New Mexico bundle (2024)

New York’s recently enacted Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (“RPAPL”) § 1302-a effectively eliminates waiver of the standing defense in a home loan foreclosure action. This exposes foreclosing lenders to assaults on their foreclosure actions for elusive durations and raises questions as to the marketability and insurability of titles devolving through foreclosures. This course will cover how foreclosures are affected by RPAPL and similar statutes in other states.

In this program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Senior Attorney and Managing Litigator Selena Kyle will introduce the concept of environmental justice and discuss trends in federal environmental justice policy and private environmental-justice advocacy. This program will use examples from the guest’s own impact litigation practice to illustrate current issues in environmental justice.

The times when people joined firms hoping to become partner and remain until retirement are long past. It is common for lawyers to have more than a dozen positions during their career with some changing jobs more frequently than that. With the recent demand for talent, some people are changing jobs in less than a year. These moves raise issues as to obligations to clients and the client’s rights to select counsel. Lawyers and firms also need to evaluate conflict issues associated with these changes. In addition, departing lawyers and their firms may be bound by partnership agreements that address transition issues. Often neglected by all concerned is staying on good terms, leaving without regard to the other side can have longstanding effect on the reputation of lawyers and firms, and in the worst case, lead to litigation.

This program will focus on the intersections between Workers Compensation Benefits, Personal Injury Benefits, Estate Planning, and Family Law with Social Security Disability Benefits. The Program will focus on the ways in which these areas of law intersect and how holistic lawyering and collaboration can better serve clients and even reduce your bottom line.

This one hour course will provide an in-depth overview of maritime arbitration claims. This course will provide attorneys with an historical background of maritime arbitration, explain the various statutory frameworks, defined the different types of disputes brought in maritime arbitration, as well as discuss the relevant format and procedures. We will also explore the enforceability of awards, including the potential challenges to an award.

Business mergers and acquisitions are complicated transactions for any attorney representing a buyer or seller, but there are special challenges when representing a client who wishes to buy or sell a Web-based business. Unlike their “brick and mortar” counterparts, the assets of a Web-based business are primarily intangible and can easily lose value – or disappear entirely -- when the business changes hands. Making sure that all of the seller’s web domain names (URLs), e-mail and e-commerce accounts, social media pages, and web traffic transfer smoothly to the buyer without interruption requires an in-depth familiarity with Web-based businesses and how they operate. In this fast-paced presentation, hosted by a leading small business attorney, author of “Advising eBusinesses” and nationally syndicated legal columnist who has helped dozens of clients buy and sell Web-based businesses over the past 10 to 15 years, you will learn how to handle the special issues involved in selling and buying such businesses so that your M&A transactions close smoothly, on time, every time.

Families are unique social constructs with unique challenges. Accordingly, estate planning attorneys must anticipate and draft for these challenges if they do not want clients (and the estate plans) to be subject to probate or estate administration court battles. This program covers applicable laws, rules, and regulations for drafting trusts that address three of the most common, yet challenging, family dynamics: hostile family members, spendthrift beneficiaries, and family factions. We will also review hypotheticals to provide hands-on examples of provisions that can be helpful in keeping the peace or at least keeping clients from nasty court battles.

Many litigators joke that they “hate math” and chose law to avoid it. But in fact, data, and the use of analysis to process and present data, is critical to modern litigation. Data allows attorneys to scale up from individual to societal in scope, to claims encompassing entire financial markets and public-health epidemics. This new and insightful course explains why data is important and how to use it effectively in litigation. While class is a must for seasoned litigators who handle matters involving data sets for proving their case, others may find the topic of interest.

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 through the ACE criteria 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.

The Course will focus on recent CFPB announcements and directives affecting real estate specifically regarding the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Prosecution of discriminatory lending practices, Clarification of Rules and Regulations, and an Explanation of the Rule pertaining to the transition away from the LIBOR index for determining rates on adjustable loans.

When you decide to “hang out your shingle” and start a solo practice, you are an entrepreneur, just like someone starting a tech company or other new venture, and you face many of the same business, legal and tax challenges that entrepreneurs face. It’s a regulated business, of course, and you must operate your practice ethically and professionally, but it’s a business nonetheless. It’s impossible to commit malpractice or an ethical violation if you don’t have any clients. In part one of this fast-paced, two part presentation, hosted by a leading legal author, columnist and media personality who has operated a solo law practice out of his home for the past 25 years, you will learn the basics of starting and running a successful law practice.

