To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar Employee handbooks are essential to defining the employment relationship between employers and employees who do not have individual contracts.  Well drafted and used handbooks can help provide for a productive workforce and to limit employer liability for employee conduct.  In the same way, poorly planned or used handbooks expose employers to liability for failing to es...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar This program will provide you with a guide to sophisticated like-kind exchange planning in a market where prices have stabilized and are rising again.  The program will discuss planning problems and drafting traps with forward and reverse exchanges, including with related parties.  It will also cover techniques for minimizing the adverse effect of the receipt of “boot” in and the use of singl...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar This program will provide you with a guide to sophisticated like-kind exchange planning in a market where prices have stabilized and are rising again.  The program will discuss planning problems and drafting traps with forward and reverse exchanges, including with related parties.  It will also cover techniques for minimizing the adverse effect of the receipt of “boot” in and the use of singl...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar Choice of entity for service-based businesses, particularly for professional services entities like law, medical and dental practices, are significantly different than for businesses that produce or market tangible goods.  Service-based businesses have regulatory and liability risks that are different than companies that produce goods.  They also generate income that may be trea...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar  Most electronic files contain unseen information about when and how they were created, and how they were edited over time. In legal documents –pleadings, briefs, letters and even email – this information can be highly sensitive, revealing confidential information such as the true nature of a client’s position, its negotiating strategy, or otherwise unknown or misrepresented facts. ...

To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar Changes in the way law is practiced, a difficult legal economy that can create disputes between lawyers and their clients, and the unstoppable spread of technology have created a range of new ethical issues for lawyers.  As these changes permeate law practice, lawyers find themselves confronting gray areas about how the old rules apply to new fact patterns.  This annual pr...

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Lawyers, Guns and Money: Criminal Defense Practice Essentials presented by The South Carolina Bar-Continuing Legal Education Division   Live at the Bar Conference Center 1501 Park Street Columbia, SC 29202 View a message from Eleanor Cleary   About the Seminar This program qualifies for 7.0 MCLE credit hours   Lawyers, Guns and Money: Criminal Defense Practice Essentials is a unique and powerful learning experience that will provide the tools, r...

To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar Changes in the way law is practiced, a difficult legal economy that can create disputes between lawyers and their clients, and the unstoppable spread of technology have created a range of new ethical issues for lawyers.  As these changes permeate law practice, lawyers find themselves confronting gray areas about how the old rules apply to new fact patterns.  This annual pro...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar  There is a bewildering array of estate planning vehicles available to clients who want to provide for the educational expenses of children or others.  They range from state-sponsored plans that are comparatively inflexible but tax-favored to private plans that are more flexible but might carry fewer financial incentives.  The tax treatment of these vehicles – form statutorily...

For More Information and to register for this live webcast, please click here Even in Ben Franklin's time, the public held cynical views about lawyers. How can one be a better practitioner and help negate some of the lingering negative attitudes toward today’s lawyers? In this engaging and informative program, Ben Franklin (who worked with more lawyers than most modern day practitioners) challenges today’s lawyers to expand their own notion of ethics much as he, himself, did durin...

To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar Virtually every communication a lawyer makes – in person, in writing, or over the phone or through email – is a negotiation, a statement about the facts of a case or transaction or a statement about the law, with the intent of gaining an advantage for his or her client.  Often the instinct is to go right up to the line in these communications, never stating a falsehood or eve...

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Nit, Grit, Wit - Sumter County Bar Live at the Sumter Judicial Center Courtroom 1-A       Due to a scheduling conflict, the new Sumter County Judicial Center opening has been postponed. This will necessitate a rescheduling of the seminar and reception. We will post a new program date as soon as possible.      

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar  When a lawyer joins another existing law firm there are major ethical issues for both the lawyer and the law firm.  The law firm must conduct due diligence on the lateral transfer – whether an associate or a partner – to ensure competence and uncover any history of ethical complaints in order to limit the firm’s exposure to liability.  Sophisticated conflict checks not only o...

