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Businesses everywhere are dealing with the repercussions of inflation, and of those is the increase in fraud risks to an organization. The risk of fraud is inevitable for companies of all shapes and sizes, but the pressures of current inflationary times mean the need for preventive oversight is at an all-time high. Fraud expert Natalie Lewis will provide insight into the internal and external threats of fraud as well as best practices to protect your organization.

Property claims often involve multiple parties, emotive issues and significant brinkmanship all of which lead to protracted litigation, significant cost, and delay in resolution. While the numerous types of disputes involved in property losses require the ability to be flexible, very often, they have common themes and would benefit greatly from the narrowing of issues, at the earliest possible stage, which traditional litigation rarely promotes. Creativity and ADR can significantly help in the process.

This presentation will cover the current status and near future outlook for the blockchain sector (or "crypto" broadly) from a legal standpoint. Questions answered include: What went wrong? Is crypto dead and buried? What's in store next for the industry and regulatory landscape? What's the cybersecurity state of play in crypto?

This presentation will discuss what steps to take when a claim for property damage has progressed into litigation. The presenters will discuss what to expect from start to finish in a litigated claim, focusing specifically on property damages claims and variations state to state. Presenters will share their observations and experiences from practice and jurisdiction, including FL, CA, and the Northeast, as well as the most common types of property claims arising in each area.

Preparing and presenting corporate witnesses for their trial testimony are two of the most important aspects of any trial. They can often be the difference between winning and losing the case. Corporate witness testimony can also substantially impact the value of juror awards. This panel discusses best practices that will help ensure the readiness of corporate witnesses for their trial testimony.

So you’ve heard of this ChatGPT thing? I guess that means we should talk about it. Of course, this program isn’t only about ChatGPT. To properly understand the ethics issues in that program, we actually have to go a little deeper. So in this program we’ll be talking about the different ethics issues that impact both ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (generally), and a few other new technologies that are relevant to the discussion of generative AI.

We all know that CLE programs are boring and a chore to watch. But we’re breaking the rules – a CLE program that’s intentionally funny and (gasp) entertaining, yet somehow still informative. In this unique installment of this popular series, Mark Wooster is joined by Magician, Anthropologist, Cybersecurity Expert and Keynote Speaker Paul Draper. Drawing upon decades of experience working in cybersecurity consulting for Fortune 100 companies, Paul teaches you what you need to know about cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, all the while keeping you entertained with some awesome magic tricks. Mark connects the “what you need to know” with the “what you need to do” in order to fulfill your legal ethics obligations in the context of discussing some challenging hypotheticals arising from the use of technology in your law practice. Reserve your seat today and we’ll waive the two-drink minimum!

Rules covered include: ABA Model Rules 1.1 & 1.6; New York Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1 & 1.6; California State Bar Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, Formal Opinion No. 2020-203; New York State Bar Association, Committee on Professional Ethics, Formal Opinion 1240.

In this fun and timely program, Peter Afrasiabi examines the colorful history of politicians using popular songs at campaign events and the legal disputes with musicians who opposed their works being used in this way. From such famous examples as President Reagan using Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” and former President Trump using Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” this program delivers a tour-de-force analysis of copyright, trademark and right of publicity law applied to musical compositions used to sell political campaigns.