Topic: Reframing Wellness: A New Perspective on Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Speaker: Amy Leinen Guldner, Speaker and Coach, Reframing Well-Being; Attorney at Law, Montage Legal Group

Through practical insights, Amy Leinen Guldner will challenge traditional notions of wellness and invite participants to rethink what it means to thrive as a lawyer.

(IL Mental Health/Substance Abuse PR-MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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. 

Topic: Mindfulness for Lawyers: Practical Strategies for Stress, Focus, and Well-Being

Speaker: Andrea Yang, Career Development Senior Manager, Mayer Brown LLP

Andrea Yang will explore how stress and reactivity can affect attorney well-being, Attendees will learn practical mindfulness strategies that can be incorporated into the workday.

(IL Mental Health/Substance Abuse PR-MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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 is a hybrid program with a webcast and in-person option at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). Please indicate if you will attend in-person when registering where indicated. 

Topic: The Power of Focus Groups

Speaker: Ken Levinson, Trial Attorney, Levinson & Stefani Injury Lawyers

(IL MCLE credit for live program only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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 is a hybrid program with a webcast and in-person option at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). Please indicate if you will attend in-person when registering where indicated. 

Topic: Resolving discovery disputes and cases involving electronically stored information (ESI); Selecting the appropriate ADR services: Mediation, Arbitration, Private Judging & Voluntary Trial, Resolution (VTR), and/or Court-Appointed Special Masters?

Speakers: Jay Carle, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw; Hon. (ret.) Mac McCoy, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields; Nathalina Hudson, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll; Christopher Suarez, Partner, Steptoe

Moderator: John Levitske, Partner, HKA

(IL MCLE credit for live meeting only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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. 

Topic: Suicide Awareness & Prevention

Speaker: Ben Kohn, Executive Director, Hope for the Day

Ben Kohn, Executive Director of Hope for the Day, will lead a conversation on suicide awareness, prevention, and the role of hope in supporting mental health within the legal profession.

(IL Mental Health/Substance Abuse PR-MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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 is an in-person program at Holland & Knight (150 N Riverside Plaza, Ste 2700, Chicago, IL 60606). A reception sponsored by Holland & Knight will follow the meeting at 5:00 PM.

Topic: The Modern Family Office: Governance in an Era of Complexity

Panelists: Patrick C. Emans, Partner, Holland & Knight; Pamela Lucina, Head of Family Office Solutions, Northern Trust; Trisha M. Rich, Partner, Holland & Knight

Moderator: Elizabeth A. Garlovsky, Partner, Holland & Knight

Patrick C. Emans is a Partner in Holland & Knight's Miami and Jacksonville offices, serving as general counsel to wealthy individuals, families and businesses, and as deputy leader of the firm's Global Wealth and Family Office Practice Group. He focuses on domestic and international estate and tax planning, family office structuring, complex estate and trust administration, and trust and estate disputes, and assists charities with obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status.

Pamela Lucina leads Family Office Solutions, Northern Trust's offering for ultra-high net worth individuals and families that combines custom advisory expertise with institutional family office capabilities. In this role, she oversees a dedicated team within our Global Family Office business that supports clients as an outsourced family office. Pam has a strong background in wealth, tax, philanthropic and business owner planning; she also brings expertise in next-generation education, governance and global family office matters. She is a recognized leader and speaker within the estate and trust legal community.

Trisha M. Rich is a Partner in Holland & Knight's Chicago and New York offices and is a litigator and trial attorney recognized as one of the country's foremost lawyers on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and the regulation of the legal profession. With more than two decades of experience, she has served as lead or co-lead counsel in more than a dozen trials and arbitrations involving business torts, contracts, employment matters and negligence. She is president of the Chicago Bar Association and a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.

Elizabeth "Lizzy" A. Garlovsky is a Partner and private wealth services attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office. She focuses on estate planning and wealth transfer strategies for individuals and families, including probate and estate and trust administration. With more than 20 years of combined experience in private practice, the public sector and as a wealth advisor for a multinational bank, she helps clients prepare and implement estate plans.

(IL MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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. 

An entity’s financial statements convey a great deal of significant information regarding its financial position and the results of its operations. The ability to understand financial statements is a critical skill for corporate, family, trial, and other lawyers. It also is essential for lawyers reviewing financial statements to be able to "read between the lines.” This session focuses on understanding financial statements, intermediate level financial analysis and essential concepts underlying the presentation of financial information to assess their reliability. At the end of the program, lawyers will be able to ask better questions regarding the financial statements they need to review and analyze and/or to recognize when the level of complexity is such that they need to hire a forensic accountant to assist in that review and analysis.

The program will be taught by a forensic accountant with more than 45 years of experience who is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Public Accountant, and Certified in Financial Forensics. The program is built around a case study that incorporates the financial shenanigans seen in the investigative projects completed over several years. The case study includes a full set of financial statements, including footnote disclosures. (Participants attending the program will need to have a copy of the case study financial statements at the program to derive the maximum benefit from the program.)  

The program provides special emphasis on "financial shenanigans" - ways in which Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") might be manipulated to create misstated financial statements - as well as practical suggestions on how to find misstatements in financial statements of both public companies and medium sized, family owned businesses.

The program is ideal for corporate attorneys, trial lawyers, bankruptcy counsel, family law practitioners and general counsel. 

SPEAKER:
Michael D. Pakter, CPA, CFF, CGMA, CFE, CVA, MAFF, CA, CIRA, CDBV
Managing Member, Gould & Pakter Associates, LLC

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. 

Topic: Preparing for CCPA Compliance: Privacy Risk Assessments and Cybersecurity Audits

Speakers: Jennifer Dickey, Data Privacy and AI Associate, Dykema; Matthew T. Hayes, Member, Dykema

This program will provide an overview of the CCPA’s privacy risk assessment and cybersecurity audit requirements. The presenters will discuss which businesses are subject to the requirements, the activities that may trigger a risk assessment, the scope of required cybersecurity audits, and practical steps organizations can take to prepare for compliance.

(IL MCLE credit for live webcast only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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 is a hybrid program with a webcast and in-person option at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). Please indicate if you will attend in-person when registering where indicated. 

Topic: A Discussion of Erin Clifford’s Wellness Reimagined: A Holistic Approach to Health, Happiness and Harmony
Speaker: Erin Clifford, JD, MA, LPC; Managing Director at Clifford Law Offices, Corporate Wellness Consultant, Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois, and National Certified Counselor

Our speaker will share her holistic, flexible approach that integrates nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mindful living, and intentional self-care. You’ll learn how to create a lifestyle that aligns with your personal values and helps you thrive, not just survive.

(IL Mental Health/Substance Abuse PR-MCLE credit for live program only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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. 

Topic: ADR in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Speakers: Judge (ret.) Jerome Abrams, ADR Neutral, JAMS; Retired Judge, First Judicial District Court, Minnesota

Ryan Abbott, MD, Esq., FCIArb, ADR Neutral, JAMS, Inc.

(IL MCLE credit for live meeting only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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.