IMLA

Elected Attorney Meeting
2024-03-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-12 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-11 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
If you care to take part in this call or working group, please email cstorer@imla.org.

Construction & Public Contracts Webinar
2024-03-07 13:00 - 14:00
Current Trends on Public Works Projects, including a focus on Lost Productivity and Total Cost Claims
Lost productivity claims are common on public works construction projects. Contractors bid fix priced contracts assuming a set level of productivity with narrow profit margins. However, projects rarely proceed according to plan, but instead, unwanted events occur that can cause out-of-sequence work, delays, accelerations, trade stacking, overtime shifts, diluted supervision, and supply problems resulting in total cost claims. This presentation discusses the owner’s best practices defending against such claims.
Speaker: Mark Guevara & Jennica Dycus

Wellness Webinar - Free Live For IMLA Members
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:00
How Not to Die & How Not to Diet: Practical Tips for Attorney Wellbeing
CLE available to Kitchen Sink Subscribers and in some cases to others but fees may apply.
Tailored for attorneys, this webinar will delve into essential topics encompassing health and lifestyle choices. Specifically designed to address the unique challenges faced by professionals with sedentary lifestyles, such as attorneys, this session sheds light on preventable and reversible health issues. Chronic disease is the number one cause of death and disability in the US. Heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and the accompanying physical impairment can prevent attorneys from competently representing clients & diligently performing services.
Speaker: Gary Laturno

Code Enforcement Working Group Call
2024-02-26 15:00, 2024-01-29 15:00, 2023-12-25 15:00
If you care to take part in this call, please email cstorer@imla.org.

Police Alternatives Meeting
2024-02-20 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-01-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-19 14:00 - 15:00

Mid-Year Seminar Early Bird Rates End
2024-02-16 00:00 - 23:30
2024 Mid-Year Seminar
Thursday, April 18 – Sunday, April 21, 2024
Washington, D.C.

World Cup Working Group Call
2024-02-14 14:00 - 15:00
If you care to take part in this call, please email amorris@imla.org.

Environmental Webinar
2024-01-30 13:00 - 14:30
Remedying Environmental Damage: Tools for Municipal Attorneys
Municipal attorneys are experts in recovering monies owed to the government by enforcing liens, collecting taxes, fees and fines. Environmental lawyers for municipalities are often consumed with regulatory actions, transactions related to solid waste disposal, and defense work. Often uncollected are the large claims municipalities may have for damage to municipal water systems (drinking water, wastewater, stormwater) and other municipal properties and facilities relating to environmental contamination or other adverse impacts. This webinar surveys the universe of claims municipalities can and do pursue against large corporations for environmental harms. It is aimed to stimulate thinking on how to identify and pursue accountability for harms to public resources and the public health, as well as to create new revenue streams based on harms negatively impacting the community and to hone the enforcement tools in the municipal lawyer‘s tool box.
Speaker: Kyle J. McGee, Viola Vetter, Suzanne Sangree, Jason H. Wilson & Juliana Carter

Local Government Council Webinar - Free Live For IMLA Members
2024-01-25 13:00 - 14:00
Councilmembers Gone Wild! Tips on Dealing with Challenging Councilmembers
CLE available to Kitchen Sink Subscribers and in some cases to others but fees may apply.
This session will consider practical tips and strategies for the City Attorney in working with problematic City Council members.
Speaker: Patrick W. Baker & Kimberly Rehberg

Diversity Working Group Call
2024-01-24 15:00

Mental Health & Wellness Webinar - Free Live For IMLA Members
2024-01-23 13:00 - 14:00
Creating A Workplace Culture of Wellness and Inclusion
CLE available to Kitchen Sink Subscribers and in some cases to others but fees may apply.
This webinar will cover strategies and insights for attorneys to create a culture of wellbeing in the workplace that is inclusive and psychologically safe for everyone. This includes acknowledging that different people have different needs and can be accomplished by encouraging collaboration, safe and transparent communication, setting clear expectations and being flexible about accommodations. The benefits are increased wellbeing, higher productivity and less stress in the workplace.
Learn more about how to facilitate this in your workplace including:

The benefits to diversity, equity and inclusion.
How to align clear expectations to eliminate uncertainty.
Using feedback to create change.
Accommodate those with seen and unseen disabilities.

Speaker: Diane O’Connell

Ethics & Technology Webinar
2024-01-16 13:00 - 14:00
Artificial Intelligence, Attorney Ethics, and City Policies
An introduction to what Artificial Intelligence is and how its use intersects with the ethics of the legal profession. Discussion includes ABA model rules:

1.1“Competence” (Comment 8 addresses use of technology).
1.4 “Communication.”
1.6 “Confidentiality of Information.”
3.1 “Meritorious Claims and Contentions.”
3.2 “Expediting Litigation.”
3.5 “Impartiality & Decorum of the Tribunal.”
4.1 “Truthfulness in Statements to Others.”

