"School days, school days...." In September, students of all ages return to educational pursuits -- including lawyers who are devotees of continuing legal education.
The Academy presents four important CLE seminars this September. At least one is sure to be essential to your area of practice.
The month begins with a program that responds to the recent change to New York's Domestic Relations Law. Entitled "Addressing the Rights & Obligations of Same Sex Couples under the Marriage Equality Act," the program covers issues related to marriage and family law, estate planning, and taxation. The date is Wednesday, September 14, 2011; 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., with sign-in and light supper from 6:00. Presenters are Suffolk Surrogate John M. Czyger, Jr. and attorneys Mitchell Cooper, Diane Caroll, and Joseph Milizio. Ralph Randazzo is the chair and moderator.
Then on Tuesday, September 20, Professor David Siegel presents his Annual New York Civil Practice Update. The program will be held at the Hyatt Regency Wind Watch Hotel in Hauppauge and runs from 6:3-0 to 9:30 p.m., with a deli buffet from 6:00 p.m. Professor Siegel states that many new and important topics are on the agenda this year.
A new-age seminar for lawyers who handle wills and estates is scheduled for Thursday, September 22 (6:00 to 9:00 p.m. light supper from 5:30). Four skillsed practitioners -- Robert Harper, Peter Kelly, Bill Parkas and Frank Santoro -- will discuss "Preparing for and Litigating the Issue of Status." Topics will include spousal inheritance rights, inheritance rights of non-marital children, and inheritance rights of children conceived following the decedent's death.
An E-Discovery Bootcamp is the fourth seminar scheduled for September. Attorney Debbie Lanin and techies Yalkin Demirkaya and Sal Llanera join Hon. James Flanagan in a detailed presentation on how to build an electronic data discovery process that holds up in court. Emphasis will be on practical tips and instruction. The program is scheduled for Monday, September 26, and runs from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. (light supper from 5:30).
For more information or to register, call the Academy at 631-234-5588.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
FUNDAMENTAL CLEs HELP GROW YOUR PRACTICE
"Fundamental" as an adjective means "affecting or serving as a base or foundation." As a noun, it refers to a principle. Both definitions apply to the Academy's Summer FUNDAMENTALS Series. These courses -- 15 in all -- review the principles of given practice areas and provide foundations for greater professional comfort.
Our constituents seem to be really liking these focused, information-packed lunch 'n learn programs, as evinced by returned evaluation forms and informal "exit polls." At this writing, only five programs in the series remain: Rule 125 Adjournments (August 9); Objections: Don't Be a Potted Plant (August 10); Medicaid Applications (August 11); 1404 Examinations (August 16), and Collecting Child Support When One Party Lives Out-of-State or Overseas (Agust 18).
If you can't attend an upcoming program that interests you or wish you'd attended one of the past offerings, they're all available on-line (initially as live webcasts, then as video-replays.)
Previously presented topics were: Commercial Leases; How to Properly Execute a Power of Attorney; Illegal Rentals; Reverse Mortgages; Handling BWI (Boating While Intoxicated Cases); Negotiating Shareholders' Agreements; Leave Issues in the Workplace; Computing Maintenance & Child Support after No Fault; and Solving Last Second Snafus at a Residential Real Estate Closing.
To access Academy webcasts or video replays, click the blue oval on the SCBA website entitled "Internet CLE." Then follow the easy instructions.
Our constituents seem to be really liking these focused, information-packed lunch 'n learn programs, as evinced by returned evaluation forms and informal "exit polls." At this writing, only five programs in the series remain: Rule 125 Adjournments (August 9); Objections: Don't Be a Potted Plant (August 10); Medicaid Applications (August 11); 1404 Examinations (August 16), and Collecting Child Support When One Party Lives Out-of-State or Overseas (Agust 18).
If you can't attend an upcoming program that interests you or wish you'd attended one of the past offerings, they're all available on-line (initially as live webcasts, then as video-replays.)
