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2025 Legislative Debrief

FREE
  • Instructor(s):  Legislative Monitoring Committee

2025 Legislative Debrief Legislative Monitoring Committee  August 22, 2025  Time  Topic  Speaker   8:30 a.m. –  9:00 a.m.  Registration / Check-in  Oklahoma Bar Center  1901 N. Lincoln Blvd.   OKC, OK 73105   9:00 a.m. –  9:50 a.m.  Legislative Panel  Rep. Collin Duel, House District 31 Sen. Brent Howard, Senate Distrct 38  9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.  BREAK  10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.  60 Bills in 60 Minutes - Family Law- Goverment Law- Criminal Law- Courts- Estate Law- Education Law James Rucker, Deputy General Counsel, Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture Judge Thad Balkman, Cleveland Co. District Court Terrell Monks, Oklahoma Estate Attorneys, PLLC 11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.  BREAK  11:10 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.  State Questions and Citizen Petitions Randall Yates, Director, Crowe & Denlevy 11:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  What's Next?  Brett Robinson, Managing Principal, HB Strategies         Disclaimer:  All views or opinions expressed by any presenter during the course of this CLE is that of the presenter alone and not an opinion of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the employers, or affiliates of the presenters unless specifically stated. Additionally, any materials, including the legal research, are the product of the individual contributor, not the Oklahoma Bar Association. The Oklahoma Bar Association makes no warranty, express or implied, relating to the accuracy or content of these materials.  

  • In-Person
    Format
  • 180
    Min.
  • 8/22/25
    Presented
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Civility: The Foundation of Effective Lawyering

FREE
  • Instructor(s):  Jayne Reardon, ADR Section

Civility: The Foundation of Effective Lawyering In this highly interactive workshop, participants will explore the importance of civility in resolving disputes from the perspectives of parties, party advocates, and judges or neutrals. Considering practice scenarios, participants will learn and practice communication skills that will allow them to drive consensus and productive conversations while navigating conflicts and disagreements. Whether you’ve been practicing law for a few years or many, and no matter your practice area, you will come away with valuable tools you can immediately put to use.   SPEAKER:  Jayne Reardon is an arbitrator, mediator and legal ethicist. She sits on the Commercial and Consumer Arbitration Panels of the American Arbitration Association. Drawing on her past experience as Disciplinary Counsel and Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, as well as her experience as a litigator and arbitrator, Ms. Reardon delivers professionalism and civility programs that arm lawyers and judges with communication tools to use civility to greater effectiveness. Ms. Reardon has been recognized nationally for her work in professional responsibility, including by three consecutive appointments to Chair the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Professionalism, by receiving the ABA’s Center for Innovation Legal Rebel Award, and by receiving the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s highest lifetime honor: The Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award. Contact: jayne.reardon@fisherbroyles.com   

  • In-Person
    Format
  • 120
    Min.
  • 10/24/25
    Presented
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