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**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Social Media is here to stay. There are more than 330 million active users monthly on Twitter. Facebook has 1.5 BILLION active monthly users. LinkedIn has 546 million registered users of which almost 1/3 are in the United States. YouTube boasts that they have 1 BILLION users and more than 400 hours of video are uploaded every minute! (Statistics provided by DMR) Then there is Blogging, Pinterest, Instagram, Snap Chat, and new social sharing sites being created every day. You can connect with potential clients and referral sources to grow your practice as long as you know how to use it. • What is Social Media? • The difference between Social Media and Social Networking • How to use these platforms to get more referrals and clients • How to manage your time on Social Media so that

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Megan Mathias discusses important legal issues and insights for in-house counsel regarding a business’ confidential information and trade secrets. Topics include: • definition of confidential information and trade secrets • identification of your competitive edge leading to identification of your confidential information • treatment of information as confidential so a court will treat it as confidential • documents in place add to the case for protection of information • security protocols to limit possible exposure of information • limits on access to certain employees • enforcement issues in litigation • laws protecting trade secrets across the country • restrictive covenants, how to use them and when they are enforceable

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Congratulations, you graduated from law school and have become a licensed attorney! And while many of the skills and the information you learned in law school are helpful in your day to day practice of law, the one thing they don’t teach in most law schools is business development skills. It’s time to learn now! The earlier you can begin to learn and use the Rainmaking tactics and skills taught in this seminar, the better your chance for creating the practice you would like. This seminar is for attorneys who have been in the practice of law for five years or less. It will teach you: • How to become a Rainmaker • How to work with your bosses to create a practice you love • What are the

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Since the publication of the Satoshi Whitepaper in 2009 which launched the Bitcoin protocol, cryptocurrencies have begun reshaped the financial world. For the first time in human history, people can remotely transfer value across international boundaries without the need for any financial intermediaries. These financial intermediaries, however, are increasingly relied upon by regulators to self-police and to detect and report on information necessary for key regulatory and law enforcement functions. Over the past 9 years, regulators across the globe have tried many strategies - ranging from hands-off approaches to outright bans - in order to address this new reality and its implications on existing anti-money laundering, securities, and other regulatory systems. Mr. Kelman provides background on the areas of regulation which most directly affect cryptocurrencies, how they have evolved during

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** No need to worry if you are a plan sponsor whose defined contribution or defined benefit plan has been selected for an audit by the Department of Labor (DOL) or the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The webinar will provide you with an overview of the typical timeline for a DOL and IRS audit and the information the auditor will likely request to review, including common topics for interviews. We will discuss how such audits are often closed and strategies on working with the DOL and IRS to complete the audit as quickly as possible. If you are a sponsor of a plan that has not yet been selected for an audit, we will offer tips on reviewing your own plan administration and governance processes to proactively address concerns

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Just as commerce has migrated from brick and mortar stores to the internet, so too have the activities of counterfeiters. Anthony Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP discusses the latest trends in counterfeiting and the most effective steps that brand owners are taking to combat them.

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Rule 30(b)(6) provides opportunities to depose corporate entities, opportunities that are subject to potential abuse. Join Tom Jackson and Mike Ginsberg as they focus on the opportunities and dangers presented by Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that allows for the deposition of corporate entities. Topics include preparing and responding to notices, selecting witnesses, asking questions, and defending witnesses. The program also addresses changes currently being considered by the Rule 30(b)(6) Subcommittee on Civil Rules.

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Witness Credibility in the Age of Trump: Does Lying Matter? The art of witness impeachment is time-tested trial tool to determine witness credibility in criminal and civil cases. In criminal cases, the government frequently utilizes the testimony of cooperating witnesses to secure convictions. In doing so, those witnesses acknowledge their past misdeeds, including instances of dishonesty and untruthfulness. While historically, prosecutors sought to brush aside those acts of dishonesty by emphasizing that those acts occurred before the witness entered into the cooperation agreement, in today’s environment, in which citizens are confronted with whether their politicians or media outlets are telling the truth, juries may be looking at a witness’s history of truth telling with very close scrutiny in making credibility determinations. This CLE will examine tactics

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Trials are often won or lost based on the jurors selected. Tom Jackson and Mike Ginsberg continue their trial skills series, this time focusing on the steps to successful jury selection. The program, which will help you select the right jurors, covers use of themes and analogies to weed out jurors with an unconscious bias against your client or your themes.

**** CD's are pre-order only and not available until after the program date - Online is not available until after the program date **** Andie Kramer, partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and Alton B. Harris, partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, discuss the nature and extent of the achievement disparity between female and male lawyers, and why and how gender stereotypes and the biases that flow from them cause this disparity by preventing women from advancing in their legal careers as far and as fast as men. They then provide women with specific insights and communication techniques they can use to avoid or overcome these often subtle and unconscious gender biases. The program includes a discussion of the relevance of ABA’s Model Rule 8.4(g) and ABA Resolution 302.