11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (MT)
**Live Audio Stream Only
1.0 CLE credit
Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Freestone and WebCredenza, Inc.

Registration Fee:  $55.00

The overlapping articles of the UCC impact most business, commercial and real estate transactions.  From the perfection of security interests to the enforceability of promissory notes and investment contracts to equipment leases and the sale of goods, the UCC plays a role in most significant transactions. This program, led by one of the nation’s leading authorities on the UCC, will provide you with a wide-ranging discussion of developments under the many articles of the UCC, including secured transactions, investment notes, sales, and equipment leasing.  

• Recent UCC developments for transactional attorneys
• Developments impacting commercial, business and real estate transactions
• UCC Article 9, asset-based transactions and secured transactions
• Sales of goods contracts
• Equipment leases, including computer equipment and capital equipment
• Notes, guarantees and letters of credit

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (MT)
**Live Audio Stream Only
1.0 Ethics credit
Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Abila and WebCredenza, Inc.

Registration Fee:  $55.00

Preparing witnesses – whether fact witnesses or experts – for deposition or trial or conferring with them during breaks in testimony fraught with ethical issues. Expert witnesses are paid for their time, not their testimony. Though they may be hired to support a client’s view of the facts, there are limits to how experts can be coached. There are also real limits to how attorneys can prompt fact witnesses, for instance to “not remember” unfavorable facts. There are also significant ethical issues involving how to handle inadvertently produced privileged documents and when testimony goes in an unexpected adverse direction. This program will provide you with a practical guide to the ethical issues and traps of working with witnesses.

• Paying witnesses for their time versus their testimony
• Prompting a witness to “not remember” unfavorable testimony
• Conferring with witnesses during deposition breaks and the limits of what you advise
• Dishonest witnesses – what are your obligations to the court and your client?
• How to handle the inadvertent production of privileged documents
• Drafting witness affidavits without interviewing the witness

Sponsored by the U.S. Courts District of Idaho and the Idaho State Bar

1.0 CLE credit 

Length:  Approx. 1 hour

Registration:  FREE

As a swan song before he enters retirement, David L. Metcalf, Senior Staff Attorney for the US District Courts, District of Idaho will present a his research on the history of the federal courts in Idaho.

In this rambling lecture Dave will drone on and on about his four decades with the Idaho Federal District Court.   Stories will be told, some true.  No fact checkers, please.  Mercifully, and by demand, it will end after an hour.

Handling Your First or Next Matter Involving the Sale or Acquisition of a Small Business

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation and LawPay 

Length: Approx. 1 hour

Registration Fee:

Standard Registration - $70.00

The acquisition or sale of a small business often involves the complex interplay of legal, financial, tax, and business considerations.  Matthew T. Christensen, Angstman Johnson and L. Victoria Meier, Eberle Berlin will provide the attorney in general practice with a good overview of the issues that are critically important in handling their first – or next – business formation or sale.

Serving the Needs of our Military Service Member Clients (2020 Mobile Monday Series Session #2) FREE CLE

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. and the Fourth District Bar Association

1.0 CLE credit

Length:  Approx. 1 hour

In honor of Veteran’s Day, Maj. Stephen A. Stokes, Staff Judge Advocate for the Idaho National Guard, shares his insight into the unique needs of Idaho's Military Population and the ways in which Idaho's attorneys can best serve that population.  The program focuses on issues such as the barriers to legal services, legal needs of the veteran population, legal issues that arise in military family law cases, and federal statutes that impact servicemembers' rights such as the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.

Thank you for the Fourth District Bar Association for sponsoring this session of Mobile Monday so that it is offered FREE of charge to all members of the bar.
 

Hindsight in 2020:  IP Law Lessons Not to Learn the Hard Way (2020 Mobile Monday Series Session #3)

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc.

1.0 CLE credit

Length: Approx. 1 hour

Registration Cost: $35.00

Elizabeth H. Schierman, TraskBritt, PC and Kammie Cuneo, Thomas P. Howard, LLC. will share practical insights involving intellectual property law that every attorney should be aware of when serving clients in all practice areas.   Tips will include how to avoid costly pitfalls in various areas of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and international intellectual property, to which it is all too easy to fall prey. 

The Show Must Go On: Resuming Jury Selection Post-Pandemic (2020 Mobile Monday Series Session #4)

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc.

1.0 CLE credit

Length: Approx. 1 hour 

Keith Pounds, Ph.D. a senior consultant with Litigation Insights, will share insights as to how jury selection can be organized in the COVID-19 courtroom whether it is via Zoom or in-person.  His presentation will also touch on the ever changing attitudes of jurors post-pandemic and what you will need to know during voir dire.

2020 Ethics Update, Part 1 

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc.

First Run Broadcast: December 28, 2020

1.0 Ethics credit

Registration Fee:  $55.00

11:00 - 12:00 p.m. (MT)

 This annual ethics program will provide you with a round-table discussion of practical ethical issues important to your practice. The program will provide you with an engaging discussion of ethics developments involving technology and law practice, conflicts of interest, and attoarney-client communications in a digital world where no one is truly unplugged. The panel will also discuss the ethics of withdrawing from a matter and firing a client and the ethics of developing new business.  This program will provide you with a wide-ranging discussion of practical ethics developments important to your practice.

2020 Ethics Update, Part 2

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc

December 29, 2020

1.0 Ethics credit

Registration Fee:  $55.00

11:00 - 12:00 p.m. (MT)

 This annual ethics program will provide you with a round-table discussion of practical ethical issues important to your practice. The program will provide you with an engaging discussion of ethics developments involving technology and law practice, conflicts of interest, and attoarney-client communications in a digital world where no one is truly unplugged. The panel will also discuss the ethics of withdrawing from a matter and firing a client and the ethics of developing new business.  This program will provide you with a wide-ranging discussion of practical ethics developments important to your practice.

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (MT)

**Live Audio Stream Only

1.0 Ethics credit

Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Abila and WebCredenza, Inc.

Registration Fee:  $55.00

Law practice without email is difficult to imagine.  Clients and courts not only use it but expect lawyers to use it for communications. But email comes with a host of substantial ethical issues.  Is email secure?  Can it be used to – even inadvertently – create an attorney-client relationship? How does email impact the attorney-client privilege?  What about email conversations with a represented adversary?  How can confidentiality and other ethical duties be satisfied when law firms almost always work with outside vendors to provide email?  These and other substantial ethical questions will be discussed in this practical guide to the ethical issues when lawyers use email in their practices.

• Beginning an attorney relationship via email – intentionally and inadvertently
• Effect on attorney-client privilege when using a vendor for email
• Discarding/deleting email and working with outside vendors
• Ex parte communications with represented adversaries
• Corporate counsel issues – in-house creation of documents, legal v. business advice
• Inadvertently sent email and metadata embedded in email