Bar Association of San Francisco 

 

The Construction Section of the Barristers Club presents:

 

How to Manage and Leverage Experts for Optimal Results

 

June 6, 2018: 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm

MCLE Credits - 1 H, Light refreshments provided by Pillsbury Law

 

Battle of the Experts: How to effectively manage and leverage experts for optimal results

 

Speakers

Clark Thiel
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Sarah Peterman Bell
Partner, Farella Braun + Martel LLP

David R. Bones
Vice President, The Kenrich Group LLC

 

 

Moderator

Andrew Argyris
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

 

 

Cases often come down to a battle of the experts.  When an issue in a case is too complex for a lay fact-finder to understand intuitively, experts are critical to a successful verdict.  But when both sides have equally qualified experts making directly opposite conclusions, what makes one side’s experts more convincing than the other?  This CLE program will provide insight into managing and leveraging experts for optimal results.  Starting from the beginning of how to locate and choose the right expert, and moving into the management of expert testimony and reports, this program will lay a broad foundation for working with experts.  It will also cover the important issue of discoverability of communications between lawyer and experts, and best practices for ensuring that your discussions with experts are not disclosed.

 

Topics

• Federal Rules governing discoverability of expert communications and drafts
• Best practices for communicating with experts
• Locating and retaining the right experts
• Managing experts for best results

 

Section Chairs: Andrew Argyris, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP & David Seidel, Jones Day

 

Printable Flyer ( PDF)

 

Location

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
4 Embarcadero Center
22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

Schedule

MCLE Registration: 5:00-5:30 p.m.

Program: 5:30-6:45 p.m.

 

Cost

BASF Student Member	Complimentary
Section Member	$30.00
BASF Member	$40.00
Government	$40.00
Nonprofit	$40.00
Non-Member	$55.00

 

Note: All prices increase by $10.00 on the day of the program.

 

Event Code: B181221

 

Questions about our seminars and the registration process?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fax or Mail your registration: Registration Form ( PDF) 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco 

 

The Probate Litigation Subcommittee of the Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section presents:

 

Recent Developments and Current Topics in SF Probate Court

June 5, 2018: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

MCLE Credits - 1 H, in Legal Specialization Credit. This is a brown bag luncheon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Recent Developments and Current Topics in the San Francisco Probate Court

Speaker

Sandy Hilton
San Francisco Superior Court

Topics

• Current state of the court (staffing, budget)
• Update on procedures and policies
• Tips for practicing in San Francisco

Section Chairs: Howard Slavitt, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, Alicia Gamez, Law Office of Alicia M. Gamez and James Patrick Lamping, Law Office of James P. Lamping

Printable Flyer ( PDF)

 

Location

BASF Conference Center
301 Battery Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Directions

 

 

Schedule

MCLE Registration: 11:30 a.m.
Program: 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

 

 

Cost

BASF Student Member	Complimentary
Section Member	$35.00
BASF Member	$45.00
Government	$45.00
Nonprofit	$45.00
Non-Member	$60.00

 

Note: All prices increase by $10.00 on the day of the program.

 

Event Code: G180508

 

 

Questions about our seminars and the registration process?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fax or Mail your registration: Registration Form ( PDF)

 

 

California Lawyers Association

 

Labor & Employment Law Section:

 

Proving and Disproving Employment Discrimination

 

Description:

 

Employment discrimination claims can be proved or disproved many different ways. When is a prima facie case susceptible to attack? What evidence can prove or disprove pretext? What remarks are admissible? How can statistical or pattern evidence be used? Here are some answers.

 

Faculty:

 

Phil Horowitz

 

 Phil Horowitz has been representing employees for over 30 years. He is past Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section, past Chair of the California Employment Lawyers Association, and serves on the board of the California Lawyers Association. He volunteer teaches trial advocacy and speaks about employment law at many continuing education programs.

