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In this one-hour presentation, tax attorneys Ben Wagner and Kathleen Pfutzenreuter discuss some common tax issues and questions that arise for attorneys advising small business owners, including: the home office tax deduction, tax consequences and considerations in employing family members, the Section 199A Deduction from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, establishing residency in a lower or no-income tax state, whether certain items, such as cars, boats, and planes, are deductible business expenses, and how to determine whether the client should treat workers as employees or independent contractors.

This course will survey adult guardianship proceedings in New York State under Mental Hygiene Law Article 81. Adult guardianship is a unique and exciting area of law, both substantively and procedurally. This course will explore the civil rights component of adult guardianship, the parties to an adult guardianship proceeding, how these proceedings are commenced, appointment of the guardian, the role of the guardian, and discharge. The course will provide a broad understanding of adult guardianship pursuant to MHL Art. 81 for practitioners new to this field of law. The course will also touch upon the basic differences between adult guardianship under MHL Art. 81 and Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act Article 17-A.

This course discusses the rules surrounding audio recordings, the wiretap act and video and audio surveillance. The course details the basic statutory and common law rules regarding private party surveillance and how that applies to civil litigation.

Cybersecurity risk management and the potential for enforcement actions is not diminishing. An area of increasing interest by the Federal Trade Commission, the United States Department of Justice, and Congress is third parties benefiting financially from taking sensitive data, including protected health information, without obtaining affirmative patient/consumer consent (especially from social media and search engine giants). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency tasked with enforcing HIPAA, also plays a critical role here. The purpose of this presentation is to address different federal government initiatives, recent enforcement actions and incidents, and risk mitigation.

If you could protect your cognitive health in the future, would you, do it? Research indicates that cognitive decline can begin in our 20s and 30s. The truth is, it’s never too early to recognize the threats that can adversely impact our cognitive function. It’s estimated that at least one-third of all diagnosed cases can be prevented through lifestyle choices. As lawyers, we understand that good cognitive function is vital to our professional obligations and abilities. This course offers evidence-based strategies to help protect and preserve your cognitive health. Discover the natural action steps that you can implement now to help you maximize your long-term cognitive care.

The Rules of Professional Conduct contain special rules regarding the duties, obligations, and restrictions applicable to attorneys engaged in litigation, which also includes administrative proceedings. The course will provide an overview of the fundamental ethical rules, and their relationship to substantive rules and law, that litigators encounter. The course will include discussion of the rules that ever litigator needs to fully know and understand in order that they can properly represent their clients in dispute proceedings. Since a violation of the rules can result in significant harm to the client’s case, attorneys should stay fully informed about the pertinent rules. Although the course is basically an ethics course, ideas on how to better represent a client in litigation and comply with the rules will be discussed.

In this program, Sean Smith will discuss how to avoid unforeseen consequences from using unnecessary and misunderstood boilerplate terms when drafting contracts. The clauses in a contract added from boilerplate language are often overlooked and infrequently negotiated. We will review the most common types of boilerplate clauses and what to consider when determining whether to use them in your clients’ contracts.

This program will focus on Workers Compensation, Social Security Disability Benefits, and Unemployment Benefits. After an overview of each program’s basics, we will begin with a recapturing public benefits policies from the Covid-19 Pandemic. We will review and assess the current state of these benefits programs in terms of both legal changes and operational changes. The final portion of the program will look at the political, global, and economic factors impacting these programs. We will focus on predicting the impacts on public benefits and proactive steps we can take to best prepare your clients.

Now you know about ransomware. You know the types, you know how the attacks work, and you know what to do and not do in response to an attack. But so far, we’ve focused on how to stop the attack and resume operations as soon as possible. But in most cases, a ransomware attack also impacts individuals outside of an organization – customers and clients.

Contributing to candidates, starting a political action committee, raising money for candidates, and being involved in advocacy organizations are all highly regulated efforts. It is important to understand contribution prohibitions and limitations, disclosure rules, and other restrictions on political activity at the federal, state, and local levels. In this overview course, we will explain how the Federal Election Campaign Act and the various state laws apply to different activities and actors, such as candidates, super PACs, companies, and individuals.

Interacting online as a lawyer is a minefield of potential ethics violations. What ethics opinions are there that provide guidance for day-to-day activities? This course will review ethics opinions from the ABA and state bars around the country that address issues of blogging, selling legal informational recordings, engaging in social media, responding to negative online reviews, how to handle inadvertent email communications, and whether you can accept virtual currency as payment of legal fees.

Abelism is defined as prejudice against people who are perceived to be disabled. It consists of bias in favor people who are perceived as being typically able and it often denies or fails to recognize the unique super-capabilities of the differently-abled. How can we rid ourselves of stereotypes regarding the lesser value and or lesser capabilities of people who are not typically abled? How do we create an environment where differently-abled people are fully respected, fully valued, fully appreciated, and fully supportive? This session will answer these questions with compassion and humor.

Many lawyers who are new to practice may say they want to be litigators, but they don’t necessarily have an idea of what that looks like. This introduction to litigation covers some of the most common steps of every case and includes practical first-hand knowledge of the best practices and common pitfalls of each step. This course will detail the process of litigation, from pleadings, to discovery, to dispositive motions through trial, while discussing the importance of continued settlement negotiations along the way.

The two greatest sources of professional risk to attorneys come from overlapping sources – ethical obligations and legal duties to clients. Using real world examples, this course explores a national survey of claims against lawyers based on attorney malpractice and professional misconduct. Common ethical considerations and the relationship between professional responsibility and malpractice exposure will be explored along with growing cyber risks to attorneys. Related causes of action, common defenses and jurisdictional considerations will be reviewed as well as risk management techniques and best practices to mitigate such claims.

This talk should change your life. No small feat, but that's the goal. This program will help you understand where your sense of "overwhelm" is coming from, how the practice of the law makes it inevitable, and what you can do about it. The practice of law is toxic, but that toxicity is related to how we feel we have to "get things done." What if you could change that? As a solo or an associate, there are only so many resources around you, but understanding how to create new tools, how to shift your law practice paradigm, and how to protect yourself are key to avoiding burn out (or recognizing that you are burning out, and doing something about it). You will be introduced to some agile project management techniques that you can implement immediately, as well as principles and approaches to change the way you see the practice of law. We will also cover the three pillars of the Livable Law legal project management method: tasks, time, and things.

The program delves into the history of LGBTQ families and the hurdles encountered historically in having and building families. Finally the program brings us up to the present issues still facing LGBTQ families in the area of family formation and where we might be headed in the future.

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

Judges are granting more motions to dismiss—and getting past the starting gate is tougher than it was in past decades. Making matters worse, by the time you respond, the judge has already heard the defendant’s side of the story and may feel ready to dismiss your case. How can you make a comeback and ensure your case proceeds to discovery? Join professional brief writer Jonathan Hilton as he shares ten tips you can put into practice right away in opposing these common motions.

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.

The best advocates understand that they will convince arbitrator(s) to rule in their favor with a compelling story that is supported by witness testimony and documents. Critical to success is telling the arbitrator what you want them to do and how your arbitration story supports this action. This course will provide lawyers with strategies and tactics to develop a theme for a compelling arbitration story that is delivered through witness testimony and documents after careful planning.