CLE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
PBI Satellite Seminar
Boundary Law in PA
@ The Bar Association of Lehigh County
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
“Good fences make good neighbors,” except when the fence is on the wrong side of the property line. Boundary disputes involving driveways, roads, common walls, plantings, and streams are all too common for the real estate and general practitioner. Despite the frequency of these emotionally charged cases, there are few good sources to which lawyers can turn for guidance.
With this nuts and bolts seminar you will learn to find the mistakes in subdivision plans that can cause problems later on and to write accurate legal descriptions. When boundary disputes can’t be avoided or settled you can learn proven techniques and strategies for handling these difficult cases.
4 Substantive Credits; Tuition: $189.00
Registration: 8:00 AM / Seminar: 8:30 AM – 12:45 PM
To Register Call PBI @: 1.800.932-4637
CLE VIDEO CAFETERIA
Thursday, April 24, 2008
At the end of each compliance period, the CLE department at The Bar Association of Lehigh County provides the opportunity for lawyers to earn up to 9 Continuing Legal Education credits in one day through our “Video Cafeteria” program. A series of 9 videos, originally taped during live seminars held at BALC, are re-played for viewers to earn one credit for each video. Pick and choose however many you care to view.
The tuition for EACH one-credit program is $25.00 for BALC or NCBA members, $40.00 for non-members.
To register, FAX the form below: 610.770.9O826 or
Telephone Nancy @ 610.433.6401, Ext: 16
9:00 AM - “Plessy v. Ferguson: The Zenith of Jim Crow Laws” 1 Substantive Credit
10:15 AM- “Finding the Balance: A Lawyer’s Struggle with Bi-Polar Illness” 1 Ethics Credit
11:30 AM - “Sexual Harassment from the Perspective of Plaintiffs and Defendants” 1 Substantive Credit
1:00 PM - “A Master’s Perspective on Divorce” 1 Substantive Credit
2:15 PM - “The Viability of At Will Employment: Have the Exceptions Vanquished the Rule?” 1 Substantive Credit
3:30 PM - “The Future of Land Surveying: 3-D Laser Scanning” 1 Substantive Credit
6:00 PM - “Accident Investigations for Lawyers” 1 Substantive Credit
7:15 PM - “Civility, Ethics and Technology” 1 Ethics Credit
8:30 PM - “FHA Reverse Mortgage Update” 1 Substantive Credit
PBI LIVE SEMINAR
Legal Writing Techniques for Winning Arguments
@ The Bar Association of Lehigh County
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The ability to write effectively is one of the most important skills an attorney can develop. Whatever your area of practice, good legal writing is a must. Every day, in all sorts of contexts, you write on behalf of your clients, your firm, or yourself.
Learn how to write with precision and authority. Learn how to edit for emphasis and coherence.
This course offers a fast-paced, lively, entertaining presentation on a variety of writing techniques to make your legal writing stronger and moiré persuasive.
6 Substantive Credits; Tuition: $ 229.00
Registration: 8:00 AM / Seminar: 8:30 AM – 4:10 PM
Lunch on your Own / To Register Call: 1.800.932.4637
Public Benefits and Employment Workshop:“Understanding Your Client’s Rights”
Presented at the Lehigh County Government Center
17 South 7th Street, Allentown
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
North Penn Legal Services is sponsoring a Public Benefits and Employment workshop to help representatives from local organizations understand their clients’ rights regarding public benefits and employment. Over the course of the day attorneys can earn up to 3 Substantive CLE credits by attending the following:
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: “Barriers to Employment” Learn how criminal, juvenile, and child abuse records can effect your client’s ability to find employment and what you can do to help them. 1 Substantive Credit
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: “Review and Update of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Work Requirements” This session will focus on current work requirements for the TANF program, with an emphasis on determining who is and who is not subject to these requirements. 1 Substantive Credit
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Break
11:15 AM – Noon: KEYS Program. The Keystone Education Yields Success (KEYS) program will discuss postsecondary education opportunities for TANF parents, as well as some parents who receive food stamps only.
No CLE Credit given for this session
Noon – 12:45 PM: Lunch will be provided by The Allentown Brew Works for an additional $5.00 fee.
