4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! February 10, 2013

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! February 10, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE On-Demand CLE In California In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New York In Ohio In New Jersey In Pennsylvania In Tennessee In Texas In Washington State Past 4freeCLE Issues The First And Only Criminal Trial Held In The Supreme Court! Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism by Mark Curriden Get It Now! ____ Need Credit Fast? See "Top 3 Bundles of Free On-Demand MCLE for Washington Attorneys & Others" Webcast CLE Enjoy Free Webcast CLE At Home Or Office! Quality continuing education comes directly to you via webcast. February 12: Update on Brown v. Board of Education. How far have we come? Also presented in-person (St Paul). By Hamline University. February 13: Incident Management Risks Associated with Food Safety Outbreaks. With food safety expert Dr. Darrel Suderman. By TASA. February 13: Introduction to Boolean (Keyword) Search. By Fastcase. February 14: Best Practices in Patent Illustration.Reduce examiner confusion and improve figure clarity. By LegalAdvantage.  February 19: Best Practices in Prior Art Searching in Electrical Engineering. Patent practice prior art search strategies. By LegalAdvantage. February 19: The Challenge of International Judgment Enforcement: Tools, Tips and Lessons Learned. Insights into the international judgment enforcement and asset recovery process. Available in Mandarin and English. By Kobre & Kim.  February 19: New Requirements for Fall Protection.Featuring construction safety expert Dan Paine. By TASA. February 20: Exploring the White Collar Crime Landscape. A panel of experts including Marc Mukasey. By New York Law Journal. February 21: Best Practices: Prior Art Search.Manage patent prosecution matters and searches more effectively and efficiently. By LegalAdvantage. February 21: Diversity & Inclusion in Law Practice 2013. Also presented in-person (NYC). New developments and best practices for achieving a diverse workplace. By Practising Law Institute. February 21: Ethics of Witness Preparation for Deposition and Trial. Two hours on the ethics of dealing with witnesses for deposition and trial. Also presented in-person (Chicago). By Clifford Law Offices. February 25: Best Practices in Prior Art Searching Life Sciences. By LegalAdvantage.  February 26: Gun Violence and Sandy Hook: Recent Legislative and Executive Responses. Also presented in-person (St. Paul). By Hamline University. March 5: Introduction to Legal Research on Fastcase. By Fastcase. March 7: Representing the Pro Bono Client: Effective Written Advocacy. Also presented in-person (San Francisco). By Practising Law Institute.   Find more webcasts at 4freeCLE's Web-Based CLE. On-Demand CLE Share Recordings With Colleagues And Staff!  You can share recorded CLE with your staff, stopping them for discussion and replaying as needed. Bankruptcy, Mortgages and Foreclosure: What Bankruptcy Can and Can't Do for Borrowers in Distress. How consumer bankruptcy interacts with mortgage debt and foreclosures. By Practising Law Institute.  Children with Disabilities in Child Care. Finding and maintaining child care for children with disabilities can be challenging. By Legal Aid Association of California. Litigation Management: Driving Great Results. Veteran trial lawyers reveal secrets to trial success. By Lexvid.   Find more on-demand programs at 4freeCLE's List of On-Demand CLE. If you're looking for help with a particular state, contact the publisher - we can help! Free CLE In Nearby States Increase Your Options! In-Person CLEs State-by-State All of the in-person CLEs listed below offer credit in the state in which they are located. Many of them may be eligible for credit in other states. If the event sponsor has not already applied for credit, you may be able to apply for credit on your own by check with your credit-granting authority! California February 12/San Francisco: Dream Act & Deferred Action. By AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP). February 20/San Francisco: Introduction to Family Law Training. By Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF).  February 21/San Francisco: 40 Years after Roe: Examining the Social, Political and Economic Impact of the Constitutional Right to Abortion. By American Constitution Society. February 26/San Francisco: Introduction to Landlord Tenant Training and Housing Negotiation Project. By BASF.  