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CLEonline.com,
together with the Houston Bar Association (HBA), are pleased to present a special online CLE
ethics course that will focus on ethical issues often confronted by
practitioners representing clients in civil rights cases, with
particular emphasis on attorney's fees matters. Potential conflicts,
implications of fee waiver offers, settlements issues, joint
representation, importance of the representation agreement,
professionalism, and frivolous claims will all be explored, as will
various topics relating to petitions for (and opposition to) awards of
attorney's fees. This course features a streaming video and a downloadable MP3 audio presentation from a live CLE seminar on this topic that
was originally conducted by the Houston Bar Association (HBA) on May 1,
2014. You can access this presentation on demand at any time during the
course of the seminar session. This course is approved for
1.25 MCLE Legal Ethics hours.
Subjects to be discussed during this course include:
* Conflicts
* To Whom Does A Fees Claim Belong?
* Settlement Issues (Rule 68, Fee Waiver Offers, Effect on Awards)
* Recent Supreme Court Decisions (Fox, Kenny A., Lefemine)
* Fees for Prevailing Defendants
* What is (and is not) "Prevailing"
The speaker for this course is
Mr. Gerald Birnberg, a name partner with the firm of Williams, Birnberg &
Andersen, L.L.P. in
Houston. Mr. Birnberg devotes the majority of his practice to complex
litigation, both federal and state, trial and appellate, civil and
criminal; and to alternate dispute resolution (mediation). He is
board certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal
Specialization. He is also a Certified Mediator, American
Academy of Attorney Mediators. He is admitted to practice in
all state
courts in Texas and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
Circuits and the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas. He is a
member of the State Bar of Texas and the Houston, American, and Federal
Bar Associations; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; Houston
Bar Foundation; Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate
Specialists; Houston Trial Lawyers Association (director); Texas Trial
Lawyers Association (sustaining member); Governing Board, Story Time
(Museum of Printing History); Association of Trial Lawyers of America;
Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association; and National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers.. He received his law
degree from the University of Texas School of Law and his
undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin (B.S.,
1968). A more extensive biography for Mr. Birnberg may be found at
his firm's website.
Texas Board of Legal Specialization Areas
Credit Hours Area
1.25 Civil Appellate Law
1.25 Civil Trial Law
1.25 Labor and Employment Law
ACCREDITATION INFORMATION
This course is approved for credit by the MCLE Committees of the STATE BAR OF TEXAS and the STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA (MCLE Provider #8648).
These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.
In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar may also be available in a number of other states through CLE Reciprocity, such as FLORIDA, or as an "Approved Jurisdiction", such as TENNESSEE. Please check with the Tennessee State Bar for accreditation information.
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