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Upcoming Association Events
Within this section, we aim to keep you up to date on the latest events
in the paralegal community. Included within these events you will find
all kinds of meetings, seminars, gatherings, and much more.
If you would like to
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National
Western
Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada,
Oregon, Washington
Central
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Eastern
Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina,
Vermont,
Virginia, West Virginia
National
May 5 to May 8:
ALA’s 37th Annual Exposition
The Association of Legal Administrators will hold
its 37th Annual Educational Conference and Exposition at the
Washington State Convention and Trade Center in
Seattle. Steven B. Sample, president of the
University
of Southern California,
will present “Explore Leadership — The Art and the Adventure.”
Sessions will focus on a number of different competency areas,
including communications and general management, financial
management, human resources, the legal industry, office operations
and management, and an idea exchange. Some of the topics will cover
21st century legal trends, business insurance, globalization, law
libraries, technological solutions for file management, outsourcing,
small firm technology planning and effective electronic discovery
policies. For more information, visit
www.alanet.org/conf.
May 9 to May 10: NFPA Pro Bono Conference
The National Federation of Paralegal Associations
will hold its Annual Pro Bono Conference May 9 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
and May 10 from 8 a.m. to noon at Faegre & Benson in
Minneapolis. Topics and speakers will include
“Wills for Heroes Program” presented by Susan Link, a partner at
Maslon Edelman Borman and Brand; “Pro Bono Ethics” presented by
Julie Bennett, assistant director of the Office of Lawyers
Professional Responsibility; and “Paralegal in the Clinic Setting”
presented by Martha Delany, attorney and clinics director of
Volunteer Lawyers Network. Other topics will include how to build a
pro bono movement within your association, how to get your student
population involved in pro bono and pro bono versus community
service, plus discussions on the NFPA 24-hour pro bono commitment
and review of the Equal Justice Conference. The cost is free for
members and $75 for nonmembers, and includes all materials, snacks,
breakfast and beverages. For more information, contact Mary
McLaughlin at (925) 757-7020 or
[email protected].
May 27 to May 30: National Notary Forum
The National Notary Association will hold its 30th
Annual Conference and fourth International Forum on eNotarization,
eApostilles and Digital Evidence at the Hilton Riverside Hotel in New Orleans. The conference will feature four
certificate tracks, an eNotarization lab, three luncheons and a
growth and opportunity expo. There also will be a Notary Signing
Agent Section Network Mixer: “The Art and Science of Skilled
Networking” and four networking sessions for specialties, including
an eNotarization Section Networking Meeting: “Secure eNotarization
Today”; a Legal Professionals Section Networking Meeting: “Balancing
Obligations as Both Legal Professional and Notary”; an Immigration
Section Networking Meeting: “The Notary and the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Service”; and a Small Business Section Networking
Meeting: “Set Up Your Business with Help from the Small Business
Administration.” Additionally, there will be eight excursion
options, including a swamp tour, a Creole cooking demonstration, and
a plantation tour and luncheon at the plantation mansion. For more
information, call (800) 876-6827 or visit
www.nationalnotary.org/conf08.
Western
May 9: Full-Day CLE
The Alaska Association of Paralegals will present a
continuing legal education session focusing on discovery and ethics
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.
The cost is $85 for members, $50 for students and $95 for
nonmembers. For more information, visit
www.alaskaparalegals.org.
May 30:
Unfair Competition and Legal Document Assistants
The Alliance of Legal Document Assistant
Professionals will host “Rogue Document Preparers: Unfair
Competition and LDA Compliance” from noon to 1 p.m. at
Best Western Orange County Airport North in Santa
Ana, Calif. Orange County Deputy District
Attorney Tracy Hughes will discuss her experiences successfully
prosecuting civil and criminal cases against non-attorney,
noncompliant legal document preparers and what can be done to stem
the tide of unregistered document preparers who advertise to the
public. Hughes also will address questions regarding what legal
document assistants can do to protect their businesses against
unfair competition from illegal operators. The cost is $15. For more
information, contact Suzanne
Ervine at (619) 564-4869.
June 19: Paralegal Day Celebration
The San Francisco Paralegal Association will hold
its 36th annual celebration of California Paralegal Day from 11:30
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Bar Association of San Francisco in
San Francisco. Keynote speakers will include
Melvin E. Irvin, CP, president of the California Alliance of
Paralegal Associations and Theresa Prater, RP, Region I director of
the National Federation of Paralegal Associations. The day also will
feature a seminar, “Legal Malpractice and Business & Professions
Code §6450,” as well as exhibitors, awards and a drawing. MCLE
credit is pending. The cost is $75 for SFPA and CAPA members, $40
for students and $85 for nonmembers, and includes lunch. For more
information, contact Rhoda Singer at
[email protected].
June 21:
California
Education Event
The California Alliance of Paralegal Associations
will hold its 20th annual educational conference at the Hilton Hotel
in Santa Clara, Calif.
