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PLI's California MCLE Marathon 2009: Latest Issues in Legal Ethics - Substance Abuse - Elimination of Bias in the Profession

Monday December 07 , 2009

  • By: Practising Law Institute
  • CLE Credit
  • Location:
    PLI California Center
    San Francisco, CA
  • Source: CALegalAdvocates

If your last name begins with a letter A through G, your MCLE compliance deadline, February 1, 2010, is fast approaching. Satisfy all of your California MCLE required subjects conveniently in just one day. Attend PLI's fast-paced and up-to-the-minute Marathon.

PLI has scheduled the MCLE Marathon, taught by a faculty of outstanding California lawyers who are recognized leaders in their field, that will conveniently provide all of the California required subjects that you need: 4 hours of legal ethics; 1 hour of prevention, detection or treatment of substance abuse; and, 1 hour of elimination of bias in the legal profession, for a total of 6 MCLE credit hours, all in one day!

Attend the live program in person at our comfortable, state-of-the-art California Conference Center in downtown San Francisco, or participate in the Live Webcast from the convenience of your office or home PC. The Live Webcast qualifies for MCLE participatory credit, too.

Topics include:

Legal Ethics (4 hours)

* Recent developments on the law governing lawyers
* Forthcoming changes in the legal services market
* The ethics of giving legal advice

Prevention, Detection or Treatment of Substance Abuse (1 hour)

* Coping with the common challenges of legal practice
* An examination of the depression, substance abuse and stress challenges commonly encountered by legal professionals is presented
* Resources available to address these problems are identified

Elimination of Bias in the Profession (1 hour)

* Elimination of bias against lawyers with disabilities in the practice of law
* Creating access and providing reasonable accommodations in the law office, courtroom and when dealing with opposing counsel

And, if you need to complete the rest of the 25-hour MCLE requirement, find the programs you need at www.pli.edu. Remember, archived CLE Now Web Programs qualify for participatory credit.

For more information and to register, please click here: www.pli.edu/product/seminar_detail.asp

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