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Federal doctrine across copyright, institutional free speech, and Title VII embeds human-scale predicates, Human Creativity, Observational Capacity, and Attributable Agency, that operate as invisible structural conditions the law never had to name. When AI displaces them, enacted doctrine loses coherence without a word of the statute changing. Jim Ko, Founder of the AI Rights Project, terms this silent recalibration and presents the Human Baseline framework as the interpretive discipline required to address it. The framework surfaces across three doctrinal areas: Copyright: Machine-scale ingestion of billions of works is treated as equivalent to human reading, without examining whether the Human Creativity predicate survives. Institutional free speech: Platforms claim First Amendment editorial discretion for algorithmic curation while simultaneously disclaiming accountability for the content that curation produces. Title VII: AI hiring systems displace Observational Capacity and Attributable Agency simultaneously, generating operative criteria no human specified and no human can validate. Attendees leave with an interpretive tool that identifies when predicate displacement has occurred, forces courts and clients to confront who has authority to recalibrate it, and insists on congressional or constitutional authorization before doctrine bends to the technology, a discipline applicable across any practice area where AI has entered the picture. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
The diagnosis on the chart changes, but the scheme rarely does. Alzheimer's, vascular dementia, alcohol-related decline, post-surgical confusion: each opens the same door for the same exploitation, and the trust litigator who recognizes the pattern can name it from the first phone call. Taught through real California cases, this program walks attorneys from intake through trial with Michael A. Hackard of Hackard Law and Matthew D. Davis of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger. Together they show how to build a parallel civil and probate architecture, why the civil filing puts a jury trial on the table, and how to cross-examine the drafting attorney as the percipient witness whose testimony often decides the case. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
In this session, attorneys will learn that influence is not a personality trait — it is a state. They will discover how to deliberately access the exact internal state required for the moment in front of them, whether in the courtroom, at home, or in their relationship with themselves. The state needed to cross-examine a hostile witness is not the state needed to be present with a child at the dinner table — and certainly not the state needed to make a sustainable choice about one's own health. Most attorneys carry the state of the courtroom into their living rooms, and the state of their depletion into their decisions about wellness. Learning to consciously choose state is the master skill of high performance and a primary lever for protecting relationships, ethics, and long-term wellbeing.
AI is transforming how litigators work, and this program shows you how to make it work for you. This program will provide practical applications for using AI in your litigation practice. Sam Davidoff, CEO of Align and former trial lawyer, presents specific examples and prompts, tried and new AI tools, and the latest techniques to help you optimize AI in your litigation practice. You'll come away with new ideas for AI use and a greater understanding of AI capabilities. Whether you are new to AI or already incorporating it into your workflow, this program offers practical takeaways you can use immediately. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
California's coastal zone is among the most heavily regulated land in the nation, and the rules governing it are in unusual flux. The California Supreme Court's unanimous April 2026 decision in Shear Development Co., LLC v. California Coastal Commission reined in the Coastal Commission's appellate jurisdiction over local coastal development permits, holding that courts apply independent judgment to questions of local coastal program interpretation and owe no deference to the agency when its reading and the county's are equally plausible. Douglas Carstens of Carstens, Black & Minteer uses that decision as a springboard into the larger landscape: how the Coastal Act and local coastal programs allocate authority, where the current wave of deregulatory pressure is coming from, and what it means when the federal government, through a Commerce Department review of California's coastal management program under the Coastal Zone Management Act, signals interest in loosening the state's hold over offshore energy, development, and infrastructure. The session steps back from any single case to examine coastal zone regulation as a whole and the practical consequences for practitioners advising developers, local governments, and environmental clients in a moment when the regulatory map is being redrawn. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
USPTO post-grant proceedings, including inter partes review, post-grant review, and covered business method challenges, have fundamentally altered how patent disputes are fought across both the PTAB and federal court. Petition timing, dual-track litigation, estoppel consequences, and Federal Circuit doctrine all demand careful coordination from the moment a case begins. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
Receivership and bankruptcy are often the two paths forward for a distressed business or property, and sometimes both apply at once. Byron Z. Moldo, Partner and Chair of Receivership, Bankruptcy, and Creditors' Rights Services at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP, and Kyra E. Andrassy, Partner at Raines Feldman Littrell LLP, join Hon. Victoria S. Kaufman of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California to compare the two remedies side by side: how receivers and trustees differ, what happens when a bankruptcy filing intersects with a pending receivership, and how lenders, borrowers, and creditors are affected differently in each process. The discussion is moderated by Shantal Malmed, Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP. Whether your practice touches bankruptcy, lending, or receiverships, this session will help you spot issues and advise clients navigating either path. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
The federal immigration enforcement landscape has shifted dramatically in 2025 and 2026, creating urgent and counseling challenges for attorneys representing noncitizen clients. In this program, Sergio Perez of Franco Law Group surveys the developments practitioners need to understand right now, from the IRS and ICE data sharing framework and its implications for ITIN filers, to civil penalty and asset seizure actions, recent Supreme Court rulings on TPS terminations and asylum access, and USCIS policy changes that have made the application process a higher-risk endeavor for many clients. Attendees will leave with concrete strategies for advising clients on application risk, financial exposure, and status options. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
The rules of success have changed. Three forces are redefining legal careers: AI, business complexity, and higher client expectations. Technical excellence has now become simply the price of admission, but today's most successful lawyers are valued for far more than legal expertise. Whether you practice in-house or at a law firm, your ability to build trust, communicate strategically, influence decisions, and demonstrate leadership increasingly determines your career opportunities. In this practical and engaging program, executive coach and former Fortune 500 legal executive Sheila Murphy explores the behaviors that distinguish lawyers who become trusted advisors from those who remain viewed primarily as technical experts. Participants will learn how to intentionally build their leadership reputation, increase their influence with clients and business leaders, communicate with greater strategic impact, and position themselves for long-term career success. Participants will leave with practical tools they can immediately apply to strengthen their professional reputation and accelerate their careers Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.
When a trust or estate holds real property, the question of whether to sell, retain, lease, or distribute comes up early. It is rarely the decision that matters most. Mark Cianciulli, Esq., CPA, Founder and Broker at The CREM Group, works through the earlier questions counsel should be raising: the scope of the fiduciary's authority, the duty to investigate a known condition, the status of an occupying beneficiary, and what assumptions a valuation actually rests on. Four case studies ground the analysis, including a beneficiary living in trust property without a lease and a valuation complicated by a configuration that does not match public records. Attendees will leave knowing which unresolved facts change the advice and how to document the reasoning behind a fiduciary decision. Audio versions of Beverly Hills Bar Association programs are eligible for Self-Study CLE credit in California. Visit www.bhba.org/podcasts for more information.