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Vetting and Utilizing Online
Legal Resources
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 Wednesday
Stacey Bowers,
Esq.
University of Denver
Westminster Law Library
Denver, CO
This program provides an overview of online legal information and will
discuss how to determine trustworthiness of the various free Internet
resources. It will also cover various fee-based resources and when best
to use them. Research techniques and strategies will be presented, along
with an examination of when paper or electronic resources are the better
option. Finally, a list of useful Web sites for legal information will be
provided.
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Stacey Bowers
is the Access Services Librarian at the University of Denver
Westminster Law Library. She is also an adjunct professor in the
university’s Master of Library and Information Services program. She
previously practiced law for 14 years and was as an adjunct professor
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Her BS in Business/Accounting is from the University of Pittsburgh, and
her JD and MLIS are from the University of Denver where she is now a
PhD student in the Curriculum & Instruction program.
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Today's Technology and Document
Management
9:00 a.m. – Noon Thursday
Robert J.
Cathcart, Esq.
Rhonda L. Reid, Paralegal
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
Los Angeles, CA
This session will discuss various forms of hardware and software available
for use in organizing, outlining, and presenting evidence at mediation,
arbitration and trial. The session will include the pros and cons of
recent, state-of-the-art forms of technology and suggested methodologies
for using them most effectively.
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Robert J. “Mike” Cathcart is a construction litigation partner in the
Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, LLP.
He has more than 30 years of experience as a construction trial lawyer
in Federal and State courts in California and several other
jurisdictions. He has assisted numerous owners and general contractors
in virtually every kind of construction |
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troubled projects with multiple lien and stop notice claims, and in
lengthy multi-million dollar cases involving numerous documents. He
has handled more than a hundred mediations, arbitrations, and private
trials, as well as federal and state jury and non-jury trials. His BA
is from Stanford University and he received his JD from the University
of Washington School of Law. |
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Rhonda Reid is a senior paralegal with more than 16
years of general and business litigation in complex construction
cases, contract disputes, bankruptcy and creditors' rights matters,
receiverships and real estate disputes. She has extensive experience
with software for organizing, retrieving and displaying information,
documents, testimony, and other evidence. She is also familiar with
state-of-the-art |
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for multimedia storage and presentation of information during trial.
She is proficient at organizing and managing complex litigation
support “war” rooms for lengthy or off-site trials. Her paralegal
certificate as a litigation specialist is from California State
University, Los Angeles. She is a member of the Association of
Business Trial Lawyers, the Los Angeles Paralegal Association, and
NALA, which gave her the 2003 Affiliated Associations Outstanding
Contribution Award. |
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The Latest & Greatest
Technology
9:00 a.m. – Noon Friday
J. Craig Williams, Esq.
Williams Law Firm
Los Angeles, CA Many
in the legal profession are notoriously reluctant to change, especially
when it comes to technology. This presentation will reveal the benefits of
emerging software and hardware that lawyers and paralegals should embrace
rather than being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Mr.
Williams practices what he preaches by staying knowledgeable with various
advances in legal technology and applying that technology in his own firm.
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J. Craig Williams,
founder of the Williams Law Firm, PC, in Los Angeles, has become a leading
figure in the push for modernizing the legal office.
His practice
is in complex business litigation with emphasis on environmental, real estate,
land-use and computer matters. He also handles corporate and commercial lending
issues. He lectures at the |
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University of California at Irvine on Toxics Law, at
the UCI Extension Environmental Management Program, at Stanford Law School on
Environmental Insurance Coverage, and at Chapman University School of Law on
Legal Writing and Research. He has addressed the Orange County Bar Association,
Celtic Bar Association, Hispanic Bar Association, Professional Environmental
Marketing Association (PEMA), California South Coast Air Quality Management
District, and the Orange County Emergency Management Agency. He has also written
a number of articles for the professional literature. |
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