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As remote practice becomes the new normal, attorneys become susceptible to ethical conundrums they never previously considered —and that’s where trouble can sneak in. This CLE unpacks the ethical minefields of working without borders - from inadvertent unauthorized practice of law to confidentiality slip-ups, misleading multi-jurisdictional presence, supervisory challenges, and more. Join us for a practical, engaging look at how to stay ethically uncompromised, stay secure, and keep your digital footprint from stepping over jurisdictional and ethical lines. 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.

An appellate brief is the primary tool through which advocates educate and persuade the court. Understanding how judges, research attorneys, and other decisionmakers read briefs, evaluate credibility, and identify dispositive issues can dramatically improve the effectiveness of written advocacy. Drawing on their combined experience evaluating appeals from both sides of the bench, M.C. Sungaila and Melanie Gold of Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP provide practical insights into what makes an appellate brief persuasive and what common mistakes can undermine even strong legal arguments. 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 Senate Bill 306 reshapes the prior authorization landscape by codifying Health and Safety Code Section 1367.025 and granting the Department of Health Care Services broad authority to determine when insurers may require prior authorization for covered health care services. Beginning in 2026, DHCS must collect data on insurer approval and denial rates, and no later than January 1, 2028, direct insurers to remove prior authorization requirements on services approved at a rate of 90% or greater, subject to carve-outs for experimental, investigational, and out-of-network services. This program also situates the reform within the broader national debate over prior authorization and explores how the shift in regulatory power may reshape health insurance litigation. Attendees will leave equipped to advise clients on compliance obligations, exemption determinations, and emerging litigation risks under Section 1367.025. 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.

Quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity are reshaping the legal and regulatory landscape faster than most practitioners can track, and this session offers a grounded briefing on where each is heading. The program opens with a look at quantum technology and the approaching reality of cryptographically relevant quantum computers, led by Sanjeev Bhasker and Corey Bieber, partners and leaders in K&L Gates’ Quantum industry group. The discussion then turns to the latest developments in artificial intelligence and what they mean for the practice of law and for clients in high-technology and regulated sectors. Sanjeev Bhasker, a former White House cyber attorney who served as Acting General Counsel of the Office of the National Cyber Director across both the Biden and Trump administrations, joins his K&L Gates colleague Coey Bieber, a data protection and emerging technologies practitioner, to close the discussion with the cybersecurity, sanctions, and CFIUS considerations that increasingly shape cross-border transactions and national security review. Attendees will leave with a clearer picture of how these emerging and converging technologies are influencing law, policy, and risk, and what to watch as the government’s posture continues to evolve. 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.

This program covers what attorneys need to know about the Affordable Care Act's health insurance coverage reporting requirements, including which clients must file Forms 1094 and 1095 and how the IRS is enforcing those requirements. Joseph A. Broyles, Esq., CPA, of the Law Offices of Joseph A. Broyles, Inc., will also discuss the penalties for failure to file or furnish required forms and the penalty relief options available to taxpayers. 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.

Wage and hour claims, termination disputes, and accommodation requests generate more employer liability than almost any other area of California law, and with penalties stacking quickly under the Labor Code, the cost of a misstep keeps climbing. Counsel who advise employers need command of both the preventive measures that reduce exposure and the defenses available once a claim is filed. Anthony Zaller of Zaller Law Group breaks down the wage and hour fundamentals that drive the most litigation, including meal and rest break compliance, overtime classification, and recordkeeping obligations. He then turns to building defensible terminations through documentation, performance management, and proper final pay practices, as well as the reasonable accommodation standards and interactive process requirements that frequently surface in disability claims. Throughout, the program emphasizes the policies, training, and consistent enforcement that give employers their strongest position in a dispute. Outside counsel and in-house counsel alike will leave better equipped to guide employers on compliance and to defend wage and hour, wrongful termination, and accommodation claims. 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 presentation will analyze and discuss recent case law and its effects on property taxes and local city taxes. 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.

Credits: 1.00 Hours. Credit Type: General. Specialty Area: None. Original Air Date: 08/31/2026. Program Materials: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sfADJ6q11_v5hbjeyTbR3LtBAS2u4nkO/view?usp=sharing 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.

Join powerhouse music attorneys Pamela Klein, Rossi Baldivia Klein Fine & Spector, P.C., Carron Mitchell, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Tom Dean, LaPolt Law, P.C. as we discuss the recent legal developments in touring, deal making, and the impact of AI in the music industry. Moderated by John Baldivia, Rossi Baldivia Klein Fine & Spector, P.C. 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.

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.