ALFA International's On-Demand Webinar Recordings

ALFA International is pleased to announce that we have compiled the recordings from our CLE Webinars onto this webpage. Click on any of the hyperlinked webinar titles below to view that recording. 

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2021 Practice group webinars

• The Civil Trust as a Legal Solution in Latin America
  The Civil Trust can be used as an excellent legal vehicle to solve clients' transactions. The panel will introduce attendees to the Civil Trust alternative and discuss the advantages and characteristics of this legal vehicle and how it can be used daily.

2021 future leaders forum webinars 

• From Baby Boomers to Millennials: Analyzing How the Concepts of Consumer & Employee Loyalty Have Transformed in Each Generation
  To remain competitive, businesses must continuously earn and maintain the loyalty of its consumers and employees. This requires that companies understand, anticipate, and cater to the differing needs and behavioral habits of each generation. By identifying and explaining why each generation chooses to remain loyal to specific brands, companies, and employers, this interactive webinar will address tactical ways for companies to attract and retain consumer and employee loyalty, across the generations.

2020 SUMMER SERIES 

• Remote Control: How to Best Prepare for and Maximize Effectiveness in Remote Depositions and Court Proceedings
  The webinar panelists address the growing trend of courts requiring attorneys to participate remotely due to COVID-19-related restrictions, including strategies to best prepare for and maximize effectiveness in remote depositions.

• Always Be Prepared - Proactive Planning For Catastrophic Claims
  The webinar panelists provide proactive approaches for managing catastrophic injuries, from the initial response following the accident to settlement approaches used to avoid long-term exposure.

• Insurance Coverage Claims: The Aftermath of Riots, Vandalism and Civil Commotion
  The webinar panelists address issues arising from recent protests and associated insurance coverage implications.

• Meeting Your Business Challenges in a Post-COVID World: Guidance from Key Jurisdictions - Australia, Germany, India, UAE, UK and US
  The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to introduce fundamental changes to traditional business models. Economies across the world are responding with unique measures to transition to the next normal in the post-COVID future. The panel of ALFA International lawyers will share their experience of business challenges and strategies in their respective jurisdictions.

• Have You Noticed the Increase in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury?
  The webinar panelists discuss new issues that are developing in the field of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), best practices in defending these cases, and the current tactics plaintiff’s lawyers are using when bringing these cases to trial.

• Mitigating Environmental Pitfalls in Construction & Development
  The webinar panelists discuss possible environmental issues affecting construction and development and offer best practices on how to avoid and/or mitigate potential liabilities resulting therefrom.

• The Supreme Court Term in Review for Businesses: A Discussion of This Past Year’s Decisions and Their Practical Impacts
  The webinar panelists review significant decisions from the recently concluded Supreme Court Term that are likely to affect businesses, including in the areas of commercial fraud, securities law, trademarks, copyrights, patents, bankruptcy, arbitration, and claim accrual.

• It’s How You Tell the Tale
  The webinar panelists explore the methods of great storytelling by using good facts and eclipsing bad facts

• Price-Gouging Enforcement in the Era of COVID-19 – Strategies for Responding When the Authorities Come Knocking 
  The webinar panelists provide an overview of applicable law and strategies to prepare for and respond to claims or inquiries by federal and state authorities in the era of COVID-19. 

• Expanding Abroad - Key Cross-Border Issues for US Businesses Making Acquisitions Overseas
  The webinar panelists consider some of the issues that most surprise Americans making acquisitions abroad, whether by stock purchase or asset purchase.

• COVID-19: Mitigating Business and Legal Risks
  The webinar panelists discuss practical and reasonable ways to navigate the new normal while mitigating risks of litigation.

• Resolving Civil Cases While Emerging from a Pandemic – A Roundtable Discussion 
  A roundtable of experienced trial attorneys discuss the pros and cons of the current limitations on traditional civil jury trials in many states.

• Navigating Project Default
  The webinar panelists provide best practices on how to protect yourself and mitigate damages arising from project defaults.

• DANGER: Failure to Warn Claims, Where They Have Been and Where They May Be Heading
  The webinar panelists address the failure to warn claim as it has become known in today’s litigation environment and discuss the development of law surrounding failure to warn claims and anticipated issues moving forward. 

