Bar Association of San Francisco

January 22, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H, This is a brown bag luncheon

 

 

Speakers
Patricia de Fonte
Principal Attorney
De Fonte Law

Alice Shikina
Principal Mediator
Shikina Mediation and Arbitration

Summary
The panel will consider multiple hypotheticals which address the secrets families hold and the challenging dynamics of family relationships. At its heart, estate planning is about families, and attorneys should do more than simply address taxes and trustee powers. They must address ex-spouses, estranged children, beneficiaries with substance abuse issues, beneficiaries with financial challenges, mistrust among family members, long-standing feuds and more. The panel will consider these challenges, advise how to facilitate conversations around these issues, and identify strategies for addressing them in estate planning documents.

Topics
• Learn techniques used by mediators to facilitate emotionally difficult conversations
• Learn what provisions to include in your estate plan to address challenging family dynamics
• Learn how to bring value to your clients by being more than a document preparer

http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=B191255/B191255

 

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco 

January 22, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H, Lunch will be provided.

 

Speakers
Gretchen Hoff Varner
Covington & Burling LLP

Sara Thorpe
Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan LLP

Moderator
John DiMugno
DiMugno Law

Our panel of experienced insurance lawyers will address key developments in California insurance law during 2018. Whether you practice insurance coverage law, do insurance defense work, are a plaintiffâ€ÿs lawyer where insurance may be in play, or practice in-house, this longstanding annual program will bring you up to speed on the most significant insurance issues that could make the difference between winning and losing, and can help you avoid missteps that could cause policyholder clients to lose insurance, or could cost your insurance company clients greatly.

Topics
• The Supreme Court decision in Ledesma, defining â€úaccidentâ€û and finding coverage for employers for intentional torts of employees
• New Insurance Code Section 530.5 concerning efficient proximate cause in relation to landslide, mudslide perils
• Developments concerning the duty to defend and independent counsel

 

http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G194301/G194301

 

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco 

Ethical Duties and Electronically Stored Information

January 20, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, in Legal Ethics Credit  

 

 

Speaker
Cory Hamma, Califorensics

Electronically stored information is increasingly relevant in court cases. The types of digital information that can assist a client's case is ever-changing and expanding. This course aims to highlight these new items and explain how attorneys can capture the data and translate it into a format appropriate for court. It will also address the new standards for presenting court-admissible electronic data.

Topics
• Key Terms
• Overview of Formal Opinion 2015-193
• Timeline of a Case
• Example Cases
• Ethical Duties Related to ESI

 

 

 

 http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=R190008/R190008

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco 

January 18, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H, in Recognition and Elimination of Bias
Lunch will be provided.

 

Speaker
Matthew J. Cahill
Founder, Sr. Consultant w/the Percipio Company

Bias resides in the 99+% of how we unconsciously process information in any given moment. Most of the time, it serves us very well. Understanding when it doesn't is key to improving our decisions, relationships and organizations. This workshop creates an open, immersive environment for exploring decisionmaking, inclusivity and proactive measures for increasing employee performance. The output is collective strategies for mitigation and empowering attorneys to own the processes.


Topics
• Deepen their understanding of Unconscious Bias.
• Understand how UB affects interactions & relationships.
• Define the 5 most common cognitive biases and mitigation
strategies.
• Identify mitigation strategies to improve your practice.

 

 

 https://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G193101/G193101

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco 

January 17, 2019: 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H, This is a brown bag luncheon.

 

Speakers
Jared. P. Hollett
Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg

Elise Shibles
Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg

Summary
The Trump Administration is moving quickly on trade issues that could have significant impacts on business. This program provides an overview of some of the latest developments. Areas of focus may include national security-related import restrictions, export controls and sanctions, trade agreement negotiations and renegotiations, efforts to reduce trade deficits, changes to trade preference programs, and new antidumping and countervailing duty measures.

Topics
• China Trade Issues
• Free Trade Agreement Updates
• Presidential Authority (Actions: 301, 232, etc.)

