This is a webcast of the live San Francisco session.Why you should attend
Satisfy all of California’s MCLE special requirements at this fast-paced and up-to-the-minute program. If your last name begins with a letter from N through Z, your MCLE compliance deadline of February 1, 2014 is fast approaching.
The MCLE Marathon, taught by a faculty of outstanding California lawyers and other professionals who are recognized leaders in their field, will conveniently provide all of the California required-subjects that you need:
- 4 hours of legal ethics
- 1 hour of prevention, detection and treatment of substance abuse or mental illness that impairs professional competence
- 1 hour of elimination of bias in the legal profession
You can access the live webcast from your home or office computer and still receive participatory credit. Or, you can schedule a groupcast in your office to make the MCLE required subjects credit available to all your attorneys facing the deadline. If you need more credits to meet your 25-hour total by the deadline, go to www.pli.edu for a full list of upcoming live and On-Demand web programs. Both live and On-Demand web programs qualify for participatory MCLE credit.
What you will learn
- How to overcome new challenges in protecting privilege and confidentiality
- Strategies to resolve conflicting ethical responsibilities of various jurisdictions
- Master recent developments in the law governing attorneys
- Techniques to recognize and deal with stress & substance abuse in the legal profession
- Opportunities to eliminate bias in the legal profession
Who should attend
All attorneys licensed to practice law in California, and particularly those whose last names begin with a letter from N through Z, should attend. Receive all the required subject MCLE credit that you need in just one day!
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 P.S.T.
Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (P.S.T.)
9:00 Program Overview
Merri A. Baldwin (Moderator); Wendy Wen Yun Chang, John Steele, Andrew Logan Tuft, Mark L. Tuft
9:15 In-bound Foreign Lawyers
The panel will present hypotheticals inviting audience participation addressing how in-house lawyers and lawyers in private practice may ethically interact with in-bound foreign lawyers and foreign lawyers serving as corporate counsel.
Merri A. Baldwin (Moderator); Wendy Wen Yun Chang, John Steele, Andrew Logan Tuft, Mark L. Tuft
10:30 Networking Break
10:45 Contracting Ethics
Through audience-response hypotheticals, this panel will discuss the increasing use of advance conflicts waivers to address a number of potential conflicts situations, the ethical parameters of advance waivers and whether (and when) they should be upheld; and the use of contractual agreements concerning choice of law and the implications for ethical obligations attorneys owe their clients.
Merri A. Baldwin (Moderator); Wendy Wen Yun Chang, John Steele, Andrew Logan Tuft, Mark L. Tuft
12:15 Networking Break
12:30 Recent Developments in the Law Governing Attorneys
The panel will focus on developments in case law, ethics opinions and disciplinary rules concerning legal malpractice, professional responsibility, fee disputes, risk management and ethics. Audience questions will be invited and answered during this segment of the program.
Merri A. Baldwin (Moderator); Wendy Wen Yun Chang, John Steele, Andrew Logan Tuft, Mark L. Tuft
1:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session: 2:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (P.S.T.)
2:45 Dealing With Stress and Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession
This presentation will examine stress, depression, substance abuse and other personal challenges commonly faced by today`s legal professionals. The presentation will also identify resources available to help lawyers address these problems, including the Lawyer Assistance Program at the State Bar of California.
Richard P. Carlton
3:45 Networking Break
4:00 The Opportunity and Obligation to Eliminate Bias in the Legal Profession
From courtrooms to law firms, attorneys are confronted with the opportunity and obligation to eliminate bias in the profession. Panelists will address the status of diversity in the legal profession and judiciary; professional obligations to clients, parties, witnesses, colleagues and the Courts to avoid and eliminate bias; mechanisms for raising concerns of discrimination or bias; and best practices for increasing diversity and countering bias.
Amy Todd-Gher, Yolanda Jackson
5:00 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.