Previously presented topics were: Commercial Leases; How to Properly Execute a Power of Attorney; Illegal Rentals; Reverse Mortgages; Handling BWI (Boating While Intoxicated Cases); Negotiating Shareholders' Agreements; Leave Issues in the Workplace; Computing Maintenance & Child Support after No Fault; and Solving Last Second Snafus at a Residential Real Estate Closing.
To access Academy webcasts or video replays, click the blue oval on the SCBA website entitled "Internet CLE." Then follow the easy instructions.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Be There . . . Without Being There!
Academy Launches CLE Webcasting
If you’ve ever wanted to attend a CLE program but couldn’t seem to get away from your desk, you’re not alone. However, this common problem, facing busy attorneys everywhere, does have a solution. The answer is webcasting, the Internet mechanism that allows you to participate in a live presentation without leaving your office. "Attending" a webcast requires only that you take a break, perhaps shut your office door, and link in via your computer.
On Thursday, February 11 – 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. – the Academy will launch its first ever live CLE broadcast via the Web. The program is George Roach’s Elder Law Update, a popular program for which, in the past, parking and great hall space limitations kept all who wished to attained from gaining access. This year, George’s words of wit and wisdom will not only resonate among the participants in the great hall, but will travel as far as the Internet can take them, in effect throughout a virtual lecture hall without limits.
Webcasting allows for real-time transmission of a program from the lecture site to desktop computers, laptops...indeed, anywhere you can access an Internet connection. So if you just can’t get away to join colleagues in the SCBA great hall, you can tune in to a webcast program from wherever you are. You can both see and hear the program and even ask a question via e-mail. And while the term "user-friendly" may be vastly over-used, participating in a webcast truly is.
Finding a way to transmit live CLE over a distance has long been a goal of the Academy and was seen, initially, as an effective way to serve East End attorneys. As the years went by and the Internet became more and more a part of everyone’s life, however, it became evident that virtually all attorneys – even those without distance issues – would profit by the ability to participate in educational programs remotely. Some time ago, the Academy applied for and received accreditation for webcasting from the NYS CLE Board, the regulator of mandatory continuing legal education in New York. But more time passed before Academy technological capabilities caught up with its educational desire and intent.
This year, the Academy goal finally became a reality thanks to the efforts of Barry Smolowitz, a past dean of the Academy, past president of the SCBA, and the Association’s (unpaid) technology director. When Ilene Cooper became SCBA president last June, she set webcasting and other forms of enhanced technology as objectives of her term in office. As a result, the SCBA’s Strategic Planning Committee formed a technology subcommittee with Ilene, Barry, and Academy Associate Dean Allison Shields serving as members. This subcommittee, with some input from Academy Dean Rick Stern and Academy Executive Director Dorothy Ceparano, looked at various webcasting models that would allow the Academy to broadcast its programs. None fit the bill! Most were too cumbersome, too ineffective, or too expensive.
So Barry, a "closet inventor," went out, acquired components, and built a webcasting module himself. With cameras, recording abilities, the works, the equipment functions as a portable, small-sized "TV station." The webcasting equipment was funded by the Academy as a capital expenditure, but it was Barry’s creativity and expertise that kept this endeavor effective in terms of both functionality and cost. Barry rolled out the new webcasting module at the January board meetings of the Academy Officers and the SCBA Directors. Both boards were duly impressed.
Now, the Academy hopes, SCBA members and other lawyers who form our constituency will be impreased too....and pleased! The Academy hopes its constituents will utilize this new way of participating in CLE and that they will find it helpful and convenient.
The Academy will begin webcasting with George’s February 11th update and will continue with other programs as the year progresses. Announcements of which programs will be webcast will be sent out and posted on the SCBA website. As they say in the media, "stay tuned...."
Those who take advantage of webcast programs will learn that everything related to the educational experience is conducted through the Internet: enrollment, access to course materials (which can be stored on your computer or printed),and provision of MCLE certificates. The only thing the Academy can’t give you remotely are the refreshments served at live programs and the collegiality of interaction with colleagues.
So the choice, now yours, may be based on your wishes of the moment: convenience or collegiality. When you’re able to be there, there’s probably nothing like attending a live program in the company of colleagues. But when you cannot take the time to travel and attend, you can still be there, remotely, by enrolling in a webcast.
