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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. 
 

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.