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TCBA Offers Free and Low Cost Online CLE to Its Members: Section Webinars:
Business Litigation/Construction Law Sections
Appellate Law Section
Construction Law Section
Section members can access free online CLE that is available on the section’s e-community. If you are not a member of a section and want to access a particular recorded CLE, visit www.tarrantbar.org/cleondemand or contact Lauren St. Clair at laurensc@tarrantbar.org to purchase the recording. Topic: Brain Break with the Fourteenth Court Houston Moderator: Jody Sanders, Kelly Hart Judicial Panel: • Justice Tracy Christopher • Justice Kevin Jewell CLE: .5 hour of Ethics (FREE to TCBA Members) Topic: Brain Break with the Fifth Court Dallas Moderator: Jody Sanders, Kelly Hart Judicial Panel: • Chief Justice Robert D. Burns III • Justice Cory L. Carlyle • Justice John G. Browning CLE: .5 hour of Ethics (FREE to TCBA Members) Topic: The Office of Solicitor General: Twenty Years of Representing Texas’s Interests Speaker: Kyle Hawkins, Solicitor General CLE: .75 hour
Appellate /Business Litigation Law Sections
Topic: Proof and Pitfalls in Seeking Recovery of Attorney’s Fees Speaker: Justice Mike Wallach, Second Court of Appeals CLE: 1 hour
Bankruptcy Law Section
Topic: Bankruptcy Court Procedures During Pandemic and Other Updates Panelists: • Bankruptcy Judge Mark Mullin • Bankruptcy Judge E. Lee Morris CLE: .5 hour (FREE to TCBA Members) Topic: General Order 2021-01, Ten Ways This Impacts Your Chapter 13 Practice Speaker: Mark French, The Law Office of Mark B. French CLE: 1 hour
Business Litigation Section
Topic: Top Ten Changes Under the New Amended Rules of Civil Procedure Speakers: Graigory B. Fancher and Brittany A. Weaver, Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, P.C. CLE: .5 hour (FREE to TCBA Members)
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▪ MAY/JUNE 2021
Topic: Zoom Trials - Lessons Learned in the First Fully Zoom Trial Speaker: Judge Nicholas Chu, Justice of the Peace, Pct. 5 Travis County, Texas CLE: 1 hour Topic: The Intersection of Contracts and Technology Speakers: Christian Blomdahl, Suffolk; Grant Hagen, The Beck Group CLE: 1 hour Topic: Issues in Commercial Construction Bankruptcies Speaker: Jason Kennedy, Harrison Steck, P.C. CLE: 1 hour
Corporate Counsel/Labor & Employment Law Sections
Topic: Arbitrarily Selecting Black Arbitrators for Employment Discrimination Disputes Speaker: Professor Michael Green, Texas A&M School of Law CLE: .75 hour
Criminal Law/Labor and Employment Sections
Topic: Cybersecurity: Emerging Threats and the Legal Landscape Speaker: Kathryn Childress, BakerHostetler CLE: 0.75 (FREE to TCBA Members)
Energy Law Section
Topic: Surface Conflicts in Oil & Gas Development – Accommodation Doctrine & Excessive Use Speakers: Graham Simms and Wesley D. Lloyd, Freeman Mills, P.C. CLE: 1 hour (FREE to TCBA Members)
Environmental Law Section
Topic: State and Federal Environmental Agency Update Speakers: James MGuire, Regional Counsel for EPA Region 6 and Erin Chancellor, Director for the TCEQ Office of Legal Services CLE: 1 hour (FREE to TCBA Members)
Fort Worth Business & Estate Section
Topic: Estate Planning, Probate Administrations, and Previous Representations – Can I Do It All? Speaker: Judge Brooke Allen, Probate Court No. 2 CLE: 1 hour Topic: Economic Update with COVID-19 and Post-Election Speaker: Lauren Goodwin, CFA®, Director of Portfolio Strategy at New York Life Investments CLE: 1 hour