12:45 PN – 2:00 PM: “Family Violence Option – Subsidized Child Care” This session will cover special TANF rules that make it easier for victims of domestic violence to access and keep their benefits and special rules designated to ensure access to child care assistance for families leaving TANF for work. 1 Substantive Credit
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM: “Barriers to Employment Breakout Session" This workshop is a continuation from the morning “Barriers to Employment” session. It will be held in Room 123. No CLE Credit given for this session
Open to All Attorneys
All sessions held in the Public Hearing Room unless otherwise noted
Fee: $60.00 for CLE Credits plus a $5.00 Fee for Lunch
Checks should be made payable to: North Penn Legal Services
To Register Call Nancy @ 610.433.6401 Ext: 16
Global Warming: Making Sense of the Climate Change Debate
Presented By: David Keehn, Esq.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
A BALC Lunch & Learn Seminar
Global warming is in the news almost every day with the recent convening of the Bali Conference of world diplomats, Al Gore’s Nobel peace prize, and the release of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control saying that “global warming is unequivocal and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to sea level rising an average of 4.6 feet.” The stakes are huge with proponents calling for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 that could equate to expenditures of 1 to 4% annually of worldwide economic output (with some estimates as high as $84 trillion by 2100).
This seminar will cover the background of climate change, the greenhouse gas pollutants involved, and various adaptive and mitigation measures as well as regulatory and other controls being taken and proposed by state, federal, and international bodies. It will also explore the positions of credible scientific proponents and skeptics on the key questions of whether the earth’s temperature is really increasing beyond what would normally be expected, and if so, the extent to which human emissions of greenhouse gases are contributing to unnatural warming. It will explain how global warming projections are made, what the IPCC’s projected outcomes are for 2100, and the uncertainties inherent in the calculations as noted by the skeptics.
Attorney Keehn serves as Environmental Counsel for the firm Gross, McGinley, LaBarre & Eaton, LLP since January 2006. he previously served for 29 years as the Senior Environmental Counsel of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., in Trexlertown, PA where he handled an array of air, water, solid and hazardous waste, wetlands and other permitting and site remediation matters.
Registration & Lunch: 11:45 AM; 1 Substantive Credit
Seminar: 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM with Q & A to follow
To Register Call: 610.433.6401 Ext: 16
PBA Live Presentation at BALC
Malpractice Avoidance
Friday, May 9, 2008
Save Up To 5% on PBA-Sponsored Malpractice Insurance
Mark your calendars for the annual “Malpractice Avoidance” seminar being held at Bar Association headquarters on Friday, May 9th. Look for PBA’s mailers with the Insurance Coupon attached for the 5% discount from Colburn Insurance for attending this 90 minute seminar.
Tuition: $20.00; 1.5 Ethics Credits
Registration: 9:30 AM; Seminar: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
To Register Call PBA @ 1.800.932.0311 Ext: 2297
Pennsylvania Land Title Institute Presents
Hot Topics in Real Estate and Title Insurance Industry in 2008
At The Bar Association of Lehigh County
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Attorneys and Title Agents, please join us for an informative three hour session on Wednesday, May 14th from 9:00 AM until 12:15 PM. We will start with and introduction and short presentation by Andrea Naugle, the new Clerk of Judicial records, followed by a discussion on the Mortgage Industry with Regina Lowrie, former President of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Attorney Michael McKeever will follow with topics on new home retention efforts and predatory lending.
For further information and registration
Call: 1.800.545.PLTI or Register on line @ www.plta.org
3 CLE Substantive or 3 CE Credits
PBI Satellite Presentation
2nd Annual Estate Law Update
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
@ The Bar Association of Lehigh County
Your clients rely on your expertise to preserve as much of their estates as possible. How does your knowledge stack up? Take your understanding to the next level at this powerful seminar.
Designed exclusively for the estate law practitioner, the 2nd annual Estate Law Update will cover new case law and legislation as well as emerging practical issues facing estate practitioners in Pennsylvania.
In just one day, you will get a detailed overview of current developments and how they affect your practice.
5 substantive & 1 Ethics Credits
Early Tuition (At least 2 days in advance): $199.99
Registration: 8:00 AM / Seminar: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
To Register Call: PBI @ 1.800.932.4637
No Lawyers Left Behind: Recent Developments in School Law
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Presented by: Sarah Wines, Esq.
In one short hour attorneys can have lunch and get an update on the past year’s most significant developments in education law! During this lunchtime CLE you will hear about recent decisions regarding No Child Left Behind, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, special education mandates, and school funding in Pennsylvania and other states. Attorney Wines will discuss student and faculty academic freedom, internet and blogging speech and school district liability issues.
Course presenter Sarah Wines is a licensed Pennsylvania attorney who specializes in labor, employment, and education law with the Pennsylvania State Education Association in Allentown. In her practice, Ms. Wines works with A. Martin Herring, Esquire, on behalf of educators and support staff employed by school districts in Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill Counties. A member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Lehigh County Bar Association, Ms. Wines received her Juris Doctor degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Registration & Lunch: 11:45 AM
Seminar 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM; 1 Substantive Credit
To Register Call Nancy @ 610.433.6401 Ext: 16
Forgive My Last Absence – The Status of F.M.L.A. and Intermittent Leave
Presented by: John Servis, Esq.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
A Bar Association Luncheon Seminar
Intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act is the most criticized, but often least understood aspect of the legislation. It is often the most difficult type of leave for employers to manage or control, and the majority of employers in a recent survey stated that their employees had abused the intermittent leave provisions of FMLA. The U.S. Department of Labor promulgated regulations that put flesh on the bones of the statutory concept of intermittent leave. These regulations have been both harshly criticized and highly lauded.
