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Anti-SLAPP and Section 1021.5 Motions
This City Attorneys’ Department webinar will provide important and practical information and training on how to file successful Anti-SLAPP motions and how to best defend against Section 1021.5 motions for attorney’s fees.
Complex Life & Annuity Beneficiary Issues: Who are you going to Pay?
Complex Life & Annuity Beneficiary Issues: Who are you going to Pay?
Best Personnel Practices: Promoting Safety Through Proper Hiring and Discipline
In this interactive and entertaining presentation, attendees will work through case scenarios and legal updates that will enable them to help keep employees and students safe through sound personnel practices.
Eminent Domain from Start to Finish, Ensure Proceedings and Land Valuations are Fair and Just
Alan Sozio will be speaking about the Eminent Domain Process (Condemning Authority vs. Landowners Perspective) and Challenging the Right to Take: Case Law and Recent Issues.
Join Ruben Duran for the City of Glendale's 12th annual César Chavez celebration!
Disability Insurance Law Update
What new arguments are plaintiffs using to attack disability claim denials? You will not only hear about the “good, bad and ugly” decisions, but will also learn how insurers have been successful in avoiding and minimizing legal assaults on disability determinations.
Don't be Disabled by Disability Issues: A Holistic Focus!
Disability issues can be some of the most challenging situations faced by human resources and risk managers. In this session, Ms. Park and Ms. Trainer will dive into some of the more complicated areas of disability discrimination.
“Don’t give them more than you owe: Collateral Source Set-Offs and the Howell rule"
Cost: $25 (includes lunch)
To ensure that we reserve space and lunch for all attendees, please pre-register no later than January 24. Onsite registration will be available beginning at 9:30 a.m. Cancellations made in writing prior to January 24, 2013 will be refunded less a $5 processing fee. No refunds for cancellations made after January 24.
“Don’t give them more than you owe: Collateral Source Set-Offs and the Howell rule”
Cost: $25 (includes lunch)
To ensure that we reserve space and lunch for all attendees, please pre-register no later than January 16. Onsite registration will be available beginning at 9:30 a.m. Cancellations made in writing prior to close of business on January 16, 2013 will be refunded less a $5 processing fee. No refunds for cancellations made after January 16.
Burke Attorneys Presented at CALPELRA's 2012 Annual Training Conference
Teacher Tenure and Seniority: Barriers to Educational Reform?
Dealing with the Common Board Member Conflict of Interest Issues
Police Liability: Use of Force Lawsuits (Southern California)
This presentation will provide examples of force lawsuits along with law that pertains to use of force actions.
Police Liability: Use of Force Lawsuits (Northern California)
This presentation will provide examples of force lawsuits along with law that pertains to use of force actions.
Section 66462.5 of the Government Code provides that a City and a subdivider may, by agreement, provide for the acquisition of off-site interests from third parties by the City at the subdivider’s expense, where such interests are required to satisfy map conditions. This presentation will explore all aspects of this right from both the city and developer perspective. Topics will include key considerations before conditioning a map approval to construct off-site improvements, negotiating an offsite acquisition agreement with the developer, and the relationship between the city and the developer during subsequent eminent domain litigation.
“Moving Forward: DUE DILIGENCE REVIEW AND MEET & CONFER: DOING IT RIGHT!”
“Moving Forward: DUE DILIGENCE REVIEW AND MEET & CONFER: DOING IT RIGHT!”
State Court Practitioners' Playbook for Mastering Federal Court
How Do Cyberspace and Social Media Affect Your Personnel Practices?
Disability discrimination continues to be an area of the law that vexes employers and presents unique and, at times, unexpected, challenges. In this session, we will explore four of those challenges and examine how an employer can best address them.
Charter School Issues: How to Strengthen the Process for Boards
The Superintendent's Contract: What Every Trustee Needs to Know
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Social Media
This presentation focuses on the use of social media by law firms as a marketing and recruiting tool and includes analysis of objectives, risks, client relation issues, business development, personnel support, resource and budget requirements, what social media outlets are appropriate for the firm, as well as tips for launching an effective social media presence in the legal marketplace.
Disclosure of Carcinogens Under Proposition 65
This presentation addresses the obligations of employers and business to make required disclosures of cancer-causing chemicals pursuant to California's Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act.
CALPELRA Labor Relations Academy 9 - Preparing for Factfinding and Public Impasse Hearing
Burke partners, William Kay, M. Carol Stevens, Janae H. Novotny, and Janet Cory Sommer will present at CALPELRA's Academy 9. Initially presented as an introduction to AB 646 and the factfinding process, Academy 9 focuses on the practical aspects of preparing for factfinding as part of the impasse process.