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23 Mistakes Experienced Drafters Usually Make
This seminar explains 23 typical stylistic and substantive drafting errors usually found in all kinds of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, contracts for the sale of goods and services, licenses, real estate contracts, settlement agreements, employment and consulting agreements, partnership agreements, and much more. Novice and experienced drafters will learn highly practical techniques to advance their contract drafting skills to the next level. The seminar will recap stylistic recommendations Ms. Espenschied has taught in Oklahoma before, using new examples drawn from a 2017 high-profile merger agreement. The seminar also includes brand new substantive content on:
• the seven components of a basic indemnification provision;
• how to use these components to negotiate the best deal for your client even when the bargaining leverage is less than optimal;
• negotiating strategies for key merger concepts, like thresholds, baskets, materiality scrapes, and indemnification caps; and
• recent Delaware cases on the effect of corporate seals.
Last, but not least, this seminar will fulfill your ethics credit requirement with a discussion of 8 Rules of Professional Ethics that pertain specifically to transactional practice.
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Rock N' Roll Law
This basic course is meant to give attendees an overview of music copyright law concepts, including how to establish and register a copyright for your music, what is a copyright and how to get one. You will learn the two copyrights in every song. We will also drill down to discuss the sources of revenue songs can generate as well as explore the exclusive rights of a copyright and what those basic rights mean under federal law. You will explore how the music industry as it pertains to the law has changed over the years. All the while, you will listen to music and audio clips to elaborate on the law.
Lastly, you will delve into future issues of music streaming and sampling. The course will also explore user-generated content; performing rights organizations’ role in music, and the future of copyright lawsuits.
Ethics Portion of Course
The one-hour ethics portion focuses even more particularly on representing a band or artist and uses the final few years of The Beatles as a case study. Specific emphasis is placed on the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct (MRPC) 1.7 (conflict of interest—current client); 1.13 (Organization as a client); 1.14 (Client with Diminished Capacity); and 2.1 (Role as Advocate). The ethical issues in the “My Sweet Lord” copyright infringement case will be discussed.
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The Least Awful Ethics Program Ever
No one likes ethics CLE. We know. That's why we have Stuart Teicher, "the CLE Performer" coming to town. You simply will not believe how he makes ethics...well, not horrible. We know that you don't care about the rules that he will discuss (...which are 8.3 Reporting Misconduct, 1.6, Confidentiality, 1.7 Conflicts, and more). What you care about is that he won't make you fight back a nap for 3 hours. Trust us, this is a different kind of ethics...because it's not awful.
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Naked and Afraid: A Legal Survival Skills Program
Did you ever see that TV show where people are put into a survival situation, completely naked, and with no tools except a knife? They are forced to rely on their survival skills to make it out alive. Well, lawyers are in a similar situation every day. Sure, we are fully clothed, but we have to rely on some very basic survival skills to make it through the practice. Writing, negotiating, and communicating with clients are the survival tools of our trade. Come join the “CLE performer,” Stuart Teicher, Esq., as he shows us how to sharpen those tools…so we don’t get caught with our pants down and end up naked and afraid of the disciplinary system.
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Trust Accounting Essentials
The need to handle with scrupulous care funds entrusted to a lawyer by a client or third person should be self-evident. Nonetheless, cases continue to arise where practicing lawyers, either inadvertently or intentionally, mishandle trust funds, subjecting clients and third persons to the risk of economic hardship and undermining public confidence in the legal profession.
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All your required 12 hours of MCLE credit can be received by viewing "Webcast," "Webcast Encore" or "Audio Webcast." These programs are being "live-streamed" at certain dates and times and MUST be viewed on those scheduled dates and times.
Members are only permitted to earn up to 6 MCLE credit hours per year from “On-demand” programs. These programs can be viewed at any day or time, and they can be stopped and resumed at a later time or day.
The below 3rd party external providers have also been approved by OBA/CLE for MCLE credit. Please click on either logo below to be taken to their website for additional information.
