Live Telephone CLE Courses:
By registering for these seminars, you will be able to dial a toll-free number at a designated time on the seminar date and hear the seminar.  However, if you are unable to call the toll-free number at the designated time you will be sent a copy of the program on an audio CD.

Listed below are the seminars that we have available as "Telephone CLE Courses". The credit hours for each program is listed next to each title, the breakdown is as follows: Total CLE Hours/Ethics Hours/Professionalism Hours/Trial Practice Hours.

March 16, 2010 (1:00 pm)

Generation Skipping Transfer Tax (GSTT) Planning (1/0/0/0)

COST:  $75.00

The Generation Skipping Transfer Tax (GSTT) has been repealed for calendar year 2010. But rather than creating a climate of certainty, it has sowed a climate of radical uncertainty about the repeal’s impact on existing estate plans and trusts and how to plan for the GSTT’s likely restoration in 2011. This program will discuss the impact of the repeal – whether temporary or permanent – on existing estate and trust plans, planning in a non-GSTT and non-estate tax environment in 2010, and planning in the event the death tax is imposed again in 2011. The program will also discuss the relationship of the repeal of the federal tax to still existing state death taxes.

March 23, 2010 (1:00 pm)

Bankruptcy Restructuring for Middle Market Businesses, Part 1 (1/0/0/0)

COST:  $75.00

This program will provide an practical guide to restructuring middle-market businesses in the context of Chapter 11 reorganizations. Among other topics, the program will cover pre-bankruptcy considerations and workouts, venue selection, debtor-in-possession financing, plan strategies, discharge of indebtedness, and tax issues, among many others.

March 24, 2010 (1:00 pm)

Bankruptcy Restructuring for Middle Market Businesses, Part 2 (1/0/0/0)

COST:  $75.00

This program will provide an practical guide to restructuring middle-market businesses in the context of Chapter 11 reorganizations. Among other topics, the program will cover pre-bankruptcy considerations and workouts, venue selection, debtor-in-possession financing, plan strategies, discharge of indebtedness, and tax issues, among many others.

March 30, 2010 (1:00 pm)

Retaliation Claims in Employment Law (1/0/0/0)

COST:  $75.00

Retaliation claims can be among the most difficult to defend particularly in the context of a shifting legal landscape. A retaliation claim is often couched as an illegal employer reaction to an employee’s complaint about workplace sexual harassment or other discrimination, and those claims succeed or fail independently of the underlying claim. This program will provide you with a practical discussion of the current state of the law of retaliation claims, including how the seminal Burlington Northern case has evolved in the courts, the elements of an actionable case, regulatory issues and developments, and best practices of working with whistleblowers and others who have alleged discrimination so as to reduce the risk of liability for retaliation.