Event Calendar

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar Replay: Ethics and Social Media: Current Developments

jbrown — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #162940ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Lawyers use social media technology to collect and share information, and communicate with others, not only personally but also when acting as lawyers. Important and probative information about a case – information about jurors, witnesses or others in litigation or about a transaction – can be more easily found on social than elsewhere. Social media is also easily used to communicate with existing or potential clients, colleagues or opposing lawyers, and the public. Client development – online advertising, blogging and emailed newsletters – is also commonplace among lawyers. All these and other uses of technology raise substantial ethical issues for lawyers – competence, confidentiality, preservation of the attorney-client privilege, and honesty. This program will provide you with a practical guide to substantial ethical issues when lawyers use social media and other technology in practice.

Ethics, social media, and technology – competence, confidentiality, and honesty
Communicating with parties, opposing attorneys, and witnesses via social media
Researching jurors, parties, witnesses and judges via social media
Ethical issues when blogging, issuing e-newsletters/law updates to clients, or posting commentary or video online
“Friending” or otherwise connecting with judges, witnesses and others on social media platforms
Trends in texting, confidentiality, and discoverability
Ethics of using web sites, online advertising and social media for client development purposes

About the Speaker

Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a broad complex commercial, business and securities litigation practice. He also has a substantial practice advising businesses on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections. For more than 20 years he has lectured extensively on legal ethics and professionalism and has written “The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner’s Guide,” a 750 page treatise published by the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Thursday, November 10, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Acquisitions of Subsidiaries and Divisions

jbrown — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166505ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Buying part of an operating company is entirely unlike buying the entire company. When the buyer takes some but not the assets of a particular business line or operating unit, there are issues of allocating debt and other liabilities, as well as potential successor liability. Crucially, there are issues of assigning certain client/customer contracts and the transitioning of both rank-and-file employees and managers. Also unlike acquisitions of entire companies, buying a division or subsidiary involves complex transition service agreements between the seller and the buyer, ensuring the continuance of perhaps essential lifelines to the acquired division or subsidiary or the seller. This program will provide you with a practical guide to structuring and drafting agreements for acquisitions of divisions and subsidiaries.

Acquisitions of part of an operating company – divisions and subsidiaries
Asset purchases v. entity acquisition
Allocation of debt/liabilities and successor liability
Identifying essential assets and personnel necessary for post-closing success
Management transitions and employee retention
Transition services agreements – post-closing agreements between seller and acquirer
Tax considerations in asset v. entity deals

About the Speakers

Frank Ciatto is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable, LLP, where he has 20 years’ experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, limited liability companies, tax and accounting issues, and corporate finance transactions. He is a leader of his firm’s private equity and hedge fund groups and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section. He is a Certified Public Accountant and earlier in his career worked at what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. Mr. Ciatto earned his B.A., cum laude, at Georgetown University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

James Marky is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable, LLP, where he represents companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, reorganizations and other strategic transactions across a broad range of industries. He drafts and reviews contracts including complex services and technology agreements, on behalf of private and Fortune 500 companies. He also advises clients on corporate governance best practices and coordinates subsidiary maintenance. Mr. Marky earned his B.S. from Cornell University and his J.D., cum laude, from William and Mary School of Law.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Friday, November 11, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Ethics and Identifying Your Client: It's Not Always 20/20

jbrown — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166506ADT

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About the Teleseminar

The first step in every ethics analysis is answering the question, who is your client? It’s seemingly a very easy question to answer, but it’s not always 20/20 except in hindsight. If you’re a private practitioner and you represent a corporation, partnership or a nonprofit association, your client may be the entity, its officers from whom you are taking directions, or possibly both. Direct conflicts of interests easily occur among these constituencies. If you are an in-house attorney, the analysis – and its implications for the attorney-client privilege – becomes even more complex. Representing multiple parties on the same matter, whether in litigation or on a transaction, may mean you have many clients, some or all with conflicts. This program will provide you with a real world guide to ethics of identifying your client in a variety of settings avoiding conflicts of interest with the client.

