Access to Justice

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21st Annual Ethics CLE: CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION® to Facilitate Equal Access to Justice with Dr. Rick Brinkman
Summary of Contents: • The four choices you have when interacting with people and the overall strategy to be successful with people • The lens of understanding – why do people act the way they do, what causes them to be stressed out • Basic training: the communication skills you unconsciously use when effective communication is naturally happening • A walk on the wild side: strategies for the ten stress behaviors • Sniping: sarcasm, distractions, sabotage, to your face or behind your back • Know-it-all behavior: when people don't listen, dominate conversations, are condescending • Think-they-know-it-all behavior: when people don’t listen, dominate, act like they know what they are talking about but really don’t • Grenade tantrums: irrational tantrums, explosiveness, volatility • Whining and negativity: everything is wrong, nothing is right, and it’s always that way • Yes and maybe behaviors: people are agreeable on the surface but you don't know where they really stand • Nothing behaviors: when people literally say nothing • Changing your attitude and reactions to people.
November 7, 2008
MCLE: 3.25 A/J
CDs/Book: $149 per set
DVDs/Book: $189 per set
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20th Annual Ethics Seminar: COMMUNICATING ACROSS THE GENDER GAP: What Lawyers Need To Know
Summary of Contents: Overview; Laying the Foundation with Four Points • How Women and Men Differ and How to Deal with the Differences: Public Persona and Physicality: What People Do When They Speak • How Women and Men Differ and How to Deal with the Differences: The Way People Speak • How Women and Men Differ and How to Deal with the Differences: Specific Issues in Conversational Style • How Women and Men Differ and How to Deal with the Differences: Styles That Lead to Misunderstandings and Affect Credibility • Special Issues in Gender Communication and the Law.
November 16, 2007
MCLE: 3 A/J
Audio or CDs/Book: $169 per set
Video or DVDs/Book: $209 per set
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IMMIGRANTS IN COURT: Culture Counts
Summary of Contents: Improving Access to the Oregon Courts for Speakers of Indigenous Languages • Code of Professional Responsibility for Interpreters in the Oregon Courts • Oregon Revised Statutes • Uniform Trial Court Rules • Certified Court Interpreter Roster • Addressing Cultural Issues in Representing or Working with Immigrants • Cross Cultural Issues in the Immigration Court.
November 4, 2005
MCLE: 3 A/J
Audio or CDs/Book: $119 per set
Video or DVDs/Book: $189 per set
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ETHICAL ISSUES IN REPARATIONS TO AGGRIEVED GROUPS
Summary of Contents: Suing Hitler’s Willing Business Partners: American Justice and Holocaust Morality • The Social Justice Legacy of the Japanese American Redress for World War II Internment • American Indian Holocaust: Reparations for the Entire Continent?
April 15, 2005
MCLE: 4 A/J
Audio/Book: $95 per set
Video/Book: $225 per set
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MCLE Credits:
(G) General
(PS) Practical Skills
(G/PS) General or Practical Skills
(E) Ethics
(A/J) Access to Justice
(CA) Child Abuse

[R] Reciprocity: This seminar meets the qualifications for credit necessary to fulfill the MCLE requirements for reciprocal admission to the Oregon State Bar.

MCLE Credits apply to Audio/Book or Video/Book Sets only.