ABA offers free CLE webinars on COVID-19's legal implications

The spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) is having significant legal implications across the sector. The ABA is offering a variety of CLE webinars and on-demand products that specifically address questions on the effects of the outbreak. From now through May 15th, the ABA will be featuring free-to-member live webinars for attorneys’ legal education.
Register online at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/abacle/trending-cle/.

May 8, 1 p.m.
When the Second Shoe Drops: COVID-19 Losses and Reinsurance

Join expert panelists as they examine the types of COVID-19 claims anticipated, whether those claims are properly payable under insurance contracts, and whether reinsurers will respond to COVID-19 claims presented for payment by their reinsured.

With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the US, insurance claims are rising under multiple lines of insurance business. Ultimately, claims paid by insurance companies will find their way to the reinsurance market. This webinar will present a roundtable discussion about what claims can be expected and how buyers and sellers of reinsurance are addressing and expect to address COVID-19 claims as they arise.

Join this program for:

• An understanding of the broad scope of potential claims arising from COVID-19;
• Information about what reinsurers expect from their reinsured in presenting COVID-19 claims for payment;
• The legal issues likely to arise when claims are presented to reinsurers for payment.

May 11, 1 p.m.
ADR in the Wake of COVID-19

This program will help attorneys negotiate effectively on their clients' behalf and provide practice tips to mediators.

COVID-19 is altering the litigation landscape. Stay at home orders and the need for social distancing place an added burden on parties seeking to negotiate a settlement through an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process. With the situation on the ground rapidly changing, parties are turning to conducting mediations telephonically and via virtual teleconference technology. This poses unique challenges when attorneys can no longer negotiate with their counterparts face to face. Likewise, mediators and settlement judges must alter their techniques in order to facilitate an effective and successful mediation.

Join an expert administrative judge as he provides:

• An overview of ADR processes;
• A discussion of available technologies to conduct the mediation;
• Practice tips on tailoring techniques in a virtual world.

May 13, 12 p.m.
How Will Law Treat Science and Medicine Once the Pandemic Subsides?

In this program, a panel of distinguished experts will provide an overview and pragmatic discussion of selected key practical and legal hurdles and traps that health care providers and life sciences companies must overcome in pursuing their mission.

The webinar will also explore current and potential strategies for mitigating some of the legal and operational challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and potential downstream risks posed that may result from these very efforts, including:

• The known, presumed and evolving science behind the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting core logistical health care and life industry challenges;
• CMS conditions of participation;
• COVID Emergency FEMA, Medicare and other government plan, private health plan and other funding;
• Practicing and prescribing across state license, off-label and other unproven treatment, alternative site patient placement, and other patient placement and care;
• FDA & other life sciences legal requirements and traps for emergency, fast-track and other policies for getting immunizations, treatments and devices approved and to the market;
• Regulatory and tort system consequences of future mass immunizations with vaccines, converting non-medical product manufacturers like GM into emergency manufacturers of ventilators and other medical device manufacturers’ transition of manufacturing resources to PPE products.

May 14, 1 p.m.
Working Remotely: Ethical Considerations During and After COVID-19

What ethical considerations do you need to consider working remotely? Join these speakers as they discuss transitioning to "working from the kitchen table."

The COVID-19 quarantine has transformed the practice of law from the office to the kitchen table, raising technological and ethical concerns for attorneys and their staff. To assist attorneys deal with their newly imposed reliance on remote technology, bar associations, including the Pennsylvania Bar Association, have offered ethical guidance, and have also based guidance in part on ABA opinions.

May 15, 12 p.m.
In-Person Signing Requirements During COVID-19; are E-Signatures the Solution for Each Kind of Transaction?

Learn how to fulfill documentary requirements in jurisdictions where physical presence and signatures are required, now that we have to cope with physical social distancing due to COVID-19. In this program you will hear from the panel, which is composed of lawyers form the different continents, whether e-signatures can be the answer for all kinds of transactions.

How to fulfill documentary requirements in jurisdictions where physical presence and signatures are required, now that we have to cope with physical social distancing due to COVID-19. Think of — for example — notarizations or government agencies requiring signatories to appear in person. In this program you will hear from the panel, which is composed of lawyers form the different continents, whether e-signatures can be the answer for all kinds of transactions.