Practice Basics

For new lawyers and lawyers new to real estate practice, the course provides a selection of tips and guidance on how to improve your workflow and your clients’ experience.

This program provides an introduction and overview of Surety Bonds and how they are used in construction projects.

This program examines milestones in a residential real estate transaction. At each stage it presents best practices and key considerations for both buyer-side and seller-side real estate attorneys.

This program presents a set of financial analysis tools that attorneys can use to make fact-based business decisions and discusses how they can be applied in particular situations.

Artificial intelligence is entering the legal profession faster than any prior technology shift. With opportunities come risks: client confidentiality, hallucinated citations, and supervision duties. This program explores what AI is, where it fits into legal practice, and how attorneys can adopt it ethically.

Moving beyond just social media, this program addresses other components of your online presence. Topics include becoming easier to find in searches, including strategies for showing up in SEO and AEO results. Also discussed is how to craft your differentiator; cadence, compliance, and metrics; and how the Rules of Professional Conduct impact your marketing work.

Social media evidence is now routine in Illinois Litigation. This program focuses on the evidentiary standards used in the state, with a focus on relevance, authentication, Hearsay, Best Evidence, and Rule 403.

Hear Cook County Law Division judges share their wisdom and advice for the lawyers who appear before them. The Symposium panel discussion format allows judges to address current procedures and trends as well as offer advocacy tips for improving your trial practice.

Earn outs are seeing increased use in deals, particularly those involving private companies. This approach is seen as a way to tie part of the purchase price to future performance. It is important to be aware of both the advantages and disadvantages of earn-outs in order to provide clients proper counsel.
Originally presented as part of Insights on Buying and Selling a Business.

This session addresses the tax implications of various deal approaches from both buyer and seller perspectives. It also touches on pre-closing restructuring (F reorganizations), the benefits of pre-sale estate planning and potential traps for the unwary.
Originally presented as part of Insights on Buying and Selling a Business.

This session discusses M&A deals when regulated products are in play. Considerations related to the structure of the deal (asset v. stock), unique diligence requirements and certain contract provisions to consider, and financing considerations.
Originally presented as part of Insights on Buying and Selling a Business.

Explore the roles of various parties in a deal. This session discusses how to differentiate the various players, and how to become clear, and maintain clarity, on who you are representing and how you are collaborating when teams and counsel start to expand.
Originally presented as part of Insights on Buying and Selling a Business.