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Sep 10, 2018

Non-Qualified Structured Settlements Part 1: Tax Reform Impact

Larry Cohen welcomes co-host Cindy Chanley and returning guest, tax attorney Robert Wood from Wood LLP, to explore the arena of non-qualified settlements and how the recent tax reform act is having an impact.

 

Unlike physical injury cases which receive tax-free status in a structured settlement, cases such as age and race discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination and divorce do not. Yet claimants can still structure these non-qualified cases and do so with an advantageous tax outcome. On this first part of a 2-part edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes co-host Cindy Chanley and returning guest, tax attorney Robert Wood from Wood LLP, to explore the arena of non-qualified settlements and how the recent tax reform act is having an impact.

 

 

 

https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/ringler-radio/2018/09/non-qualified-structured-settlements-part-1-tax-reform-impact/

 

 

 

Rebecca Sandefur

Sociologist and Legal Scholar | Class of 2018

Promoting a new, evidence-based approach to increasing access to civil justice for low-income communities

 

 Rebecca Sandefur is a sociologist whose research on how legal services are delivered and consumed is informing emerging models for more equal access to civil justice. Although the outcomes of civil cases are potentially life-changing—including eviction, loss of custody of a child, wage garnishment, or loss of government or insurance benefits—one or more parties lack legal representation in more than three-quarters of cases filed in state civil courts today. Sandefur’s investigations of the civil justice needs of low-income populations are shedding light on the availability of civil legal aid services, the help-seeking behavior of individuals facing civil legal issues, and the impact of lawyers in civil cases.

 

Using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies such as surveys and focus groups, she created the first systematic national mapping of civil legal aid providers, revealing that while some states had significant resources available, others had very few. She found that contrary to assumptions, cost is but one of many factors that inhibit the use of lawyers by low-income individuals. Other factors include aversion to lawyers, fear and pessimism about the fairness of formal legal structures and the courts, and a lack of recognition that a problem is “legal.” Her analysis of pro bono services revealed that the quantity and quality are highly dependent on market forces, and they become less available in economic downturns, when they are most needed. From a meta-analysis of research on lawyers’ effects on case outcomes, Sandefur concludes that, in most cases, the advantage of a lawyer relative to a lay person resides in an ability to navigate procedures and rules rather than in deep knowledge of the law. Her observations have led to the hypothesis that the gap in access to civil justice might be closable without lawyers and, in current work, Sandefur is advising and evaluating pilot projects in New York and Montana that use non-lawyer alternatives. For example, in New York City, she demonstrated the efficacy of non-lawyer court “navigators” in landlord-tenant housing court. She is also regularly sought out by national and international organizations regarding access to justice issues, and she is a central contributor to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) new global program on access to justice.

 

By bridging legal scholarship and practice, Sandefur is providing the empirical evidence necessary to guide and implement wide-scale reforms to address the civil legal needs of low-income people.

 

 

 https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1022/

 

 

 

California Lawyers Association

 

27th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite

 

 

 

 

 

Tenaya Lodge At Yosemite

 

Thursday-Sunday, October 18-21, 2018

 

Qualifies for 11.25 Hours MCLE Credit
Includes Legal Ethics and Elimination of Bias

 

REGISTER ONLINE HERE

 

Schedule | Essential Info | Hotel Info | Brochure | Reg Form
Scholarship Info | Sponsors | Planning Committee

 

 

The Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® is nationally

recognized as the largest and most prestigious gathering in California of leaders in environmental, land use, and natural resources law. We hope you will join us and many of our nation’s top environmental officials, lawyers, and other professionals in the spectacular setting of Yosemite.

 

Click Here for All the Details for the Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite

California Lawyers Association  

 

Advanced Techniques for Dividing Retirement Benefits in Divorce

 

Thursday, October 18, 2018, 12 noon - 1 p.m.

 

This program offers 1 hour participatory MCLE credit and 1 hour legal specialization credit in Family Law. You must register in advance to participate.

 

In this advanced webinar, the speaker will discuss select hot topics including case law pertaining to survivor benefits, drafting appropriate MSA language, issuing subpoenas to retirement plans, new laws that apply to military benefits, and how to identify a potential community interest in stock options.

