Join the 2024 ACBA Labor & Employment Symposium, a comprehensive virtual program designed to sharpen your skills in litigating and mediating employment disputes. This event offers a series of sessions focused on practical strategies and ethics in mediation. Free for ACBA members!
Featured JAMS Programs:
Ethics in Mediation (1 Legal Ethics MCLE)
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Panel description: The panel will discuss various ethical issues that may arise in mediation and best practices for dealing with them. Topics will include challenges for counsel in the lead-up to mediation, ethical issues in bargaining, and what if any ethical codes govern mediators’ conduct in mediation.
Speakers:
- Tamara Lange | JAMS
- Alan Berkowtiz | Judicate West
How Not to Settle at Mediation (1 General MCLE)
10:45 am – 11:45 am
Panel description: Everyone tells us what to do at mediation to enhance our ability to settle our cases. Our distinguished panel – two very experienced mediators and a distinguished lawyer will tell us what not to do and why we shouldn’t do it. Learn from other lawyers’ and mediators’ mistakes and missteps.
Speakers:
- Hon. Paul L. Beeman (Ret.) | Beeman Mediation
- Howard A. Herman | JAMS
- Alison Crow | Crow Law PC
The New PAGA: What Every Attorney Should Know (1 General MCLE)
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel description: As a result of significant negotiations among Governor Newsom’s office, legislative leadership, and business/labor stakeholders, AB 2288 and SB 92 have been passed as the PAGA Reform Agreement (effective June 19, 2024). Join our panel for a discussion on the PAGA Reform Agreement and what this means for plaintiff and defense counsel litigating these cases.
Speakers:
- Mollie Burks | Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
- Michael J. Loeb | JAMS
- Hunter Pyle | Hunter Pyle Law
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