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5/7/25 - CLE: Protecting the Privilege: A Primer on Avoiding Privilege Waivers After Selective Disclosure

Federal Bar Council presents Protecting the Privilege: A Primer on Avoiding Privilege Waivers After Selective Disclosure Wednesday, May 7, 2025 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Live Webinar CLE Credit Info: 0.5 transitional / non-transitional credit in Ethics and Professionalism and .05 transitional/ non-transitional credit in Areas of Professional Practice. Program Description & General Topics: The panel will cover issues related to protecting attorney-client privilege after selective disclosure, including the common interest privilege and joint defense privilege. The panel will review the basics of the applicable law in the Second Circuit, discuss why early awareness of these issues is important, and identify some practical strategies to protect the privilege and avoid unintended privilege waiver in these circumstances. Moderator The Honorable Ona T. Wang Southern District of New York Panelists Katherine Burghardt Kramer, Esq. DTO Law Vivek Tata, Esq. Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC Coordinator Gege Weinberg, Esq. Southern District of New York Federal Bar Council Program Committee Co-Chairs Celeste Koeleveld, Esq. Clifford Chance US LLP Julian S. Brod, Esq. Shapiro Arato Bach LLP In order to register, you must sign in to your Federal Bar Council account. If you do not have an account, you can create one using this link. This program is free for Federal Bar Council Members and $75.00 for Non-Members. For more information about the benefits of membership in the Federal Bar Council, click here. Financial Hardship Policy The Federal Bar Council is pleased to offer a 50% discount on the cost of its CLE Programs to attorneys who are unemployed, who are employed in the public sector or who work for a not-for-profit entity and are able to establish financial hardship. The original application for this discount must be submitted to the Federal Bar Council at least two weeks prior to the CLE Program for which it applies. Please contact the Council for an application form. If you have any questions, please contact CLE@federalbarcouncil.com.

5/14/25 - CLE: Ponzi Scheme! The Unwinding

Federal Bar Council presents Ponzi Scheme! The Unwinding Wednesday, May 14, 2025 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Join us for a reception at 5:30 pm Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse Room 6A 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY CLE Credit info: 1.0 Transitional/ Non -Transitional CLE credit in Areas of Professional Practice What happens when a Ponzi scheme collapses? This panel will address the various enforcement mechanisms available in federal courts after Ponzi schemes are exposed, bringing a range of criminal, civil regulatory, bankruptcy, and receivership perspectives. Topics will include criminal prosecution of individuals, civil enforcement and injunctive relief against individuals and organizations, insolvency-based resolution of the underlying company, and civil litigation against third parties. The panel will explore how these enforcement mechanisms may work together or in tension with each other, and how different courts have tried to solve the problems thrown up by one of the most famous of crimes. Moderator The Honorable John P. Cronan SDNY Panelists Hon. Cecelia G. Morris (ret.) United States Bankruptcy Judge, SDNY James M. McDonald, Esq. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (former CFTC director of enforcement) David Castleman, Esq. Otterbourg P.C. (Court-appointed receiver) Coordinator David Castleman, Esq. Otterbourg P.C. Federal Bar Council Program Committee Co-Chairs Celeste Koeleveld, Esq. Clifford Chance US LLP Julian S. Brod, Esq. Shapiro Arato Bach LLP In order to register, you must sign in to your Federal Bar Council account. If you do not have an account, you can create one using this link. This program is free for Federal Bar Council Members and $112.50 for Non-Members. For more information about the benefits of membership in the Federal Bar Council, click here. Financial Hardship Policy The Federal Bar Council is pleased to offer a 50% discount on the cost of its CLE Programs to attorneys who are unemployed, who are employed in the public sector or who work for a not-for-profit entity and are able to establish financial hardship. The original application for this discount must be submitted to the Federal Bar Council at least two weeks prior to the CLE Program for which it applies. Please contact the Council for an application form. If you have any questions, please contact CLE@federalbarcouncil.com.

5/29/25 - CLE: Environmental Justice 101: Past, Present, and Future?