 

Moderator: Kelly Robbins

 

Speaker: Elizabeth Van Clief

 

 CONTACT US

180 Howard St., Ste. 410

San Francisco, CA 94105

 

415-795-7029

 

info@calawyers.org

 

 

California Lawyers Association  

 

Trials and Tribulations - Tactics, Strategies and Updates for the Business Litigator

Co-presented by the Business Law and Solo & Small Firm sections

 

 

Earn 4 Hours MCLE Credit

Thursday, October 18, 2018

The State Bar of California
845 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017

 

 

 

 

 

Register Online

Schedule | Essential Info | Brochure | Reg Form

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CONTACT US

San Francisco, CA 94105

 

 California Lawyers Association 

 

Labor & Employment Section Credit(s): 1 Participatory MCLE Credits Course Number: LL_10-18-18 Original Program Date: October 18, 2018 Duration: 1 hour Access: Available for 3 months after purchase Date: October 18, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific)

 

Description

 

For California employers and their employment law counsel, covers recent handbook updates, essential and required policies, and top ten frequent revisions made in reviewing handbooks.

 

 

Faculty

 

Jonathan Judge

Jonathan Judge is a partner at AALRR with over 15 years of working in employment law and reviewing employee handbooks.  Mr. Judge also advises employers in various labor and employment law matters, including drug testing, mass layoffs (WARN), disparate impact analysis, immigration compliance, trade secrets, privacy, technology in the workplace, piece rate compensation, municipal and state sick leave, local, state and federal minimum wage law, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

 

 

 

Contact us at (877) 880-1335

 

 

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California Lawyers Association

 

 

2018 Annual Litigation and Appellate Summits

 

 

Earn 7.0 Hours of MCLE Credit. Includes 7.0 Hours of Legal Specialization Credit in Appellate Law (Appellate Summit Only)

 

 

Friday, October 5, 2018

 

 

New Hotel Location!
Hyatt Embarcadero
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111

 

 

Register Online Here

 

Fleet Week Registration Here

 

Litigation Summit Schedule | Appellate Summit Schedule

Essential Info | Brochure | Reg Form

Fleet Week Reception | Sponsors

 

 

#2018 LitigationAppellateSummits

 

 

 

KEYNOTE LUNCHEON SPEAKER

California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Click Here for All the Details for the 2018 Annual Litigation and Appellate Summits

 

Fleet Week Reception

Honor our service members by attending this special Fleet Week event. Relax over wine and hors d’oeuvres, network with colleagues, earn 0.5 hours in legal ethics credit—all while enjoying a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay!

Saturday, October 6, 2018, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Duane Morris LLP, Spear Tower
One Market Plaza, Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94105

Price:

• Active Military Personnel and Military Attorneys: Free
• All Others: $30

Register Online Here for Fleet Week

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

 

The Bar Association of San Francisco presents:

 

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

 

October 25, 2018: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

MCLE Credits - 1 H

 

 

 

 

 

 

This annual lecture and interview series honors the memory of Sandy Svetcov, who was a pillar of the California Bar for forty years. Each year, we ask a leading member of the judiciary or bar to come speak and answer questions on aspects and features of modern law, practice, and policy.

 

Speaker

XAVIER BECERRA
Attorney General of California

 

During one of the most turbulent political and legal times in recent memory, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is leading some of the most significant cases against the Trump administration – more than 30 lawsuits to date, from the Travel Ban, to border family separations, to the environment, to the census, to regulations on guns, and many more. That’s not to mention all the other litigation the office oversees, from criminal to regulatory to consumer interest.

 

Discussion topics for this conversation will include: the work of the Attorney General, the role of law in society, his approach to the Constitution, his personal background, his priorities for the future, and more. Time will be allotted for audience questions.

 

Interviewer

BEN FEUER
Chairman, California Appellate Law Group LLP
Co-chair, BASF Appellate Law Section

 

 

Printable Flyer ( PDF)

 

 

Location

BASF Conference Center
301 Battery Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

 

Directions

 

 

Schedule

MCLE Registration: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Program: 12:00-1:15 p.m.

 

 

Cost

BASF Student Member	Complimentary
BASF Member	$30.00
Government	$40.00
Nonprofit	$40.00
Non-Member	$55.00

Note: All prices increase by $10.00 on the day of the program.

