Wednesday, July 11, 2018
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

This class will teach you how to use CHEETAH, Wolters Kluwer's state of the art online legal research database featuring practice guides, treatises, and primary sources in all major areas of law. Learn to search faster and more powerfully for the legal information and practice pointers you need.

Class covers:

• The content available on the new, intuitively designed CHEETAH and why you need it for your legal research
• Improved ways to browse and search primary and secondary content in CHEETAH
• How to use Smart Charts – Only three clicks to create a 50 state, federal or international interactive chart on a given legal topic!
• Practical legal research examples drawn from common, relevant legal areas

Earn 1 hour general MCLE credit

Presented by Bridget Fonger:
Bridget is a Legal Training Consultant at Wolters Kluwer. She started her training career in 1985 at Skadden Arps in New York where she managed the weekend staff, and was responsible for major SEC filings. Bridget also co-wrote a book entitled The Lazy Woman's Guide to Just About Everything in which she shares tricks, tips and tools to save time, while ensuring effectiveness and efficiency. Bridget received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley where she majored in International Human Rights Law.

Registration fee: $10 for the­ class
Non-refundable, payment reserves spot
Reduced-rate parking options available during registration

Saturday, July 20, 2019  10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

This class introduces legal researchers to cases, statutes, and regulations, and the roles they play in your research. Learn fundamental legal research concepts by focusing on the elements and features of legal research materials and the tools by which to locate them.

Class covers:

• Introduction to primary and secondary authority
• Finding tools
• Characteristics of legal research materials
• Legal research tips

Registration fees: $20 for the class
Non-refundable, payment reserves spot

No legal advice:
LA Law Library provides access to legal resources and assistance with legal research. LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

For the time being, due to public health concerns, this class has been cancelled.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020:  12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. - CANCELLED

This class introduces legal researchers to cases, statutes, and regulations, and the roles they play in your research. Learn fundamental legal research concepts by focusing on the elements and features of legal research materials and the tools by which to locate them.

Class covers:

• Introduction to primary and secondary authority
• Finding tools
• Characteristics of legal research materials
• Legal research tips

Registration fees: $10 for the class
Non-refundable, payment reserves spot
Parking options available during registration (Tuesday, April 7th class ONLY)

No legal advice:
LA Law Library provides access to legal resources and assistance with legal research. LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

As featured in the New York Times and elsewhere, UCLA School of Law Professor Adam Winkler’s critically acclaimed new book We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Uncovering the roots of Citizens United, Prof. Winkler shows how that controversial Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a two-hundred-year struggle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business.

Class covers:

·        The legal history of “corporate personhood” in the United States

·        The extensive constitutional rights of corporations under current law

·        The untold story of how the stage was set for the controversial decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission giving corporations expansive free speech rights

The presenter will make his book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright Publishing, W.W. Norton & Co.) available for cash-only sale.

Earn 1 hour general MCLE credit

Presented byProf. Adam Winkler: Professor Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law and history. He is the author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (2018) and Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America (2011). His scholarship has been cited in landmark Supreme Court cases and his popular writing has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He is a frequent commentator about legal issues and has appeared on Face the Nation, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and All Things Considered. He also served as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2d Edition).

Registration fee:$35 for the­ class

Non-refundable, payment reserves spot