 

Theodora R. Lee

 

 Theodora R. Lee, a senior shareholder/partner and trial lawyer in the San Francisco and Walnut Creek offices of Littler Mendelson, defends employers in complex wage and hour class actions, discrimination class action lawsuits and general employment litigation. Ms. Lee has extensive courtroom experience, and specializes in all aspects of employment and labor relations law, including wrongful termination litigation; National Labor Relations Board matters, including representation cases, unfair labor practice proceedings, grievance arbitrations; Title VII and FEHA proceedings, including race, sex, religious and age harassment and discrimination; and unfair competition proceedings.  She also counsels employers on day to day employment issues such as covenants not to compete, hiring and termination of employees, the Equal Pay Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the California Business and Professions Code, the Family and Medical Leave Act, federal and state wage and hour issues, pre-employment screening, litigation avoidance, reductions in force, the development of personnel policies and procedures, workplace violence, employee terminations, employment agreements, drug and alcohol testing, and risk management protocols. Ms. Lee’s energy and enthusiasm for labor and employment law translates into an intense focus on providing value to clients through innovative and superior quality work with exceptional client service.

 

 

Credit(s):	1 Participatory MCLE Credits
Course Number:	LL_6-26-18
Original Program Date:	June 26, 2018
Duration:	1 hour
Access:	Available for 3 months after purchase
Date:	June 26, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

 

Cost:

$55.00

 

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

 

California Lawyers Association

 

The Revised Rules of Professional Conduct - What’s New, What’s Not, and How It Will Affect Your Practice Part Two: The Lawyer-Client Relationship

 

Description:

 

The last comprehensive revisions of the California Rules of Professional Conduct were effective in 1992, nearly 30 years ago.  On May 10, 2018, the California Supreme Court adopted substantial changes to the rules.  The new rules go into effect on November 1, 2018.

The Rules Revision Commission, a group of 19 lawyers and judges and five non-voting advisors, was chaired by Justice Lee Smalley Edmon, Presiding Justice of Division Three of the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles.

They were tasked to study existing rules and recommend their changes, specifically focusing on “revisions that (a) are necessary to address changes in law and (b) eliminate, when and if appropriate, unnecessary differences between California’s rules and the rules used by a preponderance of the states (in some cases in reliance on the American Bar Association’s Model Rules) in order to help promote a national standard with respect to professional responsibility issues whenever possible.”

In this three-part webinar, you will hear about selected revised rules from three members of the Commission -- highly qualified and respected members of the legal community. The rules on which the panel will focus have been chosen because of their broad application and interest to practitioners as well as the significance of changes from the existing rules.  

 

Faculty:

 

Daniel Eaton

Daniel E. Eaton is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a litigation partner at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego. Dan is a longtime member of the Standing Committee on Discipline of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

 

Heather L. Rosing

Heather L. Rosing is a Shareholder and Managing Partner of Klinedinst PC and a certified specialist in legal malpractice. She currently serves as President of the California Lawyers Association, the second largest voluntary Bar Association in the country. 

Mark L. Tuft

Mark L. Tuft is Partner with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, principally engaged in professional liability, media law, civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts. He is also a certified specialist in legal malpractice law. 

 

 

Credit(s):	1 Participatory MCLE Credits 1 Ethics
Course Number:	CLA_6-19-18
Original Program Date:	June 19, 2018
Duration:	1 hour
Access:	Available for 3 months after purchase
Date:	June 19, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

 

Cost:

$55.00

 

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

 

California Lawyers Association

 

Family Law Section:

 

Admitting Evidence in Family Court: Make Your Record in Short-cause Hearings and Trials

 

Description:

 

 Elkins v. Superior Court (2007) confirmed that the same general rules that govern other civil trials apply in full force in family law trials, including the hearsay rule. That holding did not explicitly encompass family law and motion hearings. 
Elkins gave rise to Family Code § 217, setting in place obligations for practitioners and the Court for the receipt of live testimony in family court law and motion hearings and trials. In March 2018, the Court of Appeal confirmed in Marriage of Swain that parties have a right to confront and cross-examine witnesses during family court law and motion hearings. 
We will teach you the procedural rules that practitioners and the Court must know in order to ensure that we comply with dictates of Elkins and its progeny

 

Faculty:

 

Jackie Flynn

Jackie Flynn has been practicing family law exclusively since being admitted to the bar in December 2014, and began working at Robbins Family Law in the summer of 2015. Her areas of focus include divorce, child and spousal support, asset division, child custody and visitation, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Ms. Flynn earned her J.D. from Golden Gate University, School of Law in May 2014. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology in 2011 from Santa Clara University. Ms. Flynn discovered her passion for family law by taking cases pro bono through the San Francisco Bar Association’s Justice & Diversity Center. 
Ms. Flynn is a San Francisco native.