February 28/San Francisco: Confidentiality & HIV. By ALRP. March 5/San Francisco: Landlord/Tenant Law Intro. By ALRP. March 7/San Francisco: Representing the Pro Bono Client: Effective Written Advocacy. Also webcast.By Practising Law Institute.  March 12/San Francisco: Elder Law & Conservatorships. By ALRP. Illinois February 21/Chicago: Ethics of Witness Preparation for Deposition and Trial. Also webcast. By Clifford Law Offices. Massachusetts February 25/Boston: Fair Debt Collection Practice. By Volunteer Lawyers Program (VLP). February 26/Boston: Family Law 102. By VLP.  February 28/Boston: Housing Law 101. By VLP.  March 7/Boston: Intro to Guardianship of Minors. By VLP.   Minnesota February 12/Minneapolis: Searching Westlaw.com. By Hennepin County Law Library (HCLL). February 12/St. Paul: Update on Brown V. Board of Education. How far have we come? Also webcast. By Hamline University (HU). February 20/Saint Paul: Book Signing & MCLE with Professor Jonathan Kahn. By HU. February 22/Minneapolis: Housing Law Basics, Landlord/Tenant Practice in the Clinic Setting and in the Courtroom. By Volunteer Lawyers Network. February 26/St.Paul: Gun Violence and Sandy Hook: Recent Legislative and Executive Responses. also webcast. By HU. March 7/Saint Paul: HLI National Speaker Series featuring Maxwell Mehlman. Free for HU alums.  March 12 /Minneapolis: Searching Westlaw.com. By HCLL. New York February 12/NYC: Litigating Child Custody/Visitation Cases. By inMotion. February 13/NYC: Administrative Fair Hearings.  By Legal Aid Society (LAS).  February 20/NYC: Managing Your Online Reputation. By TSG Reporting.  February 21/NYC: Diversity & Inclusion in Law Practice 2013. Also webcast. By Practising Law Institute. February 21+22/NYC: Naturalization And Citizenship. Free for participating staff and volunteers from non-profit organizations working on naturalization and citizenship issues. By NALEO Educational Fund, Immigrant Defense Project and Immigrant Legal Resource Center. February 26/NYC: U Nonimmigrant Status: Obtaining Lawful Immigration Status for Crime Victims. By inMotion. February 27/NYC: Litigating in the U.S. Supreme Court: From Anna Nicole Smith to Same-Sex Marriage. By Dechert LLC. February 26/NYC: How to Draft a Will for Low-Income Elderly Clients. By LAS. February 28/NYC: Intellectual Property for the Micro-Entrepreneur. By LAS.  March 5/NYC: The Law of Prisoners' Rights. By LAS. March 5/NYC: Litigating Contested Divorces. By inMotion.  March 7/NYC: Litigating Divorces. By inMotion. March 7/NYC: Counseling the Small Nonprofit Organization. By LAS. Ohio February 13/Cleveland: Making Sense of the Supreme Court. By Case Western Reserve School of Law.  February 13+14/Cleveland: Mortgage Lending for Condominiums. By  Continuing Educational Services (CES). February 19/Cleveland: Contempt of Court: A Lynching that Changed the American Justice System. By Cleveland Marshall School of Law. February 20/Mentor: Mortgage Lending for Condominiums. By CES. March 6/Cleveland: Children and the Early Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court. By Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.  March 6/Cuyahoga Falls: How To Raise A Credit Score. By CES. March 9/Cleveland: Criminal Justice Forum - Prof. Gabriel Chin. By Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. New Jersey February 14/New Brunswick: 5th Annual Pro Bono Conference - The Year of the Provider. By New Jersey Bar Association. Pennsylvania February 11/Philadelphia: Taking a Deposition. By Dechert. February 19/Philadelphia: Representing Students with Special Needs. By Dechert.  Tennessee February 28 - March 2/Nashville: "Bring-Your-Own-Case" Capital Defense Training. For state trial practitioners in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. By National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and National Consortium for Capital Defense Training. Texas March 8/Houston: 2012 Cancer Rights Conference and MCLE. By ABA, Cancer Legal Resource Center, and many others. Washington February 13/Seattle: LGBT Marriage Equality. By McKinley Irvin. About 4freeCLE 4freeCLE is delivered weekly and will always be free! It's OK To Forward This To Your Colleagues! 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Bus Stop At VA Hospital Has No Shelter

