2025 California CLE Blitz virtual program

Join Norton Rose Fulbright for our March CLE Blitz, featuring free online courses covering ethics, elimination of bias and a variety of other topics.

Day 1 | Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Contractual indemnities – Holding me harmless with his words, holding me harmless | 9:00 – 10:00 am PT

This program will examine contractual indemnification provisions by exploring general principles of indemnity, statutory and judicial limitations on enforcement, examples of valid and invalid indemnities and drafting considerations.

Speaker

Victor Hsu, Partner

Did I just hear that? Practical considerations and impediments from bias in the courtroom during arbitrations or in mediations | 10:15 – 11:15 am PT

This program will outline practical approaches to identifying, anticipating and counteracting unconscious and conscious biases when managing risk based on real life experiences and examples. We will review bias from a practical perspective, beyond the more recognizable protected classes to the kinds of biases that influence decision-making by a trier of fact, arbitrator or mediator.

Speakers

Debbie Birndorf-Zeiler, Partner
Jayesh Patel, Partner
Rebecca Winthrop, Partner

Day 2 | Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Current developments in legal ethics | 12:45 – 1:45 pm PT

This program will examine recent developments relating to legal ethics issues, including privilege issues affecting in-house counsel, advance conflict waivers, ethical issues regarding electronic data and discovery, the duty to report attorney misconduct, remote work and the unauthorized practice of law and responsibilities regarding familiarity with and use of generative AI.

Speakers

Josh Lichtman, Partner
David Plick, Associate

2025 new employment law update | 2:00 – 3:00 pm PT

This program will provide an update on new laws effective January. We will unpack how the laws may impact existing employment policies and how best to prepare for the new year.

Speakers

Debbie Birndorf-Zeiler, Partner
Natalie Lagunas, Senior Counsel 

You’ve been hacked – Now what? | 3:15 – 4:15 pm PT

Cyber-attack headlines have continued to dominate the news cycle in the last 24 months. Regulators are taking a hard look at cybersecurity incidents and seizing the opportunity to do a full-scale review of a company’s cybersecurity and privacy practices. As a result, organizations need to be prepared to respond to incidents and address follow-up inquiries. 

Speakers

Ji Won Kim, Senior Associate

Continuing education information

For those attending the live webinars, these programs are eligible for up to five CLE credits including one ethics credit, one recognition and elimination of bias credit and three general credits in California.