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Back to Legal Basics Package: 6 General, 4 Dual Hours
As part of the Year End Virtual CLE Blast 2020, TBA CLE has designed a package with valuable lessons in Legal Basics from a variety of practice areas of expert speakers. Refresh your knowledge or learn something new. From crucial updates in Family Law to Bankruptcy to Legal Technology...and everything in between...both seasoned and new attorneys can benefit from this dynamic content.
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Courses Included
- Family Law 2020: Child Support Guidelines
This presentation will include information regarding the revised Child Support Guidelines which will become effective on May 10, 2020. This will be the most extensive revision since January 18, 2005 when the Guidelines changed from the flat rate to income shares for determining child support. Participants will learn new terms such as self-support reserve and minimum order. You will learn of new changes such as the provision to allow for a credit to be given when the step parent has health insurance coverage for the child. You will also learn about the change wherein a person can no longer determined to be voluntarily unemployed due to their incarceration. It will include required federal changes and additional changes to improve the determination of child support for the children of Tennessee. A new income shares worksheet has been created which will need to be used in all cases beginning May 10, 2020.
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Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Elder Law Basics 2020: Ethics in Elder Law: Remote Representation and Other Challenges
This session will cover the ethical ramifications of some of the situations that have arisen during the pandemic, such as virtual interviewing, remote execution/notarization/witnessing, increased fiduciary representation, etc.; and the application of TN Rules of Professional Conduct and NAELA Aspirational Standards
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.50General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers - Health Law Primer 2020: Basics of Fraud & Abuse
The panel will provide an overview of fraud and abuse laws and how they apply to federal healthcare programs. The False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, and other key regulations will be discussed. The program will also outline healthcare fraud enforcement and the applicable agency authority.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Jeremy Dykes , United States Attorney's Office, Knoxville
- Daniel Swanson, Law Office of Daniel T. Swanson, Knoxville
Daniel T. Swanson is the owner of the Law Office of Daniel T. Swanson. His practice focuses on healthcare matters, including regulatory enforcement defense, False Claims Act defense,...
- Adoption Law 2020: Post-Adoption Contact Agreements 101
This course will take an inside look at drafting the post-adoption contract statute, lobbying efforts, and ultimate passage into law.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Michael Jennings, Samples Jennings Clem and Fields, Chattanooga
I handle estate planning and administration matters and all types of adoption matters, from private and agency placements, to international and relative placements. I am dual licensed in Tennessee and...
- Susan Kovac, Tennessee Department of Children's Services, Knoxville
- Lori Surmay, The Law Office of Lori M. Surmay, Atlanta
- Robert Tuke, , Nashville
Bob Tuke is a partner in the law firm of Trauger & Tuke in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned a B.A., with distinction from the University of Virginia in 1969 and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University in...
- Michael Jennings, Samples Jennings Clem and Fields, Chattanooga
- Transactional Practice 2020: Bankruptcy Basics
This session will introduce basic concepts under the US Bankruptcy Code and the difference between each chapter, and how filings and cases have been impacted by both COVID-19 and the CARES Act.
Course InformationFormat:Webcast - Archived VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Tennessee FastTrack Nashville 2020: Technology for General-Solos
This session will focus on legal tech essentials for general-solos in these unique times.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:1.00General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers - Creditors 2020: Legal Technology Update: Zoom, Slack, and Other Things You Never Realized You Need
This session will offer advice from three legal technology professionals on tips and trends in new apps, programs, and processes that lawyers can employ to make remote practice more manageable and effective.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:1.00General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers
- Zachary Glaser, Affinity Consulting Group, Bartlett
Zack Glaser has been practicing Creditors’ Rights since 2011 at The Glaser Firm, P.C. In addition to practicing law, he is also the Legal Tech Advisor for Lawyerist.com, and runs the legal...
- Lori Gonzalez, The RayNa Corporation, Murfreesboro
Lori Gonzalez is legal tech lover, process nerd and promotor of access to justice. She founded The RayNa Corporation – a medical record retrieval company that also focuses on helping lawyers...
- Zachary Glaser, Affinity Consulting Group, Bartlett
- Litigation Law 2020: Knowing Your Court - Key Differences Between Federal and State Appellate Practice
There are important differences between federal and state appellate practice, ranging from error preservation in the trial court to obtaining relief (or preserving a victory) in the court of appeals. This presentation will explore some of those key differences to help practitioners effectively navigate both federal and state appellate courts.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Tax Law 2020: Tennessee Sales Tax
Tennessee Sales Tax
Kristin Husat, State of Tennessee
Jennifer Wilson, State of TennesseeThe topic will discuss recent developments with the Tennessee sales tax, including the US Supreme Court’s decision in Wayfair v. South Dakota and the new sales tax provisions for marketplace facilitators. The talk will also cover how taxpayers can avoid successor liability for sales taxes when taking over a business.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Hot Topics in Real Estate 2020: Vacation Homes, Mobile Phones, And Student Loans: RPC 5.5 In a (Hopefully) Post-Pandemic World
This session will discuss developments in 2020 impacting lawyers who practice across state lines and explore in what ways the restrictions and authorizations laid out in RPC 5.5 regarding the practice of law in states where a lawyer is not licensed do, or do not, make sense when more and more lawyers and firms are performing remote work. This session will also offer a refresher on how our ethics rules embed a choice of law regime for disciplinary infractions through RPC 8.5.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:1.50General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers
- Member: 450.00
- Non-Member: 625.00 (Includes TBA Complete Membership)
TBA members who are judges, lawmakers and law students can take TBA CLE onsite courses at no charge for the programming. There may be a separate charge if meals, special materials or other premium features are involved.
General Credits: 6
Total Credits: 10 Highlights
- All CLE can be taken online in 2020
- Convenient CLE Package
- Approved Distance Learning CLE for 2020
- Ethics Available
- Convenient, reliable, quality content