 

Liat Sadler

Liat Sadler is a family law practitioner in San Francisco. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan with honors and her Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. She graduated cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.  
After graduating from law school, she returned to the Bay area and opened her San Francisco family law office. Between 2013 and 2015, she served on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, serving as the committee’s Education Chair. She has taught family law trial lawyers about family law appeals for the Bar Association of San Francisco and the State Bar of California.
Ms. Sadler is on the Board of Trustees of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco. 

Kelly Robbins, Moderator

 

Cost: 

$55.00

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

California Lawyers Association  

 

The Revised Rules of Professional Conduct - What’s New, What’s Not, and How It Will Affect Your Practice Part One: Foundation Rules

 

Description:

 

The last comprehensive revisions of the California Rules of Professional Conduct were effective in 1992, nearly 30 years ago.  On May 10, 2018, the California Supreme Court adopted substantial changes to the rules. The new rules go into effect on November 1, 2018.

The Rules Revision Commission, a group of 19 lawyers and judges and five non-voting advisors, was chaired by Justice Lee Smalley Edmon, Presiding Justice of Division Three of the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles.

They were tasked to study existing rules and recommend their changes, specifically focusing on “revisions that (a) are necessary to address changes in law and (b) eliminate, when and if appropriate, unnecessary differences between California’s rules and the rules used by a preponderance of the states (in some cases in reliance on the American Bar Association’s Model Rules) in order to help promote a national standard with respect to professional responsibility issues whenever possible.”

In this three-part webinar, you will hear about selected revised rules from three members of the Commission -- highly qualified and respected members of the legal community. The rules on which the panel will focus have been chosen because of their broad application and interest to practitioners as well as the significance of changes from the existing rules.  

 

 

Faculty:

 

Daniel Eaton

Daniel E. Eaton is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a litigation partner at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego. Dan is a longtime member of the Standing Committee on Discipline of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

 

Heather L. Rosing

Heather L. Rosing is a Shareholder and Managing Partner of Klinedinst PC and a certified specialist in legal malpractice. She currently serves as President of the California Lawyers Association, the second largest voluntary Bar Association in the country. 

Mark L. Tuft

Mark L. Tuft is Partner with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, principally engaged in professional liability, media law, civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts. He is also a certified specialist in legal malpractice law. 

 

Credit(s):	1 Participatory MCLE Credits 1 Ethics
Course Number:	CLA_6-14-18
Original Program Date:	June 14, 2018
Duration:	1 hour
Access:	Available for 3 months after purchase
Date:	June 14, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

 

Cost:

$55.00 

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

 

 

California Lawyers Association 

 

Real Property Law Section:

 

Construction Liabilities: Recent Decisions Affecting Insurance Coverage & Coverage-Maximizing Strategies From the Policyholder’s Perspective

 

Description:

 

Recent California decisions address key issues in the context of insurance coverage for construction liabilities under Commercial General Liability policies: whether faulty work constitutes an “occurrence”; the “trigger” of coverage; the applicability of several standard “business risk” exclusions; and “Anti-Montrose” and similar provisions. A review for construction law practitioners and corporate counsel with an eye toward maximizing coverage.

 

Faculty:

 

Ashley Jordan

Ashley B. Jordan, Esq. is of counsel with Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A., specializing in the representation of individuals and corporate policyholders in complex insurance coverage and bad faith disputes with insurance companies.

 

 

Credit(s):	1 Participatory MCLE Credits
Course Number:	RP_6-13-18
Original Program Date:	June 13, 2018
Duration:	1 hour
Access:	Available for 3 months after purchase
Date:	June 13, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

 

Cost: 

$55.00

 

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

 

California Lawyers Association 

 

California Young Lawyers Association, International Law Section:

 

Defending the Defenders: Mitigating Risk in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

 

Description:

 

The legal risks facing mid-to-small-sized corporations in the aerospace and defense industry are both varied and palpable. Whether dealing with international export/import compliance, locating risks in contracts, or protecting invaluable intellectual property (often the economic life blood of companies within this space), the laundry list of legal issues is seemingly endless. And while the challenges are indeed vast, the job of an in-house attorney in this industry is incredibly rewarding. Our Webinar will not only locate and distill some of these major legal challenges, but will also shed light on how one can get her or his foot in the proverbial door into this exciting and continuously evolving industry. 