Ethics and identifying your client and avoiding conflicts in transactions and litigation
Representing businesses entities, nonprofit associations, and the government – client v. person giving directions
Identifying clients in trust and estate planning – the testator or the person paying your fees?
Special ethical challenges and ethical risks for in-house counsel and attorney-client privilege issues
How to untangle clients and conflicts in joint representations – managing conflicts and information flows
Best practices in documenting client representation to avoid later challenge

About the Speakers

Elizabeth Treubert Simon is an ethics attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where she advises on a wide range of ethics and compliance-related matters to support Akin Gump’s offices worldwide. Previously, she practiced law in Washington DC and New York, focusing on business and commercial litigation and providing counsel to clients regarding professional ethics and attorney disciplinary procedures. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Discipline and the District of Columbia Legal Ethics Committee. She writes and speaks extensively on attorney ethics issues. She received her B.A. and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Albany Law School.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Monday, November 14, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar Replay: Workouts of Defaulted Real Estate Projects

jbrown — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: 162918ADT

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About the Teleseminar

This program will provide you with a roadmap to the practical process of negotiating and drafting the restructuring of a failing real estate project. The program will discuss the economics of restructuring alternatives, determining which alternatives are most viable depending on the nature of the borrower/seller and lenders, and approaching lenders about a workout. The program will also provide a detailed discussion of specific restructuring alternatives and the tradeoffs of each, including straight buyouts, rescue capital/preferred securities, “loan to own” strategies, and more. The program will take a practical approach to how an attorney can help clients devise the best solution for rescuing a distressed real estate deal, and negotiate and document the workout.

Negotiating, structuring and drafting the restructuring of failed real estate projects
Underlying economics and tradeoffs of real estate restructuring
Restructuring alternatives, including straight purchases, “Loan to Own,” rescue capital/preferred stock/securities
Navigating seller issues – personal guaranties, ongoing management fees, upside participation, reputation
Drafting forbearance and loan modification agreements
Receivership of distressed properties and planning to emerge from receivership
Buying failed real estate projects out of bankruptcy

About the Speakers

Manuel A. Fernandez is partner in the Miami office of Akerman, LLP, where he has an extensive real estate practice representing commercial mortgage lenders, developers, and institutional and non-institutional investors in connection with the acquisition, development, financing, leasing and management of commercial and residential real estate assets and distressed real estate transactions. He also represents hedge funds, pension funds, and other real estate opportunity funds in connection with joint ventures. Mr. Fernandez received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Miami and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law.

William L. Norton is a partner in the Nashville office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, where he focuses his practice in the business bankruptcy area, dealing in all aspects of bankruptcy cases, creditor rights and insolvency. He is the Managing Editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2d (Thomson West), a premier 12 volume treatise and is the co-author of Norton Creditors' Rights Handbook (Thomson West). He is a Fellow of American College of Bankruptcy and is adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School. He formerly served as president of the American Board of Certification, which certifies attorneys who specialize in the areas of creditor rights and bankruptcy law and is a leader in the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA’s Business Section. Mr. Norton received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Secured Transactions Practice: Security Agreements to Foreclosures, Part 1

jbrown — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166507ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Secured transactions – taking a security interest in collateral in exchange for a loan of money– are the most common form of commercial transaction and help finance most businesses in the United States. Because of their scale and importance, immense attention is paid to and often enormous pressure placed on every minute detail of secured transactions – from financing statements, security agreements and perfection to seizure and sale of property on foreclosure. These secured transactions are governed by the UCC Article 9, which can make them more costly, difficult to draft, and introduce risks into enforcement and foreclosures. Failure to comply with UCC Article 9 in drafting security agreements, perfecting a creditor’s interest, or on the foreclosure of a lien can easily cause the value of the transaction to be lost. This program will provide you with a real-world guide to drafting the most important components of a security agreement, perfecting the interest, and cost-effective enforcement of liens.

Day 1 – November 15, 2016:

Lifecycle of UCC Article 9 secured transactions
Drafting cost-effective and enforceable security agreements
What to do when something about the debtor changes – e.g., name, location, ownership
Guidance on different types of collateral – accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, intellectual property
Anti-assignment provisions regarding collateral
Practical techniques to increase the enforceability of security agreements and reduce risks in foreclosure

About the Speaker

Steven O. Weise is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose, LLP, where his practice encompasses all areas of commercial law. He has extensive experience in financings, particularly those secured by personal property. He also handles matters involving real property anti-deficiency laws, workouts, guarantees, sales of goods, letters of credit, commercial paper and checks, and investment securities. Mr. Weise formerly served as chair of the ABA Business Law Section. He has also served as a member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the UCC and as an Advisor to the UCC Code Article 9 Drafting Committee. Mr. Weise received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Secured Transactions Practice: Security Agreements to Foreclosures, Part 2

jbrown — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166508ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Day 2 – November 16, 2016:

