CLE Programs

Presented by C|M|LAW's Center for Health Law and Policy.

Speakers:

• April Cherry, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• David Forte, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• Donna Harrison, Executive Director, American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologist
• B. Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve School of Law
• Samara Knox, Director of Counseling Services, Preterm
• Star Parker, Founder and President, Center for Urban Renewal and Education
• Mitchell Reider, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Family Planning Association of Northeast Ohio, Inc.

Preregistration not required

Taking your Practice to the Next Level: Law Practice Management & Tips for a Successful Practice

This seminar will focus on providing practical and affordable tips to clean up law practice management and take a law practice to the next level by focusing on social media marketing and business development. The speakers will explore tips and tricks that create efficiency and generate more income and less stress. This content is extremely important for anyone in solo or small practice and will also have value for lawyers in any setting. 

**Satisfies the New Lawyer Training / Law Office Management requirement. All attorneys welcome!**

Speakers:

• Joshua Cornett | Forefront Technology, Inc.
• William Eadie, Esq. | Eadie Hill Trial Lawyers
• Michael Liner, Esq. | Liner Legal
• Rebecca S. Murphy, JD, ChFC, CDFA | Facilitated Divorce Solutions, LLC
• Allen Tittle, Esq. | Tittle & Perlmuter

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

A View from the Bench: How to Navigate a Specialized Docket

This three-credit hour seminar aims to help attendees develop best practices in their advocacy work before any of Cuyahoga County’s various specialty-docket courts and other courts, including the mental health, veterans, drug and re-entry courts, and more. Led by the administrative and presiding judge of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, distinguished judges and speakers from the special-docket courts and other courts, the discussion will cover a wide range of topics pertinent to their respective programs, including eligibility, local rules, practice fundamentals and pointers, roles and responsibilities of attorneys, participants, staff and third parties, and more.

Moderated and organized by Judge John J. Russo, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court

Faculty: 

• Judge Hollie L. Gallagher | Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
• Judge Michael E. Jackson | Veterans Treatment Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
• Molly Leckler | Drug Court & Recovery Court Coordinator, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
• Judge Nancy Margaret Russo | Re-Entry Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court

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Sponsored by Thompson Hine, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

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Featured Speaker:

James Robenalt, Thompson Hine

James D. Robenalt is the author of Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland. The book traces Cleveland’s political climate in 1968, weaving a spellbinding story that examines the origins of violence in a city that became ground zero during the civil rights and black power struggles. The compelling story of urban race relations still resonates in 2018. He previously authored January 1973, The Harding Affair, and Linking Rings.

Robenalt is also partner in Thompson Hine's Business Litigation practice group. He has been named as one of America's Leading Lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. Jim has consistently been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers® through a process that includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Additional Panelists:

• Walter Beach, Eyewitness to events leading up the 1968 shootout. A former Cleveland Browns player and assistant to Mayor Carl Stokes.

• Mutawaf Shaheed, Eyewitness to events leading up the 1968 shootout. Imam and black nationalist poet.

• Moderator: Lee Fisher, Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Chair, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

• Concluding Remarks Roland V. Anglin, Dean and Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Global Business Law Review and International Law Students Association, Cleveland State University.

Reception: 6:00-7:00pm
Panel: 7:00-8:30pm

Government officials in countries that have become the target of U.S. economic sanctions have publicly acknowledged that they support the use of cryptocurrency to circumvent reliance on the U.S. dollar, primarily to regain access to the international markets from which they have been blacklisted. The anonymity offered by cryptocurrencies such as the Venezuelan petro and Russian cryptoruble makes it difficult to identify violators and enforce regulations. In response, the U.S.’s banking enforcement agency, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has begun focusing on exchanges to increase transparency in international transactions, which may help identify violators but also raises security concerns.

Panelists will discuss, inter alia, the following questions: (1) What is cryptocurrency, and how does it operate? (2) How are blacklisted countries using cryptocurrency to circumvent international sanctions? (3) What financial and/or criminal penalties do traders and investors face for direct or indirect violations of U.S. sanctions? (4) What regulatory changes is the OFAC considering to identify and block transactions with sanctioned countries? (5) How will these regulatory changes affect risk-assessment for investors and financial institutions, and with what impact on cryptocurrency markets, such as the market for bitcoin, and the larger stock market?