 

Faculty:

 

Robert Cave

Robert Cave is in-house counsel  for the Marvin Group, a specialized manufacturing enterprise of 4 companies serving the U.S. and foreign aerospace and defense markets. Headquartered in Los Angeles, The Marvin Group supports all branches of the Department of Defense, commercial and military prime contractors, and allies around the globe on an array of programs and platforms. 

Mr. Cave’s area of practice includes negotiating terms and conditions in contract proposals with both customers and suppliers, locating risks in contract proposals and related terms and conditions, and advising executive management of these risks. In addition, Mr. Cave monitors legal risks to the company more broadly, and creates, implements, and maintains company policies for the purposes of risk mitigation. One area of particular concern to Mr. Cave is the safeguarding of company intellectual property.

 

Margrette Francisco

Margrette Francisco is in-house counselfor the Marvin Group, a specialized manufacturing enterprise of 4 companies serving the U.S. and foreign aerospace and defense markets. Headquartered in Los Angeles, The Marvin Group supports all branches of the Department of Defense, commercial and military prime contractors, and allies around the globe on an array of programs and platforms. 

Ms. Francisco is responsible for overseeing export and import controls and licensing for the enterprise, which includes the development and implementation of compliance and operational policies and procedures; product classification; conducting investigations, disclosure reporting; the creation and delivery of customized in-house training programs in export and import compliance, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. 

 

Cost:

$55.00

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

California Lawyers Association 

 

Business Law Section:

 

AgTech and the Law of Farm Data

 

Description:

 

As agriculture becomes more and more a technology enabled business, farmers and those who serve agricultural markets must deal with legal issues around intellectual property and data ownership.  Today’s farmer typically will contract with many agriculture technology providers who will necessarily gather valuable farm data in the course of their work. Questions arise as to ownership. Privacy and security and while standards are being developed, the area is largely unregulated and reliant on traditional notions of IP and trade secret law. This program will describe the issues and the rules and standards that are developing in the area.

 

Faculty: 

 

Roger Royse

ROGER ROYSE is Vice Chair of the Agricultural Law Committee of the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, a graduate of the Grower Shipper Foundation program AgKnowledge and serves on the California State Bar Agribusiness Standing Committee. Roger has been quoted on Agtech topics in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Fox Business, Inc. Magazine, Nikkei Asian Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, The Recorder, 7X7 and Fast Company. Roger is also the founder and owner of the Royse Law Firm (www.rroyselaw.com), is a Northern California Super Lawyer, is AV Peer-Rated by Martindale Hubbell, and has a “Superb” rating from Avvo.

 

 

Credit(s): 1 Participatory MCLE Credits Course Number:   BLS_6-7-18   Original Program Date:   June 7, 2018   Duration:   1 hour   Access:   Available for 3 months after purchase   Date:   June 7, 2018 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)

Cost: 

$55.00

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

 

California Lawyers Association

 

Trusts & Estates Section:

 

Important Considerations in Drafting Engagement Letters

 

Description:

 

This program will provide a comprehensive guide for practitioners to drafting fee letters. Our speaker chairs ACTEC’s Professional Responsibility Committee. Why engagement letters are important tools for managing a client’s expectations and setting the stage for the representation will be explained. Engagement letters also afford certain protections to both the client and the attorney.

  

Faculty: 

 

Linda Retz

Linda J. Retz is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and chairs its Professional Responsibility Committee. Ms. Retz is certified as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the State Bar of California
Board of Legal Specialization and is a former Chair of the California State Bar’s Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Advisory Commission. Ms. Retz has lectured and written extensively, including for the UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute, the U.S.C. Tax Institute, the U.S.C. Trust and Estate Conference, and the California CPA Education Foundation. She has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America every year since 2010, as well as being selected as a California Super Lawyer every year since that honor’s inception in 2004. 

 

 

Trusts & Estates Section Credit(s): 1 Legal Specialization in Estate Planning; Trust & Probate Law 1 Participatory MCLE Credits Course Number: TE_6-6-18 Original Program Date: June 6, 2018 Duration: 1 hour Access: Available for 3 months after purchase Date: June 6, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

Cost:

 

$55.00

 

 Contact us at (877) 880-1335