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Recent Developments in Employment Law presented by The South Carolina Bar-Continuing Legal Education Division and the South Carolina Bar Employment and Labor Law Section   Live at the Bar Conference Center 1501 Park Street Columbia, SC 29202   Video-CLE sites statewide: Charleston and Greenville    Click here for the Live Webcast! About the Seminar This program qualifies for 6.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 1.0 hour of LEPR and 6.0 Employme...

.....With the Courts and Governmental Agencies To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar Communications with judicial tribunals or an administrative panel can impact the outcome of a case or controversy.  The ethical rules governing these communications are complex – with whom may you communicate, when and in what form – and can it easily lead to ethical pitfalls.  Attorneys must zealously represent their clients, but to what ...

To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar Law firms break up for many reasons – financial underperformance, inter-personal disputes among partners, loss of clients, and retirements.  Once a rare occurrence, law firm breakups have become commonplace because of the continuing economic pressures on lawyers and law firms. The rising trend in law firms dissolving places renewed focus on the many and substantial ethical i...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar Real estate development agreements are not really one agreement, but a series of complexly interrelated contacts – with a property owner for the acquisition or use of property; with municipal and other authorities to develop a specific, pre-approved type of commercial or residential development; and, most importantly, with contactors for the build-out of the property.  Ultimately, executi...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar Real estate development agreements are not really one agreement, but a series of complexly interrelated contacts – with a property owner for the acquisition or use of property; with municipal and other authorities to develop a specific, pre-approved type of commercial or residential development; and, most importantly, with contactors for the build-out of the property.  Ultimately, executio...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar 800x600 There is an inherent financial tension in providing legal services: A client is completely dependent on the advice, counsel and representation of a lawyer but is often resistant to paying the lawyer fair value for those services, particularly when the outcome of a case is unfavorable or a transaction fails.  Legal fees are often the source of ethics complaints against lawyers with ...

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12th Annual N.C./S.C. Tax Section Workshop  Live at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort 12 Kiawah Beach Drive Kiawah Island, SC 29455 (800) 654-2924 East Beach Conference Center   About the Seminar This program qualifies for 10.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 1.0 hour of LEPR, 10.0 Tax Specialization credit hours and 2.5 Estate Planning Specialzation credit.    The Tax Sections of the North Carolina and South Carolina BarAssociations wil...

To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar In every industry, employers are increasingly relying on independent contractors over traditional full-time employees to grow their businesses.  Contactors give employers substantial flexibility – they are able to tap certain specialized skills without the risk of a full-time hire, they are able to structure performance based compensation arrangements without the financial r...

For More Information and to register for this live webcast, please click here Thurgood Marshall is one of the giant figures in the history of American jurisprudence. As the passionate and embattled civil rights lawyer who acted as the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, he helped win the U.S. Supreme Court decision to legally end racial segregation in the public schools in the United States. He was the first African American to serve as Sol...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar  Merging or otherwise combining S Corps and LLCs is unlike merging or combining C Corps.  S Corps are brittle organization.  If you fail to respect their many statutory restrictions, substantially adverse tax consequences follow.  LLC are eminently flexible but that flexibility comes with substantial tax and business law complexity. The familiar patterns of merging C Cor...

To register for this live teleseminar, please click here About the Teleseminar Merging or otherwise combining S Corps and LLCs is unlike merging or combining C Corps.  S Corps are brittle organization.  If you fail to respect their many statutory restrictions, substantially adverse tax consequences follow.  LLC are eminently flexible but that flexibility comes with substantial tax and business law complexity. The familiar patterns of merging C Corps are ...

To register for this live teleseminar replay, please click here About the Teleseminar The business of law – the necessity of ensuring that lawyers are paid and expenses covered – sometimes raises uncomfortable ethical issues, especially when a representation produces an outcome that disappoints client expectations.  Lawyers are in the business of offering their learning, expertise and skill to clients, but are subject to restrictions on what they can charge and...