• Sanctions Updates
• Export Controls: Emerging Technologies

 

 

http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=B191420/B191420

 

 

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco 

January 17, 2019: 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H

 

 

Speakers
Geoffrey Gan
Incentax

Amir Atashi Rang
Atashi Rang Law Firm PC

Amanda Ewing-Rice
Atashi Rang Law Firm PC

A discussion of a variety of strategies ranging from Prop 13/58 planning to Cost Segregation studies.

Topics
• Proposition 13/58: Introduction
• Proposition 13/58: A Time Sensitive Window to keep county property taxes at bay
• Proposition 13/58: Entity Planning and Change of Ownership
• Cost Segregation: Introduction
• Cost Segregation: A Time Sensitive Opportunity with Estate Planning
• Cost Segregation: 1031 Exchanges

 

 

http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G190701/G190701

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

January 16, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H, This is a brown bag luncheon.

 

Speakers
John Cumming
Special Counsel, Office of the Director of Industrial Relations

Bill Jhaveri-Weeks
Principal, Jhaveri-Weeks Law

Katie Briscoe
Managing Associate, Orrick

 

Summary
The Barristers Labor and Employment section will present a panel discussion about the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act. Panelists will discuss the history behind PAGA statutes, how PAGA litigation works, and practical tips for prosecuting and defending PAGA claims. Panel participants include one of the drafters of the 2016 amendments to the PAGA statutes and attorneys who have substantial experience in PAGA litigation.

 

Topics
• Tips for prosecuting and defending PAGA claims
• Practical tips for litigating PAGA actions
• The role of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency in PAGA lawsuits
• PAGA case law update 

 

 

 http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=B191430/B191430

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

January 15, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
MCLE Credits - 1.5 H, in Legal Ethics.
This is a brown bag luncheon.

 

 

Speakers
Joshua A. Bloom
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson

Amy L. Bomse
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer

Topics
• Handling conflicts in complex multi-party environmental cases
• Representing entities and/or employees in criminal and civil investigations
• Unique confidentiality issues for environmental attorneys
• Issues concerning conflict waivers

 

 

 

http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G192902/G192902

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

January 12, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
MCLE Credits - 1.5 H, in Elimination of Bias.

 

 

Speakers
Shay Aaron Gilmore
NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company

Kelly Dermody
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein

 

Julius Turman
Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete

 

Erica Worthington

 

This program will address current best practices to ensure doorways are open to LGBT lawyers and that promotion and retention goals are embraced. We will discuss how best practices have changed since BASF last conducted a report on LGBT issues in 2007, what the landscape looks like today, and what further efforts need to be made to encourage promotion, retention and advancement of LGBT persons in the legal profession. Panelists will include law firm partners, in-house counsel, and employment law attorneys. Panelist will speak about their personal experiences as it relates to the hiring, promotion and advancement of LGBT attorneys. Panelists will also discuss internal biases within the LGBT legal community and ways to reduce those internal biases.

 

Topics
• Recent developments and an update since the 2007 BASF report on LGBT issues
• How best practices for hiring, retention and advancement of LGBT attorneys have changed
• What further efforts need to be made to encourage promotion, retention and advancement of LGBT persons in the legal profession

 

 

 http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=R190005/R160065

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

January 11, 2019: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
MCLE Credits - 1 H, in Legal Ethics Credit

 

Civility Matters
Winning Inside and Outside the Courtroom While Being Civil

Join us for an interactive program on what really matters in litigation in trial. Incivility in litigation -- civil or criminal -- rarely benefits anyone. Yet we all see it from time to time -- counsel, client and even judges behaving badly. What to do? Come watch the actual film clips, see the transcript and emails, and listen to experienced litigators, a judge and mediator share practical advice for effectively dealing with incivility in civil and criminal cases.

 

 

http://www.sfbar.org/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?id=G194108/G194108