From the Alameda County Law Library

Alameda County, California sent this bulletin at 11/08/2019 08:03 AM PST

Bernard E. Witkin Alameda County Law Library

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ACLL News & Events

November 8, 2019

ACLL will be closed for Veterans' Day - Monday, November 11th

We will be open Saturday, November 9th, 9:00 - 3:00

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Coming next week!

Cannabis Law: Present & Future

Thursday, November 14

Noon to 1:00

1 hour of participatory MCLE credit

$35 advance registration, $45 day of event

Speaker: Matt Kumin

  • Learn the new cannabis laws in California.
  • Find out where the clients are and how to get to them.
  • Hear about cutting edge litigation, in state and federal courts, related to cannabis and hemp. 
  • Get updates on federal legalization efforts.
  • Find out about new social equity programs emerging statewide and in certain cities.

About the Speaker: Matt Kumin began his career working primarily as a civil rights attorney representing plaintiffs in police misconduct and employment cases.  As cannabis issues and specifically, cannabis business operations emerged after 1996 in San Francisco, birthplace of the first community-based cannabis operations, Matt, also maintaining a small business practice, began to advise these "clubs."  In the intervening 23 years, Matt tackled as many legal issues as he could, protecting medical cannabis patients and the "industry", despite little or no precedent to guide his counseling and without the support of the organized Bar.  Finding some allies to help, he was the architect of the first US Tax Court case addressing federal taxation of medical cannabis (CHAMP v. Com'r of the IRS), successfully obtained injunctions against the City of Los Angeles and Sonoma County, and guided hundreds of businesses through the minefields of Prohibition-powered legal ambiguity.  Minesweeping operations also necessarily brought Matt deeper into political advocacy and to that end, Matt co-founded a PAC to educate policy and lawmakers and to organize Legalization initiatives.  Establishing the first multi-state law practice devoted to cannabis in 2009 (opening offices in Denver and Los Angeles), Matt has continued to work nationally and internationally to both serve the expanding industry and to end cannabis Prohibition. 

Online registration HERE

Download a flyer 2019_1114_Cannabis_Flyer.pdf

The Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity provider approved by the State Bar of California.
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Coming next week!

Beginning DissoMaster

Thursday, November 14

3:00 to 4:15

1.25 hours of participatory MCLE credit

$35 advance registration, $45 day of event

Speaker: Art Grater

DissoMaster Child and Spousal Support Calculation Software

  • Converts gross income to guideline net income
  • Calculates guideline child and spousal support
  • Displays alternate settlements meeting user-specified goals
  • DissoMaster Suite includes Executioner and Propertizer
  • Executioner calculates arrearages
  • Propertizer splits community property

DissoMaster is available at the public computers in the Alameda County Law Library.

To prepare for the beginning class, you might review the tutorials at http://dissocase.com/tutorials.html#

About the speaker: Art Grater co-created DissoMaster and consults on case-related matters.

Online registration HERE

Download a program flyer 2019_11_14_1Dissomaster_flyer.pdf

The Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity provider approved by the State Bar of California.
HERA november 2019

Estate Planning 101

Tuesday, November 19

Noon to 1:00

1 hour of participatory MCLE credit

$4 advance registration, $5 day of the event

Speaker: Kendra Bowen

HERA (Housing & Economic Rights Advocates) staff attorneys will explain key concerns and key documents that will help you address handling your belongings and your health the way you want to.

Those documents include:

  • Living trust
  • Will
  • Power of attorney
  • Advance health care directive
  • Transfer on death documents for certain kinds of accounts

About the speaker: Kendra Bowen is a staff attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) providing estate planning services.  With her Juris Doctor from UC Hastings School of Law, Ms. Bowen also brings general litigation and real estate experience. 

Online registration HERE

Download a program flyer 2019_11_19_HERAestateplanning_flyer.pdf

The Alameda County Law Library is a multiple activity provider approved by the State Bar of California.
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A search tip from Lexis

ACLL provides free Lexis Advance access to case and code files, as well as, California practice guides.

The Lexis Advance service gives you the ability to filter your case results using the Publication Status filter.

By using this filter, you can choose between Reported and Unreported.  Keep in mind, if your results are from California state courts only, your choices will be Published and Unpublished.

If your results list contains cases from multiple jurisdictions including California, you will see the Reported and Unreported options.

Questions? Call the ACLL Reference Desk at 510.208.4832.