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CLE Materials New York Track | Saturday January 11, 2020 Fordham Law | CLE BRIDGE THE GAP Satisfy a full year of CLE credits in one weekend CLE Materials New York Track | Saturday January 11, 2020 Fordham Law School Skadden Conference Center Costantino Room (Second Floor) 150 W 62nd Street New York, NY 10023 NEW YORK DAY 1 – Saturday January 11, 2020 Table of Contents 1. Speaker Biographies (view in document) 2. CLE Materials Panel 1: Legal Writing Supplemental Materials. Ramos, Leah; Cheng-de Castro, Supplemental Material. Estate Planning Questionnaire Pei Pei. Fordham Law School’s 2020 Bridge the Gap Legal Template. (View in document) Writing Panel Presentation Detailed Slides. (View in document) Bergen County Surrogate’s Court. Intestacy Information. (View in document) Lebovits, Gerald. New York State Bar Journal 80-DC N.Y. St. B.J. 64. Plain English: Eschew Legalese. Justia 108 N.J.L.J 501. Attorney’s Including Person Gain in (View in document) Client’s Will. (View in document) Panel 2: Criminal Justice Legal Ethics Opinion 1515: Attorney Drafting Instrument Which Names Self Either As Personal Representative or Kossover, Andrew. NYSACDL-2020 Reform Article. Trustee or Which Directs Such Other Designee to Employ Finally! True Criminal Justice Reform. (View in document) Attorney as Fiduciary Administrator. (View in document) Panel 3: Employment Law NJ Inheritance Tax Guide 2019. (View in document) Blocker, Tanya; Johnson, Natalya G.; Yim, Mihcael. New Jersey Division of Taxation. A Guide to Being an Fordham Bridge the Gap 2020 Labor & Employment Executor. (View in document) Update – Sexual Harrassment, Reasonable Accommodations, Pay Equity, Medical Marijuana, Will Form 1 Simple with Trusts Last Will and Testament. Investigations, and other trends Presentation. (View in document) (View in document) Mahon, Joseph C.. Durable Power of Attorney. Panel 4: Legal Issues Relating to Blockchain and Digital (View in document) Assets Mahon, Joseph C.. Advance Directive for Health Care U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. (Living Will). FinCEN Guidance FIN-2019-G001. Application of (View in document) FinCEN’s Regulations to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies. Panel 6: Ethical Issues Associated with Trial Practice (View in document) Klein, Sharon R.; Stio III, Angelo A.; Zurich, Brian. New Framework for “Investment Contract” Analysis of Digital Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine. Ethical Issues That Arise Assets. (View in document) from Social Media Use in Courtrooms. (View in document) Panel 5: Estate Planning Berman, Mark A.; Grande, Ignatius A. and Hedges, Ronald Mahon, Joseph. Fordham Law School 2020 Bridge the Gap J. Social Media Ethics Guidelines of the Commercial and NJ Basic Estate Planning Materials Outline. Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar (View in document) Association. (View in document) Formal Opinion 2012-2. Jury Research and Social Media. (View in document) Formal Opinion 745. Advising A Client Regarding Posts on Social Media Sites. (View in document) Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., 172 F. Supp.3d 1100 (2016). (View in document) Rules of Professional Conduct (includes all amendments through those effective September 10, 2019). (View in document) Bridge the Gap 2020 Speaker Bios Janelle Baptiste Immigration Attorney, Spar & Bernstein, P.C. Immigration Attorney at Spar & Bernstein, P.C. Lindsay Baretz Attorney, Law Office of Jeffrey R. Kuschner Lindsay R. Baretz, Esq. is an experienced landlord-tenant attorney who specializes in subsidized housing programs. She has been working in housing related issues for eight years. She graduated with honors from both New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and from Seton Hall University School of Law. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Camille M. Kenny, J.S.C. in the Union County Superior Court of New Jersey. She has been with the Law Office of Jeffrey R. Kuschner since 2011. Honorable Clarence Barry-Austin Chief Judge, Municipal Court, South Orange, New Jersey Clarence Barry-Austin is a Martindale Hubbell AV-Preeminent Rated Certified Civil Trial Attorney with a practice concentration in personal injury litigation. Clarence is an undergraduate of Fordham University and Law graduate of Rutgers-Newark Law School. He practiced civil defense law for Allstate Company Insurance from 1977 to 1984. Then started his own practice where he concentrated in Plaintiff personal injury cases. In 1994, Clarence was appointed to the South Orange Municipal Court. Tanya Blocker Senior Counsel; Immediate Past President, Association of Black Women Attorneys A Senior Counsel in Labor & Employment, Ms. Blocker has extensive experience litigating management-side employment matters. This includes federal and state anti-discrimination