Panelists:

• Richard Gordon, Case Western Reserve University Director of the Financial Integrity Institute; Associate Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center; Professor of Law; former Senior Counsel at the International Monetary Fund.
• Denny Murphy, Senior Manager at Skoda Minotti, Business Advisory Firm with offices in Cleveland; Certified Public Accountant concentrating in accounting and audit, as well as cost segregation studies.
• Daniel Riedl, Assistant United States Attorney in the National Security and Cyber Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Franklin County, Ohio, and former Special Prosecutor for the Ohio Attorney General's Office. 
• Mark Sniderman, Case Western Reserve University Professor of Economics, with a focus on macroeconomics and financial regulation; former Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017: What You Need to Know Now

This 3.0 Credit Hour CLE organized by Charles Adler, Schnieder Smeltz Spieth Bell, and Kevin Butler, Law Director of the Cities of Brooklyn and Lakewood, aims to help attendees understand the changes in federal tax law as a result of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA).

Faculty: 
Deborah A. Geier | Professor, C|M|LAW
Jeffrey D. Neuman, CPA, JD | President, Barnes Wendling CPAs
John T. Plecnic | Associate Professor, C|M|LAW
Milena Sterio | Associate Dean for Academic Enrichment, C|M|LAW
Scott Swartz, J.D., LL.M., AEP | Attorney at Law, Wellspring Advisors
Maryann Thomas | Associate, Schneider Smeltz Spieth Bell

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Presented by the Cleveland Metropolitian Bar Association in partnership with Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Our panelists will address the pressing issues surrounding sentencing, including incarceration rates, sentencing guidelines, reform, juvenile crime, and more.

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$50 - CMBA Members

$75 - Non-Members

$40 - Government, Non-Profit and New (<1 year) Lawyers

$0 – Affiliate members, law students and community members (no CLE)

$0 – CMBA CLE Passport

Day of Program: Add $15.00 to registration fee.

agenda & speakers:

4:25 Welcome & Introductions

4:30 The State of Sentencing with audience polling

4:40 Clips from the documentary “13th”

5:00 Panel discussion addressing sentencing issues

• The Honorable James Gwin, United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio
• Charles R. See, Executive Director, Community Re-Entry, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry
• Cullen G. Sweeney, Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office
• Gary C. Mohr, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
• Mark A. Stanton, Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office, Moderator

5:20 Clips from the documentary “13th”

5:40 Continued panel discussion on sentencing issues

6:00 Sentencing in Cuyahoga County: A View from the Court of Common Pleas Bench

• Hon. Kathleen A. Sutula
• Hon. Janet R. Burnside
• Hon. Robert C. McClelland
• Hon. John J. Russo

6:45 Q&A

7:00 Adjourn

All applicants for the Ohio Bar Exam are required to take at least one hour of instruction on substance abuse, including causes, prevention, detection and treatment alternatives.

This seminar is free and open to all Spring 2018 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law graduates. December 2018 graduates are also welcome to attend.

One hour CLE pending

Sponsored by the Cleveland Marshall College of Law Entertainment and Sports Law Association and the Lake County Captains

Continental Breakfast and Coffee to be provided.

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• Pre-registration for attorneys: $20.00
• Pre-registration for non-attorneys: $10.00
• Students: Free
• Tickets at the door will be $25.00 for attorneys and $15.00 for non-attorneys

The Symposium will host three round-table panel discussions featuring industry experts from across the U.S.

PANEL 1: Branding, Licensing, and Talent Representation within Today & Entertainment Industry

• Moderator: Angelin Chang, Professor of Music and Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• Ken Abdo, Partner, Fox Rothschild, LLP
• Tom Moglovkin, Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, NBC Universal
• Dan Levin, Principal, PROMINENT Brand + Talent

Panel 2: The Rise of the ESports Industry

• Moderator: Peter Carfagna, Founder, Magis, LLC and Professor of Law, Harvard School of Law
• Tyler Schrodt, CEO & Founder, Electronic Gaming Federation
• Krista Hiner, Attorney, ESG Law
• Anthony Muraco, Director of Gaming Operations, Cleveland Cavaliers
• Chris Lloyd, ESports Agent, Evolved Talent Agency

Panel 3: Amateurism is the Problem, the HBL is the Solution

• Moderator: Rafael Hernandez Brito, “El Alcade” and the voice of the Cleveland Cavaliers
• Ricky Volante, Attorney, Buckley King, LPA and Chief Executive Officer, The Historical Basketball League Enterprises, Inc.
• Mekka Okereke, Engineering Director, Google
• Jim Convertino, Director of McGowan Professional Athletes & Entertainers Insurance Solutions 
• Mike Johnson, Founder and CEO of All Day Group and ADG Sports

Issues of Ethics and Professionalism in Employment Law, Including Class Action Practice

This 3.0 Credit Hour CLE satisfies the Professional Conduct requirement! This course will examine in detail the ethics and professionalism responsibilities which are peculiar to employment and class action litigation, as well as those generally applicable to all types of litigation, including the often and very public context of class notices and settlements which are broadly publicized as a result of Rule 23 requirements. 

Faculty:
Patrick J. Perotti | Partner, Dworken & Bernstein Co., LPA
William Crosby | Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program

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