• Apr 22
    The Other Silent Killer: Confronting the Mental Illness Epidemic in the Legal Profession (ELW200422)
    Webinar
    1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    From the perspective of both a legal professional and a patient within the mental health system, learn the reasons why the legal profession is dealing with its own epidemic: mental illness. Learn about the profession-specific issues which are not only aggravating factors for pre-existing mental health challenges, but are also causative factors that turn high functioning multi-taskers into people who are stressed out, burnt out, and desperate. Additionally, learn about efforts being made by enterprising firms and industry groups to combat this epidemic. Finally, learn what you, as a thoughtful and empathetic person, can do to support yourself, your colleagues, and your friends within the legal community.

  • Apr 20
    Dealing with Debtor/Creditor Issues: Options for Businesses in the Age of COVID-19 (ECB200420)
    Webinar
    2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Businesses face the unprecedented fact that the American economy has been placed in what amounts to a medically induced coma so that we can survive the COVID-19 pandemic. However, without a functioning economy, how do businesses sustain themselves? This program will discuss options for businesses to address the financial issues caused by, and attendant to, the COVID-19 recession including: financing and restructuring options; what options chapter 11 bankruptcy provides, with a specific focus on access to courts; the Small Business Reorganization Act; and treatment of leases and contracts.

  • Apr 17
    WEBINAR: COVID-19 and the Contract Issues that Arise (ECB200417)
    10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    This seminar will cover force majeure clauses, impossibility and impracticability, and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) issues in relation to COVID-19.

  • Apr 16
    WEBINAR: Drafting an Estate Plan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What’s Different? (EEP200416)
    1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it. With this, many people have been thinking about their estate plans or lack thereof. The good news is that estate plans as we know them really haven’t changed – at least not since the UTC and the SECURE Act. Wills, living trusts, healthcare directives, and powers of attorney are all the same. What’s challenging now is executing and notarizing these documents in the social distance environment. Two Executive Orders now allow documents to be notarized and executed remotely. Attorney Ruth Fortune from Czepiga Daly Pope & Perri LLC will give an estate planning refresher and explain the requirements of remote notarization.

  • Apr 07
    WEBINAR: CARES Act Programs to Help You through This Crisis (ESF200407)
    1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Confused by all the programs under the CARES Act? This program will provide an overview of the different programs available from the state and federal governments that will help you and your clients manage the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Apr 02
    WEBINAR: COVID-19 & Insurance Coverage – A Primer on (Potential) Coverage Issues (EIL200402)

    11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    COVID-19 has upended businesses around the country, and policyholders and insurers alike are evaluating how this new risk may implicate insurance coverage. This program will provide an overview of several different lines of insurance coverage and how, depending on their terms, they may or may not respond to losses caused by COVID-19.

  • Apr 01
    WEBINAR: COVID-19 and Criminal Justice in Connecticut (ECR200401)
    3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Cody N. Guarnieri (Brown, Paindiris & Scott, LLP), Vice-Chair of the Criminal Justice Section and co-chair of the Hartford County Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Committee will present and host a discussion addressing the anticipated legal and procedural issues facing the state and federal criminal justice system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cody will endeavor to bring practitioners up to speed on the state of statutory, administrative and executive rules, laws, and orders related to the criminal justice system, as well as offer practical thoughts on the path forward.

  • Mar 31
    WEBINAR: Executive Order No. 7K – Remote Notarization (ERP200331)
    1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Connecticut has recently enacted Executive Order Number 7K. This order creates the ability to utilize remote notarization in Connecticut as a way to maximize social distancing efforts to stop the spread of the virus. This program will take a deep dive into the order itself and put together a plan as to how you can utilize.

  • Mar 30
    Taking Your Practice Home: Tips to Digitally Transform Your Law Practice Quickly & Easily(ECS200330)
    3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Local IT experts will provide important and actionable information about how to practice from home including insights on available technologies that you can use to work remotely without spending a lot of money. The presenters will leave ample time to take specific questions from members.

