Bergman Dacey Goldsmith is a California certified MCLE provider. Our firm is prepared to offer you and your employees the following CLE seminars at your request:

LITIGATION:

1. Successful Strategies for Defending Complex Litigation/ Class Actions
2. Advanced Techniques for Controlling Litigation Costs
3. Attorney Fee Litigation: Know the Keys to Winning
4. Trial by Fire: Contracts That Have Withstood the Fire of Trial
5. How to Effectively Identify, Prosecute, and/or Defend a False Claim
6. The Critical Importance of Understanding Computer Correspondence/ E-mailing
7. The Rules of the Road: Navigating Expert Witnesses
8. Weathering the Storm: Effective Recession Savvy Litigation Strategies

EMPLOYMENT:

1. Contingent Workers: Is Your Organization at Risk?
2. SLAPP Motions in Employment Litigation
3. Precluding a Claim for Disability Discrimination
4. Time is of the Essence: A Wage & Hour Litigation Discussion
5. A Guide to Understanding Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
(Fulfills California Gov. Code §12950.1 requirements.)
6. Preventing Workplace Claims: The Hot Zones Where Employers Get In Trouble
7. The Reasonable Accommodation Process
8. Engaging in the Interactive Process: What Employers Need to Know to Comply

CONSTRUCTION:

1. Damage Calculations in Construction Cases
2. Payment: The Lifeblood of a Construction Project
3. Legal Protections for School Districts in the Construction Process
4. Understanding Piggyback Contracts
5. Bonds, Guarantees, and Warranties
6. Pre-Construction Legal Procedures
7. Managing Your Construction Manager
8. Eliminate Litigation Through the “Partial Agreement Change Order”
9. Avoiding Traps, Pitfalls and Problems on Public Works Projects
10. Design Build: Don’t Design Yourself Into Litigation

ENVIRONMENTAL:

1. CERCLA and Superfund Issues
2. Understanding CEQA Law

INSURANCE COVERAGE:

1. Understanding Your Business Insurance Coverage Needs
2. Disaster Preparedness: Putting Your Insurance House in Order

LEGAL MCLE:

1. Elimination of Bias
2. ETHICS: Ethics and the Savvy Lawyer
3. ETHICS: What Public Agency Decision Makers Must Know About California’s Conflict of Interest and Self-Dealing Laws
4. Substance Abuse: Detection, Prevention and Treatment