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.
Here are seminar topics of most interest.
Seminar # 1 -- "What's Hot in
Legal Ethics: What, Why, and How to Stay Out of Trouble." Pick any legal ethics topic and Bucklin may be able to furnish
you a customized CLE seminar on your selected legal ethics topic. For the five years ending in 2008, Bucklin
was 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 Associaion. His past
experience and present constant interest in ethics developments allows him to
deliver ethics seminars on a variety of topics
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. (If the expected audience size is over 100 persons, the publisher will furnish you a copy of this
three volume 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.
Again, Bucklin has authored a book on the subject, and a door prize of the book
is available for seminar organizers who use Bucklin as a speaker. 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 Attorneys. Litigation attorneys can benefit by CLE seminars that
stress the ethical, insurance, and practical aspects of the substantive field
with which they are involved. This is one of those areas of law on which Bucklin
can give tips and tactics.
More Choices. Because Bucklin is a member of the College of the
State Bar of Texas, Bucklin can be the instructor - presenter of hundreds
of State Bar of Texas "CUSTOM CLE" programs. These are anytime, anywhere video
replays of your choice of Texas Bar CLE video presentation advanced courses
with full written materials and Bucklin's presentation of the topic. These
videos with written materials and an accompanying instructor/presenter are
accredited by the State Bar of Texas for participatory CLE credits.
Because most states will accredit courses for their state that have been
accredited by the State Bar of Texas, you have a second complete range of
choices of CLE topics we can present.
Bucklin's CLE seminars always have a practical application and always contain practical techniques for doing the job.
Both litigation lawyers and also business attorneys benefit from seminars addressing the ethics and
legal compliance issues both they and their clients face. There
is usually an ethics component built into a Bucklin's CLE seminar, even if the
seminar subject matter is a nuts and bolts "how-to" type of subject.
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If your law firm wants to sponsor a
lecture or seminar for corporate clients to attend, with the Bucklin
Organization you can proudly present prestigious professors and
acclaimed authors to provide corporate ethics education - a hot button
topic with corporate executives. For the Bucklin Organization's business
ethics consultations and seminar training for business management
executives see our corporate ethics division, named
. Corporate-Ethics
US is a best concentration of J.D. and Ph.D. ethics scholars. |
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