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The Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity MCLE provider approved by The State Bar of California.
 1 Hour of Participatory MCLE Credit
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
$25 Advanced Registration/$35 At the Door
Registration/Check-in: 11:30 am-Noon
Presentation: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Join us for a presentation on the basics of family law for non-traditional families in the post-Obergefell era. Topics include:
- Relationship recognition (how to accurately determine a client's relationship status)
- Jurisdiction
- Adoption and parentage
- Issues arising out of long-term relationships/short-term marriages
- Donor issues
- Recently enacted CA statutes affecting LGBT families
- Transgender family issues
- Cultural competence
To register online: go to http://tinyurl.com/gv7gexv . By phone: please call 510-272-6483. In person: ask for a registration form at the reference desk
About the speaker:
Emily Doskow has been practicing law in the Bay Area
since 1989. She was among the first wave of lawyers to represent lesbian
parents in second parent adoptions, and has completed (or helped
clients represent themselves in) well over 300 second parent and
domestic partner adoptions. She is a frequent speaker about LGBTQI
adoption and parenting issues, a former Board member of the National
Center for Lesbian Rights, and a member of NCLR's National Family Law
Advisory Council. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of
Advocates for Informed Choice.
Emily now focuses her practice exclusively on family law, including
mediation, collaborative practice, and services for the LGBTQI
community. Her commitment has always been to using the law for the dual
goals of furthering social justice and helping individuals protect their
rights to live free from discrimination, in their family structure of
choice.
 1 Hour of MCLE Participatory Credit
Thursday, August 11, 2016
$25 Advanced Registration/$35 At the Door
Check-in/Registration: 11:30 a.m.-noon
Presentation: Noon-1 p.m.
To register online: go to http://tinyurl.com/z63opbs . By phone: please call 510-272-6483. In person: ask for a registration form at the reference desk
Why do contracts crash, capsize, and sink? Debt
collection expert David Cook discusses the clauses which, if poorly
drafted, can make a contract blow up in a lawyer’s face. For example:
- Forum selection: Suing where the client is located leaves the client
high and dry if the debtor is dissipating assets; out-of-state
litigation might preclude an attachment.
- Out-of-state arbitration: Can make a prejudgment attachment
inaccessible, and may preclude the creditor from any provisional relief.
By the time the local judgment is entered, the debtor emptied
everything out.
- Choice of law: Whose law? The law of the original domicile may not
favor the client in seeking provisional, or any, relief. Different rules
of jury trial can waive rights, rates of interest, and compounding.
- Mediation: A de facto stay of litigation.
- Interest: Without it, the debtor can default with great impunity. Interest might accrue at 10%, or might not.
- Attorney's fees clauses: Hit or miss, depending upon whether the
collection lawsuit is a hit or miss. A motion to quash or motion to
dismiss, given the requirement to arbitrate, can put an attorney's fees
at risk.
- Notice: Bad notice is no notice, and notice to a lock box is a nonstarter.
- Acceleration: Acceleration is never presumed. Does the contract have
an acceleration clause or does the client have to wait to the bitter
end?
Forewarned is forearmed!
About the Speaker:
A
collections attorney for 39 years, David J. Cook is well-known for
representing Ronald Goldman’s father in recovering the multi-million
dollar civil judgment against O.J. Simpson. He is the author of The Debt Collector’s Handbook: Collecting Debts, Finding Assets, Enforcing Judgments, and Beating Your Creditor available through shop.americanbar.org.
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1 Hour of MCLE Participatory Credit
Thursday, August 18, 2016
$25 Advanced Registration/$35 At the Door
Check-in/Registration: 4:30 - 5:00 pm
Presentation: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
To register online: go to Eventbrite
http://tinyurl.com/jpf4axa
By phone: please call 510-272-6483. In person: ask for a registration form at the reference desk.
In
this presentation, Attorney Sara MacPherson of the International
Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA) will discuss the following:
-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred
Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) after the Supreme Court's U.S. v. Texas
opinion;
-Other immigration options, including family petitions,
asylum, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), VAWA and U Visas and T Visas
-Resources and ways to get involved
About the speaker:
Sara MacPherson is a staff attorney at the International
Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA), with a practice focusing on immigration
waivers. She has worked for the International Institute of Boston, and the
Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project. Recently, she was
the director of the Emmy-nominated documentary film Stable Life, which explores
the stories of immigrants working in the horse racing industry.
The International Institute of the Bay Area is a 98 year-old
non-profit with offices in Oakland, Fremont, Antioch, San Francisco, Redwood
City and Napa. IIBA provides high-quality, free and low-cost immigration legal
services to thousands of Bay Area residents every year in the areas of
family immigration, citizenship, DACA, VAWA, U visas and more. To learn more
and to get involved, visit www.iibayarea.org.
