Title: ESTATE PLANNING FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 1:30 PM
- End Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: October 6, 2023
- Location: Training Center
- MCLE Credits: 1.5
- Instructor: Brian Wyatt Teri L. Jones
This educational seminar is designed for licensed attorneys and members of the public who want to know more about estate planning for people with special needs. We will cover the basics of public benefits and special needs trusts. We will also look briefly at the use of conservatorships and ABLE accounts. This is a rapidly developing area of the law addressing the needs of an important population in our state.
Title: PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS THROUGH EVICTION DEFENSE (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 12:00 pm
- End Time: 1:00 pm
- Date: October 12, 2023
- Location: Online Webinar
- MCLE Credits: 1
- Instructor: Beth Patel
Beth Patel (she, her, hers) is a Staff Attorney at Legal Services of Northern California where she represents low-income clients in maintaining housing, benefits, healthcare, and economic stability. She is proud to have grown up in Sacramento and serve the legal needs of the community in her hometown. Prior to lawyering, she was a community organizer and communications consultant working to strengthen social movements for a more liberatory future for all.
Evictions and a lack of safe and affordable housing drives Sacramento residents into homelessness destabilizing both individual lives and families. This MCLE will walk you through how to represent yourself or someone else in an unlawful detainer (eviction) lawsuit. You will learn common defenses to eviction, the logistics of representation in Sacramento County Superior Court, and best practices for settlement and trial.
Title: AUTO FRAUD (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 2:00 PM
- End Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: October 12, 2023
- Location: Online Webinar
- MCLE Credits: 1
- Instructor: David Moranz Jeanne Adams
This webinar presentation by Jeanne Adams and David Moranz are Criminal Investigators for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. They will define the process for cases submitted to the D A’s office by insurance companies who ensure individuals or companies for vehicle damages or losses deem to have been submitted for payment using fraudulent information to describe or portray the facts of loss.
Our presenters will provide situational examples to identify fraudulent auto claims.
Cases deemed viable as criminal in nature may culminate in an arrest warrant and can ultimately lead to prosecution and an order for restitution or jail time.
Title: LEXISNEXIS: Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential-Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts- California Focus Part 2 of 2 (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 1:00 PM
- End Time: 2:00 PM
- Date: October 18, 2023
- Location: Online Webinar
- MCLE Credits: 1
- Instructor: Stephan Shields, JD
Stephan Shields, JD, Solutions Consultant, Lexis Nexis will demonstrate how to harness the potential as an attorney to learn things about online legal research you didn’t think you could learn before. This course is going to be a deeper dive into online legal research. According to the model rules of professional conduct, attorneys need to maintain competency, and a component of maintaining competency is to keep abreast of the benefits and risks of relevant technology. By the end of this course you all will be made aware of advanced online legal research methods to harness your potential as a researcher and to maintain a standard of competency in the legal profession.
This webinar will include: (1) Discover how online legal research can assist you in search methodology. (2) Leverage provided connections, common terms, and formatting of content. (3) Obtain visual representations of the validity of cases and statutes. (4) Learn how online legal research platforms provide organization methods, delivery methods, and recovery methods so you can better maintain your research. (5)Gather information by practice area, topic, jurisdiction or publisher. (6) Realize alternative and advanced ways to begin research with statutes. (7) Acquire archived materials in multiple ways. And, (8) Find connections between results of separate searches.
Title: AI AND FABRICATED EVIDENCE—IT IS HERE! (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 1:30 PM
- End Time: 3:00 PM
- Date: October 20, 2023
- Location: Training Center
- MCLE Credits: 1.5
- Instructor: Don Vilfer
Artificial Intelligence AI has been in the news quite a bit but has now found its way into evidence produced in litigation. Don Vilfer, President of Digital Evidence Ventures, will detail some of the real-life instances his firm has encountered fabricated evidence generated using readily available AI tools, methods of detection and relevant law to get the evidence excluded. Every attorney practicing in litigation needs to be aware of these new issues and evaluating digital evidence with a critical eye.
Title: ASSET PROTECTION: ENTITIES OF CHOICE (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 1:30 PM
- End Time: 3:30 PM
- Date: October 25, 2023
- Location: Training Center
- MCLE Credits: 2
- Instructor: Jack S. Johal
The process of asset protection is often done in conjunction with estate and business planning vehicles, such as trusts, family limited partnerships and LLCs, and various split interest arrangements. This webinar presentation will cover: (i) the risks involved in asset protection; (ii) the different vehicles involved to protect one’s assets; and (iii) the advantages and disadvantages in using certain vehicles.
Title: CITATION DEFENSE FOR THE UNHOUSED (WEBINAR)
- Start Time: 12:00 pm
- End Time: 1:00 pm
- Date: October 27, 2023
- Location: Online Webinar
- MCLE Credits: 1
- Instructor: Guy Danilowitz
Guy Danilowitz (he, him, his) Assistant Public Defender, has been an attorney since 2009. He has experience in civil and criminal law in state and federal court. He is currently employed by the Sacramento Public Defender’s Office where his main duties are defending felony trials. As a volunteer with the National Lawyers Guild he also coordinates, trains, and responds to requests for Legal Observers and conducts Know Your Rights trainings.
The MCLE will provide an overview of the criminalization of homelessness in California and in Sacramento and then discuss efforts to stop that costly and ineffective practice, including: the citation defense clinic that the National Lawyers Guild has started in Sacramento; similar projects in other parts of the state; and ongoing civil litigation in Sacramento and elsewhere in the state.
