5th Annual Paralegal SuperConference L.A.
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"Estrin LegalEd is the only paralegal training company in the country that brings you the very best in seminars, books, Virtual Seminars, DVDs, newsletters and more." - West LegalEd Hear top-notch workshop leaders in the paralegal field who are well-known for their ability to deliver hard hitting, cutting-edge information you need to suceed in your job now! What You'll Gain From This Exciting Learning Adventure: - A learning experience tailored to your needs. Pick and choose your workshops.
- A chance to learn from the top people who know. The techniques and insights you'll come away with are not "theoretical." They've been perfected and sharpened through experience. You'll learn from people in the trenches.
- Ideas and methods you can apply as soon as you're back to your firm. Chances are, in your next workday, you'll have an opportunity to put what you've learned into practice.
Sign-up today online and get the discount! Space is limited. Just a few of our top echelon speakers: David Lash, Esq., Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
Robin Meadow, Esq., Partner, Greines, Martin
Cliff Shnier, Consultant, Phoenix, AZ
Tom Girardi, Esq., Partner, Girardi & Keese
Phyllis Deets, Deets Consulting
Alexander Lubarsky, Esq., Guidance Systems
Melisa Frick, Leapfrog, Inc.
Rick Cerna, Skadden Arps
Paul Hodnefield, Esq., CSC
Doug Kaminski, Anacomp
Linda Sharp, Esq., Kroll Ontrack
Harriet Cohen, Consultant
Christy Stouffer, Patton Boggs
Tom Lenzo, Consultant
Cliff Shnier, Consultant
Joe Scott, Esq., Deadlines On Demand
Bonita Paul, Milbank Tweed
Luci Morgan, Heller Ehrman
Sherri Rogers, Baker Botts
Gary Melhuish, Ballard Spahr
Lynelle Phillips, Consultant, San Francisco
Judy Estrin, Consultant, Victoria, British Columbia
and many more!
Download the brochure! Register online at www.regonline.com/FifthLA
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Seminar tuition and discounts:
$349.00 Early Bird Extended!
Register Online at www.regonline.com/FifthLA
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Topics addressed include:
Forward Thinking: The Growth of the Paralegal Profession
are tough economic times destroying paralegal jobs? Will the trend toward outsourcing to cheaper labor resources in India and other parts of the world create fewer paralegals jobs? What will happen as software takes over some of the assignments paralegals have traditionally performed? Wil regulation motivate employers to seek better training for paralegals or will they hide behind attorney training and call it "for everyone". These and other trends, myths, events and changes will be discussed in this invigorating session.
10 Top Secrets to Managing Other Paralegals, Case Clerks and Temporary Employees
Managing takes many different formats: other paralegals, temps, case clerks and more. Whatever the scenario, management takes the right communication skills. Leran from an experienced manager what proven techniques to take back to your firm immediately.
Improve Your Legal Research and Analysis Skills
Finding current law is critical to your job as a paralegal. Learn quick steps to analyze case law and summarize cases. Refresh your skills for verifying research results and how to better use primary and secondary sources of law in the research process.
30+ Ways to Protect Your Firm's Data
Three trends are affecting the companies you work for: The amount of electronic data is expanding exponentially; technology devices are getting smaller, more powerful and are ubiquitous; identity, intellectual property and technology thefts are the fastest growing crimes. While these thefts are lucrative and relatively safe for the criminal, they can be devastating to your company.
Attorneys (NOT) On Board: How to Train Your Firm About Better Paralegal Utilization
Paralegals have been part of the legal profession for over 30 years. When utilized properly, they are a significant benefit to a law firm or law department and clients. Learn how to train your firm in how to treat paralegals as a group, employees, professionals and timekeepers as well as how to integrate yourself better into the delivery of legal services.
Managing Organization Change
Everyday changes happen - some big, some little. It's how you manage it that will determine the effect on you. Whether it's your management structure, clients, job expansion, office move or even just a new software system, change is a daily happening that can cause stress and unwwanted annoyance. Learn the signs of how people deal with change and what can be done to reduce the impact to you.
Legal Calendaring -A Risk Management Strategy
Even a small mistake can cost your firm a huge headache. Even with the latest technology, you need to know how to manually calculate dates, the latest rules and more. This workshop reviews steps to take to make absolutely sure you are absolutely on the right track.