The event will focus on the theme, “Strength Through Alliance — Expand Your Horizons,” and will be
hosted by the Paralegal Association of Santa Clara County. Tom
Campbell, former
Congressman, United
States senate candidate and current dean of the University of California
at Berkeley’s
Haas School of Business, will be the keynote speaker. Other topics
will include “Legal Ethics,” “Terrorism, Money Laundering and
Ownership of Legal Ethics” and “Privacy in Employment.” For more
information, contact Melisa Frick at (510) 420-5032.
Central
May 5: Illinois Spring Conference
The Illinois Paralegal Association will host its
annual spring education conference from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the
Union League Club of Chicago in
Chicago. The conference will offer 20
seminars covering subjects such as corporate, litigation, estates
and trusts, commercial finance, technology, real estate, Paralegal
Advanced Competency Exam review and ethics. Each seminar is approved
for 1.25 hours of CLE credit by NFPA. Author Mary Hutchings Reed
also will speak on the topic, “Breaking the Glass Ceiling.” The cost
is $175 for members and $225 for nonmembers, and includes lunch. For
more information, contact Yvonne Olsson at (815) 462-4620 or visit
www.ipaonline.org
for a brochure.
May 8: Legal Research Luncheon
The Smoky Mountain Paralegal Association will hold
its monthly meeting at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, main conference
room, in Knoxville, Tenn. Judy M. Cornett, JD, will speak about
legal research. The cost is $10, which includes a lunch buffet and
one hour of CLE. For more information, contact Kati Wheatley at
(865) 546-7311 or
[email protected].
May 9:
Sioux City Seminar
The Iowa Association of Legal Assistants will hold
its annual spring seminar at the Sioux City
Convention Center in Sioux City, Iowa.
Some of the topics covered will be time allocation, municipality
law, estates, family law and issues for the nontraditional family,
trial notebooks, types of corporations, guardianship and
conservatorship, subrogation, mediation and arbitration, immigration
law, contracts, tribal law and criminal law. For more information,
contact Rhonda Henning at (712) 252-2424 or visit
www.ialanet.org.
May 14: Legal
Assistants’ Day Luncheon and CLE
The St. Louis Association of Legal Assistants will
host its 32nd annual Legal Assistants’ Day Luncheon at the Missouri
Athletic Club in St. Louis, Mo. The event
features two continuing legal education seminars “Individual
Property Rights vs. Growth and Development: Expanding Legal Battles
Over Zoning and Eminent Domain” and “The Cohesive Paralegal — How to
Make Yourself Valuable to Your Firm,” followed by a luncheon. CLE
registration begins at 8 a.m. The cost is $30 for the CLE seminars
including a continental breakfast, $35 for the luncheon, and both
seminars and the luncheon for $60. RSVP no later than April 25. For
more information, contact Pat Mangum at (314) 588-7000, ext. 139, or
e-mail [email protected].
June 19: Ethics and UPL
The Madison Area Paralegal Association will hold a
lunch-and-learn meeting at 11:30 a.m. at the Hilton Madison Monona
Terrace in Madison, Wis.
The topic will be attorney/paralegal ethics and the unauthorized
practice of law. The cost is $15 for members, $10 for students and
$18 for nonmembers, and includes lunch and materials. For more
information, visit
www.madisonparalegal.org.
Eastern
May 20: Paralegal/Attorney Dinner
The Western New York Paralegal Association will host
its annual Paralegal/Attorney Dinner from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at
Marinaccio’s Restaurant in Williamsburg, N.Y. Nancy Langer, Esq.,
will speak on “The Paralegal Role and Regulation.” The cost is $35
for members and includes dinner and dessert. Attendees must RSVP no
later than May 8. For more information, contact Jeanie Gustafson at
(716) 548-1587.
May 30 to May 31:
Tallahassee CLE
The Paralegal Association of Florida, Inc., will
host its annual spring seminar titled “Your Legal Rights: From
Cradle to Grave” at the Ramada Conference
Center in Tallahassee, Fla. Topics will include “Ethics
and the Paralegal,” “Employee Rights — ‘Cubicle Warfare,’” “Cadaver
Rights — ‘CSI Tallahassee,’” “Juvenile Criminal Rights & Juvenile
Victim Rights,” “Property Owner Rights,” “Spousal Rights & Domestic
Violence,” “Immigration Rights” and “Animal Rights.” The cost is
$110 for members and $130 for nonmembers, and includes eight hours
of National Association of Legal Assistants-approved CLE credit plus
one more hour of NALA-approved CLE for attending the Certified
Paralegal breakfast. For more information, call (561) 833-1408 or
visit www.pafinc.org.
June 6: Connecticut Paralegal Day
Celebration
The Connecticut Alliance of Paralegal Associations
will celebrate Connecticut’s
Paralegal Day at Antony’s Ocean View in New Haven, Conn.
The event will comprise a half day of seminars including “Paralegal
Ethics: What Would You Do If …” and “Profiling Jurors in Prominent
Connecticut Cases,” with opening remarks delivered by Connecticut
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. Keynote speaker Laurie Roselle
will speak on the topic “Leveraging Your Experience.” The cost is
$60 for members, $50 for student members and $75 for nonmembers. For
more information, contact Gaile Colaresi at (203) 330-3560.
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