The topic also covers what elements to include in a city policy on the use of AI and a review of some sample city policies.
Speaker: Cathy Cunningham & Teneé Frazier

Small/Rural Communities Working Group Call
2024-01-15 14:00 - 15:00

Land Use Webinar
2024-01-11 13:00 - 14:00
Land Use 101
Join experienced land use and local government law practitioner David Warner in this webinar as he explores property rights, regulation of private property, planning, zoning, subdivisions and other modern legal issues in land use law. For those new to land use law, this is a primer on the up-to-date basics you need to know to spot issues and to determine the appropriate course of action. For the experienced practitioner, this presentation not only serves as a refresher course, but also includes new points of law that have developed in recent years, which impact the basics.
Speaker: David Warner

Employment Law Webinar
2024-01-09 13:00 - 14:00
Are You Ready for This Year’s Employment Law Challenges?
New employment laws and recent decisions include everything from the new Pregnancy Fairness Act, the Supreme Court’s recent expansion of the rights of religious employees to reasonable accommodation and using AI in the workplace. If ensuring compliance with those was not enough, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Labor are now expected to implement a slew of worker-friendly priorities. This webinar will address the significant labor and employment law developments that are, and will be, affecting your operations and the landscape of employment law.
Speaker: Jonathan Mook & Robin Cross

Homelessness Working Group Conference Call
2024-01-04 14:00 - 15:00

Counties Meeting
2024-01-03 15:00 - 16:00

Personnel Webinar
2023-12-26 13:00 - 14:00
What to Expect When They are Expecting: The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA)
This webinar will cover topics including rollout of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”). The PWFA was effective June 27, 2023; the EEOC’s 275 pages of Proposed Regulations were published about 5 weeks later, on August 11, 2023. The PWFA requires the EEOC to issue final regulations by December 29, 2023. Be ready for this happy event!
Speaker: Robin Cross

Mental Health and Wellness Webinar - Free Live For IMLA Members
2023-12-21 13:00 - 14:00
Sleep, Neuroscience, and Ethics
CLE available to Kitchen Sink Subscribers and in some cases to others but fees may apply.
Sleep impairment impacts all aspects of client representation, including competence, focus, diligence, decision-making, effective client communication, and case management. Sleep deprivation predicts lawyer misconduct by increasing anxiety, interrupting working memory, and impairing effective executive thinking. This program provides the latest neuroscience behind sleep, and its impact on mental health, substance use, ethical behavior, and performance.
Speaker: Joan Bibelhausen, JD & Robin Wolpert, Esq,

Police Webinar
2023-12-19 13:00 - 14:00
Managing Risk by Embedding Mental Health Co-responders in Police Departments
As communities across the country continue to examine ways to improve outcomes and reduce the costs of interactions between police officers and individuals experiencing mental illness, many have adopted a risk management approach. This presentation will examine the potential benefits of embedding mental health co-responders within police departments. The potential benefits include increasing the safety of those involved in such encounters; helping ensure that people experiencing mental illness are directed to the most appropriate resources; decreasing the number of police encounters with such individuals; reducing the costs associated with these encounters (including litigation costs); and improving the speed with which problems associated with these encounters are solved.
Speaker: Doug Hoffer

First Amendment & Public Comment Webinar - Free Live For IMLA Members
2023-12-15 13:00 - 14:00
Public Comment – The Good, The Bad, and The Legal
CLE available to Kitchen Sink Subscribers and in some cases to others but fees may apply.
As Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) from the show Parks and Rec humorously stated: “What I hear when I’m being yelled at [during a public meeting] is people caring loudly at me.” This presentation will explore the benefits of public comment, some of the issues commonly associated with public comment, and what you can do to address those issues.
Speaker: Randall Van Vleck & Todd Sheeran

General Webinar
2023-12-14 13:00 - 14:00
Local Government Attorney Essentials
Local Government attorneys need to handle a wide variety of legal responsibilities, some unique to local government. The number of issues and topics requiring legal proficiency can be overwhelming. This presentation will help city and county attorneys develop a plan for navigating their initiation into local government law. While this webinar is designed for attorneys who are new to local government, experienced local government attorneys can also benefit from a review of the basics of municipal law.
Speaker: Roger Horner

Ethics Webinar
2023-12-08 13:00 - 14:00
My Client, My Enemy? Ethical Challenges When Representing Cities
This presentation will discuss ABA Rules 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.7 when discussing the challenges faced with representing cities. Rule 1.3 addresses organizations as clients, and Comment 1 touches upon entities acting through their officers, directors, etc. Complexities arise when Rule 1.1 calls for competent representation and the need to abide by client decisions under Rule 1.2, but individual city officers find themselves in positions contrary to the city they serve. Rule 1.7 provides guidance on Conflicts of Interest. Rule 1.3 requires lawyers dealing with a city’s officers to explain the nature of the relationship and address when interests diverge. This presentation will provide a variety of scenarios and pose hypothetical questions illustrating these points.
Speaker: Alan Bojorquez