• Women's Work: The Impact of the Pandemic 
  The webinar panelists discuss strategies for maintaining your sanity and motivation when juggling fulfilling careers and other life obligations.

• The Lost Art of Damages
  The webinar panelists discuss the reality of what damages can be recovered and how the understanding of the abstract art of damages can be critical to mediation, setting budgets, reserves and how the litigation will be managed.

• Supreme Court 2020-2021 Preview 
  The webinar panelists discuss the most significant cases to be decided by the Supreme Court and how these cases can impact daily business operations.

• Updates On Professional Liability Law: What You May Have Missed With Everything Going On
  This webinar panelists discuss recent cases and developments in professional liability cases and explore their impact on professional liability claims.

• Combatting Counterfeiting and Gray Market Sales
  Nothing is more frustrating to a company than seeing the value of its brand and goodwill diminished by counterfeit, gray market, and other unauthorized sales of its product. The webinar panelists outline proactive steps a company can take to best position itself, if and when litigation with a counterfeiter or gray market seller arises.

2020 SPRING ETHICS SERIES

• Protecting Your Firm’s Data While Permitting Remote Work: Technological Competence and Ethical Requirements
  The webinar panelists address ethical obligations to prevent and properly respond to cybersecurity incidents. The panelists provide lawyers and clients with practice tips on how to better protect their data.

• Get Out of Your Own Way – Using Emotional Intelligence to Become a Personal and Professional Succes
  Developing Emotional Intelligence is the key to unlocking your potential. This webinar will help you on your journey toward productive emotions in your professional and personal life.

• You? Yeah, You’re Biased. Negotiating and Overcoming the Unconscious Bias
  The webinar panelists share ways to ensure you are aware of unconscious biases, which aid in more sound decision making whether that be in your place of employment or in the courtroom.

2020 covid-19 SERIES

• COVID-19 and the Construction and Development Industry—Navigating the Crisis and Preparing for an Uncertain Future
  The webinar panelists discuss the current environment and best practices from US and UK perspectives relating to job site protocols and contractual provisions intended to aid contractors/builders/owners in compliance as well as shielding them from potential claims.

• Bankruptcy Issues as a Result of COVID-19 – Small Business Reorganization Act and CARES Act
  This webinar is designed to give non-bankruptcy attorneys and clients an overview of bankruptcy issues, specifically a discussion of the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA), the expansion of SBRA under the CARES Act and the economic impact of payments made under federal law and moratoriums on debt collection or lack thereof.

• Employment Law Update Regarding the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) 
  The webinar panelists discuss the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Act and the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act, as well as answers some of the most common questions.

• Navigating Various Laws Impacting Employers in the COVID-19 World
  The webinar panelists address issues and legal concerns that employers face in our new COVID-19 world and help employers spot issues for further consideration in this ever-changing and uncharted environment.

• Riding the COVID-19 Turbulence in LATAM
  Lawyers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico explore the impact of the pandemic in Latin America, analyze the situation in each jurisdiction, and suggest strategies for clients to navigate their way around the different issues.

• Simple Advice for Complex Times: The Top 5 Pieces of Advice Insurers Can Give to Their Law Firm Insureds
  The webinar panelists offer straightforward and timely advice on what law firms should be doing to survive and thrive in these challenging times, and provide practical advice that insureds can implement.

• Sharpening the Axe: Forging the Tools Needed to Optimize Your Response to the COVID-19 Disruptions
  The webinar panelists provide an overview of legal doctrines applicable to both claims and defenses relating to the disarray arising from the pandemic shutdowns. The panel offers suggestions of nuances that may be used, as well as proactive steps to be taken in order to optimize the use of these doctrines.

• Understanding the Paycheck Protection Program 
  The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the “CARES Act”, includes a Paycheck Protection Program which provides $349 billion for government guarantees for a modified version of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 7(a) loan program. The panel will share the four important ways The Paycheck Protection Program modifies the 7(a) loan program.

• Navigating the Ever-Changing Landscape of COVID-19 
  The spread of COVID-19 and the response of federal, state, and local governments continues to create unprecedented challenges for employers. Attorneys from ALFA International member firm Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL's multi-disciplinary Coronavirus COVID-19 Response Team discuss how current law is intersecting with new legislation and the impact those changes will have on businesses.