• The need for new corporate forms
• Comparison of California's new corporations
• Ensuring accountability
• Market impacts.

"As of January 2012, there are two new corporate entities available to California businesses: Flexible Purpose Corporations and Benefit Corporations. These new corporate entities offer companies the opportunity to provide for sustainability and social goals in their corporate objectives, representing an exciting shift in corporate law that promises to have a major impact on how businesses operate now and in the future! This program is designed to introduce you to California's new corporate structures, explain how you can incorporate them into your business or practice, and understand how to choose between them "-- From publisher's web site.

• Review of applicable CCP and FRCP Statutes, along with relevant case law, including Maldonado
• The overall planning strategy for a PMQ deposition
• How to properly prepare and respond to the notice, including strategies and tactics for framing the topics, understanding when protective orders are appropriate, and determining the organization's obligation to begin an internal document inquiry
• Filing a motion to compel answers
• Use of the testimony for law and motion
• Using the testimony at trial.

"There is nothing elementary about taking or defending a person most qualified deposition. Don't be caught off-guard! This program will teach you everything you need to know about PMQ depositions, including practice tips and advice, allowing you to put the skills to immediate use." -- From CEB web site.

Establishing and properly maintaining a client trust account is serious business and an indispensible component of your law practice. The fiduciary duties of a client trust account are non-delegable, meaning that you are responsible no matter what. In this program, legal ethics expert Carole Buckner, takes the fear out of establishing and properly administering a client trust account by providing practice pointers and tips that you can put to immediate use. -- From the publisher.

In this program, David Mann of The Other Bar discusses the disease and brain chemistry of addiction, as well as the personality traits of attorneys and characteristics of the legal profession that put them at such high risk. Also discussed is the harm to clients caused by substance abuse, and the unique challenges of getting attorneys to accept treatment.

Working within the limits of the California Rules of Professional Conduct, estate planning attorney John Ambrecht and family communication specialist, Dr. C. Edward Crowther, discuss how to effectively incorporate the "family issues" into the planning process and also during administration to help minimize the almost predictable family conflicts that may arise during the succession process in one degree or another.-- From publisher.

Discussion regarding how the California three strikes law can lead to life sentences for people with minor offenses, how students in the project have helped a dozen such clients get released from prison after having their sentences reduced, and the need to reform three strikes so that it focuses on serious and violent offenders. -- From original podcast webpage.

"He discusses how to recognize this conflict of interest; how to deal with it and how to establish a basis for disqualification. Considerations of the attorney-client privilege, components of the moving papers, evidentiary requirements, and what to expect during your meet and confer, discovery and oral argument will also be discussed."-- From publisher's web site.

"In a special collaboration with PAX Programs Inc., (Your Source for Understanding Men and Women), this CEB program features PAX Workshop Leader Susan Jensen, discussing the most chronic and counterproductive habits of communication between men and women that unfortunately lead to bias and judgment." -- from publisher's web site.

Justice Harmon Scoville is interviewed by Glenn Salter. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1950 and was appointed to the Fourth Appellate District, Division Three in Santa Ana.

Forum discusses Proposition 75, the public employee union dues restrictions on political contributions initiative.

This program is primarily an audio program, given by James Wagstaffe at the 23rd annual Real Property Retreat, Apr. 23, 2004. Slides from the presentation are also included.