Non-compete agreements shape the American employment landscape, affecting both employees and employers. Because these agreements prevent an employee from working within a particular industry for a defined time period, courts tend to closely examine these provisions. In recent years, many states have passed legislation to modify non-compete provisions in both employment agreements and business purchase agreements. Some states uphold non-compete agreements only when a legitimate business interest is at stake, while others have banned non-competes altogether. Certain states require employers to provide additional consideration or benefits to an employee to bind them by a non-compete. If employers are to adequately draft non-compete provisions, and if employees are to successfully negotiate such provisions, they must understand how the law is evolving in this area. Kristen Prinz, the Founder and Managing Partner of the Prinz Law Firm, P.C., will discuss best practices for drafting non-compete clauses from an employer’s perspective, and best practices to negotiate and handle non-compete clauses from an employee’s perspective.

This course will analyze relevant case law and ethics opinions against attorneys for professional liability concerns as well as lawsuits arising from negligent and intentional actions for failure to provide adoptive parents with full or accurate information regarding the child’s physical or psychological background /medical records, wrongful adoptions, and setting aside adoptions. In this practice course, attorney Colleen Quinn, will review recommendations, best practices, and sample language, including the use of exculpatory clauses in contracts and legal and medical risk agreements that can lessen an adoption professional’s liability. 

The powerful public interest in preventing the spread of contagious diseases has led to a longstanding history of vaccination mandates being imposed as a prerequisite to access to various rights, such as education and employment. At some points in history, nonvaccination has even been punished with fines. Balancing out this imposition, systems have been established to compensate the small proportion of individuals who claim to have been harmed by an adverse reaction to a vaccination. This course will examine the legal basis and structure of vaccination mandates, including public mandates imposed by state and federal government entities and private mandates imposed by employers. The course will cover the common exemptions from vaccination and accommodations required by employers under federal law. The course will then turn to the function and operations of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and to other routes of injury compensation available for vaccines not covered under that program.

The program will cover the amendments by the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (“MRTA”) to the New York Labor Law. Specifically, the program will discuss how the amendments impact employment policies such as hiring, firing, discipline, and drug screening, and pitfalls that employers may fall into in light of the new legislation. The program will also discuss open and unresolved questions by the law and how to carefully navigate around the unresolved questions. Additionally, the program will discuss what types of policies employers can set and what to include or exclude when preparing these policies. Additionally, the program will discuss what could be on the horizon with respect to further clarification from New York and possible litigation.

Amidst a pandemic quickly turning endemic, people are learning the value and power of the virtual world, from education to work to healthcare. A doctor on vacation in Hawaii conducts a follow-up appointment with her 83-year-old cancer patient in New York City while a Florida Cardiologist checks in to see why his patient in Nevada has such a low heart rate at the moment. These are just some of the exciting ways that telehealth can benefit patients and providers, but what are the rules in this fast-changing environment? This course will provide you with the tools you need to advise your clients on the legal and regulatory aspects of telehealth from both a federal and state perspective.

In this course, we will learn why lawyers experience greater overall rates of substance use and mental health issues than the general public. We will review how lawyers have been faring during the pandemic (using survey results), as well as best practices for improving lawyer well-being within an organization. Finally, this course will discuss the neuroscience of pleasure and provide tools for increasing pleasure in our lives. All of these lessons are tied to lawyers’ ethical duty to maintain well-being.

On November 27, 2019, the European Union enacted a new directive on the protection of whistleblowers. This Directive, titled Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, requires E.U. Member States to significantly reinforce legal protections for whistleblowers. Its provisions—which are widely considered the most whistleblower-friendly in the world—include broad anti-retaliation protections as well as reinforced compliance obligations for employers. The Directive is currently being implemented across E.U. Member States, with certain countries having already adopted national whistleblower legislation pursuant to the Directive, and other Member States in the process of adopting such legislation. This program will review the E.U. Whistleblower Directive and provide a snapshot of Member State legislation to date. The program also highlights best practices that employers with European operations can put in place to ensure compliance with the Directive and Member State legislation.

This course provides insight into the new California law (AB 288) that comes into effect in January 2023 and will change how companies and brands run online charitable promotions. This new comprehensive law significantly changes the landscape of national online charitable promotions. This course will provide participants tips to recognize when and to whom this new law applies, how to comply with the requirements of the new law, including registration of promotions, contracts with charities, sending donations to charities and disclosures.

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.