Redaction has been a hot topic in several high-profile cases recently, from Paul Manafort to the deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell. While other seminars have gone more in-depth on the topic, this short-but-sweet seminar is an ideal refresher for anyone looking to ensure that they know the process to successfully and completely redact your documents using Adobe Acrobat DC Pro. Perfecting this process before filing will help you to avoid any security or confidentiality breaches.

Speaker: Anne Haag is a Practice Management Advisor at the Chicago Bar Association. Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. She is also a certified crisis counselor and volunteers as a patient advocate in the ER.

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

TOPIC: “The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits” by Les Standiford

https://www.goodreads.com/book...

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.

Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist.

The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all.

With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.

SPEAKER/ORGANIZATION:  Royal Berg will lead our discussion

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

TOPIC: Audit Trails and EMR Inspections in Medical Malpractice Litigation

SPEAKER/ORGANIZATION:  Saira Pasha, Founder, Medical Malpractice Claim Consultants, LLC  

(Live Webcast Only: IL MCLE Credit)

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

Maintaining Lawyer Wellness: How to Survive and Thrive During the Pandemic

Join CBA President Maryam Ahmad for a discussion with Dr. Diana Uchiyama, LAP Executive Director, Dr. Tony Pacione, Deputy Director for the Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program, and Justice Jesse Reyes, Illinois Appellate Court.  Learn about the resources available to help Illinois lawyers, judges and law students in order to maintain their wellness in order to survive and thrive during the pandemic.

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

TOPIC: Diversity in IP: Working with Diverse Law Firms & Companies

SPEAKERS/ORGANIZATIONS:  Cynthia Assam, Redwood Logistics, LLC; Thor Y. Inouye, Office of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and RiKaleigh Johnson, Greer Burns & Crain, Ltd.

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

Arbitration: Resolving Parties’ Complex Disputes - Opening the Door For Diverse Lawyers in the Marketplace

The CBA’s 2nd Annual Arbitration Institute, chaired by CBA COVID-19 Recovery Co-Chair Nina Fain, will begin its annual programming with a focus on helping our members enhance their practice skills and increase revenue generating opportunities for business development.  This program will continue the CBA tradition of keeping its members and strategic alliance partners updated on alternate dispute resolution methodology that can offer practitioners information about opportunities to serve as arbitrators. 

Our panelists will discuss the benefits arbitration offers during and post Covid-19 and the process for application and admission to the AAA roster of neutrals. The session will also focus on the AAA’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. The presentation is meant to be interactive and will include a Q&A portion. This session is ideal for lawyers interested in learning more about the arbitration process, or for lawyers with more than 10 years of experience who want to expand their practice skills to open up new opportunities for work now or in the future.

Svetlana Gitman
Vice President, Commercial Division, American Arbitration Association
In addition to serving as the AAA’s executive regional ADR expert and assisting parties with their large complex commercial arbitrations and mediations, Svetlana is responsible for ensuring the quality of the AAA roster in her covered region. Prior to joining AAA, she practiced insurance law at Gordon & Rees and was a litigation attorney in the Corporate Law Department of State Farm Insurance. Svetlana also served as a Judicial Extern for judges in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and the U.S.District Court of the Northern District of Illinois. She is also active on the Chicago Bar Foundation’s Young Professionals Board.

Charles E. Harris II
Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group, Mayor Brown
Charles Harris is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution group and member of the firm’s International Arbitration group.  He focuses on complex commercial disputes and has represented clients in domestic and international arbitrations before many organizations, including the AAA, ICDR, ICC, and International Film and Television Alliance. He has also served as sole arbitrator and a panelist (including the chair) in dozens of arbitrations ranging from disputes over complex software integrations to large-scale investment projects. Charles is recognized a thought leader in international arbitration and just started a podcast, International Arbitration “Across the Pond.” Charles also recently became a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

Trauma is increasingly at the front and center of our current cultural conversations surrounding mental health, and breaking down the science behind it can significantly boost our comprehension of how it functions in society. Lawyers frequently encounter trauma in the clients they represent, and absorption of that trauma can threaten the lawyer’s own mental health. In this seminar, we’ll dissect our understanding of how trauma functions in the brain, and how a client’s trauma often presents itself throughout the course of representation. There are no quick fixes when it comes to mental health, but we’ll also discuss methods lawyers can utilize to minimize the impact of secondary trauma on their own mental health, as well as methods to lessen the likelihood of re-traumatization for their client during legal proceedings.

