Orientation and Introduction of New Members

Harold I. Braff, American Inns of Court Leadership Council

September 15, 2009

History of Civil Pro Bono

View Materials (.pdf)

October 20, 2009

Cyberspace, The Final Frontier of Law Practice

Investigating MySpace (.pdf)

Presentation (.pdf)

Slideshow (.pdf)

Resources (.pdf)

New York Times Article (.pdf)

Social Networking Research (.pdf)

Friend or Foe (.pdf)

Developing Case on the Internet (.ppt)

Woman’s MySpace Increases Sentence (link)

Ultimate Facebook Betrayal? (link)

How social media can hurt your career (link)

Social Networking Evidence: Sources, Authentication and Admissibility (link)

November 17, 2009

Bulls and Bears and Stimulus Packages. Oh My!

Information on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (.pdf)

Comparison of Speech Clips by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barrack Obama (.pdf)

Stimulus Presentation (.ppt)

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) (.pdf)

Information on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

December 15, 2009

First Annual Harry Phillips AIC Holiday Party

January 19, 2010

Practice Interrupted: Are You Prepared?

Table of Contents (.pdf)

List of Things to Do to Prepare for Disaster, Disability & Death (.pdf)

Checklist for Lawyers Planning to Protect clients’ interests in event of lawyers disability, impairment, incapacity or death (.pdf)

Checklist for closing your office (.pdf)

Checlist for closing another attorney’s office (.pdf)

Checklist of concerns when assuming temporary responsibility of another attorney’s practice whether resulting from the disability or suspension of another attorney (.pdf)

Agreement to close law practice in the future (.pdf)

Authorization and consent to close office (.pdf)

Limited Power of Attorney to manage law practice (.pdf)

Letters to clients (.pdf)

Request for File and Acknowledgement of receipt of file and Authorization for transfer of client file (.pdf)

Letter from firm offering to continue representation (.pdf)

Inventory of law office information (.pdf)

February 16, 2010

Gideon v. Wainwright: Then and Now

Gideon’s Broken Promise ABA SCLAID Report (.pdf)

Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks Out on the Need to Address the Crisis in Indigent Defense Brennan Center for Justice (.mht)

Final Gideon’s Broken Promise (.ppt)

Gideon v. Wainwright – Decision (.pdf)

Materials (.pdf)

Mark Stephens Presentation (.ppt)

March 16, 2010

Caperton v. Massey and Motions for Recusal

Caperton v. Massey and Motions for Recusal (.pdf)

April 20, 2010

The Ethics of Mistakes

May 18, 2010

Lincoln, The Lawyer

Lincoln Trivia  (.ppt)

Lincoln Quotes  (.ppt)

Lincoln Photos (.ppt)

September 21, 2010

Social Networking: Friend or Foe or “Unfriend” or “Unfoe”?

(responsible for May Toast)

CLE Program #095930

(1.5 hours – general credit)

October 19, 2010

Collaborative Law

(responsible for April Toast)

CLE Program #095931

(1.5 hours – general credit)

November 16, 2010

Cultural Cognition and Its Influence on Lawyers and Judges

(responsible for March Toast)

CLE Program #095898

(1.5 hours – general credit)

December 2010

Holiday Event

Donald W. Lemons, Supreme Court of Virginia

January 18, 2011

T urning the Keys Over to the Next Generation:  Succession Planning and the Practice of Law

(responsible for February Toast)

CLE Program #095897

(1.5 hours – general credit)

February 15, 2011

The Law of Race: Who’s Black, Who’s White, Who’s Other and Who Cares?

(responsible for January Toast)

CLE Program #095899

(1.5 hours – general credit)

March 15, 2011

The Legal Systems and the Practice of Law  in the People’s Republic of China

Catalogue for Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries – Chinese (.pdf)

Catalogue for Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (Amended in 2007)  (.pdf)

Text of the Arbitration Law  (.pdf)

Summary of the Civil Procedure Law  (.pdf)

Further Reading  (.pdf)

(responsible for November Toast)

CLE Program #095902

(1.5 hours – general credit)

April 19, 2011

So You Have Received a Request for Electronically Stored  Information: Now What?

(responsible for October Toast)

CLE Program #095901

(1.5 hours – general credit)

May 17, 2011

[Joint Meeting]

A Guide to the Second Amendment: The Practical Implications of  Heller v. District of Columbian and McDonald V. City of Chicago

(responsible for September Toast)

CLE Program #095900

(1.5 hours – general credit)