Products tagged with 'litigation'

Learn from successful estate planners about tricky issues such as: navigating parentage laws and evolving assisted reproductive technologies, citations to discover/recover assets, construing and modifying wills and trusts, and detecting and proving alterations and forgeries; ethical considerations when clients have diminished capacity will also be discussed. You won’t want to miss the 6.25 hours of CLE (including 1 hour of Professional Responsibility Credit applied for) provided by this program!

An experienced local government law attorney and a justice of the Appellate Court share COVID-19 lessons learned and predictions for the future regarding labor and employment issues for units of local government.

Hone your cross-examination skills and examine 26 credibility arguments with master depositions instructor Robert Musante.

In the hands of nationally-recognized depositions instructor Robert Musante, legendary trial attorney F. Lee Bailey’s cross-examination of Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson offers a learning opportunity for trial attorneys on crafting credibility arguments.

Using more than 20 clips from this highly-publicized case, often dubbed “The Trial of the 20th Century,” Musante will teach you how to be a more successful litigator by crafting effective credibility arguments. You won’t want to miss this master class! Musante will teach you how to be a more successful litigator by crafting effective credibility arguments.

Presented in both “TED-Talk” and panel formats, learn from multiple perspectives (advocate, psychologist, mediator and arbitrator) how litigant anxiety and our own implicit (subconscious) biases can affect mediation and arbitration outcomes. Litigants often engage the legal system with anxiety and stress, which influences their participation in the process and can affect case outcomes. Mediators and arbitrators bear the responsibility of facilitating and adjudicating the rights and obligations of litigants and must understand their own implicit biases in order to prevent these internal influences from negatively impacting objectivity and neutrality. Learn tips and strategies for recognizing and overcoming your implicit biases.

Gain a working knowledge of copyright law, specifically as it pertains to copyright litigation.

Whether at trial or in deposition, the “yes-no” question quite frequently constitutes a Scylla & Charybdis problem for the adverse witness: the “yes” constituting a damaging-to-witness admission, and the “no” creating a risk of the witness being impeached … maybe a BIG risk of a BIG impeachment. Thus, a willing-to-lie witness (and there are so many!!), perhaps coached by an unethical attorney (and there are so many!!), tries to avoid Scylla & Charybdis by claiming “I don’t remember X.” As experienced litigators well know, and newbie litigators will soon discover, these claims can be very tough to successfully attack. Learn the very best lines of attack against these lies.

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