Aug. 28 Zoom Webinar, 12-1 p.m. Free CLE. Join the Solo & Small Firm Section for “Trust Accounting Procedures and Steps to Protect Your Clients’ Funds,” a live audio webcast by Florida Bar Chief Branch Discipline Counsel Sheila Tuma. This presentation will address the trust accounting process and procedures to help participants maintain all required records and be in full compliance with the rules. Solo & Small Firm Section members only. Registration will be approved when section membership is confirmed. 1.0 General CLE. Course No. 3636.
One-hour live audio webcast presented by Cathleen Scott, B.C.S., Immediate Past Chair of The Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Section. Small firms often make decisions about employment practices based on their business needs and prior experience. But what you don’t know can hurt you and cost you money. Are your employees properly classified for overtime? Are you violating wage and hour laws based on your lunch break rules? How about your commission or paid time off policies, are they a source of liability? Are those non-competes enforceable? This CLE will explore from a small business aspect how what you don’t know can hurt you. Section members register for only $65. Course No. 3405.
Free CLE for Solo & Small Firm Section members via Zoom. Live audio webcast. Do you know that less than 7 percent of The Florida Bar’s lawyers are board certified? Have you thought about how to become board certified, but just don’t know where to start? How can board certification help your career? What can Avvo do for you? Do you have your Martindale Hubbell rating? Do you want it? Why you should get it. Jamie Moses, an appellate specialist at Holland & Knight, will show you how to start the process of applying for board certification. She also will discuss other recognitions that might help enhance your name and reputation. Registration will be confirmed when section membership is verified.
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When it comes to innovation, the legal industry likes what it sees but struggles to make the change. Why? Because innovation involves change, and change involves risk. In this presentation, Kristin Tyler of LAWCLERK™ will lay the framework for the tech tools today’s modern lawyer needs to build a virtual law firm model. Plus, she will review the key ethics rules attorneys need to be mindful of along the way. REGISTER
May 14 Live Audio Webcast. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CLE approval pending. “My Case is Going Down! When Can I Take It Up? When You Can Appeal a Nonfinal Order” by Kristin Norse of Kynes, Markman & Felman, P.A. Course 3389. Register online.
Kristin A. Norse practices exclusively in the areas of appellate practice and civil litigation support. She has over 25 years of legal experience, including ten years working as a staff attorney for the Honorable Chris W. Altenbernd at the Second District Court of Appeal and more than 15 years representing clients in trial and appellate courts. She has successfully represented individuals and businesses in a number of appeals varying in scope from complex commercial cases to serious personal injury cases to family law appeals. She has also successfully represented clients by providing trial support and performing in-depth legal research, writing, and argument on key issues presented in complex litigation in state and federal courts.
Ms. Norse is Past Chair of The Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Section and Past Chair of The Florida Bar’s Appellate Court Rules Committee. She also served as Co-chair of the Florida Bar’s Special Committee on Gender Bias and Diversity. She is a past President of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers.
Spread Your Sunshine: Building Your Brand Through Effective Networking & Growth of Authentic Relationships
Free Wednesday Wisdom CLE
April 24 – Noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom
This program is for Solo & Small Firm Section members only. It will challenge you to critically analyze your personal and professional brand, goals and vision for maximizing success in 2019 by exploring topics such as:
- Showing passion for what you do and doing it well;
- Creating and providing an exceptional customer experience
- Establishing genuine connections through effective networking and follow-up; and
- Paying It Forward – the art of the hand-written note and the importance of fostering confidence in and celebrating you and your team.
Attendees will earn 1.0 hour of General CLE credit – Course #3351.
Presented by Melanie S. Griffin, Tampa Office Managing Shareholder for Dean Mead. Melanie founded Spread Your Sunshine to mentor and empower women with the confidence to break the glass ceiling and achieve their dreams.
Join Magistrate Jennifer Kuyrkendall Griffin, Solo & Small Firm Section Chair, for a free Zoom webinar to learn about free apps and software that can make your practice run more efficiently and productively. Solo & Small Firm Section members only. CLE credit pending approval. Register online.
FREE Wednesday Wisdom ‘Roundtable’ Discussion March 27 on Zoom. Solo & Small Firm Section members: Here’s your chance to provide feedback on section member benefits, CLE topics, resources and events that would benefit YOU! Join us for the next members-only Wednesday Wisdom event on March 27 at noon. Section Chair Jennifer Kuyrkendall Griffin will share ideas for potential new section benefits, get input into CLEs you want and listen to your ideas for how to move the section forward in ways that can benefit your practice.
