Events

You are invited to volunteer for a Pro Bono Clinic with Maryland Legal Aid

Topic: Security deposit advice and assistance with pro se forms.
Clients: Low-income individuals and families
When: Fri. May 19, 2023, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM. Training begins at 9:30 AM (1 hour) followed by scheduled 1 hour client meetings from 10:30 AM-12:00 PM.
Where: Virtual via Zoom.
Who: Maryland-barred attorneys and non-attorney professionals (non-attorney professionals will be paired with a Maryland-barred attorney).
Experience: None required.
Training: 1 hour live training followed by 1 hour of client consult time.
Support: Maryland Legal Aid attorneys will be available for questions during the client meetings.
Time: Limited, with no ongoing commitment.
Work: Meet virtually with a low income Maryland client to discuss options for return of a security deposit the client feels was improperly retained by a prior landlord. For many residents a security deposit can present a substantial barrier to their ability to obtain housing, particularly when they are living paycheck to paycheck. When a landlord improperly withholds a deposit it can create a significant hardship on the client and their family. Maryland has created a statute specific to security deposits that clearly articulates a landlord's responsibilities and provides tenants a recourse through small claims court. Often these matters can be resolved through a strongly worded demand letter or properly filed complaint. By helping tenants understand their rights and assisting with drafting a persuasive demand letter or small claims complaint you can have a significant impact on the client and their likelihood of obtaining a positive outcome.
Insurance: Provided by Maryland Legal Aid to all volunteers.

Note: If you are interested in participating but are not barred in Maryland, please contact Angus Derbyshire at ADerbyshire@mdlab.org for information on waiving into the Maryland Bar for purposes of providing pro bono services with MDLAB. MDLAB covers the fees and provides the paperwork. Please allow 30 days for this process.

*Please respond by May 12.

Program: 5:00 - 6:00 pm | Networking Reception: 6:00 - 7:00 pm

As cyber attacks continue to be on the rise, an essential aspect of mitigation is effectively preparing for cyber risks.  Table top exercises rehearsing an action plan to respond to a data breach have been viewed by companies and regulators as a key defense strategy. These exercises  not only include what to do in the first 24 hours of a cybersecurity incident, but also what lawyers can do to protect the company’s strategy to respond to the breach, limit liability, and bolster the chances of recouping costs and expenses from their insurance coverage. This session will focus on when to engage the government, how to communicate internally and externally, and how to best position the company for insurance recovery.

Celebrate Earth Day with the ACC NCR Community Service Committee. Please join us for a Earth Day Park Clean Up at a location nearest you. Register to let us know you plan to participate then formally register with the location that works for you. Full details below. 

Register below and identify your location of choice, (MD, Sterling or Arlington). Additional information will be provided in your confirmation. 

 Maryland 

Saturday, April 22, 10 AM to Noon | Black Hill Regional Park, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive, Boyds, MD 20841

Help clean up Montgomery County’s expansive Black Hill Regional Park. Bags and gloves will be provided to help you remove litter from the park, but wear clothes and shoes you don’t mind getting dirty. This is a family-friendly activity (minimum age is 3, parents must accompany children 13 and under), good for kids needing SSL hours and for everyone who cares about the environment! Look for ACC NCR member, Denise Gold.

Northern Virginia - Two Locations!

Saturday, April 22, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM | Sterling Foundation Project Clean Stream, Sterling Middle School, 201 West Holly Avenue, Sterling, VA 20164 

The Sterling Foundation, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Sterling Community invites you to join us on Earth Day 2023 for a Stream Clean-up. Help us remove trash and litter from waterways that feed the Cabin Branch Stream in the Sterling Park area. Easy access to the cleaning area and shallow water makes this event appropriate for all ages. All children, including students and youth groups, ages 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Trash bags will be provided. Gloves, grabbers and team leader vest will be provided on a first come, first serve basis. Rubber boots, gloves, long sleeves and long pants are strongly recommended. Clean water for reusable water bottles, a hand washing station and some snacks, lunch will be provided at 2:30 pm. For questions and more details email Norida Torriente at Stream@sterlingfoundation.org or visit sterlingfoundation.org/stream. Look for ACC NCR Member, Rita Hazlett.     

Saturday, April 22, 9 AM – 11 AM | Friends of Mount Vernon Trail, Columbia Island Marina George Washington Memorial Parkway Arlington, VA 22202

The Friends of Mount Vernon Trail will be celebrating Earth Day by removing invasive bush honeysuckle from the trail near the 14th Street Bridge. The address provided is from the nearest parking lot. Volunteers may use pruners, folding saws or loppers to cut vegetation, as well as hauling away and stacking cut vegetation. Please bring water, gloves (if you have them), long sleeves and long pants. Look for ACC NCR Member, Charlotte Bernard.

*All attendees are required to comply with ACC NCR's COVID-19 Duty of Care.

Join fellow ACC SFBA members and our sponsor, Baker McKenzie, to learn how to make the perfect sangria and a classic tapa, Jamón Ibérico de Bellota. We will gather in the restaurant’s private Spanish market room for our lessons followed by an array of tapas, cocktails, and conversation. The authentic setting will surround our group with Spanish top-shelf products and a spectacular wine cellar that references the Spanish scene. We hope you can join us!

Our panel will explore the insurance claim process in detail for different types of policies and losses to provide guidance and tips.  The Panel will discuss these and other major risks and losses covered by the policies and the strategies for communicating with insurers about the losses that have been suffered to align the losses with the coverage that has been purchased. 

We will also explore some lessons learned as a result of the experience with the full spectrum of insurance claims processes – ranging from claims that have been accepted based on notice presentation to claims that have been forced into litigation to formal compulsory processes. 