In this seminar we will review the “basics” of FMLA and then focus specifically on the intermittent leave sections of the statute and the regulations. The goal is for both employees’ and employers’ attorneys to leave the seminar with a clearer understanding of the scope and limitations of intermittent leave.
Attorney Servis, a frequent presenter of BALC seminars, has been in practice for 22 years. He has represented the County of Lehigh in employment matters in federal and state courts, the EEOC, PHRC, PA State Civil Service Commission, PA Labor Relations Board and Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board.
Registration & Lunch: 11:45 AM
Seminar: 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM; 1 Substantive Credit
To Register Call: 610.433.6401 Ext: 16
Regina v. Dudley
Presented By: Malcolm Gross, Esq.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A BALC Lunch & Learn Seminar
On June 18th, one of our favorite speakers, Attorney Malcolm Gross, will once again capture our attention with a new presentation, Regina v. Dudley – a sensational 19th century British case that defined the law of necessity and addressed the long-standing “Custom of the Sea” whereby mariners were permitted to make their own rules of law in desperate situations.
Attorney Gross promises us a surprise ending!
Registration & Lunch: 11:45 AM; 1 Substantive Credit
Seminar: 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM with Q & A to follow
To register call: 610.433.6401 Ext: 16
PBI Satellite Seminar
General Practitioners’ Update 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
@ The Bar Association of Lehigh County
If variety is the spice of life, then general practitioners must like it hot! Every day is a surprise for you, isn’t it? You may start off the day negotiating a real estate transfer, squeeze in a custody conference right before lunch, and witness the signing of a last will and testament right before you call it quits at the end of the day. You are constantly switching gears, moving through your day at an impressive pace, opening and closing several files before you can finally turn off the lights, close the door and call it a day. The one constant, though, is the expectations of your client: each and every one of them expects you to be at the top of your game!
The General Practitioners’ Update (GPU) is a partner in practice like no other partner: it is your reliable source each year for concentrated updates in six practice areas.
This seminar brings together some of the most experienced attorneys who concentrate their practice in one area only, and they know this practice area like the back of their hands. They know every new case, every angle, and every strategy for closing a deal. And in the GPU, they share this unique knowledge with you. Hey, you juggle cases in multiple practice areas – there is no better way to learn than from a team of professionals who know one area extremely well.
The GPU is rapid-fire, because you’re in the fast lane, moving faster each day. The GPU focuses on a variety of areas, because you handle cases in two, three or more practice areas. The GPU is up-to-the-minute, because there is no looking back for you.
A fast-paced, up-to-the-minute look into these areas:
Estate Law
Family Law
Real Estate Law
Professional Liability
Litigation: PA Supreme Court Personal Injury Opinions
New This Year: A one-hour discussion designed to help you manage your law practice!
5 Substantive & 1 Ethics Credits; Tuition: $199.00
Registration: 8:00 AM / Seminar: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
To Register Call PBI @ 1.800.932.4637
“BRIDGE THE GAP” PROGRAM FOR NEWLY ADMITTED LAWYERS
SCHEDULED FOR JULY 10TH
The Bar Association of Lehigh County, sponsor of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s “Bridge the Gap” CLE program for newly admitted lawyers, announces that it will be presenting the program once again at Bar Association headquarters at 1114 Walnut Street in Allentown on Thursday, July 10, 2008, from 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM.
In 2002, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania approved a rule change requiring newly admitted lawyers to complete the “Bridge the Gap” program by the end of their first compliance deadline. This four hour program, revised in 2005 and again in 2008 to provide updated content and to focus on changes in the Rules of Professional Conduct, contains information to assist newly admitted lawyers in the transition from law student to attorney.
Approved for four hours of Ethics Credit, the program will be provided by BALC at a cost of $10.00 to any newly admitted attorney. The program is open to all lawyers. The cost to attorneys practicing two years or longer who have an interest in attending is $90.00.
Registration & Lunch: 11:30 AM -12:30 PM
Seminar: 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM (Breaks included)
To Register Call Nancy @ 610.433.6401 Ext: 16
E-mail: cle@lehighbar.org
For additional information on Continuing Legal Education programs available or on registration procedures, call the Bar Association's CLE office at 610-433-6401 or e-mail CLE@lehighbar.org.
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