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CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION

All events held at the CMBA Conference released two albums: Down on the South focused exclusively on crisis management
Center unless otherwise noted. Side and Better Late Than Never. Mr. Jesse is and crisis communications.
a member of BMI and has run his own record Located on the 32nd floor of Terminal
Rock ’N‘ Roll Law: label distributing his music. He has written Tower, with a satellite office in Akron,
songs for more than 30 years, and has more
Hennes Communications serves
Introduction to than 200 songs he has never released. He has government agencies, corporations,
studied music history for years.
Music Copyright He is also the author of The Music Copyright manufacturers, education and healthcare
institutions — as well as law firms and their
Law Manual and the forthcoming The clients — that are “on trial” in the Court of
Wednesday, Musician’s Guide to Music Copyright Law. Public Opinion.
December 18 Mr. Jesse consults and practices in areas

CREDITS 6.00 CLE & 1.00 Professional regarding intellectual property, licensing and Deposition 101:
music law.
Conduct Interrogating
PROGRAM 8: 25 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Crisis Management Witnesses, Cross
Intro to Copyright Concepts; the
Legal Framework of the Beatles and for Attorneys & Examining Experts
Bruce Springsteen, and Their Music Their Clients and Maximizing
Publishing
Thursday, Direct Testimony
Copyrights, How to Obtain One,
Overview of the Six Exclusive Legal December 19 Thursday,
Rights with Copyrights; Reproduction CREDITS 3.00 CLE December 19

Distribution, Music Licensing and REGISTRATION 8:30 a.m. CREDITS 3.50 CLE & New Lawyer
Public Performance SEMINAR 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Training Requested

Digital Transmission; Streaming; Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics: REGISTRATION 12:30 p.m.
Derivatives and Sampling; Public “An Attorney’s duties do not begin
Display and Wrapping Up Exclusive inside the courtroom door.” SEMINAR 1:00 – 4:45 p.m.
Rights; Songwriting Credits/Lyrics/ Asking Questions with a Purpose:
Joint Authors Gentile vs. State Bar of Nevada Developing the Best Topics for
As almost any general counsel of Your Case
Works Made for Hire/Termination a large, publicly traded, consumer-
Rights; Standards in Copyright oriented company will tell you, legal Direct Exam: Creation and
Infringement Cases; Damages controversies today are tried in the Organization of Your Line of
Court of Public Opinion — at least as Questioning to All the Forms You May
Ethical Issues in Representing a Band much as in any Court of Law. Every
(1.0 hour Professional Conduct) organization, especially large, publicly- Need For Your Case
traded corporations, has much to gain (or Interrogating Independent Witnesses:
Organization/Diminished Capacity; lose) by the way a legal controversy is
Conflict of Interest in Representing positioned in the media. Because the value Strategies to Maximize Testimony in
Competing Interests in a Group of a company’s reputation is immeasurable Favor of Your Client
MRPC — and perhaps its largest uninsured asset Experts: Language Which Is
PRESENTER Jim Jesse — a corporation loses when the brand Necessary in Direct to the
image is tarnished, even if the corporation
Jim Jesse has been an attorney for 25 technically wins at trial. Furthermore, Basic Strategies for Winning Y
years, and has been a full-time Music Law since most legal controversies are settled our Cross Exam
presenter since 2013. He is the former prior to trial, the Court of Public Opinion Trial: Implementing Everything You
General Counsel for Cool Music Network has arguably become the most important
(THE COOL TV), which is a 24-hour-a-day battleground affecting not only good will Learned
music video television network. Previously, and market share, but legal bargaining INSTRUCTOR William J. Price, Elk & Elk
he was in private practice. He has founded power and settlement negotiations. Bill Price is a seasoned trial attorney who
Rock N Roll Law, and his passion is Managing this battleground, therefore, has focuses his practice on personal injury
spreading music law through his seminars. become integral to many corporations’ legal litigation for people who have been seriously
Thousands of attorneys have taken his strategies. injured or killed. His experience is in the
courses, and he has conducted his music fields of Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home
law course now in many states. INSTRUCTOR Bruce Hennes Neglect, Defective Products, Negligence in
He is also a singer/songwriter who has Bruce is CEO of Hennes Communications, Construction sites and Trucking and Auto
one of the few firms in North America

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