  • Mar 27
    Cyber Safe at Home: How to Avoid Threats & Ensure Cybersecurity While Working from Home (ECS200327)
    10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    This program will help lawyers understand the additional cyber threats posed when working from home, including specific COVID-19-themed risks, how to mitigate the risk of falling victim to a cyber-attack and what to do in the event that a cyber-attack occurs. This program has been designed with a generous Q&A portion to encourage the specific questions that members may have about cyber threats, mitigation, and response.

  • Mar 26
    WEBINAR: COVID-19 and Workers’ Compensation Practice – Questions and Answers (EWC200326)
    3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Join us for a free one-hour webinar on COVID-19 and workers’ compensation practice. Topics will be presented jointly by a claimant’s attorney and a respondent’s attorney.

  • Mar 26
    Zoom Video Conference: State of the Legal Profession Task Force (TSL200326)
    Zoom Video Conference
    12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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  • Mar 25
    WEBINAR: COVID-19 Related Workplace Considerations: A Practical Discussion (ELE200325)
    10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    Labor and Employment Section Chair Matthew Curtin (Murtha Cullina) and Education Liaison and Past Chair Paula Anthony (Berchem Moses) will present a discussion addressing the myriad employment law challenges employers and employees alike are dealing due to the COVID-19 presentation. Matthew and Paula will provide pragmatic, practical thoughts on how to navigate the workplace in these unprecedented times.

  • Mar 24
  • Mar 13
    WEBINAR: Marketing Your Law Practice: Practical Tips and Innovative Tricks CLE (ESF200313)
    Corporate Park - Tower 3
    3 Corporate Dr
    Shelton, Connecticut
    United States
    8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    This seminar will teach you cutting-edge ways to develop your practice and market it to the new generation of legal services consumer for the next decade and beyond. Focusing on digital marketing first, we delve into a better understanding of the basics of online marketing so you can avoid falling prey to vendors just out to scam you of your money. Learn core concepts that will enable you to understand a good vendor from a bad one and learn how to build upon your digital foundation with traditional marketing tactics that work across all practice areas. Get taught by industry leaders from around the USA and here in Connecticut in digital marketing, social media marketing, and referral-based marketing.

  • Mar 09
    Forever Wild: Conservation Easements and Strategies for Land Protection CLE (EYL200309)
    CBA Law Center
    30 Bank St
    New Britain, Connecticut
    United States
    6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
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    As statutes are revised and courts decide precedent-setting cases, the legal framework for conservation is constantly evolving. Clients rely on attorneys to draft conservation easements that will preserve land indefinitely. The laws that govern land conservation are intricate and during this session we will unpack the complexity of conservation easements and the like. This program seeks to encourage the development of your conservation knowledge and analysis.

  • Feb 20
    International Law Section Meeting (SIS200220)

    155 Elm Street
    New Haven

    6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
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  • Feb 13
    Introduction to Immigration Law CLE (EDU200213)
    CBA Law Center
    30 Bank St
    New Britain, Connecticut
    United States
    9:00 AM to 12:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
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    This seminar will give a broad overview of the basics of immigration law. Immigration law covers a wide range of types of clients, government agencies, and different and specialized areas of practice that fall under the large umbrella of immigration law. The seminar will also provide a good idea of the various aspects of immigration law as well as impart a basic understanding of the terminology and process.

  • Feb 11
    Appellate Procedure 101 CLE (EDU200211)
    CBA Law Center
    30 Bank St
    New Britain, Connecticut
    United States
    6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
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    Appellate Procedure is its own world. Whether you find yourself the begrudging appellee after a clear-cut victory for your client or the intrepid appellant seeking to right wrongs and make new law, it helps to have a firm grasp of the tools and traps you will encounter along the way. This seminar walks you through that journey – from pre-appeal motions, to appellate tactics, all the way to remand after the appeal’s end. You will leave with an overview of how to excel in the Appellate and Supreme Court.

  • Feb 03
    Construction Coverage from the Ground Up CLE (EYL200203)
    CBA Law Center
    30 Bank St
    New Britain, Connecticut
    United States
    6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
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    In this program, panelists will provide an overview of the different types of construction-related insurance coverages, discuss the common coverage issues that arise thereunder, and examine recent developments in the law.