Join us from 8:55 until 11:45 a.m. on Friday, October 23 for part one of this two-part program that examines a number of key real estate issues, recent caselaw updates and legislative changes that affect your client. Listen to experienced real estate attorneys as they discuss foreclosures, forbearances and real estate-related bankruptcy issues. Learn about condominium issues in the COVID (and post-COVID) pandemic. Understand reassessment of property valuations, as well as incentives given to developers for rebuilding. Engage with a panel of distinguished attorneys as they discuss the hot topics in real estate, including the impact of COVID-19 on the practice of law involving real estate.
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Join us from noon until 1 p.m. on Wednesday, October 21 for "Workers’ Compensation and COVID-19 Rebuttable Presumption." Come ready with questions as we have a lively discussion with a respondent’s and petitioner’s attorney about the new law providing a rebuttable presumption of compensability under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act for a COVID-19 diagnosis. The panel will debate the new law’s effectiveness and strategy for handling a COVID-19 claim. The panelists will also discuss the impact on non-COVID-19 cases and whether a different remedy exists outside of workers’ compensation.
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Join us from 1:30 until 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7 for "Workers’ Compensation Update—Virtual Edition, Part 2." Get the information you need to protect your practice from the ethical pitfalls that can arise when representing a workers’ compensation case, the case law updates you need to effectively represent your clients, and the insight you need regarding occupational accidents in light of today’s pandemic with this information program.
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Trade secrets such as the Coca-Cola recipe may seem out of reach for many companies, but there are more things to protect than just the obvious—consumer lists and processes, to name a few. Join us from 1:30 until 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 6, to learn about confidentiality agreements and how they can help keep your clients’ secrets safe. Learn how to draft confidentiality agreements, how to avoid having the agreement upended by courts, and under what circumstances an employee should be required to sign the agreement. A discussion on whether or not blanket agreements can survive a court challenge is also included.
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Bostock v Clayton County Georgia was the landmark case decided June 15, 2020 by the U.S. Supreme Court establishing that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal. Don’t miss this in-depth look at how this case will impact future anti-discrimination laws, as well how the underpinning tensions of statutory interpretation and judicial philosophies brought a conservative justice to a surprising conclusion.
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Join us from the comfort of your home or office from 12:55 until 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30 for this online program that explores chancery and equitable remedy issues, including injunctive relief, receiverships, temporary restraining orders, equitable accounting, ejectment, the judicial perspective on each of these issues, and much more.
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September 9, 2020 |
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Registration is now open for the ISBA's Solo and Small Firm Conference 2020, which will be held remotely on October 29-30.
The theme of this year's conference is "Finding Your Path to Success." It is sponsored by the ISBA Mutual Insurance Company.
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Join us from the comfort of your home or office on Friday, October 2 for this half-day online seminar that explores DUI defenses for the litigator. Traffic law attorneys, public defenders, and state’s attorneys with all levels of practice experience who attend this live webcast will better understand: the recent changes and updates to existing Illinois traffic law; what to do when your client is apprehended through a roadside safety check; common issues with Illinois State Police regulations; the newest cannabis legislation and how it affects traffic law; the pros and cons of how Drug Recognition Evaluators and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement are trained; and how to create an effective closing argument for your next traffic law case.
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Join us online from noon until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22 to learn how to use Outlook’s feature set to efficiently store, organize email and attachments, and successfully deal with high email volume. We'll also show you how to fix Outlook’s default settings for email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Finally, we’ll explain many amazing and useful Outlook features which most users don't even know are there.
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August 24, 2020 |
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Due to popular demand, registration is now closed for the fall semester of Fred Lane's ISBA Trial Technique Institute.
The fall semester begins September 8.
You may email Joyce Williams to be added to a waiting list for the fall semester or to get information about the 2021 spring semester.