This is a webcast of the live New York session.Why you should attend
Satisfy part of your mandatory continuing legal education requirements in New Jersey and hone your legal professionalism by attending PLI’s
New Jersey Basic CLE Marathon program on May 28, 2013. In accordance with New Jersey’s requirements, this one-day program will include New Jersey-specific instruction and discussion on topics authorized by the Supreme Court of New Jersey Board of Continuing Legal Education.
What you will learn
- Civil Trial Practice
- Criminal Trial Practice
- Basic Estate Administration
- Real Estate Closing Procedures
- Trust and Business Accounting
- New Jersey Professional Responsibility and Ethics
Who should attend
Attorneys licensed in New Jersey are now required to complete twenty-four credit hours of mandatory continuing legal education every two years. Of those twenty-four credits, at least four credits must be in ethics and/or professionalism and at least twelve credits must be obtained through live attendance at a New Jersey accredited continuing legal education program.
In addition to the general requirements, a newly admitted lawyer must obtain fifteen credit hours in any five of nine designated subject areas during the newly admitted lawyer’s first compliance period, including New Jersey basic estate planning, New Jersey civil trial preparation; New Jersey family law, New Jersey real estate closing procedures and New Jersey municipal court practice. Newly admitted attorneys can obtain 7.8 live NJ CLE credit hours by attending the PLI
New Jersey Basic CLE Marathon.
PLI Group Discounts
Groups of 4-14 from the same organization, all registering at the same time, for a PLI program scheduled for presentation at the same site, are entitled to receive a group discount. For further discount information, please contact membership@pli.edu or call (800) 260-4PLI.
PLI Can Arrange Group Viewing to Your Firm
Contact the Groupcasts Department via email at groupcasts@pli.edu for more details.
Cancellations
All cancellations received 3 business days prior to the program will be refunded 100%. If you do not cancel within the allotted time period, payment is due in full. You may substitute another individual to attend the program at any time.
All times are E.D.T.
Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. (E.D.T.)
9:00 Opening Remarks and Introduction
9:05 Civil Trial Practice – The Trial
- Trial Preparation – the 90 days before trial
- Motions in limine, evidence, stipulations
- Bench or jury trials
- Opening and closing statements
- Presentation of evidence and witness
- Post-trial motions
- Review of significant cases
Frank J. DeAngelis, Lan Hoang
10:30 New Jersey Trust and Business Accounting
- Fiduciary responsibilities of an attorney and client funds
- Creating and maintaining an attorney trust account
- Accounting for attorney trust accounts
- Creating and maintaining an attorney business account
- Compliance with the New Jersey Rules of Professional Responsibility
- Review of significant cases
Andrew B. Smith
11:30 Break
11:40 New Jersey Professional Responsibility & Ethics
- Overview of New Jersey Rules of Professional Responsibility
- Sources of ethics law beyond the RPCs
- Lawyers' funds for client protection
- Professionalism in the bar
- Review of significant cases
Stephen V. Falanga, Sheila Raftery Wiggins
12:40 Lunch
Afternoon Session: 1:45 p.m. - 5:05 p.m. (E.D.T.)
1:45 New Jersey Real Estate Closing Procedures
- Classes of property and types of ownership
- Land use controls and regulations
- Financing and the mortgage market
- Mandated disclosures
- Transfer of property
- Review of significant cases
Nancy A. Lottinville
2:45 New Jersey Basic Estate Planning
- Estate planning interviews and financial planning considerations
- Guardianships
- Drafting estate planning documents
- Execution and retention of estate planning documents
- Review of significant cases
Christopher G. Rohde
3:45 Break
4:00 New Jersey Criminal Trial Practice
- Arrest, indictment and arraignment
- Discovery
- Status conferences, pre-trial conferences and pre-trial hearings
- Plea negotiations and agreements
- Trial – presentment of evidence and witnesses
- Post-trial motions
- Review of significant cases
Stacy A. Biancamano, Remi L. Spencer
5:05 Adjourn
PLI makes every effort to accredit its Live Webcasts. Please check the CLE Calculator above for CLE information specific to your state.
PLI's Live Webcasts are approved for MCLE credit (
unless otherwise noted in the product description) in the following states/territories: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho*, Illinois, Indiana
1, Iowa*, Kansas*, Kentucky*, Louisiana, Maine*, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire*, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York
2, Ohio
3, Oklahoma, Oregon*, Pennsylvania
4, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia
5, Virgin Islands, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming*.
*PLI will apply for credit upon request.
Arizona: The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement.
Arkansas and Oklahoma: Audio-only live webcasts are not approved for credit.
1Indiana: Considered a distance education course. There is a 6 credit limit per year.
2New York: Newly admitted attorneys may not take non-transitional course formats such as on-demand audio or video programs or live webcasts for CLE credit. Newly admitted attorneys not practicing law in the United States, however, may earn 12 transitional credits in non-traditional formats.
3Ohio: To confirm that the live webcast has been approved, please refer to the list of Ohio’s Approved Self Study Activities at http://www.sconet.state.oh.us. Online programs are considered self-study. Ohio attorneys have a 6 credit self-study limit per biennial compliance period. The Ohio CLE Board states that attorneys must have a 100% success rate in clicking on timestamps to receive ANY CLE credit for an online program.
4 Pennsylvania: A live webcast may be viewed individually or in a group setting. Credit may be granted to an attorney who views a live webcast individually. There is a 4.0 credit limit per year for this type of viewing. A live webcast viewed in a group setting receives live participatory credit if the program is open to the public and advertised at least 30 days prior to the program. Live webcasts viewed in a group setting that do not advertise at least 30 days prior the program will be considered "in-house", and therefore denied credit.
5Virginia: All distance learning courses are to be done in an educational setting, free from distractions.
Running time and CLE credit hours are not necessarily the same. Please be aware that many states do not permit credit for luncheon and keynote speakers.
Note that some states limit the number of credit hours attorneys may claim for online CLE activities, and state rules vary with regard to whether online CLE activities qualify for participatory or self-study credits. For more information, refer to your state CLE website or call Customer Service at (800) 260-4PLI (4754) or email: info@pli.edu.
If you have already received credit for attending some or the entire program, please be aware that state administrators do not permit you to accrue additional credit for repeat viewing even if an additional credit certificate is subsequently issued.