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Last Chance to Register for Federal Practice Seminar

Friday, December 17, 2004

The Iowa State Bar Association Federal Practice Committee will present the Annual Federal Practice Seminar on Friday, December 17, 2004 at the downtown Marriott Hotel in Des Moines. This year, in addition to the popular District Judge and Magistrate Judge panels, the seminar will feature two nationally prominent speakers.

Professor Stephen Burbank of the University of Pennsylvania will conduct a session on current attacks on judicial independence and accountability.

Professor Charles Nesson of the Harvard Law School, moderator of the PBS series, “The Fred Friendly Seminars” and “The Constitution: A Delicate Balance”, will present a 90 minute session in the format of those television series on Evidentiary, Constitutional and Strategic Issues in Federal Litigation with a group of Iowa lawyers, judges and citizens.

In addition, there will be sessions on electronic filing, ethics and criminal and civil breakout sessions, including one on the legal issues surrounding the growing methamphetamine problem in Iowa.

Register today at www.iowabar.org or click here.

Iowa Law Publications from Legislative Service Bureau Available in January

The Legislative Services Agency is in the process of producing the printed and electronic editions of the General Assembly's legal publications, including the 2004 Iowa Acts, the 2005 Iowa Code, the Iowa Court Rules, the Iowa Administrative Bulletin, and the Iowa Administrative Code. This year the new 2005 printed edition of the Iowa Code will be published in six volumes in addition to the Index. Over the years, the Iowa State Bar Association has been very supportive of the Agency's efforts regarding the electronic publication of Iowa statutes and administrative rules. Now, for the first time the Agency is publishing its statutory CD-ROM in-house in order to ensure the fastest possible delivery of this affordable, dependable, and accurate electronic resource. In order to access an electronic version of the Agency's order form for print and electronic editions of these publications visit its web site at http://www.legis.state.ia.us/LegalPubBro2005.pdf.

Legal Software Training Comes to Des Moines

The Iowa State Bar Association has teamed up with LexisNexis to provide training for HotDocs and TimeMatters in Des Moines.

January 10 & 11
Take advantage of your subscription to IowaDocs® to learn the power of HotDocs Standard 6.2. The Iowa State Bar Association has teamed up with LexisNexis, creators of HotDocs, to offer training on creating your own automated forms for use in your own law practice. Space is limited, so sign up today.

Cost of these Hotdocs classes are as follows:

	Non-Member	Member
Fundamental	$600	$550

January 12-14
3 day user training for TimeMatters will be held at Drake University. This is a Time Matters Certified User training and is for those that are getting started with Time Matters and want to make sure they are using the program the right way from the beginning. Attendees will cover basic to intermediate concepts, including how to work with the Time Matters Lists and Forms; data entry tips, tricks and techniques; how to effectively use the Time Matters Messenger and other communications tools; how to search for the data they need and then how to print a variety of reports; and much more. Upon completion of this class, attendees will have the basic information they need to know to make sure that their office is using Time Matters in the most effective way possible.

This class is $900 for the 3 days and $800 for ISBA members.

There are a limited number of computers and space in these classes and one must register before a seat will be assigned.