Learn the latest on Litigating Force Majeure & Alternative Doctrines with this convenient, 24/7 On-demand Seminar & Complimentary Podcast. Register to obtain CLE & MCLE credit, online access to complete course & reference materials, and attend this on-demand seminar. YOU MAY LISTEN FROM ALMOST ANY TYPE OF COMPUTER OR IPOD. ACCESS TO THE RECORDING AND MATERIALS DOES NOT EXPIRE.

Benefits:

Given recent challenges in the economy and trillions of dollars of losses from Covid-19, there is an immediate need for attorneys to litigate force majeure & alternative doctrines. Companies, clients, and governments need to assess their rights & remedies. Attorneys must be fluent in representing businesses, governments, and individuals, with cutting-edge legal issues involving losses, impracticability, impossibility, commercial & insurance litigation, force majeure, & alternative defenses. The course will focus on contract disputes, force majeure, and contract liability. Registration includes online access to course and reference materials that serve as a helpful guide to the numerous topics and techniques discussed in the program.

Agenda:

a. Cutting-edge Contract & Insurance Litigation

b. Evaluating Contract Liability

c. Representing Policy-holder Claims

d. Prosecuting Novel Causes of Action

e. Challenging Force Majeure

f. Winning on Alternative Defenses

g. Avoiding Critical Pitfalls

h. Arguing Insurance Clauses

Interactive Question & Answer Session

Biography of Seminar Faculty:

1. Jim Chester is a Partner at Klemchuk LLP, where he focuses on technology and business law for innovation-based entrepreneurs and dynamic companies. His experience spans more than twenty years of business formation, governance, business & technology transactions, intellectual property registration and enforcement, licensing agreements, ecommerce, international business transactions, import/export regulatory compliance and trade agreements. Mr. Chester is a national authority on buying and selling technology businesses, global technology transactions, and providing strategic legal counsel for innovators and industry disruptors. He has taught at numerous law schools on Entrepreneurial Law. He has also published a textbook on “Chester’s Guide to International Business Law” and number articles and chapters published in several industry books. In addition to practicing law, Mr. Chester is also an entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded multiple companies, including ENGAGE (a co-working space for attorneys), CASES, LLC (providing registered agent services), OWL Suites (online office space platform similar to Air BnB), and invented a popular spice blend. Mr. Chester holds a AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale Hubbell, has been included in SuperLawyers, among others.

2. David Marmins is a Partner at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, where he Co-chairs the firm's Retail Industry team. He concentrates his practice on complex civil litigation. While handling a variety of high stakes disputes, he has developed a specialty in litigation related to commercial real estate and the retail industry. This focus gives him a unique understanding of how to solve problems that arise among owners, developers, managers, landlords, tenants, builders, and contractors. Clients hire him to resolve construction and leasing contract disputes, environmental nuisance and toxic tort matters, construction payment and defect claims, easement and right-of-way disputes, and various other disagreements over land use and ownership. He has extensive experience handling banking and related lending matters. He has amassed a string of significant victories at trials, on appeals, and in arbitrations. Mr. Marmins has written extensively on Covid-19, ranging from risks of re-opening retail & business space, to how force majeure impacts contracts & leases. Mr. Marmins has been recognized as a SuperLawyer by his peers.

3. David Shargel is a Partner at Bracewell LLP, where he focuses his practice on business litigation. He is also a member of the firm’s COVID-19 Crisis and Recovery Task Force, advising clients on various issues related to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, including matters related to the government’s stimulus loan programs. In that role, he has advised lenders and borrowers on documenting and other aspects of the loan programs offered under the US Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Mr. Shargel has extensive experience representing clients in complex commercial disputes and arbitrations. Selected for inclusion in SuperLawyers, Mr. Shargel has built his practice representing clients in a wide range of business sectors and circumstances. His experience includes litigating contract disputes, shareholder disputes, business valuation, insurance coverage and fraud. He also handles real estate, construction and employment disputes as well as matters involving constitutional law such as under the Commerce and Due Process clauses. Additionally, as co-head of the firm’s ePractice Department, Mr. Shargel assists firm attorneys with eDiscovery best practices and guidance, as well as case-specific discovery strategy and management. He began his career as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

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