CLEs You Actually Want to Hear

Brands face increasing global pressure and risks around sustainability claims. Greenwashing has emerged as one of the most actively litigated areas of environmental policy. As companies face growing pressure from investors, consumers, and regulators to demonstrate their environmental credentials, the risk of making false, misleading, or unsubstantiated sustainability claims has never been higher....

The Supreme Court's 2025-2026 term produced a series of critical decisions with far-reaching consequences for health care and public health law. James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, examines the term's most consequential rulings for practitioners. Topics include the scope and limits of presidential emergency authority, Fi...

California HOA law is shifting fast, and the past year has opened new fronts in the conflict between homeowners and their boards. This session cuts straight to the fights that matter right now, covering hot emerging issues alongside the recurring board tactics every homeowner-side practitioner needs to know. Michael B. Kushner of MBK Chapman, one of California's most experienced and widely respect...

Oral argument does not begin when counsel steps to the lectern. It begins with the themes, credibility, and framework established in the briefing. The most effective advocates understand how oral argument complements the written presentation and helps decisionmakers resolve the questions that matter most. Building on the principles discussed in Part One, M.C. Sungaila and Melanie Gold of Complex A...

Effective advocacy depends on credibility, and credibility is easily lost. When attorneys overstate their case, stretch the record, or promise more than the facts can support, judges and opposing counsel notice, and the cost carries into every argument that follows. This program offers practical techniques for written and oral persuasion that hold up under scrutiny. Audio versions of Beverly Hills...

Artificial intelligence has moved from a drafting aid to an autonomous actor capable of executing workflows and triggering real-world actions without continuous human oversight, raising pressing questions for the attorneys tasked with managing legal risk. This program examines what in-house counsel need to understand about agentic AI, from the access controls that govern how these systems operate...

This wellness program, led by Lita Abella of Lita Abella Coaching, Consulting, and Mediation Services, explores how regular physical activity enhances an attorney's ability to competently perform legal services. Participants will learn the science-backed benefits of aerobic exercise, strength training, stretching, and other accessible forms of movement. The session highlights how exercise reduces...

Credibility is built, not claimed. In an era where copyright, technology, and artificial intelligence collide in the courtroom, the lawyers who win are the ones who can make a judge or jury trust them on subjects most people find bewildering. Angela Dunning, Cleary Gottlieb, examines how oral advocacy and authenticity translate into results in high stakes AI litigation, drawing on the bedrock hold...

When overt racial or other unconstitutional bias enters the jury room, simply removing the offending juror does not erase the resulting constitutional harm. The Ninth Circuit held that the Remmer presumption of prejudice applies when racial bias arises during deliberations, shifting the burden to the government to rebut that presumption. The court ultimately reversed six fraud convictions after co...

Time shapes almost every discovery decision, and the gap between an efficient matter and a costly one comes down to how well counsel manages it. Hon. Susan L. Greenberg (Ret.) of Signature Resolution focuses on the two levers that matter most: cutting cycle time across collection, review, and production, and eliminating the rework that quietly doubles the effort. Attendees will learn how to compre...

As remote practice becomes the new normal, attorneys become susceptible to ethical conundrums they never previously considered —and that’s where trouble can sneak in. This CLE unpacks the ethical minefields of working without borders - from inadvertent unauthorized practice of law to confidentiality slip-ups, misleading multi-jurisdictional presence, supervisory challenges, and more. Join us for a...

An appellate brief is the primary tool through which advocates educate and persuade the court. Understanding how judges, research attorneys, and other decisionmakers read briefs, evaluate credibility, and identify dispositive issues can dramatically improve the effectiveness of written advocacy. Drawing on their combined experience evaluating appeals from both sides of the bench, M.C. Sungaila and...

California's Senate Bill 306 reshapes the prior authorization landscape by codifying Health and Safety Code Section 1367.025 and granting the Department of Health Care Services broad authority to determine when insurers may require prior authorization for covered health care services. Beginning in 2026, DHCS must collect data on insurer approval and denial rates, and no later than January 1, 2028,...

Quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity are reshaping the legal and regulatory landscape faster than most practitioners can track, and this session offers a grounded briefing on where each is heading. The program opens with a look at quantum technology and the approaching reality of cryptographically relevant quantum computers, led by Sanjeev Bhasker and Corey Bieber, partner...

This program covers what attorneys need to know about the Affordable Care Act's health insurance coverage reporting requirements, including which clients must file Forms 1094 and 1095 and how the IRS is enforcing those requirements. Joseph A. Broyles, Esq., CPA, of the Law Offices of Joseph A. Broyles, Inc., will also discuss the penalties for failure to file or furnish required forms and the pena...

Wage and hour claims, termination disputes, and accommodation requests generate more employer liability than almost any other area of California law, and with penalties stacking quickly under the Labor Code, the cost of a misstep keeps climbing. Counsel who advise employers need command of both the preventive measures that reduce exposure and the defenses available once a claim is filed. Anthony Z...

The presentation will analyze and discuss recent case law and its effects on property taxes and local city taxes. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.

Credits: 1.00 Hours. Credit Type: General. Specialty Area: None. Original Air Date: 08/31/2026. Program Materials: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sfADJ6q11_v5hbjeyTbR3LtBAS2u4nkO/view?usp=sharing Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.

Join powerhouse music attorneys Pamela Klein, Rossi Baldivia Klein Fine & Spector, P.C., Carron Mitchell, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Tom Dean, LaPolt Law, P.C. as we discuss the recent legal developments in touring, deal making, and the impact of AI in the music industry. Moderated by John Baldivia, Rossi Baldivia Klein Fine & Spector, P.C. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs...

Federal doctrine across copyright, institutional free speech, and Title VII embeds human-scale predicates, Human Creativity, Observational Capacity, and Attributable Agency, that operate as invisible structural conditions the law never had to name. When AI displaces them, enacted doctrine loses coherence without a word of the statute changing. Jim Ko, Founder of the AI Rights Project, terms this s...

The diagnosis on the chart changes, but the scheme rarely does. Alzheimer's, vascular dementia, alcohol-related decline, post-surgical confusion: each opens the same door for the same exploitation, and the trust litigator who recognizes the pattern can name it from the first phone call. Taught through real California cases, this program walks attorneys from intake through trial with Michael A. Hac...

In this session, attorneys will learn that influence is not a personality trait — it is a state. They will discover how to deliberately access the exact internal state required for the moment in front of them, whether in the courtroom, at home, or in their relationship with themselves. The state needed to cross-examine a hostile witness is not the state needed to be present with a child at the din...

AI is transforming how litigators work, and this program shows you how to make it work for you. This program will provide practical applications for using AI in your litigation practice. Sam Davidoff, CEO of Align and former trial lawyer, presents specific examples and prompts, tried and new AI tools, and the latest techniques to help you optimize AI in your litigation practice. You'll come away w...

California's coastal zone is among the most heavily regulated land in the nation, and the rules governing it are in unusual flux. The California Supreme Court's unanimous April 2026 decision in Shear Development Co., LLC v. California Coastal Commission reined in the Coastal Commission's appellate jurisdiction over local coastal development permits, holding that courts apply independent judgment t...

USPTO post-grant proceedings, including inter partes review, post-grant review, and covered business method challenges, have fundamentally altered how patent disputes are fought across both the PTAB and federal court. Petition timing, dual-track litigation, estoppel consequences, and Federal Circuit doctrine all demand careful coordination from the moment a case begins. Audio versions of Beverly H...