How to Tell If Your Vendor Is Lying to You
Whether you are in litigation, corporate transactional or any other practice specialty, most likely you have been asked to seek out an appropriate vendor. This fun, interactive session will teach you the best techniques for finding and keeping vendors who sync with your firm and its philosophy; give you tips for cost-cutting methods and shows you how to properly introduce the client to a vendor and not lose confidence in you!
LITIGATION WORKSHOPS:
Discovery Management, Document Review and Production
Are you dreading your next E-discovery matter? Would you like to develop a road map to guide you through the maze of collecting, processing, reviewing and producing electronic data. This workshop helps you develop a well-crafted discovery plan, intelligently set a budget, identify the sources of electronic documents, use best practices for data collection, and implement a successful review and production.
Managing Tort Litigation
A discussion of the steps necessary to manage mass tort litigation successfully in today's legal arena. The workshop provides ideas and strategies for dealing with case tracking, vendor control, law firm selection, expert retention, case strategies, and firm resources.
Managing Paper and Electronic Data Collection
Paralegals seeking access to medical records need to understand the law regarding certain exceptions to a patient's general right to privacy. The law also imposes requirements on health care providers to maintain medical records for both medical and legal purposes. If you're not up-to-date on medical records law, your firm could face serious legal and financial liability risks. This workshop gives you critical information on statutory record retention requirements, the right to confidnetiality and the right to access medical records.
Modern Usage of Computer Forensics and E-Discovery for IP Litigation
Learn how advanced computer forensic technologies and e-discovery advancements are applied in the intellectual property arena to facilitate compliance with discovery orders involving unique file types such as CAD and source code in addition to more conventional discoverable data such as e-mail and word processing and spreadsheet files. Best practices, trends from Silicon Valley and statutory and case law controlling the modern IP litigator facing new world discovery demands will be explored.
Summation: Tricks, Tips & Traps
Whether you're brand new to Summation or a seasoned pro, this fast-track workshop will help you put new techniques into practice right away. Learn how to avoid common "traps" with new "tricks".
Managing E-Discovery
This session identifies problems that recur during the course of electronic discovery and presents management tools that paralegals may use for responding to them. We cover issues unique to the discovery of ESI including its scope, the allocation of costs, the form of production, the waiver of privilege and work-product protection and the preservation of data and spoliation.
The e-Discovery Questionnaire
One of the SuperConferences most popular workshops! FRCP Amendments put new emphasis for fast evaluation fo electronic document collections. Use your knowledge of e-discovery to become more involved in this important evidence gathering process. Learn how to design an effective questionnaire, participate in the interviewing of client IT staff and assist attorneys in obtaining relevant information to respond to discovery requests.
The Paralegal's Role in Jury Trials
This favorite SuperConference workshop is back! Paralegals may not try a case but you are essential to your attorney's success. This session conducted by a very seasoned litigator, will show you what to look for in juror questionnaires, thus helping your attorney during voir dire; methods of organizing a trial notebook; information you can and cannot give to the client; what to look and keep alert for during trial and the reasoning an attorney thinks exhibits should be organized in a certain manner.
Trial Technology - What You Don't Know, The Other Side Will: Strategies for Winning Your Case
Few legal professionals are adequately trained in trial presentation technology. Courtroom technology is tool. There are times to be a do-it-yourselfer and times to call in a professional. This fun, interactive workshop explores several different software programs, techniques and best practices in the actual courtroom.
CORPORATE WORKSHOPS:
UCC Search Interpretation - A Guide for the Perplexed
Paralegals have great responsibility when reviewing UCC searches. Even minor interpretive errors can prove costly for those that must rely on the search results. The effect of UCC records is often misunderstood because they actually contain less than meets the eye. Find out the finer points of UCC search interpretation and the real effect of amendments. Learn how to avoid the most common traps for the unwary searcher.
Introduction to Debt Securities
A debt security is evidence of a debt. It is sold to an investor with the promise that it will be paid back with interest at the end of a specified period. The debt's issuer - a corporation or a unit of government - uses the proceeds of its sales to finance various projects. If you are a corporate paralegal, this workshop can give you new infromation to expand your horizons or refresh your skills for higher level assignments.
Corporate Formation of LLCs
How and why are LLCs formed? What forms, processes, checklists do you need to get through the process? What information needs to be verified by the client and when? Learn tips from a pro with years of experience how to make your life easier when doing it and how to go through the formation efficiently and effectively.
