SEPTEMBER 5-6, 2025
TIMBERCREEK BALLROOM, SUN CITY ROSEVILLE
The PCBA's Annual 2-day MCLE Conference is returning to Timbercreek Ballroom, Roseville for this year's MCLE Conference.
As with previous years, you will have the option of receiving material in the form of a book, or you can download an electronic version approximately a week prior to the conference. Please choose either to receive a pdf or the booklet. Due to the increased costs of printing, hardbound book cost will be $35.00. When registering, please be sure to select your breakout session choices. Your decision helps us to ensure the appropriate size room and comfort for the number of attending each session.
Also when registering, you will have the option of any dietary needs, such as gluten-free, dairy-free and vegetarian. A breakfast buffet of fruit, eggs, bacon, potatoes and breakfast breads will be available on both Friday and Saturday so be sure to get there early, register and enjoy some breakfast and networking with colleagues before a day of education. Lunch will be provided on both days, so be sure to check the box if you plan to attend lunch. Instead of eating and listening to a presentation at lunch, Friday lunch will provide time to eat and network with your colleagues.
A formal schedule with more details to be provided. Plenary classes include trial advocacy, appeals, Generative A.I. (Ethics), Competency (The Other Bar), new Ethics rules, Implicit Bias and technology. There will be breakout sessions for civil law, criminal law, family law and estate planning and probate law. Some of our speakers include David Tellman, Marshall Cole, Miles Cooper, Judge Hirashima, Comm. Dehr, Seth Kaplan, Kristy Hartly-Connel, Sean McKissick, Prof. Senyonga, Bob Jacobs, Judge Goodman, Judge Couzens, Lori Hartin, Ali Goff and Terrapin Technology.
Click HERE for a pdf of the flyer.
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 5 |
| 7:30am - 8:45am: |
Registration and Buffet Breakfast |
| 8:45am - 9:00am: |
Opening Welcome |
| 9:00am - 10:30am: |
How to Avoid Sinking Your Civil Appeal Before It Sets Sail - Brendan Begley, Esq. |
| 10:30am - 10:45am: |
Break with refreshments |
| 10:45am - 11:45am: |
The Other Bar - David Mann |
| 11:45am - 12:30pm |
Hosted Lunch: Social Networking Time with Colleagues |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm: |
Generative A.I. in the Legal Field - Marshall Cole, Esq.; Miles Cooper, Esq |
| 1:30pm - 1:45pm |
Break |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm |
Breakout Session 1: Discovery Motions: Perspective from the Bench - Hon. Trisha Hirashima; Hon. Christine Dehr |
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Breakout Session 2: Divorce-Related Financial Apportionment and Tracings -Seth Kaplan |
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Breakout Session 3: DNA 101 and Testimony Review - - Kristy Harty-Connell |
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Breakout Session 4: What Do We Owe Our Clients? Ethical Responsibilities for Trust and Estate Lawyers - Sean McKissick; Danielle Nafekh |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm: |
Break with refreshments |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm: |
Trial Advocacy - David Tellman |
| 4:45pm - 6:00pm |
PCBA Reception - Happy Hour |
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 6 |
| 7:30am - 8:45am: |
Registration and Buffet Breakfast |
| 9:00am - 10:00am: |
Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct -Karen Goodman |
| 10:00am-10:15am: |
Break with refreshments |
| 10:15am - 11:15am: |
Breakout Session 1: Mediation: Why the Other Side Won’t Settle (and What You Can Do About it) - Bob Jacobs. |
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Breakout Session 2: Estate Planning Considerations in Family Law -Garin Clyma |
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Breakout Session 3: Changes in the Law of Competency and Sanity -Hon. Richard Couzens, Ret. |
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Breakout Session 4:Trust Drafting and Fiduciary Trustees-Tips & Tricks -Lori Hartin |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Hosted Lunch |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Implicit Bias - Dr. Mary Senyonga |
| 1:00pm - 1:15pm: |
Break |
| 1:15pm - 2:15pm: |
Breakout Session 1: Motions in Limine Strategies with Perspective from the Bench - Hon. Geoffrey Goodman |
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Breakout Session 2: Criminal Law Meets Family Law: When Cases Involving Domestic Violence Overlaps - Ben Jacobs, Esq.; Frank Noey, Esq.; Christy Carlisle; Michelle Albright, Esq. |
| 2:15pm - 2:30pm |
Breakout Session 3: A.I. and Estate Planning - Ali Goff, Esq. |
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Break with refreshment |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Client Data Management & Systems and Avoiding Situations that Leave a Firm Vulnerable - Terrapin Technologies |
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MCLE credit hours are a total of 11 hours. Of those hours, we are offering 1.0 hours credit in competency, 1.0 hours credit in technology, 1.0 hours in implicit bias and 2.0 hours credit in ethics. All of the estate planning sessions will qualify for specialty credit.
Back by Popular Demand - Be sure to check the box when you register if you plan to stick around after Friday's program to attend the Conference Reception from 4:45pm-6:00pm.
Sponsorship Opportunities for attorneys and law firms. You can sponsor one of the events, co-sponsor an event or donate to the Tim Coffin Scholarship Fund. For more information, please go to Sponsorship Opportunities and make your purchase.
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