This free innovative series addresses legal issues that affect our clients and their businesses.

Each teleseminar is designed to provide useful and timely information in a rapidly changing business environment.

Please join us on the last Thursday of each month from 12 noon to 1 PM PST.

To register for our teleseminars click here. For questions about the program, please email or call 213.891.5624.

Thank you. We look forward to lunching and learning with you.

To see the list of topics from the 2009 Brown Bag Teleseminar Series, and to order the complimentary audio and corresponding materials, please click here.


2010 PROGRAMS

January 28 Steven Brower
Ten Litigation Strategies that Win Cases and Cost Less
Steven Brower, who handles trials, appeals, arbitrations and mediations across the country, will present 10 short litigation strategies which will help to win your cases and to make litigation less expensive.

February 25 Jessie Reider
Digital Protection:  Using Terms of Use and Privacy Policies to Shield Your Company
With the rampant exchange of information online, and the increasingly burdensome privacy regulations, it is important for your company's website to have effective Terms of Use and Privacy Policies that also avoid inadvertently violating FCC rules.

March 25 Richard Darwin
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Trade Secret 
As the recession continues, more and more employees and executives are leaving one company to join or start a competitor, often taking confidential and proprietary materials along with them.  This teleseminar will provide participants with a primer on trade secret law in California, as well as advice on how to identify and protect trade secrets, and the remedies that are available when company materials are stolen.

April 29 Howard Ellman
Land Use Traps for Lenders Managing Troubled Assets 
When the lender takes title, do the entitlements always come along? Can a lender claim the benefit of 'vested rights' that the foreclosed developer thought that he had perfected and that loan proceeds supposedly paid for? What unseen traps lurk in the entitlements that can snare the unwary lender? Welcome to another twilight zone of the arbitrary.

May 27 Sandra Thompson
Expediting Your Patent Applications in 2010 
This seminar will discuss the various routes available (and soon to be available) for expediting your United States patent application. In some instances, you may also be able to expedite any foreign patent applications that you currently have on file. We will also discuss various tips and strategies to consider before and after filing your patent application.

June 24 Robert Willner
Trusts as Loan Parties (Borrower, Guarantor, Subordinated Creditor)
This program will cover the legal, credit, due diligence and documentation issues involved when a loan party is a family trust, and when a family trust should be a loan party, including the special UCC Article 9 requirements unique to trusts. This program will also cover workout strategies, and a lender's rights and remedies against assets held in a family trust, regardless of whether the trust is a loan party. A must attend for all lenders, workout loan officers, and bank counsel.

July 29 Richard Ormond and Matt Seror
A Bank's Options for Disposing of Distressed Real Property: Analysis of the Benefits and Risks of Note Sales, Deeds in Lieu, Foreclosure and Other Available Remedies
This teleseminar will offer a comprehensive review of the options available to lenders holding distressed real property and will focus on the benefits and risks of each option depending upon the asset type, status of the property and a number of other relevant considerations.

September 30 Karen Stevenson
Litigating in the Social Networking Era
Karen L. Stevenson will discuss the growing role of social media (think Facebook and Twitter) in litigation. Ms. Stevenson will offer effective strategies from both plaintiff and defense perspectives for using social media as a resource for discovery, witness preparation, and trial. She will also review recent national class actions developed through social networking sites. To register, click here.

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