If you’ve ever wanted to attend a CLE program but couldn’t seem to get away from your desk, you’re not alone. However, this common problem, facing busy attorneys everywhere, does have a solution. The answer is webcasting, the Internet mechanism that allows you to participate in a live presentation without leaving your office. "Attending" a webcast requires only that you take a break, perhaps shut your office door, and link in via your computer.
On Thursday, February 11 – 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. – the Academy will launch its first ever live CLE broadcast via the Web. The program is George Roach’s Elder Law Update, a popular program for which, in the past, parking and great hall space limitations kept all who wished to attained from gaining access. This year, George’s words of wit and wisdom will not only resonate among the participants in the great hall, but will travel as far as the Internet can take them, in effect throughout a virtual lecture hall without limits.
Webcasting allows for real-time transmission of a program from the lecture site to desktop computers, laptops...indeed, anywhere you can access an Internet connection. So if you just can’t get away to join colleagues in the SCBA great hall, you can tune in to a webcast program from wherever you are. You can both see and hear the program and even ask a question via e-mail. And while the term "user-friendly" may be vastly over-used, participating in a webcast truly is.
Finding a way to transmit live CLE over a distance has long been a goal of the Academy and was seen, initially, as an effective way to serve East End attorneys. As the years went by and the Internet became more and more a part of everyone’s life, however, it became evident that virtually all attorneys – even those without distance issues – would profit by the ability to participate in educational programs remotely. Some time ago, the Academy applied for and received accreditation for webcasting from the NYS CLE Board, the regulator of mandatory continuing legal education in New York. But more time passed before Academy technological capabilities caught up with its educational desire and intent.
This year, the Academy goal finally became a reality thanks to the efforts of Barry Smolowitz, a past dean of the Academy, past president of the SCBA, and the Association’s (unpaid) technology director. When Ilene Cooper became SCBA president last June, she set webcasting and other forms of enhanced technology as objectives of her term in office. As a result, the SCBA’s Strategic Planning Committee formed a technology subcommittee with Ilene, Barry, and Academy Associate Dean Allison Shields serving as members. This subcommittee, with some input from Academy Dean Rick Stern and Academy Executive Director Dorothy Ceparano, looked at various webcasting models that would allow the Academy to broadcast its programs. None fit the bill! Most were too cumbersome, too ineffective, or too expensive.
So Barry, a "closet inventor," went out, acquired components, and built a webcasting module himself. With cameras, recording abilities, the works, the equipment functions as a portable, small-sized "TV station." The webcasting equipment was funded by the Academy as a capital expenditure, but it was Barry’s creativity and expertise that kept this endeavor effective in terms of both functionality and cost. Barry rolled out the new webcasting module at the January board meetings of the Academy Officers and the SCBA Directors. Both boards were duly impressed.
Now, the Academy hopes, SCBA members and other lawyers who form our constituency will be impreased too....and pleased! The Academy hopes its constituents will utilize this new way of participating in CLE and that they will find it helpful and convenient.
The Academy will begin webcasting with George’s February 11th update and will continue with other programs as the year progresses. Announcements of which programs will be webcast will be sent out and posted on the SCBA website. As they say in the media, "stay tuned...."
Those who take advantage of webcast programs will learn that everything related to the educational experience is conducted through the Internet: enrollment, access to course materials (which can be stored on your computer or printed),and provision of MCLE certificates. The only thing the Academy can’t give you remotely are the refreshments served at live programs and the collegiality of interaction with colleagues.
So the choice, now yours, may be based on your wishes of the moment: convenience or collegiality. When you’re able to be there, there’s probably nothing like attending a live program in the company of colleagues. But when you cannot take the time to travel and attend, you can still be there, remotely, by enrolling in a webcast.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Suffolk Academy of Law Blog & Newsletter
Hello to all and welcome to the new Suffolk Academy of Law Blog and Newsletter.
Check our Blog on a regular basis to learn of exciting new CLE offerings and Academy News.
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