federal funds, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination based on disability. Nonetheless, the remedies available under these laws were drastically limited by the US Supreme Court, on April 28, 2022, when its decision in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller cutoff victims' right to recover emotional distress damages. Learn what remedies remain under these federal laws and how the Court's narrow reasoning left emotional distress damages available under other anti-discrimination statutes. This course will break-down the Cummings Case and prepare you to litigate education discrimination under its new rubric. 

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.

Professional sports involve a unique interplay between antitrust and labor law. On the one hand, pro leagues have a cartel structure where independent team owners coordinate policies with regard relocation, broadcasting deals and salary controls, their way of doing business raises antitrust questions and poses challenges for courts to determine whether these policies violate antitrust law. In addition, because labor agreements are made by all of these owners through the umbrella of the league, the labor agreements combine aspects of labor law, but also involve the applicability of antitrust exemptions involving their labor agreements. This presentation will focus on the basic antitrust standards, the scope of Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption, the scope of the “rule of reason” test and the scope of the so-called non-statutory labor exemption to antitrust. If there is time, we will review some key provisions of the current labor agreements between Major League Baseball and its players and the NFL and its players.

Design law utilizes the copyright, trade dress, and design patent regimes to help manufacturers protect the design of useful products in multiple market segments. It requires navigating the often ambiguous boundaries between form and function under each legal doctrine. After an introduction to the commercial value of design, the course reviews the law that provides the foundation for a comprehensive design law strategy. The law is then applied to two commercial products – heavy industry and consumer - to help participants synthesize the disparate doctrines. The course presumes familiarity with copyright, trademark, and patent law.

This course will teach you the fundamentals of using federal Civil Rule 35 to take mental examinations, a discovery technique commonly used in employment cases by management to have a mental health practitioner intrusively question the plaintiff. We will discuss who can attend such an examination, the uses and misuse of “garden variety” emotional distress, the role of the treater and the treater as a “hybrid” witness, the reports required of a forensic expert and treater, as well as psychological testing and the controversy over malingering and the Fake Bad Scale, and tax treatment of emotional distress damages. By the end of this course you should be able to answer the following questions: Must the plaintiff endeavor to mitigate emotional distress damages? Can the defense conduct an ex parte interview of plaintiff's treater? And can the defense require the plaintiff to be interviewed by a vocational rehabilitation professional?

How is trial preparation in civil cases New Jersey different from other states’/federal practice? What are the special rules as to discovery? What are the customs and practices? How are the rules of evidence different? How does one preserve errors for appeal? This is an overview with examples from the presenter’s own experience. It is also helpful for new attorneys practicing in New Jersey courts.

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and held that there is no constitutional right to abortion. This program will trace the path toward and beyond Roe, including the decisions involving the right to privacy and substantive due process. We conclude with some predictions about the effects of the Dobbs decision for abortion rights and other constitutional rights.

In today’s digital landscape, data breaches are an ever-present threat. This course provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and preparing for data breaches. Participants will learn what constitutes a data breach, explore two common types of breaches, and develop strategies to effectively plan for and mitigate their impact. The course emphasizes proactive measures to limit the likelihood of unauthorized access and reduce potential harm in case a breach occurs. Equip yourself with the tools to safeguard sensitive information and protect your organization’s reputation.

This presentation will shy away from more cutting edge topics, sometimes of fleeting importance and, instead, will re-center lawyers’ attention to what the presenter has proposed are the five core components providing the “recipe” for ethical lawyering. While limiting its scope to broad topics that are alliterative, this presentation will manage to discuss many more ethics rules than just five, including Model Rules 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7-1.10, 1.15, 1.18, 3.3, 4.1, 7.1, and 8.4 among several others.

Solo and small firm attorneys often face the familiar challenge of handling work demands during peak times. How can a small firm continue to offer excellent client service when there are only so many hours in the day? Small firms often look outside to contract attorneys, co-counsel, or refer work out in order to ensure client needs are met. This program will discuss the ethical considerations involved when working with contract attorneys, co-counsel relationships, and referral relationships.

This course is an advanced review of the legal ethics issues raised by litigation finance and how these have been resolved. We will cover ABA Model Rules, court decisions, bar opinions, and state rules (where appropriate) involving the following topics: attorney competence, scope of authority & control, communicating with the client, fee sharing, disclosure, privilege & confidentiality, and conflicts of interest. Attendees will leave this lecture with substantive knowledge of the ways litigation finance has developed without contravening attorney ethical rules.

This 60 minute CLE is geared towards registered patent practitioners and their support staff in understanding the obligations of patent lawyers. This IP Ethics CLE will cover topics including conflicts of interest, candor requirements, unauthorized practice of law, working with foreign associates, export control issues, and more.

The goal of an arbitration management conference is to set the stage for an expeditious and cost-effective proceeding, anticipate issues or problems that might frustrate an arbitration hearing, and pave the way for a possible settlement of the dispute. Theo Cheng is an experienced advocate and arbitrator who will explain what counsel can expect from an arbitration management conference and provide practical strategies to optimize what you can realize from the event, as well as manage the costs of an arbitration, secure the discovery needed, and gather the information necessary to present your case effectively at the evidentiary hearing.

This course will discuss the various green card options available to artists, entertainers, and athletes. We will provide a broad overview of business immigration and take a deep dive into sports and entertainment immigration options, including visa options and paths to permanent residency. This course will also discuss strategies for how to choose the right path to a green card for your client.

Determining the location of an individual at a specific point in time can make or break a case. You can use location data to present an alibi in defense, discredit a witness or party, show how long someone was on the road prior to a crash, establish where a digital contract was signed, and more. This unique webinar will show you how to find and use location data in your case. We will answer your live questions, and walk through realworld location analysis. You will come away knowing where to find data to support your case, as well as how to analyze some of the data yourself.