 

 

Event Code: G185305

 

Questions about our seminars and the registration process?

 

Fax or Mail your registration: Registration Form ( PDF)

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

 

The International Law and Practice Section presents:

 

International Law Decisions - Supreme Court 2017-2018 Term

 

October 22, 2018: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

MCLE Credits - 1 H, This is a brown bag luncheon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Law Decisions from the Supreme Court 2017-2018 Term

 

 

Speakers

Michael Westheimer
Ogletree Deakins

 

Daniel McLaughlin
Center for Justice and Accountability

 

Moderator

Sun Kim
Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law

 

Discussion

In April 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC, addressing the liability of foreign corporations under the Alien Tort Statute. The following month, in May 2018, the Court issued an "epic" decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, addressing a key concern for companies in the U.S. and around the globe -- the potential exposure from employee class action lawsuits.

 

This seminar will discuss the Epic Systems ruling upholding class action waivers in employee arbitration agreements and the Jesner case holing that the Alien Tort Statue does not permit lawsuits against foreign corporations. Join us for a discussion on these two cases and the latest legal developments since the decisions were issued.

 

Section Chair: Carolyn A. Knox,Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart

 

Printable Flyer ( PDF)

 

Location

BASF Conference Center
301 Battery Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

 

Directions

 

 

Schedule

MCLE Registration: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Program: 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

 

 

Cost

BASF Student Member	Complimentary
Government	$30.00
Nonprofit	$30.00
Section Member	$30.00
BASF Member	$40.00
Non-Member	$55.00

Note: All prices increase by $10.00 on the day of the program.

 

 

Event Code: G182305

 

 

Questions about our seminars and the registration process?

 

 

 

Fax or Mail your registration: Registration Form ( PDF)

 

 

 

Bar Association of San Francisco

 

BASF's Family Law, Labor & Employment Law, and Real Property Sections, together with the Queen's Bench Bar Association present:

 

Ensuring Housing and Financial Security for DV Survivors

 

October 18, 2018: 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

MCLE Credits - 1 H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Tips and Tricks to Ensure Stable Housing and Financial Security for Domestic Violence Survivors

Speaker

Taylor Campion
Employment & Housing Justice Attorney
Family Violence Appellate Project

This training will provide a crash course on the housing and employment rights of domestic violence survivors under state and federal law, including a discussion of the biases facing survivors and how to address them. The program will review legal options to keep survivors in stable public and private housing and to protect them from housing discrimination. The speaker will highlight workplace biases facing survivors and will discuss legal options to help them maintain and obtain employment. Finally, the impact of mass criminalization on survivors' ability to maintain stable housing, financial security, and good credit will be discussed, as will how to deal with an arrest or criminal record.

Topics

• Identifying biases and protecting domestic violence survivors from housing and employment discrimination
• Protections for domestic violence survivors under state and federal housing and employment law
• Family Law & California protective orders
• Measures to protect the credit of domestic violence survivors
• Reentry issues

 

Queen's Bench Members will need to email CLE@sfbar.org to recieve discount.

COORDINATED by the following Sections:
Family Law Section Educational Co-Chairs: Elisha Jussen-Cooke, Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic; Audrey Courson, Courson Law; Labor & Employment Law Section Chair: Ted Borromeo, McKesson Corporation; Real Property Section Chair: Tiffany R. Norman, TRN Law Associates; Queen's Bench Bar Association Domestic Violence Committee Co-Chairs: Elisha Jussen-Cooke & Diana Passadori, Passadori Family Law & Mediation

 

 

Printable Flyer ( PDF)

 

Location

BASF Conference Center
301 Battery Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

 

Directions

 

 

Schedule

MCLE Registration: 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Program: 5:00 - 6:15 p.m.

 

 

Cost

BASF Student Member	Complimentary
Section Member	$30.00
BASF Member	$40.00
Government	$40.00
Nonprofit	$40.00
Non-Member	$55.00

Note: All prices increase by $10.00 on the day of the program.

 

 

Event Code: G180906

 

 

Questions about our seminars and the registration process?

 

 

 

Fax or Mail your registration: Registration Form ( PDF)