Bus Stop At Seattle VA Hospital
Lacks Any Rain Shelter

The bus stop at Seattle's VA Hospital has no shelter. Let's hope it doesn't rain much up on that hill. Some of those patients are not in the best of health; it is, after all, a hospital!

Who's in charge of bus shelters anyway?

You'll notice that there is a shelter nearby; it's for the valet service, which is an important feature of the place. Disabled veterans who can drive to the place can drop off their cars at the front door and the valet will park for them. This is IMPORTANT because the parking lot is very big and often full; it would be crazy to require veterans with limited mobility to get from the outer edges to the building on their own ... possibly missing ... feet.

If you're going to have a valet service, you need a shelter for the valets. That's just logic; it's rainy here in Seattle, and workers need to be treated well. 

But a shelter for veterans waiting for the bus is important too. Who do we see about that?

HydroOxygenated Zero Calorie Multipurpose Rehydrating Fluid

Zero Calorie Multipurpose
Hydrating Fluid

Yesterday, a close family member was complaining of dehydration. When I asked how she was re-hydrating, she said someone was getting her popsicles.
STOP!
Popsicles can be fun, but they are not nutrition. High in sugar or HFCL, they may fool your brain into thinking it's happy but as a rehydrating strategy, they are just stupid (not to mention an extra, unnecessary expense.)
But NOTHING is better at keeping yourself hydrated on a regular basis than the plain old HydroOxygenated Zero Calorie Multipurpose Rehydrating Fluid known as water. Drink it. Drink 8 glasses a day, or some other ridiculously high number. You won't be able to overdose on the stuff; your body has a system for handling that.
I appreciate that sometimes it's hard to get a child or a really, really sick person to drink as much water as they need. Fine, trick them with sweets if that's what it takes! But you and I both know that if you're reading this, you're grown-up enough and healthy enough to do something like Drink Water without an unhealthy enticement.
If you're concerned about electrolytes and "energy" and stuff, then you need to think about Function Omninutrition Organic Delivery System: FOODS! Eat an apple, a banana, an orange, a carrot; get enough variety in your diet and your body will have plenty of whatever you need. If you're short of something, use the internet machine to find out what food has that nutrient, and eat that.
It is not complicated!
Whenever you eat something that has had a nutritional ingredient added, ask yourself: "Why am I eating something so nutrition-poor that they had to add something to it? Why not just eat food instead?"
I suppose I'm just going off on something that's not going to have an impact; the people who will respond to this message are probably already doing it, and the people who won't respond aren't gonna change their minds just because of something they read on a blog somewhere.... but what the heck, that's what I was thinking of this morning, and I just had to get it out.
Drink up!

