Illinois MCLE - All Courses
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Current Challenges and Opportunities in Office Leases
Office leasing presents challenges that are distinct from residential or commercial leases. This CLE course will explain everything you need to know including components of standard lease agreements, effective negotiation tactics, subletting, clauses related to tax escalations, build out terms, free rent, utility charges, insurance and notice provisions. The course will also delve into the current trends affecting the market and offer a short Q&A. More Info
$501.25General Credits -
How to Prepare a Matrimonial Case for Trial Step by Step
Preparation for a matrimonial trial begins with the first interview with the client. Every step which you take must be geared to preparing for trial. You begin with an initial intake form, the preparation of a complete and detailed Statement of Net Worth and move on to the detailed and thought out preparation of a Preliminary Conference Order. The Preliminary Conference Order should be prepared with great care and thought. Discovery needs should be thought through from the very beginning.... More Info
$1252.75General Credits -
Qualified Opportunity Zones: Second Round of Proposed Regulations Edition
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced the Qualified Opportunity Zone program designed to stimulate private investment in areas of economic distress. This CLE course will explain the initiative and how to take advantage of its various benefits such as exemption from profit taxation. The course will explain compliance issues as well as the unprecedented benefits with regards to taxes. More Info
$751.75General Credits -
Harassment in the Workplace: Awareness and Prevention
Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace is an objective for every employer. This CLE course identifies policies, practices and procedures for employers to avoid and respond to instances of inappropriate behavior. To address the threat of sexual harassment in the workplace, this course covers issuing strong written policies, notifying employees of clear procedures to follow for reporting inappropriate behavior, and best practices for managers and workers. More Info
$751.5General Credits -
Guardianships: How to Plan for the Unplanned
Sometimes unfortunate things happen without a warning. If we do not plan ahead and if we do not assist our clients to plan ahead, the consequences are dire. This CLE will help attorneys’ better assist clients in preparing for the unexpected, starting with a Health Care Proxy, a Will and ultimately Power of Attorney (POA). If these things are not in place, and the parents of a child die, or an adult becomes incapacitated, a Guardianship petition is necessary. This CLE will also assist in determ... More Info
$751.5General Credits -
Achieving Precision in the Written Word
Words and language are the principal tools of the legal profession, critical to making, interpreting and enforcing laws and to the protection of rights under those laws. Errors, ambiguities and other forms of imprecision threaten the ability of attorneys to fulfill their duties to clients, other attorneys, the courts and society. Moreover, Rule 1.4 of the Rules of Professional Conduct mandates that lawyers communicate with care, accuracy and full disclosure to clients, which necessarily... More Info
$751.5General Credits -
Immigration 101: Cancellation of Removal
There are numerous ways to attain legal Permanent Status in the United States (green card). This CLE discussion is geared towards highlighting one method, which for the most part is not practiced as much as expected. Cancellation of Removal (Immigration and Nationality Act I.N.A. Section 240A (b) (1) (D) allows undocumented aliens (and in other cases documented aliens) to get a green card through qualifying steps on their own applications time, behavior, criminal records, taxes, family ties, a... More Info
$751.5General Credits -
Zoning Basics and Title Issues Connected with Development Rights Transfers
The CLE program will focus on basic zoning concepts, followed by a detailed discussion of development rights transfers. The zoning topics to be presented will be: the difference between a tax lot and a zoning lot; types of zoning lots; identifying the permitted usage on a zoning lot as residential, commercial and/or community facility; and identifying the permitted floor area, height and setback restrictions associated with a zoning lot. This will be followed by a discussion of the developme... More Info
$751.75General Credits -
Representing a Franchisee Against his Franchisor: Obtaining Information for Litigation
The purpose of this lecture is to advise an attorney who is representing a franchisee in litigation against his franchisor. The most important initial aspect of the case is to gather the information that will be used to successfully prosecute the franchisee’s case. It is also very important to obtain the information that the franchisor will attempt to use against the franchisee for the inevitable counterclaim. This CLE lecture will address the steps the franchisee’s attorney should employ t... More Info
$501General Credit -
Tax Reform: Estate Planning In the New Environment
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made changes to the transfer tax regime that were few in number but great in importance. The foremost change was the increase of the lifetime coupled estate and gift tax exemption to approximately $11.4 million per person, opening up myriad tax planning possibilities for the high net worth and ultra-high net worth. Perhaps equally important was what the TCJA did not change: the annual gift and GST tax exemption regimes, the Section 1014 basis adjustment, and the por... More Info
$501General Credit