Continuing Legal Education

Ethics & Social Media CLE:

Even if you don’t think of yourself or your practice as being particularly “techy”, you still have to be familiar with the world of social media profiles, smartphones, and cloud storage. Attorneys in over two-thirds of the country – including Arkansas and Missouri – are ethically required to be competent in the law AND its practice. Attend this CLE to be sure you know what’s acceptable (and necessary) technologically AND legally before you send a Contact Request to a juror, tweet client information, or ignore a chunk of highly probative Facebook evidence…

Date: July 25, 2019
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Missouri CLE Credit: 1.2 hours including .6 ethics
Arkansas CLE Credit: 1 hour ethics - ETH66752

Presenter

Kathleen McDonald is the Director of the Immigration Practice at Wilson and Associates, a multistate law firm where her experience handling employer-sponsored and family-sponsored immigration matters in addition to providing I-9 compliance training helps broaden the services available to the firm’s corporate and community clients. Prior to joining Wilson, Ms. McDonald served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas for several years, and most recently she was the managing partner of Beacon Legal Group, PLLC where she practiced cyber law in addition to immigration law.

Ms. McDonald received her bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and in French from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she was a graduate of the Donaghey Scholars Program, and she later earned her juris doctorate from UA Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law.

Involved for several years with organizations and entities focused on matters local and international, Ms. McDonald has devoted significant time to organizations such as the Arkansas Bar Association (House of Delegates, Chair of International and Immigration Law Section), Downtown Little Rock Rotary “Club 99” (Chair of Police & Fire Awards Committee), and the Judge William R. Overton Inn of Court (President 2018-2019). Ms. McDonald frequently teaches continuing legal education classes in the areas of immigration and social media.

Location:
Join the webinar live in the Little Rock office located at:
229 West Capitol Avenue, Suite B
Little Rock, AR 72201
or join us remote from the comfort of your own desk or home office.

If you have additional questions please email marketing@alaris.us.

CLE credit hours pending approval.
*Please note that CLE credit(s) applied for this webinar are for Missouri and Arkansas only and do not include other states. At this time CLE approval for other states is not being pursued. Additional state approvals may be subject to an application fee and additional time for approvals.

Pitfalls Awaiting Arbitration Advisors and Advocates (and How to Avoid Them) CLE:

This webinar will identify how Advisors and Advocates lose advantages for their clients in these ways, and explains why it is surprisingly easy to do so. It then  suggests easy – and sometimes not-so-easy -- ways not to do so.

Date: August 22, 2019
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
Missouri CLE Credit: 1 hour

Presenter:

Jay McCauley is a Harvard Law School educated “AV” rated attorney who has served as full-time Mediator and Arbitrator for more than 20 years. He is specialized in handling  commercial, employment, construction, real property and intellectual property matters, including class actions. During this time, he has handled nearly a thousand arbitrations and mediations, involving primarily large and complex matters. Jay has been a commercial arbitrator with the national roster of the American Arbitration Association since 1999, where he serves on the Large Complex Case, Commercial, Real Property and Construction, Employment, Class Action and Healthcare Panels, and on the roster of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). He has served as a neutral for Judicate West since 2005. He isa fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and he is a distinguished fellow of the International Academy of Mediators.

If you have additional questions please email marketing@alaris.us.

CLE credit hours pending approval.
*Please note that CLE credit(s) applied for this webinar are for Missouri only and do not include other states. At this time CLE approval for other states is not being pursued. Additional state approvals may be subject to an application fee and additional time for approvals.

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