Speaker: Anne Haag is a Practice Management Advisor at the Chicago Bar Association. Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. She is also a certified crisis counselor and volunteers as a patient advocate in the ER.

To confirm you are ready to participate in an on demand webcast, please take the browser test here: http://eventcenter.commpartner...

Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

This seminar will discuss mechanics liens and construction claims on both private and public projects.  It will provide an analysis of how to prosecute and defend such claims, and how to effectively manage such claims in arbitration.

Part 2

1:00-2:00 p.m. 
Perfecting Mechanics Liens and Bond Claims on Public Projects
Cornelius F. Riordan, Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd.

2:00-2:45 p.m. 
Bankruptcy and Receiverships
Samuel H. Levine, Bryce Downey & Lenkov LLC

2:45-3:00 p.m. Break

3:00-3:45 p.m. 
Foreclosure of the Lien and Non-Lien Remedies
James T. Rohlfing, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP

3:45-4:30 p.m. 
Common Mistakes in Mechanics Lien Practice and How to Avoid Them
Tina Paries, Bryce Downey & Lenkov LLC

Moderators:    
Jeffrey L. Hamera and Benjamin A. Johnston, Duane Morris LLP
Co-Chairs, CBA Real Property Law – Construction Law and Mechanics Lien Subcommittee

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

Growing your law practice during a pandemic is not an ideal circumstance, but it’s one in which many solo and small firm attorneys have landed. Arming yourself with knowledge of how to use the latest systems and tactics to automate exponential growth will help you grow your practice without compromising your work product or working more hours. If you are a 6 or 7 figure law firm, this seminar is for you. We’ll discuss:

    How to get a 5-star reputation with your clients
    How to automate the process of attracting the right clients
    The 6 laws of influence and persuasion and how you can use them to build a reputation as
    the go firm in your market
    How you can use the Authority Advertising Model to establish yourself as the authority in your 
    area
    Using the “Problem First” approach to quickly get new clients

Speaker: Gary Musler, President of Big Mouth Marketing. After achieving success building a firm as a financial advisor by using groundbreaking strategies online in the late 1990s, Gary became the biggest online lead generator in the country for online Universities. Gary has since used this knowledge of lead generation and applied it to the attorney market and hasn’t looked back since. Big Mouth Marketing was founded in 2013 and has helped hundreds of law firms to grow.

Sponsor: Big Mouth Marketing.

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

This seminar will discuss mechanics liens and construction claims on both private and public projects.  It will provide an analysis of how to prosecute and defend such claims, and how to effectively manage such claims in arbitration.

Part 1: 

8:30-9:15 a.m. 
Perfecting Mechanics Liens on Private Projects
James Dash and Jonathan Safron, Carlson Dash

9:15-10:15 a.m. 
Insurance Coverage For Construction Defect Claims
Clifford Shapiro and Gregory Gistenson, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

10:15-10:30 a.m.        Break

10:30-11:15 a.m. 
Managing Your First Arbitration
Charles B. Lewis, Duane Morris LLP

11:15-12:00 p.m. 
Effective Mediation of Mechanics Lien Cases
Hon. Lisa R. Curcio (Ret.),  ADR Systems

Moderators:    
Jeffrey L. Hamera and Benjamin A. Johnston, Duane Morris LLP
Co-Chairs, CBA Real Property Law – Construction Law and Mechanics Lien Subcommittee

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Live CBA Committee meetings and seminars will take place via Zoom webinar.  You will click on "view video" and be directly connected to the meeting/seminar on Zoom.  (You will not receive a Zoom link.)

You MUST have Zoom Desktop Client on your Mac or PC to view a live program. If using a mobile device, you must have the Zoom App (available in the App Store or Google Play).

System requirements for Mac & PC can be found here. System requirements for mobile devices can be here.  

Please note that audience members do not need video or audio access.  Audience members are able to submit questions via the chat or Q & A features of Zoom. 

Chat: Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). Question & Answer: Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live.