Federal Bar Council presents Environmental Justice 101: Past, Present, and Future? May 29, 2025 6:15pm – 7:30pm Reception from 5:30pm – 6:15pm Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY Credit: TBD Explore the history of the environmental justice movement, from the 1980s to the present, with experts in the field from both the legal and advocacy side. Learn about federal, New York State, and New York City initiatives that have helped to shine a light on past decision making and negative consequences of where sources of pollution have been traditionally located and the communities in which they are located - most often in low income communities and communities of color. Learn about the present circumstances of this movement at all levels of government, with a particular focus on solutions with examples that New York State and New York City have set, as well as the speakers' visions of the future and how to build more ethical, transparent, and participatory process into governmental action. Moderator The Honorable Barbara S. Jones (ret.) Bracewell LLP former judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Panelists Peggy Shepard, Esq. Co-founder and Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice Lisa Garcia, Esq. Former Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Alanah Keddell-Tuckey, Esq. Director, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Office of Environmental Justice Raya Salter, Esq. Founder and Executive Director of the Energy Justice Law & Policy Center Diversity Committee Co-Chairs Karine Louis, Esq. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Melanie Speight, Esq. Proskauer Rose LLP Federal Bar Council Program Committee Co-Chairs Celeste Koeleveld, Esq. Clifford Chance US LLP Julian S. Brod, Esq. Shapiro Arato Bach LLP In order to register, you must sign in to your Federal Bar Council account. If you do not have an account, you can create one using this link. This program is free for Federal Bar Council Members and $75.00 for Non-Members. For more information about the benefits of membership in the Federal Bar Council, click here. Financial Hardship Policy The Federal Bar Council is pleased to offer a 50% discount on the cost of its CLE Programs to attorneys who are unemployed, who are employed in the public sector or who work for a not-for-profit entity and are able to establish financial hardship. The original application for this discount must be submitted to the Federal Bar Council at least two weeks prior to the CLE Program for which it applies. Please contact the Council for an application form. If you have any questions, please contact CLE@federalbarcouncil.com.

6/17/25 - CLE: Clemency: Pardons and Commutations

Federal Bar Council presents Clemency: Pardons and Commutations Tuesday, June 17, 2025 5:30pm – 7:00 pm Covington & Burling LLP 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY Credits: TBD The President has seemingly unlimited power to issues pardons and commutations. But is it in fact without limits? How has the clemency power been exercised over time? Are there measures to be taken to ensure that this power is exercised as intended? Come hear three nationally-recognized experts in this field – Jeffrey Toobin, who recently published a book on the subject; Elizabeth Oyer, the former United States Pardon Attorney, and Mark Osler, a leading academic and practitioner in the field. Second Circuit judge Gerard Lynch will moderate the discussion. Moderator The Honorable Gerard E. Lynch United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Panelists Jeffrey Toobin, Esq. Legal Analyst, Commentator Elizabeth G. Oyer, Esq. Former United States Pardon Attorney Professor Mark Osler School of Law, University of St. Thomas Coordinators Alan Vinegrad, Esq. Covington & Burling LLP Samuel G. Bieler, Esq. Eastern District of New York Federal Bar Council Program Committee Co-Chairs Celeste Koeleveld, Esq. Clifford Chance US LLP Julian S. Brod, Esq. Shapiro Arato Bach LLP In order to register, you must sign in to your Federal Bar Council account. If you do not have an account, you can create one using this link. This program is free for Federal Bar Council Members and $75.00 for Non-Members. For more information about the benefits of membership in the Federal Bar Council, click here. Financial Hardship Policy The Federal Bar Council is pleased to offer a 50% discount on the cost of its CLE Programs to attorneys who are unemployed, who are employed in the public sector or who work for a not-for-profit entity and are able to establish financial hardship. The original application for this discount must be submitted to the Federal Bar Council at least two weeks prior to the CLE Program for which it applies. Please contact the Council for an application form. If you have any questions, please contact CLE@federalbarcouncil.com.