CLEs

What Attorneys Need to Know About Fines, Costs, and Restitution presented by Andrew Christy Every year, criminal defendants in more than 150,000 cases walk out of court owing some combination of fines, costs, and restitution—often thousands of dollars. While these financial obligations are often an afterthought, it can take years or decades for low-income defendants…

This course will help you refine your search construction using both plain language and terms & connectors, while also showing you tools and resources to help you efficiently complete your research assignment. You will leave this program knowing the following: • Searching: how to write efficient searches with both plain language and terms & connectors…

Secondary sources are vital legal tools that provide essential guidance and analysis in every area of the law. Often using Secondary Sources is the best place to start your research. You can get up to speed on a general area of law or dive deep into a specific subject. You can use them to find…

Learn how to conduct legislative history research on Westlaw for a specific act as well as how to research a specific statute. We will see how to find links to other documents on Westlaw that cite to your statute including cases, secondary sources, regulations, and administrative decisions. Also, how to pull up historical versions of…

This CLE will cover an overview of the assessment process in Allegheny County, and will discuss when you should consider filing an assessment appeal and demonstrate how to file assessment appeals. We will conduct a mock hearing to demonstrate the various issues that are commonly raised at assessment hearings. We will also discuss the appeal…

presented by John Unice and Brett Creasy As data within corporations continues to explode due to the use of workplace collaboration tools, mobile devices, and other online repositories, the need for attorneys to understand best practices around how to preserve, collect, analyze and produce that information (when required) is certainly heightened. Coupled with many states'…

This program will cover research fundamentals on Thomson Reuters Westlaw, including how to: • pull up documents by citation and name • search for documents by legal issue • research a case • check if a case is still good law • save your research for later After attending this CLE, users should feel more…

Practical Law's legal know-how offers law departments resources that address the needs for improved efficiency and client services. Practical Law's expert attorney editors create and maintain a wide range of up-to-date, practical resources to ensure users have exactly what they need in their daily practice. The objective of this course is for the attendee to…

Learn how the state-of-the-art Westlaw Edge platform can make you an efficient and confident researcher. This session will review the features of Edge, such as WestSearch Plus, Statutes Compare, Jurisdictional Surveys, Litigation Analytics, & QuickCheck. Click here to Register!

Learn about the available resources and search techniques to help locate people (PeopleMap) and businesses (Company Investigator), identify and assess risk, understand critical connections, and how to gather information on clients, experts, companies, assets, liens and other filings that relate to civil and criminal actions. Click here to register!

This session will build upon the key learning objectives offered in the Intro to Research Westlaw session. In particular, this session will be useful to you to help you enhance your efficiency in conducting searches, dispositioning your search results and personalizing your workflow within the Westlaw Edge platform. Click here to register!