Bucklin offers five general areas of continuing legal education for lawyers
(CLE).
Seminars are generally on the topics of:
Ethics,
Litigation, including discovery and trial practice,
Settlement of personal injury lawsuits,
Corporate internal
governance and investigations, and
Attorney fee awards.
Bucklin
is the managing editor of
the ethics
section of eDicta, the on line resource published by the
Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.
So he has a great stock of material on ethics subjects that can be delivered to
lawyers, and can provide Seminar # 1 -- "What's Hot in
Legal Ethics: What, Why, and How to Stay Out of Trouble."
Otherwise, pick a legal ethics topic and Bucklin may be able to furnish a
customized CLE seminar on your selected legal ethics topic.
Seminar # 2 -- Using trial notebooks for depositions and the
entire course of litigation through the trial. Bucklin is the author of various trial practice materials. The latest
is Building Trial Notebooks
,
so you may be
here because you already know you are interested in the seminar subject of "trial
notebooks: Organizing for the entire course of litigation: discovery,
settlement, and trial."
(If the expected audience size is over 100 persons, the publisher will furnish you a copy of this text to
use as a door prize at the seminar.)
Seminar # 3 - Seeking, and Defending against, Reasonable
Attorney Fee Awards: A Succinct Text for Lawyers. Bucklin is the author of a soon to
be published electronic handbook on awards of legal fees as a part of the
prevailing party's judgment.
Seminar # 4 -- Good Negotiations: Tools
and Ethics in PI Settlements. Most disputes which lawyers are asked
about do not end up in the courts, instead they are settled by way of some
form of compromise between the parties - a negotiated agreement. Getting the
best settlement for the client can often involve some skilful negotiation.
Learning about the skills --- and the ethics --- involved in negotiating is
an important part of a working lawyer's education.
Seminar # 5 -- Electronic Discovery and Spoliation of Evidence. The legal, strategic, and pragmatic
approaches to identifying, minimizing and managing e-discovery risks that could
adversely impact the client and their lawyers, including document
retention/destruction and "safe harbors". Electronic evidence is not just
for million dollar cases anymore. It's for routine divorces and auto
accidents --- if you know what's good for you! Most lawyers simply
avoid e-discovery because it is new, not because it is unneeded. You should know what
you can do (and what the other side can do to you!) the ethics rules, and the litigations rules, so that both the lawyer and
also clients stay out of trouble.
Seminar # 6 -- Corporate
Internal Investigations. The ethics problems and pitfalls, in the legal, strategic, and pragmatic approaches to
representing a client who becomes the focus of a criminal or media
investigation. Providing attorneys with the guidance to the "now" of a business crisis from the inside out,
including internal investigation, forming the litigation team before the
litigation, crisis management by the company, media, and the role of corporate
governance.
Seminar # 7 -- Vehicle Injuries - Insurance and Ethics for
Plaintiff's Attorney