Head into Spring with these Great CLEs!

ACC Colorado has great continuing legal education available for your learning pleasure.  We normally keep you up-to-date with periodic emails, announcing these educational opportunities or you can check out the chapter website for the complete calendar, by visiting http://www.acca.com/php/chapters/index.php?chapter=colo.  Here are a few upcoming events:

ACC Half-day CLE 
"Mocking Corporate America: The State of Anti-Corporate Bias & the State of the Art Mock Trial "
Date: March 6, 2007
Start Time: 8:30 AM MST
End Time: 2:00 PM MST
Description: A Live Seminar and Demonstration Sponsored by: Persuasion Strategies and Holland & Hart

Your corporate defense case is headed for either trial or settlement. How strong is your case? Should your company settle now or move forward with a trial? The more information you have, the better.

At this unique CLE, you will see a mock trial in action. You will listen to both sides of a case, then watch and listen to jurors’ reactions to counsels’ arguments. You will also see how new technology has improved both the immediacy and the precision with which juror attitudes are measured.

Other seminar highlights:
• Learn the results of a 2006 nationwide survey on juror attitudes toward corporations
• Understand how the design, execution and strategic analysis of a mock trial can impact the results.
 
Location: Holland & Hart Mock Trial Room
555 17th Street, 32nd Floor, Denver

Speakers: Holland and Hart
URL: http://www.hollandhart.com/event.cfm 
CLE: Applied for

March Lunch and Learn CLE
" Selecting Outside Trial Counsel"
Date: March 21, 2007
Time:  11:45 AM
Cool River Cafe, Denver Tech Center
8000 E. Belleview Ave., Greenwood Village, CO

Presented by: Wheeler Trigg Kennedy

Speaker:    Mike O'Donnell, Chairman
                 John Fitzpatrick, Partner 

How to select the best outside litigator?
When the GC gets involved in selecting counsel, you know the matter’s important. Firms send their best closers for the dog and pony show, people who’ve won beauty contests before. But what should in-house counsel really be asking? Miracle worker and celebrated trial lawyer John Fitzpatrick gives you the hard questions that separate jury trial lawyers from everyone else. Learn what they are and how to get the answers you deserve. Better to learn them now than to have to explain to your Board of Directors how you missed asking them when you had the chance to do so.

April Lunch and Learn CLE
" What Now?  Current Developments in Labor Law"
Date: April 18, 2007
Time: 11:45 AM
Maggiano's Little Italy Denver South
7401 South Clinton Street
Englewood, Colorado

Presented by:  Jackson Kelly PLLC

L. Anthony George is a Member of Jackson Kelly PLLC in its Denver, Colorado office, where his practice focuses on labor relations, employment law and related litigation.  Mr. George's extensive litigation experience includes administrative hearings and arbitrations, state and federal trials, and appellate arguments before state and federal appeals courts. He also provides consultation and advice on virtually all aspects of the employment relationship, including union-management issues, employment discrimination, wage and benefit questions, and employment-related tort claims.

Mr. George is a frequent writer and speaker on labor and employment issues to human resources professionals and employer organizations, Mr. George is a member of the National Arbitration Forum's Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators. He is the author of "Controlling Legal Costs in Labor Arbitration," published in the June 1999 issue of The Colorado Lawyer, and is a contributing author to the ABA treatise Employment Discrimination and The Developing Law.

As Always,  please feel free to bring a non-ACC member to the event. Cost for nonmembers is only $20.00; remember to RSVP for any nonmembers you are planning to bring and include their company and title.  RSVPs are due the morning before the event.  RSVP to ACCColorado@yahoo.com or by calling (303)757-1847.