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CLE On Personal Injury Cases: Trial Tips and Techniques for the Courtroom

Experienced New York trial lawyers Jeffrey Kimmel and Joseph Bavaro provide a lively, practical discussion filled with common sense points & tips that you can easily deploy at your next trial.  The dynamic duo will mainly discuss gaining credibility by being yourself, practically applying the rules of civil procedure to your case, building rapport with the jury during voir dire, telling your client’s story during the opening statement and listening to the opposing side’s case.

Georgia CLE Requirements

In Georgia, CLE regulation operates under the Commission on Continuing Lawyer Competency. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) is required annually in Georgia. The Georgia CLE Requirements are a minimum of 12 credit hours each year. Of the required 12 credit hours at least 1.0 credit hours are required in ethics and at least 1.0 credit hours in professionalism are required. If you are…

CLE on Modern Trial Skills: Getting Emails, Texts & Social Media into Evidence

In 2006 the FRCP was amended to include a “new” type of evidence – Electronically Stored Information (ESI).  Twenty years later and almost every trial hinges on text messages, Facebook posts, IG stories, tweets, emails, blogs & countless more sources of electronic evidence.

Boilerplate Clauses in Contracts Establish Essential Rights: New Business Law CLE

Choice of Law, Prevailing Party, Forum Selection, Force Majeure… and what are acts of God anyway???  “Boilerplate” refers to the standard clauses that typically appear at the end of a contract that establish essential rights & therefore warrant careful consideration both at the drafting stage and if faced with enforcing them in litigation.