Securities Regulation Overview
The 1933, '34 & '40 Acts brought about stringent regulation. Review the Acts along with Broker Deals and Investment Advisers, Regulation S-K and the integrated disclosure system; periodic reports; Forms 10K, 10-Q and 8-K requirements and current SEC issues and filings under the Securities Act of 1933.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WORKSHOPS:
The Paralegal Trademark Primer
Welcome to the world of trademarks! In this session, get a brief overview of what trademarks are, how they function and how paralegals are involved. From inception to clearance to prosecution through registration - paralegals perform tasks in at each level that make them valuable to the attorneys they work for. Join us for an overview and see if trademark law is right for you.
After You File - Common Exam Refusals
You filed the trademark application and the Examiner issues an Office Action citing statutory reasons for refusing registration. Some refusals can be as simple as specimen errors or goods clarification while others are as complicated as citations of confusion, descriptiveness or deception. Your job is to assist your attorney in overcoming those objections. Join us and look at the common refusals encountered in prosecuting a trademark application.
On the Lookout for the Dirty Dozen Offenses
Policing your brand and finding the 12 top offenses to copyright and trademark infringement takes a new set of skills. Watch notices, brand manulas, customs, watching the Internet are just a small token of what's involved. How do you enforce a trademark violation? All of this plus much more is discussed at this eye-opening workshop conducted by a 20-year veteran in field.
Corporate Identity Protection - Best Practices and Strategies for Protecting Your Trademarks, Brands and Domains
What are today's best practices for protecting your company's trademarks, brands and domain names? What is the ACPA and how can it help you? What do you need to know about cybersquatting, ICANN disputes, bad faith marks and more? This workshop shows you steps to take to ensure strategies for proper identity protection.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS:
Getting a Handle on Time
You've tried in-boxes, out-boxes, handling one piece of paper at a time, and still feel that 24 hours in a day isn't going to cut it. Setting priorities, managing up, managing your health can all happen without comprising your time or your integrity. Walk away with at least 3 new ideas from this workshop on how to get the beastly beast under control.
The Role of Paralegals in Immigration 101A
Come to this interesting workshop and learn new skills. This overview will cover asylum and refugee law; nonimmigrant visas; H-1B temporary professional worker visas; employer compliance to avoid sanctions and proper visas and employment-based immigration. Taught by a seasoned attorney and head of a paralegal studies program.
Going Global With Your Career
Have you ever fantasized about going overseas and working as a paralegal? This workshop tells you what's expected, what types of firms hire American paralegals, how much money you can expect to make and culture differences you might expect. Learn from a seasoned paralegal who has worked in London, Ireland, Hong Kong, Mexico and other exciting countries.
PRACTICAL LEGAL ETHICS
You can take one, two, three or four hours of Practical Legal Ethics. The topics are:
Unauthorized Practice of Law
Conflict of Interest
Confidentiality
Advertising, Zealousness & Client Funds
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Instructors:
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Rick Cerna, Sr. Paralegal , A&L Goodbody, Ireland
Employed in the Capital Markets sector on a national and international level for 17 years. Worked in New York City and Los Angeles. Lived and worked in Hong Kong, China, spent 5 years in London, England and is currently working at A&L Goodbody in Dublin, Ireland.
Worked in Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, Mexico, Prague and Russia among others.
In New York City, worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Los Angeles for Baker & Hostetler and Fried, Frank; five years with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios at the Director level.
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Allen Brody, Esq., President & General Counsel, Estrin LegalEd
Over 20 years as a practicing lawyer, Mr. Brody is a very popular Paralegal SuperConference speaker. Formerly in private practice, he also held the position of General Counsel of a $200 million corporation. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and practiced law in California and Michigan.
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Credit for continuing education:
Estrin Professional Careers (Estrin LegalEd) is an approved continuing legal education provider of the California State Bar. One hour MCLE credit for each hourly session. Total MCLE Credits: Approx. 10 hours, with four hours of ethics available within those 10.
Estrin Legal Ed is an approved continuing legal education provider of NFPA.
Credits with NALA pending.
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Terms & policies:
Cancellations must be received no later than July 18, 2008 for a full-refund minus a $50.00 administration charge. No refunds for "no-shows." See brochure for full details.
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