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    Medical Malpractice: The Most Recent and Important System Changes

    Medical Malpractice
    The Most Recent and Important System Changes

    CLE Date and Time: April 2, 2012 – 6:00-8:00pm

    Location: 123 Remsen Street, Brooklyn
    Credits: 2 MCLE Credits (Professional Practice)

    Presentations by:
    Judge Ann Pfau, Statewide Coordinating Judge, Medical Malpractice Matters
    Judge Marsha Steinhardt, Presiding Judge, Kings County Med Mal Trial Readiness Part
    Judge Lawrence Knipel, Kings County Early Settlement Part
    John Bonina, Esq., Bonina and Bonina, P.C.

    Sponsored by:
    The BBA Medical Malpractice Law Committee, John Bonina – Chair
    The BBA Volunteer Lawyers Project, Jeannie Costello – Executive Director
    HSBC Bank – Montague Street Branch

    Topics will include: New York State’s Early Settlement Program, Changes in Brooklyn’s MedMal Trial Readiness Part, Brooklyn’s Early Settlement Program, The State’s Neurologically Impaired Infant Fund and More!

    For more information contact:
    E-mail: lfeldman@brooklynbar.org
    Phone: 718-624-0675 ext. 209

    To download and fax the registration form – Click Here!

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    Agree to accept a referral from the BBA’s VLP and attend the program for Free!

    CPLR Update

    CPLR Update

    CLE Date and Time: March 12, 2012 – 6:00-8:00pm

    Location: 123 Remsen Street, Brooklyn
    Credits: 2 MCLE Credits (Professional Practice)

    Presentation by:
    Prof. Michael Hutter, Powers & Santola, LLP

    Sponsored by:
    The BBA’s Civil Court of the City of NY Committee – Dino Mastropietro, Chair and Richard Klass, CLE Coordinator
    The BBA’s Volunteer Lawyers Project, Jeannie Costello – Executive Director
    The New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers

    This program is a must for attorneys litigating in New York’s Courts! Join us for this comprehensive update on New York’s Civil Practice Law and Rules. Topics will include significant recent case law, the impact of recent Court of Appeals pronouncements and rulings, current disclosure issues and more.

    For more information contact:
    E-mail: lfeldman@brooklynbar.org
    Phone: 718-624-0675 ext. 209

    To download and fax the registration form – Click Here!

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    Reserve Your Spot and Pay at the Door:

    Agree to accept a referral from the BBA’s VLP and attend the program for Free!

    Asset Management, Ethics and Divorce For Matrimonial and Family Law Attorneys

    Asset Management, Ethics and Divorce
    For Matrimonial and Family Law Attorneys

    CLE Date and Time: March 6, 2012 – 6:00-8:00pm

    Location: 123 Remsen Street, Brooklyn
    Credits: 2 MCLE Credits (.5 Ethics and 1.5 Professional Practice)

    Presentations by:
    Sabra Sasson, Esq. – Sabra R. Sasson, PLLC
    Marc Seidenberg, Esq. – Merrill Lynch
    Shirley Irick, Esq. – Hercules & Irick, PLLC
    Nathan Browne – Merrill Lynch

    Sponsored by:
    Nathan Browne – Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Group

    Topics will include: Equitable Distribution and Child Support, Mediation and Collaborative Methods for Divorce, Best Practices for Divorce Settlement Management, Ethical Obligations, Balancing Zealous Representation with Ethical Considerations, Directing Clients Ethical Participation and More!

    For more information contact:
    E-mail: lfeldman@brooklynbar.org
    Phone: 718-624-0675 ext. 209

    To download and fax the registration form – Click Here!

    This Program is FREE for BBA Members in good standing – Register Here:

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    November 2011 Brooklyn Barrister

    Whats Inside:

    • Liz Padilla Memorial 5K Run
    • The State of the Estates
    • The Docket
    • New Members
    • Legal Briefs
    • Respectfully Submitted
    • Roll Call
    • Across my desk

    To see a PDF of the November 2011 Barrister click HERE

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    Brooklyn Barrister September 2011

    Whats inside:

    • Separate Property Revisited
    • Everything Brooklyn Media publishes Barrister
    • The Docket
    • New Members
    • Legal Briefs
    • Respectfully Submitted
    • Brooklyn Bar Golf Outing – A hole in one
    • BBA Outing to MCU Park
    • BBA Members attend NYSBA Meeting
    • BBA Volunteer Lawyers Project Awards

    Please click HERE to see a PDF of the Septemer Barrister.

    2011 Bankruptcy Update – Part 1

    Original CLE Date and Time: September 13, 2011
    Credits: 2.5 Credits Professional Practice

    Presentations by:
    David J. Doyaga, Esq., Doyaga & Schaefer, and
    Gregory Messer, Esq., Law Office of Gregory Messer, PLLC

    Part I – Bankruptcy Basics – This course is for the beginning attorney who has done 5 or less bankruptcies and is excellent for sending your staff and paralegals to learn or re-learn the Basics of Bankruptcy and Chapter 7.  Topics will include: How to properly complete and amend Schedules and other required filings; How to convert to other Chapters; The basics of how to complete the means test form; How to get the Meeting of Creditors closed in one visit; Basic client interviewing.

    For more information contact:
    E-mail: lfeldman@brooklynbar.org
    Phone: 718-624-0675 ext. 209

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    July 2011 Brooklyn Barrister

    Whats Inside:

    • Induction of Officers & Trustees
    • The Docket
    • New Members
    • Legal Briefs
    • Respectfully submitted
    • VLP Program earns State Bar Award
    • The State of Estates
    • Photos from the induction

    To see a PDF of the July Barrister click HERE.

    Cutting Edge Criminal Defense

    Original CLE Date: May 18, 2011
    Credits: 2 Credits Professional Practice

    Presentations by:
    Dr. Donald H. Marks, MD
    Richard Mischel, Esq.
    Dr. Lawrence Shields, MD
    George A. Farkas, Esq.
    Michael Farkas, Esq.

    Sponsored by:
    The BBA’s Criminal Law Section, – George A. Farkas, Chair
    The BBA Volunteer Lawyers Project, Jeannie Costello – Executive Director
    The Kings County Criminal Bar Association

    This course will review: the use of Functional MRI in criminal matters to explain and litigate issues involving cognitive ability, lie-detection, and mitigation related to brain functions. The presentation will also cover admissibility, motions to suppress and appellate issues related to cell-site data in criminal prosecutions.  The presenters will describe what cell-site data is, what it shows, and how to interpret the documents that you receive from the wireless carriers when they comply with your subpoena.  Additionally, the seminar will discuss using Google Earth for demonstrative exhibits.

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    The Law and the Future of Sports

    Original CLE Date: February 1, 2011
    Credits: 2 Professional Practice Credit

    Presentation by:
    Professor Robert Boland, Esq. – New York University, Sports Law Expert and Sports Agent

    Topics will include: why all major sports are experiencing major collective bargaining and labor law crises; why each may endure a work stoppage during the coming 12 months; how this week’s game could be the last Super Bowl for some time. It will also explore why even the most elemental business activities of any sports team must have some form of antitrust immunity and why the contracts which hold together long business relationships in sport are increasingly made to be broken. Finally, the presentation will give everyone who attends a relevant takeaway from sports law that they can successfully adapt to their own practice.

    For more information contact:
    E-mail:     lfeldman@brooklynbar.org
    Phone: 718-624-0675 ext. 209

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    Price: $50.00

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