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Over the past five years, social networking websites have boomed in popularity. Attorneys and their staff are using these sites to develop clients, investigate cases, and for other professional and personal purposes. The need for guidelines, protocols, and policies in law firms has increased concomitantly with overall usage of these sites. This webcast will provide suggested dos, and vivid examples of don’ts, for online networking in the context of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, various ethical opinions, and recent case decisions. Attendees will also receive a social media policy template for their law firms that will provide suggestions on how to minimize the pitfalls and maximize the benefits associated with participating in these sites. |
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Mediation practice is often an underappreciated art and form of advocacy that clients appreciate when done well. Mediation advocacy and preparation are seldom discussed, and even skilled trial lawyers would benefit from more intensive and focused mediation training. Learn how two lawyers and specially trained mediators plan and prepare for mediation, as they explain how to maximize the chances of good mediation results. Topics will include important premediation activity for lawyers and clients, overcoming hurdles in advance of the mediation session, managing client expectations, timing of mediation, and selection of the mediator. The webcast also will demonstrate the importance of selecting the right mediation participants and the breadth of creative solutions that are possible. |
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When remediating contaminated properties, responsible parties are often faced with the
dilemma of deciding how clean is clean. For some chemicals, the new, conservative, risk-based standards result in clean-up criteria that can actually be lower than “background” levels. As a result, sometimes responsible parties are expected to clean up contamination that may not have been caused by industrial operations on a property. This continual lowering of the regulatory clean-up floor has significant ramifications in a variety of contexts, including property transactions, site remediation, toxic tort cases and natural resource damage assessments. This webcast will focus on three specific contaminants: dioxin, arsenic and TCE, each of which has been the subject of recent regulatory actions to lower the applicable cleanup/screening level. Examples of what happens when regulators try to force parties to clean up contaminated sites to below background and practical solutions will be duscusssed. |
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In today’s litigation environment, constitutional claims against governmental entities are becoming more complex and theories are ever-evolving. Despite the complexity of the claims or the evolution of different theories, the analysis of the merits of claims is guided by 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. In this program, you will hear from two battle-tested civil rights defense attorneys on the basics of §1983 claims and how to defend clients facing them. The speakers will discuss who plaintiffs can sue for alleged violations of civil rights, in what capacity defendants can be sued, what claims plaintiffs can plead, what the elements to the claims are, and all applicable defenses. You will also receive helpful
tips on how to evaluate a civil rights case, prepare a case for trial, and ultimately try the case. |
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