CMLAA

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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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SBA is excited to announce that Barrister's Ball is right around the corner!

What: The best party of the year.

For those of you who haven't attended, it's the biggest social event of the year. This nation-wide law school tradition is always a memorable night and includes a delicious 3-course dinner, an open bar, dancing & our very own DJ Wolfe.

When: Saturday, April 7

6:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Where: The Metropolitan at the 9

2017 E. 9th St., Cleveland, OH 44115

Tickets: $50

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cm-laws-2018-barristers-ball-at-the-metropo...

Tickets wil be on sale from Tuesday, Feb. 27 until Friday, March 23 at 6:00 p.m. Look out for an email with a link to purchase tickets on that Monday. You must purchase you and your date's ticket together. After purchasing your tickets you will be able to select from two food options. Special accommodations will be made for those with dietary restrictions.

Students, faculty, alumni, and non-CMLaw dates are all welcome!

Attire: This event is formal. Our theme for Barrister's is a Masquerade, so if you choose, wear a mask!

Once the ticket sales have ended on March 23 you will have the option of selecting your own table of 10. Email confirmed tables of 10 to Alex Messina at a.j.messinanull@cmlaw.csuohio.nulledu by Friday, March 30 at 6:00 p.m.

Questions? Email Alex Messina at a.j.messinanull@cmlaw.csuohio.nulledu

Join us to meet and celebrate generations of dedicated law alumni who share a family tradition of CMLaw excellence.

A CMLaw Legacy is an alumnus, alumna or current student whose parent, grandparent, sibling, aunt, uncle or spouse/life partner also received a degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

RSVP by April 20: legacynull@law.csuohio.nulledu or 216-687-2537

Sponsored by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association

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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Visit www.law.csuohio.edu/alumnigiving/hof for more information.

Join the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association for the Annual Meeting and Installation of new 2018 Officers. We will also have the annual photo of all alumni judges. Reception to follow in atrium.

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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Monthly meeting of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association Board of Trustees.

The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association will provide a Seminar on the Commercial Docket, which has been reinstated by the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas, and is to resume in January 2018.

The program will include an overview of the history of the Commercial Docket and its return to Cuyahoga County, recent amendments to the Rules of Superintendence of the Court of Ohio governing Commercial Dockets, a practitioner’s perspective on litigating cases on the Commercial Docket, and a moderated panel discussion with Judges Maureen Clancy, Cassandra Collier-Williams, and Nancy A. Fuerst, who will preside over cases on the reinstated Commercial Docket when it resumes in January 2018.

Co-sponsored by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Organizers:

• Kenneth R. Callahan and Joseph H. Gutkoski

Judicial Panel:

• Judge Maureen Clancy (invited)
• Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams (invited)
• Judge Nancy A. Fuerst (invited)

REGISTER TODAY!

Pre-registration rates:

• $75 General Admission
• $65 CMLAA (Alumni Members)
• $35 Students
• $10 Solo Practice Incubator Tenants

Learn more and register today: https://www.classy.org/cleveland/events/cle-return-commercial-docket-to-cuyahoga-county/e154720

• Day-of registration also available ($10 additional charge applies)
• Registration @ 8:30 am
• CLE begins promptly at 9:00 am

2.0 Credit hours pending

CMLAA CLEs will be held in the Moot Courtroom of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University,

1801 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115

Students are invited to a conversation with Brian Howe, an attorney with the Ohio Innocence Project, on Wednesday, November 1 at noon in LB 60. 

In the U.S., more than 500 wrongful convictions have been overturned in just the past two decades alone. Hear about the work of the Ohio Innocence Project to free wrongfully convicted inmates.

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by the Black Law Students Association, Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, Criminal Law Society and the National Lawyers Guild.