Age Bias/Discrimination In The Legal Profession

This 1-hour July 8, 2010 presentation by Louis P. DiLorenzo, Esquire, Managing Partner in Bond, Schoeneck & King's New York City and Garden City offices, gives a useful definition of “age discrimination” as it applies in the legal profession. Mr DiLorenzo provides examples of real-life cases of possible age discrimination in law firms and the results of legal actions taken and decisions made in those cases.

Topics include:

• Application of anti-discrimination statutes

• Federal age discrimination claims

• Hishon v. King & Spalding

• EEOC v. Sidley Austin

• EEOC v. Kelley Drye

Substance Abuse And Attorney Wellbeing – 30-Minute Edition

This 30-minute Fall 2010 program by Shawn D. Evans, MD, FACEP, Attending Emergency Physician, Scripps Memorial Hospital and Medical Center, La Jolla, CA, includes these topics:

• Explanation of terms such as abuse, addiction, dependence

• Dependency causes and consequences

This course is the first 30 minutes of our 60-minute program entitled Substance Abuse And Attorney Wellbeing -1-Hour Edition. You may complete EITHER course to earn CLE credit, but may NOT earn credit for both.

The Ethics Of E-mail – 1-Hour Version

This 1-hour August 25, 2010 program by Thomas E. Spahn, Esquire, provides a comprehensive and useful review of the many ethical aspects and issues of e-mail communications. Mr. Spahn is a partner in the Tysons Corner, Virginia office of the McGuireWoods LLP law firm.

Topics include:
ü Introduction
ü Communicating with Adversaries

• unsolicited e-mails from prospective clients
• ex parte contacts with adversaries
• inadvertent transmission of communications
• evidence of an adversary's wrongdoing transmitted inadvertently or by an unauthorized person
• metadata

This course is the first 60 minutes of our longer, 125-minute program entitled The Ethics Of E-mail - Full Version. You may complete EITHER course to earn CLE credit, but may NOT earn credit for both.