MCLE Crunch Time starts NEXT TUESDAY! Over the next two months, the Law Library is hosting many amazing speakers to provide the MCLE credits you need, including hard-to-find legal ethics, competence issues, and Recognition & Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession credits.

And, this year we are making your MCLE experience even easier by holding our MCLE classes as webinars that you can register for and view from your home or office! Our online MCLE classes are only $10 each, but if you purchase our MCLE Class Package for $75, you will be able to attend as many MCLEs as you want from the date you sign up through the end of 2021! In addition to unlimited MCLE classes like these, you will also have access to online databases like Gale California Legal Forms, HeinOnline, and the National Consumer Law Database.

The Crunch Time classes scheduled for December are:

• Survey of the Name, Image, and Likeness Landscape in College Sports: A presentation about current trends in sports licensing, and the ability of college athletes to enter into endorsement deals.
• Can Money Talk? The Ethics of Sharing Profits With Non-Lawyers (Ethics): A program discussing the ethics rules associated with lawyers forming business partnerships with nonlawyers. Speakers Wendy Patrick, Ed McIntyre, and David C. Carr from the SDCBA Legal Ethics Committee with be hosting this class.
• Every Dog Has Their Day in Court: Dog Law 101: This program will discuss the evolving field of dog law, including fundamentals, local laws, and ownership and custody disputes.
• Professional Responsibility and Technology During COVID-19 (Ethics): A presentation about legal ethics rules and best practices related to the use of technology by attorneys during COVID-19.
• Asylum and Removal Defense Law: This program will cover the legal and humanitarian issues arising from the current Migrant Protection Protocols affecting asylum seekers.
• Lotto Tickets to PDFs: Altered Documents in Legal Cases: An overview of the issues related to altered documents in legal cases and how they are identified by forensic experts.
• Workers’ Compensation Basics: This program will provide an overview of workers’ compensation law, including terminology used and subrogation rights.
• The Law and Science of Impaired Driving (Competence): This class will discuss the laws and science of impaired driving, including driving under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs.
• Requesting Government Records: This program will discuss requesting government records through the California Public Records Act and Federal Freedom of Information Act.

That’s just December. We have more classes lined up for January, with topics including voir dire, ADA, cannabis, legal writing, and Elimination of Bias.

California attorneys who wish to maintain their eligibility to practice law have to complete 25 hours of approved MCLE credits every three years. The deadline for attorneys whose last names start with a letter from H through M to complete those 25 hours is February 1, 2021. At least 12.5 hours have to be participatory and the remaining half can be self-study.

Our webinars are just one of the many resources that we have made available to help you with your legal education during the COVID-19 crisis. Check out our Classes, Legal Databases, and COVID-19 Legal Issues pages for more information! If you have any questions about our webinars or accessing our legal databases, please contact us by email, telephone, or Virtual Front Desk (weekdays between 2 pm and 4 pm). Or, you can sign up for a telephone appointment with a reference librarian.