Legal and practical framework for the foreclosure of personal property under UCC Article 9
Foreclosing on equipment, inventory, intellectual property, accounts receivable, and other asset classes
Duties of junior creditors to senior creditors on foreclosure
Rights to proceeds of foreclosure sales and reducing foreclosure costs
Rights of guarantors
Debtor remedies in the event of a secured party default
Cost-efficient alternatives to foreclosures and circumstances when these alternatives are available

About the Speaker

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Thursday, November 17, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: 2016 Attorney-Client Privilege Update

jbrown — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166509ADT

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About the Teleseminar

The attorney-client privilege and related work product doctrine are at the heart of the relationship attorneys have with their clients. These protections overlap with the ethical duty of confidentiality, but are distinct. This program will cover developments in confidentiality and the privilege, privilege waiver issues when attorneys work with clients’ other advisers, and developments in the “common interest” doctrine. The program will also cover the dual threats to a company’s privilege protection and who owns a corporate client’s privilege if it files for bankruptcy. This program will provide you with a review of significant developments in the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, and their relationship to ethics and confidentiality.

Developments in confidentiality and the attorney client privilege.
Waiver risks when communicating with clients' consultants and even attorneys' consultants
Significant "common interest" doctrine developments
Who owns a company's privilege after corporate transactions or bankruptcy?
Dual threats to privilege protection for internal company communications – the Vioxx doctrine and the "need to know" standard
How far does the "at issue" implied waiver doctrine extend?
2016 examples of the wrong way and right way to maximize privilege and work product protection for internal corporate investigations

About the Speaker

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Friday, November 18, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Ethics and Dishonest Clients

jbrown — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166512ADT

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About the Teleseminar

One of the dangers of practicing law is that, now and again, you get a dishonest client. Your client may be misleading you – and others – about the facts of their case, either through silence or affirmative misstatements. Or they may be telling you one thing and others something else. You may discover proof of the dishonesty or just suspect it. Client dishonesty raises many ethical issues. What must you do to ensure your client is telling you the truth? What if you discover a client is lying to a court or tribunal? Are you allowed to disclose the dishonesty despite the mandate of client confidentiality? Are there degrees of client dishonesty – some acceptable, others not? This program will provide you with a guide to the substantial ethical issues when client dishonesty is discovered or suspected.

Ethical issues when clients are dishonest
Tension between the duty of confidentiality and the duty to be honest in communications
Determining whether a client is lying – active v. passive, fact v. opinion, affirmative statements v. silence
Unknowing attorney representations on basis of client dishonesty
Duties of disclosure and to whom – the tribunal, third parties?
Mandatory and permissive withdrawals from a case, including “noisy” withdrawals
Ethical issues when dishonesty is discovered in closed matters

About the Speakers

Brian S. Faughnan is special counsel in the Memphis office of Lewis Thomason, PC, where he represents clients in a wide variety of matters at the trial level and on appeal. He counsels lawyers and law firms on a wide variety of issues surrounding legal ethics and professional responsibility. He is the chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, a reporter for the committee’s rules revision project, a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and a member of the Media Law Resource Center’s Ethics Committee. Mr. Faughnan received his B.A. from Rhodes College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Memphis School of Law.

William Freivogel is the principal of Freivogel Ethics Consulting and is an independent consultant to law firms on ethics and risk management. He was a trial lawyer for 22 years and has practiced in the areas of legal ethics and lawyer malpractice for more than 25 years. He is chair of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct. He maintains the Web site “Freivogel on Conflicts” at www.freivogelonconflicts.com. Mr. Freivogel is a graduate of the University of Illinois (Champaign), where he received his B.S. and LL.B.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Choosing the Right Trust for Client Goals

jbrown — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: 166513ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Choosing the right trust for a client’s needs requires cutting through a forest of bewildering alternatives. Some trusts are flexible and offer no tax benefits; others offer substantial tax savings at the cost of control and flexibility. Still other alternatives are efficient for charitable giving after death or providing for a special needs family member. These choices are complicated by the impact of the new 3.8% tax on net investment income, the role of portability, the deductibility of expenses, and the relative aggressiveness of the IRS in challenging the ways in which clients use certain trusts. This program will provide you with a framework for assessing the different trust alternatives and decision-tree for determining which is best for your client’s specific circumstances.

