CLEonline.com is pleased to present a special online seminar on a subject that is important to all lawyers regardless of your practice area-- attorney's fees. This is an update seminar produced in 2009 on Offers of Judgment under Fed.R.Civ.Pro. 68 and Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 167.
This seminar features an audio presentation by the instructor/moderator for this seminar, Herb Kraft, in which he discusses the issues outlined below. This is a streaming audio presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar session. The audio presentation lasts for approximately 2.0 hours. This seminar is entitled:
Attorneys Fees as Weapons: Federal Rule 68 and Texas Rule 167
** (available at any time of the day and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **
Subjects to be discussed during this CLEonline.com seminar include:
- Basics of the "most enigmatic of the federal rules"- Rule 68, Offers of Judgment
- Advanced use of offers in class action, civil rights, injunctive relief and multiple plaintiff cases
- Ethics and professionalism in counseling clients on the effects of offers
- Texas Rule 167 basics
- Appropriate use of either offer scheme in highly aggressive attempts to settle cases
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Mr. Herb Kraft who is an attorney and the author of several software programs used by attorneys for over 20 years to generate attorney-client employment arrangements. He has personally applied for fees from state and federal courts at the trial and appeal levels in over 400 cases. Kraft has testified as an expert in fees in state and federal court proceedings. Kraft graduated from Florida State University School of Law in 1983 with high honors, and began practicing in creditor's rights law, and later acted as counsel in several election challenges and civil rights claims. Kraft is now primarily a consultant to multi-national firms on computer software licensing, but still advises law firms on attorneys' fees issues. He resides in Redondo Beach, California.
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $50.
This seminar is accredited for 2.0 hours of participatory CLE credit (no ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)
PLEASE REMEMBER-- All of our online CLE seminars are covered by our 'Full Satisfaction' guarantee. If for any reason you are dissatisfied with this or any other CLEonline.com seminar, we will gladly issue you a prompt refund. Thus, you have nothing to lose in trying one of our convenient online CLE seminars. If you have never participated in an online seminar before, we think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