laws, state and local wage and hour, and class and collective actions. Ms. Blocker has successfully tried cases in both state and federal court and has significant experience litigating race, gender, age, disability, and retaliation actions. Prior to joining Gordon & Rees, Ms. Blocker served as Senior Counsel in the Labor & Employment Law Division of the New York City Law Department, Office of Corporation Counsel. There she successfully co- chaired a trial on significant First Amendment retaliation claims, defended numerous depositions in various employment and retaliation matters on behalf of municipal agencies, led the defense of a class/collective action involving a 50,000 employee municipal agency against gender discrimination and pay equity claims, and litigated an equal pay action involving executive compensation resulting in a favorable settlement for her client. Ms. Blocker is also a complex commercial litigator. Preceding her tenure at the NYC Law Department, Ms. Blocker was an associate at the law firm Kaye Scholer LLP, where she concentrated on white collar criminal defense, securities litigation, and government and corporate investigations. Ms. Blocker played a key role in successfully defending a fraudulent inducement/conveyance action on behalf of the firm’s Fortune 500 client. Recognizing the importance of community engagement and leadership, on November 1, 2017, Ms. Blocker was installed as the twenty-second President of the Association of Black Women Attorneys (ABWA), a non- for-profit bar association, established in 1976, committed to promoting and supporting both the personal and professional development and growth of Black women attorneys. Notably, the New York Law Journal recognized Ms. Blocker as a Distinguished Leader in the 2018 edition of the journal’s Professional Excellence Awards for her exemplary leadership of the organization. Ms. Blocker also spent a significant portion of her time in West Africa engaging in diversity and governance work as well as presenting on international employment law. Ms. Blocker was recently selected to participate in the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA) 2019 Fellowship program—a flagship leadership program designed to equip aspiring global leaders to be effective and ethical changemakers. In addition, Ms. Blocker has volunteered a significant portion of her time serving as a mock trial coach for a public school in Harlem, New York, and she is a former board member of the After- School All-Stars (ASAS) NY/NJ Chapters—a not-for-profit organization committed to sustaining after school programing for middle schoolers. Ms. Blocker currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) Labor and Employment Law Section, is an Executive Council for the Network of Bar Leaders, and is a member of the New York City Bar Association Labor and Employment Committee. Association of Black Women Attorney’s (ABWA) – President (2017 – 2019) New York City Bar Association – Labor and Employment Committee Member (2018 – present) Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) – Labor and Employment Section Co-Chair (2013 – present) National Bar Association – 2018-2019 Legislative Committee Chair Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) Executive Leadership Participant (ELP) Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA) 2019 Fellow Ms. Blocker’s awards include, the National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyers award, the NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch Women of Excellence Award, the NAACP Jamaica Branch Community Service Award, the Assembly Member Nick Perry Outstanding Legal Advocate Award and the St. John’s University Law School Women’s Law Society Influencer Award. She has also been named a Network Journal 40 Under Forty Achievement honoree, a Diversity Journal 2019 Women Worth Watching honoree, a National Bar Association 40 Under 40 Nation’s Best Advocates honoree and a New York Law Journal 2018 Professional Excellence Awardee. Cristin M. Boyle Associate, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland Perretti LLP Cristin M. Boyle is an associate in the Firm’s Governmental Affairs Group and Cannabis Law Group. Her practice includes general litigation, litigation for and against government agencies, condemnation and eminent domain litigation, representation of state agencies and local authorities and governments, white collar defense, and representation of utilities in rate proceedings. She received her law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2013, where she served as a Board Member and Competitor for the Brendan Moore Trial Advocates, a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Writing Program, and an associate editor of the Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. Cristin is a member of the New Jersey
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