Choosing the right trust for client goals
Framework of decision points – tax savings, flexibility, control, asset protection
Revocable v. irrevocable trusts – flexibility v. tax benefits
Self-settled trusts to shield assets from creditors and claimants
Special purpose trusts – Special Needs Trusts, credit shelter trusts, and insurance trusts
Charitable giving alternatives – charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts
Issues related to the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax and portability

About the Speaker

Blanche Lark Christerson is a managing director at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management in New York City, where she works with clients and their advisors to help develop estate, gift, tax, and wealth transfer planning strategies. Earlier in her career she was a vice president in the estate planning department of U.S. Trust Company. She also practiced law with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City. Ms. Christerson is the author of the monthly newsletter “Tax Topics." She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, her J.D. from New York Law School and her LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar Replay: Ethics and Drafting Effective Conflict of Interest Waivers

jbrown — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #162912ADT

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About the Teleseminar

One of the bedrock principles of law practice is that clients are entitled to the absolute loyalty of their lawyers. Clients should not be concerned that their interests are compromised by a lawyer’s duty to other current or former clients, third parties, or by the lawyer’s own personal interests. The competing principle is that clients should be able to choose whoever they would like to represent them. When these two principles collide in the form of current or prospective conflicts, the only ethical resolution is a client’s informed consent to a written waiver of the conflict. But it easier said than accomplished. Effective waivers must be carefully drafted to ensure the client is informed of the conflict and its consequences to their interests. The challenge grows when the waiver purports to be in advance of any current conflict. How do you “inform” a client of a conflict that does not yet exist and may never exist? This program will provide you with a real-world guide to the rules governing conflict waivers, the types of waivers, and how to draft them to avoid future dispute and discipline.

Drafting effective waivers of conflicts of interest in litigation and transactions
How advance waivers differ substantially from waivers of current conflicts
Essential elements of effective waivers and ensuring there is “informed” consent
Types of advance waivers – stating subject area, adverse parties, neither or both
Sources of rules and practical guidance on drafting waivers
Common mistakes made in drafting waivers
Consequences of ineffective waivers – discipline, disqualification, litigation, loss of fees

About the Speaker

William Freivogel is the principal of Freivogel Ethics Consulting and is an independent consultant to law firms on ethics and risk management. He was a trial lawyer for 22 years and has practiced in the areas of legal ethics and lawyer malpractice for more than 25 years. He is chair of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct. and past chair of the ABA Business Law Section Committee on Professional Responsibility. He maintains the Web site “Freivogel on Conflicts” at www.freivogelonconflicts.com. Mr. Freivogel is a graduate of the University of Illinois (Champaign), where he received his B.S. and LL.B.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Monday, November 28, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar Replay: Ethics and Virtual Law Practices

jbrown — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #162921ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Technology allows lawyers far more flexibility to practice law virtually – from home or in shared settings – than ever before. No longer must they maintain freestanding offices, support staff, and libraries. Lawyers can set-up offices in their homes, communicate with clients, adversaries and the courts electronically, outsource overflow work to co-counsel or vendors, and establish web sites that can reach potential clients. These “virtual” practices are increasingly commonplace, but the relative ease with which they are established obscures many significant ethical issues, including issues of communications and confidentiality, supervising outsourced worked, multijurisdictional practice, and ethically managing all the technology used to accomplish these feats. This program will provide you with a practical guide to significant issues when lawyers and law firms establish “virtual” law practices.

Ethical issues for lawyers with virtual law practices
Disclosure to clients of the virtual character of a law practice
Electronic communications, confidentiality, and ethical risks in virtual practices
Ethical issues when lawyers share office space or other resources but practice separately
How Web sites and a “virtual” presence implicate multijurisdictional practice issues
Outsourcing work to vendors or co-counsel, and ensuring its competently performed
Requirements and risks when offering legal advice across state lines
Duty to understand law office technology as a duty of competence

About the Speaker

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Joint Ventures in Real Estate, Part 1

jbrown — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166514ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Real estate joint ventures gather and leverage the capital and expertise of partners to develop and operate and develop or operate and sell real estate projects, and to mitigate partner risk. These joint ventures can take different forms – contractual or entity-based – and often involve a complex mix of equity and debt, preferential returns and various levels of fees. Contactors may have profit participation rights in exchange for an abatement of some fees and management of the project may be outsourced to a third-party. Everything depends on the nature of the project – build and sell or build and own – and how the competing demands of the partners are reconciled. In every respect, real estate joint ventures are very complex exercises in finance and risk management. This program will provide you with a real-world guide to types of real estate joint ventures, major capital structuring issues, and a guide to drafting the major provisions of the underlying documents.

