Is stress affecting how you feel (physically, mentally, or emotionally) and your interactions (with clients, colleagues, or loved ones)? Improve your wellness, quality of life, and services to your clients with techniques you’ll learn and practice to reduce stress and skill-build for resilience, as well as a 20-minute meditation to support mental space, regulation, and equanimity. This will be a weekly series with different well-being tips and techniques presented at each session, including 1-3 minute exercises for quick resets.

The afternoon begins with a Criminal Justice Section Meeting at the CBA Law Center at 3:00 p.m., followed by a 90-minute presentation by the Hon. Eliot D. Prescott, Deputy Chief State's Attorney, Inspector General.

AI is quickly becoming as ubiquitous as search in our working lives. Just as search changes how we interact with the information at our disposal, AI tools give us new ways to process and manipulate information. Despite these tools being new, existing privacy and security laws apply to the use of these tools and contain detailed requirements for the types of assessments that organizations are expected to perform when using these tools to process personal data. We will walk through some of the more common assessments and how to approach assessing the risks, practices, and strategies for using AI tools in compliance with law and effectively.

Go beyond the basics and explore real estate closings at an advanced level. This seminar will assist residential real estate practitioners to fully understand the steps and details involved in closing a complex residential real estate transaction. We will provide an overview of the entire real estate closing process, with a focus on advanced real estate issues. In this program, seasoned faculty will explore a variety of real estate issues with concrete tips for successfully navigating past major difficulties, avoiding claims and other pitfalls. This program will teach you the basic principles of real property transactions starting with a review of contract matters, and pre-closing, closing and post-closing issues you may face, including emerging issues such as new federal laws on realtors, AI, and fraud. Attorneys involved in all aspects of residential real estate transactions will benefit from a better understanding of what is involved in closing a complex residential real estate transaction and will acquire a more thorough understanding of the documents which may be necessary in connection therewith.