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter!- February 3, 2013

4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter! February 3, 2013 In This Issue Webcast CLE On-Demand CLE In California In Illinois In Massachusetts In Minnesota In New York In Ohio In New Jersey In Pennsylvania In Tennessee In Texas Past 4freeCLE Issues The First And Only Criminal Trial Held In The Supreme Court! Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism by Mark Curriden Get It Now! ____ Need Credit Fast? See "Top 3 Bundles of Free On-Demand MCLE for Washington Attorneys & Others" Webcast CLE What Are You Learning In The Cloud This Week? You already have access to the cloud, so why not use it for quality continuing education? February 4 + 5: California Family Law Basics: Pro Bono Representation in Low-Income Family Law Cases. Designed for new attorneys and those interested in transitioning to Family law practice. Also in-person (San Francisco). By Practising Law Institute (PLI).  February 6: Responding to Large-Document Subpoenas. Best Practices and Technologies To Avoid Wasting Money and Time. By Thompson & Knight. February 7: Advanced Tips for Enhanced Legal Research on Fastcase. By Fastcase.  February 12: Update on Brown v. Board of Education. How far have we come? Also presented in-person (St Paul). By Hamline University. February 13: Introduction to Boolean (Keyword) Search. By Fastcase.  February 21: Diversity & Inclusion in Law Practice 2013. Also presented in-person (NYC). New developments and best practices for achieving a diverse workplace. By Practising Law Institute. February 21: Ethics of Witness Preparation for Deposition and Trial. Two hours on the ethics of dealing with witnesses for deposition and trial. Also presented in-person (Chicago). By Clifford Law Offices.  Find more webcasts at 4freeCLE's Web-Based CLE. On-Demand CLE Recordings Let You Put Slow Moments To Use!  Got an unscheduled delay? You could play "Angry Birds", or you could learn a new bit of law. You choose! Discovery in Family Law Proceedings. The many tools family law attorneys have at their disposal to uncover the pertinent facts. By Lexvid.  Grandparent Guardianship. By Legal Aid Association of California. Setting & Managing Litigation Budgets. Accurate budgeting for a case can improve client relations and inform case valuation.By Lexvid. Find more on-demand programs at 4freeCLE's List of On-Demand CLE. If you're looking for help with a particular state, contact the publisher - we can help! Ask A Good Question, And Maybe You'll Impress Me! In-Person CLEs State-by-State In-person programs are not only educational; they are a classic way to establish those connections so useful to growing your practice. In many cases, they are hosted by volunteer programs that will help you work on a case while picking up experience and making further contacts. The process works better if you have an "elevator speech" ready: what is your law practice about, and how does it relate to the subject matter of this program you're attending. Preparation counts! California February 4 + 5/San Francisco: California Family Law Basics: Pro Bono Representation in Low-Income Family Law Cases. Also webcast. By Practising Law Institute (PLI).  February 6/San Francisco: Disability Discrimination. By AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP). February 12/San Francisco: Dream Act & Deferred Action. By ALRP. February 20/San Francisco: Introduction to Family Law Training. By Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF).  February 21/San Francisco: 40 Years after Roe: Examining the Social, Political and Economic Impact of the Constitutional Right to Abortion. By American Constitution Society. February 26/San Francisco: Introduction to Landlord Tenant Training and Housing Negotiation Project. By BASF.  February 28/San Francisco: Confidentiality & HIV. By ALRP. March 5/San Francisco: Landlord/Tenant Law Intro. By ALRP.  Illinois February 5/Chicago: Forum/MCLE on the Forgotten Guantanamo Detainees. By American Constitution Society. February 21/Chicago: Ethics of Witness Preparation for Deposition and Trial. Also webcast. By Clifford Law Offices. Massachusetts February 4/Boston: New Volunteer Attorney Orientation. By Volunteer Lawyers Program (VLP). February 25/Boston: Fair Debt Collection Practice. By VLP.  Minnesota February 5/Minneapolis: Taking Action to Increase Equality: A Conversation among Bench and Bar. By The Infinity Project. February 7/Saint Paul: Religious Discrimination in the Workplace. By Hamline University.  February 12/Minneapolis: Searching Westlaw.com. By Hennepin County Law Library (HCLL). February 12/St. Paul: Update on Brown V. Board of Education. How far have we come? Also webcast. By Hamline University. February 20/Saint Paul: Book Signing & MCLE with Professor Jonathan Kahn. By Hamline University. New York February 12/NYC: Litigating Child Custody/Visitation Cases. By inMotion. February 21/NYC: Diversity & Inclusion in Law Practice 2013. Also webcast. By Practising Law Institute. February 21+22/NYC: Naturalization And Citizenship.Free for participating staff and volunteers from non-profit organizations working on naturalization and citizenship issues. By NALEO Educational Fund, Immigrant Defense Project and Immigrant Legal Resource Center. February 26/NYC: U Nonimmigrant Status: Obtaining Lawful Immigration Status for Crime Victims. By inMotion.   Ohio February 6/Cleveland: Moot Court Night - Trial Advocacy Seminar. By Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.  February 6/Cuyahoga Falls: Mortgage Lending for Condominiums. By Continuing Educational Services (CES).  February 13/Cleveland: Making Sense of the Supreme Court. By Case Western Reserve School of Law.  February 13+14/Cleveland: Mortgage Lending for Condominiums. By CES. February 19/Cleveland: Contempt of Court: A Lynching that Changed the American Justice System. By Cleveland Marshall School of Law.  February 20/Mentor: Mortgage Lending for Condominiums. By CES. New Jersey February 14/New Brunswick: 5th Annual Pro Bono Conference - The Year of the Provider. By New Jersey Bar Association. Pennsylvania February 11/Philadelphia: Taking a Deposition. By Dechert. February 19/Philadelphia: Representing Students with Special Needs. By Dechert.  Tennessee February 4/Nashville: Handling TennCare Appeals. By Tennessee Justice Center. Texas February 7/Dallas: Disability Issues in Employment & Labor Law.  By American Bar Association Commission on Disability Rights (ABA/CDR). February 8/Dallas: Ethical Obligations and Mentally Impaired Clients. By ABA/CDR. Washington February 13/Seattle: LGBT Marriage Equality. By McKinley Irvin. About 4freeCLE 4freeCLE is delivered weekly and will always be free! Don't Be Shy; Share This With The Whole Class! 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