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Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch have been announced as speakers for the CLE at Sea 2018, Continuing Legal Education Cruise presented by the Alaska Bar. They will join a line-up of nationally-known continuing legal education speakers offering 12 hours of CLE credit during the seven day cruise. The CLE at Sea 2018 educational programs have been approved for CLE credit in the following...
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California Lawyers and Paralegals can earn two hours of self-study MCLE credit online after reading this article and completing the quiz found at this link. FindLaw and Google Scholar offer free California state and Ninth Circuit federal case law databases (in addition to free case law databases to all other states, circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court). For California-only free case law...
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Internet For Lawyers has launched a new California MCLE exercise online focusing on using the searchable databases of legislative/congressional materials such as public laws, bills, resolutions, hearings, congressional reports, and committee reports found at The Library of Congress’s Thomas site and the Federal Digital System site (FDsys) that replaced the Government Printing Office's...
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In recent years, the California State Bar Association has stepped up its enforcement of California's Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) requirement for lawyers by auditing the compliance of more of its lawyer-members. In 2013, the Bar has announced plans to audit 10% of Compliance Group 1 (comprised of attorneys with names ending in the letters A-G). Attorneys in MCLE Compliance Group...
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Internet For Lawyers principals Carole Levitt JD MLS and Mark Rosch are bringing their popular Internet Investigative and background research Continuing Legal Education seminars back to Ohio. During the three city tour, Levitt and Rosch will present their "Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet" MCLE seminar in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Cleveland. (...
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As early as 1996, many state bar associations began issuing opinions on Internet ethics, often focusing on law firm Web sites. Most of the rules and opinions relating to online communications apply the advertising rules that already exist for print advertising. In August 2010, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released its Formal...
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More and more attorneys and judges are using social media. Some use it for its intended purpose of social networking (and, for the lesser intended purpose of marketing). Others take advantage of the information contained in these sites for an unintended purpose - investigative research. Legal pundits have argued (online and in print) about the ethical issues for attorneys utilizing this...
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More and more attorneys and judges are using social media, either for its intended purpose of social networking (and, for the lesser intended purpose of marketing) or for its unintended purpose of investigative research. There has been much discussion online amongst legal experts about what sorts of investigative activity is ethical for lawyers to engage in. Most Bar Associations however, have...
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The MCLE (Minimum Continuing Legal Education) compliance deadline for California attorneys in Compliance Group 3 is January 31, 2011. Compliance Group 3 includes all licensed California attorneys whose names end with letters N through Z. California attorneys are required to report their MCLE compliance by February 1 by submitting the California State Bar's affidavit form or online via their...
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The MCLE (Minimum Continuing Legal Education) compliance deadline for California attorneys in Compliance Group 3 is January 31, 2011. Compliance Group 3 includes all licensed California attorneys whose names end with letters N through Z. California attorneys are required to report their MCLE compliance by February 1 by submitting the California State Bar's affidavit form or online via their...
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