Florida CLE Rules As Of April 2024 Any Florida attorney with an April 2024 and beyond CLE deadline will be required to meet the new Florida CLE rules. The new Florida Continuing Legal Education requirement is a minimum of 30 CLE credit hours during your 3-year compliance cycle. Of the 30 credit hours, a minimum of 3 of the credit hours are…

Unconscious bias can lead to bad decisions that violate an attorneys’ ethical duties of Competence, Communication & Diligence. It can also lead to bad press for law firms, malpractice lawsuits and possibly disbarment.

From Letters & Faxes – To Tik Tok & X Only a few years back, lawyers wrote letters, sent faxes and relied on their reputation for integrity & intelligence to gain clients. Nowadays, attorneys send emails, tweet and advertise on Google, Facebook and Tik Tok. Professionalism & Civility in the Legal Profession With the advent attorney advertising in the 1980’s, bar associations…

Todd Fichtenberg will walk you through the wonderful world of trademarks and trademark law protections. Todd will mainly talk about what every attorney needs to know about trademarks, how trademarks protect brands in today’s marketplace and counseling your clients on trademark registration and protection. Todd will also cover recent case law involving: Starbucks, Mutual of Omaha, Chewy Vuiton, NFTs, Jack Daniel’s, Walmart vs. Kanye West (Yeezy) and Nike vs. StockX.

Are you familiar with the Hero’s Journey, archetypes and universal story themes? Powerful storytellers use time-tested techniques to weave engaging stories and attorneys can deploy these to build rapport to help persuade the judge & jury.
Review the Latest Changes to Florida CLE Rules The Florida Supreme Court has reduced the required CLE hours from 33 to 30 effective January 8, 2024. This means that any Florida attorney with a January 31, 2024, compliance deadline and beyond only needs to complete a total of 30 CLE hours. Of the 30 credit hours, a minimum of 5 of the…

Attorneys and legal professionals must be proactive – not reactive. We now have an ethical responsibility to be competent with technology which includes safeguarding confidential & protected information like PII.

For every $1 that marketers spend on Influencer Advertising – the return is $18. Influencers wield increasingly more power in the marketplace in our new Tik Tok, Instagram, X and Threads world. But the FTC has taken notice – and put influencers & companies on notice as well.

From tracking murder suspects with Facebook Live data – to pointing out mistakes in the state’s location evidence due to bad vector analysis – Eric Grabski will show you how to analyze cell phone location evidence in your legal cases.

Chris Howard counsels his clients with practical information to help avoid some of the common pitfalls that can trip up franchisees. Chris will mainly discuss: Terminology & Key Documents, the Regulatory Framework, Key Items in the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and How to Review a Franchise Agreement.