Presented by John Gibbons, Partner at Blank Rome and Dominique Meyer, Associate at Blank Rome and Kristin Meister, Senior Counsel at IDEMIA.

1.5 Hours of VA MCLE pending.

Let the Good Times Roll…

Please join Greenberg Traurig and the Association of Corporate Counsel  (ACC) Central Florida Chapter for learning, games, lively conversation, and delicious food and drinks.

This 2 hour CLE Program includes Technology, Ethics & Professionalism content (specialty CLE credits pending FL Bar approval).

Wednesday, June 28, 2023
 
Check-in: 2:30 PM
Fun Begins: 3:00 PM
Happy Hour: 5:00 PM
 
Greenberg Traurig Orlando
450 South Orange Avenue #650
Orlando, FL 32801

 
Fun Begins

Navigating 2023 Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes in U.S. Privacy and Cybersecurity: An overview of the latest developments in current and emerging domestic privacy and cybersecurity law, with an emphasis on the comprehensive state privacy laws that became effective in 2023 or will become effective in the next two years. We will focus on concepts such as controller / processor obligations, consumer-facing privacy policies, data subject rights, data processing agreements, and cybersecurity matters, while highlighting key differences amongst the various state laws. Finally, we will discuss practical compliance strategies and tactics in-house counsel can implement to navigate this ever-evolving regulatory landscape.
 

Presenters: Talia Boiangin and Arda Goker, Associates, Greenberg Traurig

CLE Credit: Seeking 1 hour of technology credit

The Ethics of Artificial  Intelligence: Role Playing and Problem-Solving How Lawyers Can and Should Ethically Use This Technology as It Changes the Legal Profession (description generated with the help of ChatGPT): ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other cutting-edge technologies are set to revolutionize the legal industry by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline and optimize essential tasks such as writing, investigation, research, review, analysis, pattern recognition, and other tasks lawyers do every day. Lawyers must consider the ethical implications of using these technologies in their work for clients. A range of critical ethical considerations is raised when applying these innovative and game-changing tools, including competence, supervision, confidentiality, plagiarism, ownership, authorship, fair use, bias, and even criminal conduct. We will also consider what the introduction of this technology means for the profession and practice of law. Join us as we delve deeper into the critical issues raised by the use of these new (and not so new) technologies.

Presenter: Joshua Brown, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig 

CLE Credit: Seeking 1 hour of ethics, 1 hour of technology, and 1 hour of professionalism credit

Extras 

- Free Parking @ City Commons garage

- Prizes

- Snacks

- Games

- ChatGPT-generated signature cocktail

~  THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT, AND AT CAPACITY ~

(WE WILL BE UNABLE TO PERMIT ON-SITE ATTENDANCE, NO WALK-INS)

Join the Employment Law Practice Group for In-Person CLE & Networking

Recently, both federal and state legislators and enforcement agencies have taken aim at employer-employee agreements, specifically regarding non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses. However, calling these developments an outright ban on non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements would be inaccurate. Attendees will learn about: the limitations on NDAs and non-disparagement clauses and when it may be appropriate to include those provisions in various types of agreements. 

This program will focus on several such developments: 

· the federal Speak Out Act, 

· the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, 

· New York State’s ban on NDAs in certain circumstances, and 

· the National Labor Relation Board’s McClaren Macomb decision.

Speakers:

Susan Gross Sholinsky, Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green

Nancy Gunzenhauser Popper, Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green

Erin Schaefer, Member of the Firm, Epstein Becker Green

Sarah Rice, Counsel, Employment Law, Apollo Global Management

CLE:

1 CLE Credit (NY) // Professional Practice (for non-transitional, experienced attorneys only)

This event is FREE for ACC NYC Chapter Members. Non-members (must be in-house counsel) tickets are $50.

Click here to view the ACC-NYC financial aid policy

This past year saw class actions spike yet again.  But there were also some significant developments for companies in the laws governing class actions.  We will dive into those developments in a wide variety of contexts, including consumer claims, privacy, ERISA, website accessibility and wage and hour claims.  Our focus will be intensely practical as we discuss effective techniques for preventing class actions in the first place but also for defeating them where your company is forced to litigate. 

Presented by Ed Barnidge and David Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, Partners at Williams & Connolly and Laura Tanner, Vice President Legal at Progrexion.

1.5 Hours of VA MCLE pending.

Year-over-year, the Federal Government spends more taxpayer dollars via non-traditional contract vehicles than FAR-based procurements. In FY22 alone, the Federal Government spent $1.1 trillion on grants and cooperative agreements as compared to $576 billion in traditional, FAR-based contracts (a stunning gap considering the delta doesn’t even account for the contextually trivial handful of billions awarded via Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs)). Looking ahead, the Federal Government is committed to spending even more through non-traditional vehicles. Recently, Congress passed several key pieces of legislation – including the American Rescue Plan Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act – that collectively allocate trillions more for grants, cooperative agreements, and OTAs, with certain programs specifically targeted to commercial companies that have no previous experience performing these non-traditional vehicles.

Given this unprecedented investment of taxpayer dollars, and the non-traditional entities soon to receive these awards, the goal of this program is to provide a high-level overview of grants, cooperative agreements, and OTAs by comparing and contrasting with their FAR-based counterparts. Also, we’ll help you identify the key elements of each vehicle type so you can issue spot, and walk through the risks/rewards of each vehicle so you can advise business leaders before they (electronically) sign on the dotted line. 

Presented by Ryan Roberts and Anne Perry, Partners from Sheppard Mullin, Marko Kipa, Deputy General Counsel at Comcast Cable, and Tim Allsup, Senior Counsel at RTI International.

1.5 Hours of VA MCLE pending.