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Are you an attorney who:
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Is a member in good standing of the California
Bar Association?
· Is looking for a pro bono opportunity that
allows you to make a direct, meaningful
impact on individuals in your community?
·Has two hours per month to give?
If you answered “yes” to the above questions, the Lawyers in the Library program wants you!
The program places volunteer attorneys in over thirty
libraries and other public spaces throughout Alameda County. Volunteers
provide brief, no-cost consultation to members of the community to offer
guidance for their legal issues. Currently there is an acute need for
volunteers in Oakland and Berkeley, but if you are interested in volunteering
at any location, please contact Nicole.lemieux@acgov.org for more
information and an application.
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The Law Library is hosting a pilot program through the end
of December 2016 featuring access to 30 E-Books from law book publisher James
Publishing. The books are all accessible from the Law Library’s public
computers at no charge except a 20₵ a page charge for printing. Available commands are full screen, zoom in, search, table of contents, and print. Some books come with forms.
A complete list of books follows: Attacking & Defending Drunk Driving Tests, Litigating Sexual Harassment & Sex Discrimination Cases, Bankruptcy Courts & Procedures, California Objections, California Pretrial Practice & Forms, Relentless Criminal Cross-Examination,
California Drunk Driving Law, Introduction to Collaborative Divorce, Criminal Defense Tools and Techniques, California Judge Reviews (California Courts & Judges), California Lien Claims in Workers' Compensation Cases, California Legal Secretary, California Causes of Action,
California Workers' Compensation Law and Practice, Deposition Checklists & Strategies, Divorce Tools & Techniques, Exposing Deceptive Defense Doctors, Federal Criminal Practice, Guerrilla Discovery, Handling Federal Discovery, How Insurance Companies Settle Cases, Is It Admissible, Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases, The Limited Liability Company, Litigating Neck and Back Injuries, Model Interrogatories, Preparing for Trial in Federal Court,
Social Security Disability Practice, Social Security Issues Annotated (Bohr’s), Social Security Disability Advocate’s Handbook.
 Prints of the artworks from Miranda: More than Words by
Jason Oberbeck, are available for sale at $10.00 each. The prints are high quality, 18 x 12.5 inch reproductions. Please
ask for them at the reference desk in Oakland. Not all items are still in stock.
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Charlotte Wong & Deanna Yang
The exhibit runs from July 7 to August 25, 2016
Alameda County Law Library
125 12th Street, Oakland
MWF 8:30 am to 6:00 pm
T, TH 8:30 am to 9:00 pm
Charlotte Wong, Esq. Charlotte Wong began to study Chinese calligraphy from her father since she was five years old. Her father was a disciple chosen by the family of Master Tong-He Weng. Master Weng was the Chinese Emperor’s teacher during the Qing Dynasty. Charlotte’s father trained her in the traditional methods of writing calligraphy. She also studied Chinese art from various masters. After she graduated from the School of Law, Soochow University, Charlotte attended the prestigious Graduate Institute of Law, National Taiwan University. She studied in the Sociology graduate program at the University of Hawaii. Charlotte later attended the eminent Harvard Law School and received a higher law degree. After she finished her education in law, she resumed her study in sociology and earned a Ph.D. from the renowned Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). She became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, after her schooling. She was awarded a Fulbright professorship to teach at National Taiwan University and Soochow University. She was also a Researcher at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. After her return to the United States, she was a professor at California State University, San Jose and was awarded with the honor of a life-time emeritus professorship. While teaching, she also obtained licenses to practice law in both New York and California, as well as the U.S. Federal Court. For her entire life, though being busy with her specialties in law and sociology, she continued her interest in calligraphy and painting. She applies Western painting techniques to her Chinese artwork. She also combines the impressionistic style with realism in her paintings. Charlotte is a well accomplished artist and received many awards. Her works of art have been displayed in numerous art exhibits. She is a member of the Chinese Arts Association of San Francisco. She is currently also a board member of the American Chinese Art Association.
Deanna Yang Deanna Yang is an American born second generation Chinese who is very proud of her heritage. She has been learning Chinese calligraphy and painting since she was young. She had the opportunity of attending a Chinese high school in Taiwan for two years when her mother, Charlotte Wong, was teaching as a visiting professor in Taiwan. She speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. She attended the University of Pittsburgh and the State University of New York at Stony Brook for her B.A. degree. She then studied law at the University of Pittsburgh and Santa Clara University and earned a J.D. degree. She passed the California State Bar Examination after graduation. She interned with a Santa Clara Judge and worked at several law offices. Now she is concentrating her attention in the field of financial investing and trading. At the same time, she continued her interest in Chinese art and she has been studying art from her mother and various Chinese masters. She has participated in many art exhibits. Currently, she is a member of the American Chinese Art Association. She would like to create a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures.
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