Day 1 – November 29, 2016:

Entity selection for joint venture
Economics of joint ventures
Working with clients to align expectations and timeframes of project
Participant expectations – investors, developers, lenders
Capital structure issues – getting the right mix of equity, mezzanine and long-term debt
Contributions from joint venture partners & distributions

About the Speakers

John S. Hollyfield is of counsel and a former partner in the Houston office Norton Rose Fulbright, LLP. He has more than 40 years’ experience in real estate law practice. He formerly served as chair of the ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and chair of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute. He has been named a "Texas Super Lawyer" in Real Estate Law by Texas Monthly magazine and is listed in Who’s Who in American Law. He is co-editor of Modern Banking and Lending Forms (4^th Edition), published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont. He received his B.B.A. from the University of Texas and his LL.B. from the University of Texas School of Law.

Richard R. Goldberg is a retired partner, resident in the Philadelphia office of Ballard Spahr, LLP, where he established an extensive real estate practice, including development, financing, leasing, and acquisition. Earlier in his career, he served as vice president and associate general counsel of The Rouse Company for 23 years. He is past president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, past chair of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute, and past chair of the International Council of Shopping Centers Law Conference. Mr. Goldberg is currently a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys and is a member of the American Law Institute. Mr. Goldberg received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and his LL.B. from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Joint Ventures in Real Estate, Part 2

jbrown — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166517ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Day 2 – November 30, 2016:

Governance - managing partners, information rights, major decisions
Defining management standards
Capital contributions and capital calls
Guarantees issue in joint ventures
Overview of tax considerations

About the Speakers

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Thursday, December 1, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Piercing the Entity Veil: Individual Liability for Business Acts

jbrown — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166518ADT

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Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Friday, December 2, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar Replay: Employees, Secrets and Competition: Non-Competes and More

jbrown — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #162906ADT

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Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Monday, December 5, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar Replay: Adding a New Member to an LLC

jbrown — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #162917ADT

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About the Teleseminar

Admitting a new member to an LLC or a partner to a partnership is a complex matter. Substantial voting, financial and tax consequences depend on whether the LLC or partnership is issuing a new interesting to the incoming member or the incoming member acquired his or her interest by buying it from an existing member. A lot also depends on what type of asset – capital, property, or services – the incoming member contributes to the entity and what type of interest – a capital interest with liquidation rights or a profits interest – the incoming member receives. There are also substantial issues of whether the incoming member acquires only economic rights or voting and other rights, too. This program will provide you with a practical guide to the practical process and consequences of admitting a new member or partnership or an LLC or partnership.

Admission of new members/partners by issuing a new interests v. sale of interest by existing member/partner to a buyer
Understanding the differences between succeeding to economic rights v. voting and other rights
Tax consequences of each type of admission on the entity, the new member and the departing member
Contributions of capital v. services by the new member to the entity
Receipt by the new member of capital v. profits interests
Operating v. investment assets: What type of assets does the entity have?

About the Speaker

Allen Sparkman is a partner in the Houston and Denver offices of Sparkman Foote, LLP. He has practiced law for over forty years in the areas of estate, tax, business, insurance, asset protection, and charitable giving. He has written and lectured extensively on choice-of-entity, charitable giving and estate planning topics. He is the Colorado reporter for the books "State Limited Partnership Laws" and "State Limited Liability Company Laws," both published by Aspen Law & Business. He has also served as president of the Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council. Mr. Sparkman received his A.B. with honors from Princeton University and his J.D. with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law.

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Buying/Selling Commercial Real Estate, Part 1

jbrown — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166519ADT

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Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Buying/Selling Commercial Real Estate, Part 2

jbrown — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166521ADT

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Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Thursday, December 8, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: Structuring Minority Interests in Businesses

jbrown — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

When Reporting on your SC Commission Compliance Report, please use this code: #166520ADT

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Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)

Friday, December 9, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Live Teleseminar: The Ethics of Bad Facts: The Duty to Disclose to the Tribunal

jbrown — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:00:00 GMT

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About the Teleseminar

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About the Speaker

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Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 1.0 MCLE Credit Hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR Credit Hour

(Instruction Level: Intermediate)