This CLE webinar will provide guidance on the expanding scope and risks of civil liability for aiding and abetting another's actionable wrongs and offer strategies for preventing unsuspecting clients from getting trapped in avoidable litigation. Read More

This CLE webinar will discuss the penalties for violating the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) enforcement mechanisms so that counsel can design and build an effective defense. The panel will review what constitutes... Read More

This CLE course will provide commercial business litigators with a game plan when litigating breach of fiduciary duties claims, focusing on causes of action, defenses, remedies, and proof. The program will discuss litigation strategies from the perspectives of plaintiffs and defendants. Read More

This CLE course will discuss how force majeure, impracticability and impossibility, and comparable "change of law" clauses have continued to be formidable defenses and points of leverage in breach of contract cases and also the bases of affirmative relief to recover prior payments. The program will... Read More

This CLE webinar will guide experienced counsel through advanced strategies and tactics for successfully avoiding, achieving, or resisting summary judgment in a contract dispute. The panel will discuss the rules of contract interpretation and real versus imagined ambiguity, when other evidence and p... Read More

This CLE course will examine proving and defending tortious interference with contract, tortious interference with business relations, and tortious interference with economic advantage. These claims arise when a person intentionally disrupts a formal agreement between two parties or when a third par... Read More

This CLE course will sharpen commercial litigators' knowledge, authority, and persuasiveness when pressing clients' position on the meaning and applicability of "merger" clauses in contracts. The program will discuss courts' increasing reluctance to enforce merger clauses, review the different ways... Read More

This CLE course will guide litigators on the unique challenges of discovery and litigation involving or concerning trade secrets. The panel will begin with some practical tips on how to investigate and verify suspected misappropriation of trade secrets, then review the necessary level of detail for... Read More

This CLE course will provide an overview of ADA Title III requirements and then focus on some of the hottest areas of litigation right now against online and brick and mortar businesses, including lawsuits about websites/mobile apps, physical facilities, COVID-19 policies, and landlord tenant issues... Read More

This CLE course will discuss the trend in some jurisdictions to admit statements of outside counsel as admissions against their clients under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2). Read More

This CLE course will prepare trial lawyers to wield or resist the powerful weapon that is the voluntary payment doctrine (VPD). The VPD broadly prohibits parties from recouping payments they made to others, even if it exceeded the amount due the recipient or was made by mistake. Read More

This CLE course will guide litigators on how to use big data leading up to, and during, litigation. The panel will explore how data is being used to govern decisions as trial approaches, including settlement conditions, surveying potential jury member demographics, and use of psychographics for desi... Read More

This CLE course will discuss litigating indemnification and reps and warranty provisions in commercial contracts. The program will provide counsel with strategies for enforcing or attacking claims arising from contractual disputes involving these provisions. Read More

This CLE course will discuss litigation tactics for defending False Claims Act (FCA) cases, including individual liability and the impact of the Yates Memo on FCA liability and reverse false claims. The program will look at recent trends in FCA litigation and recent case law developments. Read More

This CLE course will provide commercial litigators with an analysis of legal theories that allow creditors to recover assets from affiliates and subsidiaries of corporate debtors and other transferees, namely piercing corporate veil, alter ego liability, successor liability and fraudulent transfers.... Read More