Learn from experienced practitioners the vital steps you need to take to get your solo or small firm practice up and running.

Do your legal research on a budget and take advantage of a new improved MSBA Benefit.  This nuts & bolts session will provide tips and techniques to use the new Fastcase 7 platform for efficient effective legal research.

This program provides practitioners tools to represent clients in planning for periods of incapacity as well as for providing testamentary gifts.

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K. Alice Young joined Nusinov Smith, LLP in 2012 upon completing a clerkship with the Orphans’ Court for Baltimore City, Maryland’s busiest probate court.  In addition to her estate planning work, Ms. Young manages a wide range of estate administration matters including the probate of small and regular estates, coordination of appropriate estate-related tax filings, and managing a robust practice before the Orphans’ Courts throughout the State.  She volunteers with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service and the Free State Legal Project, working to ensure access to representation for underserved Marylanders.  Prior to lawyering, Ms. Young enjoyed a career in healthcare and brings to her law practice a long-standing commitment to client-centered service. Nusinov Smith LLP represents clients in all aspects of fiduciary law, including estates, guardianships, trusts, and fiduciary litigation.

Instructor(s): Lydia Lawless

Thinking of opening a law firm?  Then it’s time to also develop your disaster/succession plan for that law firm.  This session will provide you with information on key components for a successful disaster/succession plan as well as highlight the applicable rules of professional responsibility.

Ethics Credit is Available for this session.

Today, attorneys in suits and masks face the tricky balancing act of protecting the health of jurors who are compelled by the law to serve, while also providing the constitutionally mandated right to a speedy and public trial. How are trial attorneys accomplishing this? This program will feature a discussion with several prominent trial attorneys who recently completed criminal and civil jury trials in the era of COVID-19. These webcast panelists will address the challenges they encountered during their COVID-19 era trials, as well as:

• How have jurors changed in COVID-19 era?
• Should juror questionnaires consider queries about juror’s health?
• Masks, barriers, HEPA air filters – how do health and safety accommodations affect the trial? Do we need to see someone’s face to judge their credibility?
• Social distancing deliberations – What challenges does Zoom and other social distancing accommodations pose during the trial?
• What are the costs associated with a civil trial in the COVID era?
• What technology was critical for a fair and safe trial to proceed?

Instructor(s): Marc Kivitz

Instructor(s): Jane Santoni

Instructor(s): Jeff Trueman and Cecilia Paizs

Online mediation is no longer a remote concept or an unproven technological tool. With the help of experienced mediators, counsel and their clients are using online mediation everyday to resolve litigation and solve interpersonal problems. What have we learned so far? What comes next? Join the conversation!

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