ONLD CLE Brown Bag Series

2010 Seminar Series

Each seminar is only $10.00

To register:

Phone: (503) 431-6413, or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-8260, x413
Mail with check: Oregon State Bar, CLE Registration, P.O. Box 231935, Tigard, OR 97281

At-the-door registration will be available at all seminars

Multnomah County

Product Liability Defense

Thursday, March 18, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Anne Talcott

Anne Talcott focuses her practice on complex business and product liability litigation. She defends a broad range of clients in business disputes, class actions, mass torts, and automotive, pharmaceutical and medical device product liability litigation. Ms. Talcott has been the lead trial lawyer in product liability and business tort cases and regularly defends wrongful death, catastrophic injury and punitive damage claims.



HIPAA and other issues in Healthcare Law

Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Amy Vandenbroucke

Amy Vandenbroucke is Associate Legal Counsel for Oregon Health & Science University. As in-house counsel she routinely handles HIPAA issues, as well as other issues in healthcare law, such as regulatory compliance. Amy has worked for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights, the American Osteopathic Association, and served as the Interim Manager of the Social and Behavioral Science Institutional Review Board at the University of Chicago.



Substance Abuse issues facing new lawyers

Thursday, April 29, 2010 – Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: JW Hall



Employment Law for the new practitioner

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Christina Thacker

Christina Thacker focuses her practice on employment litigation, defending employers against claims alleging gender, race, national origin, disability, and workers' compensation discrimination, wrongful discharge, retaliation, sexual harassment, interference with family and medical leave laws, wage and hour violations, as well as claims alleging breach of employment agreements, including non-competition agreements. She also regularly advises employers on various employment law issues, including the above topics and family and medical leave issues under state and federal laws.



Child Abuse Reporting

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Helen Hierschbiel


As provided in ORS 9.114, Oregon lawyers are required to complete on hour of training every three years on their duties as mandatory child abuse reporters. Satisfy your MCLE requirement with Helen Hierschbiel’s interactive session. Using hypotheticals, learn what your duty to report is, when it applies and what exceptions exist to your reporting duty. Also learn what “abuse” is, how to report it and the consequences of failing to report.

1 child abuse reporting MCLE credit approved


Fundamental and current events in Intellectual Property Law

Thursday, July 15, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Susan Pitchford

Susan Pitchford focuses her practice on a range of Intellectual Property Law areas, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade regulation, and unfair competition. Ms. Pitchford is a frequent lecturer, contrasting pretrial and trial practices and procedures in Washington vs. Oregon state courts.



IP issues for Business Lawyers

Thursday, August 19, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Elizabeth Milesnick

Elizabeth Tedesco Milesnick is an associate attorney who focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly patent litigation. She is experienced in trademark practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), in various aspects of patent and trademark licensing, and in matters relating to trade-secret misappropriation and unfair competition. She is also experienced in general business litigation.



How to Pick an Effective Jury

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Lisa Ludwig

Lisa Ludwig is a Northwest native and graduate of the University of Oregon. She began her law career at Multnomah Defenders, Inc. in Portland, and spent two years handling misdemeanors there before moving to another indigent defense office, Rieke & Savage, where Ms. Ludwig represented indigent clients on all types of felony cases. After two years at Rieke, Ms. Ludwig went into private practice.



Enforcing Victim’s Rights in the Criminal Justice System

Thursday, October 21, 2010 – Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Ali Wilkinson

Ali Wilkinson is an attorney at NCVLI and clinical faculty at Lewis & Clark Law School, where she co-teaches a clinic on victim’s rights. She supervises the administration of NCVLI’s grant with the Office of Violence against Women, including by collaborating with other organizations, planning training sessions, and fielding legal technical assistance requests. Ms. Wilkinson has worked on a broad range of technical assistance requests at NCVLI, including drafting amicus briefs, and performing research and drafting memos on issues relating to sexual assault, domestic violence, and privacy, among other topics.



Diversity Awareness

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Frank Garcia

Frank Garcia is currently the Diversity Administrator for the Oregon State Bar. Mr. Garcia’s professional experience has been based in organizational change management related to Operations & Policy, Research & Development, Human Resources, Diversity, Multi-Cultural Communications and Public Relations, in both the private and public sector.

Ethics for New Lawyers

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - Noon
1 MCLE credit applied for
Multnomah County Courthouse, room 208
Presented by: Sylvia Stevens

Sylvia Stevens is General Counsel at the Oregon State Bar. Her work includes responding to ethics questions raised by members of the bar and the public. Ms. Stevens will focus her presentation on ethics issues newer lawyers face.