Podcasts about Uniform Law Commission

Growing evidence links heavy social‑media use to rising anxiety, bullying, and sextortion among kids, and state lawmakers are racing to respond. In this interview, Harvard Law School's Leah Plunkett—reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's child‑influencer act—and University of Virginia family‑law scholar Naomi Cahn examine how new statutes seek to verify age, require parental consent, and redesign feeds to curb addictive features.Plunkett and Cahn compare Florida's and Utah's sweeping under‑14 account bans with New York's pending “SAFE for Kids Act,” explore design mandates such as late‑night notification curfews, and explain why long‑standing COPPA rules leave teens largely unprotected. They unpack First Amendment and privacy challenges already moving through the courts, highlight emerging “digital Coogan” laws that safeguard child‑creator earnings, and note international moves—from Australia's proposed under‑16 ban to the U.K.'s Age‑Appropriate Design Code.(Credits: General 1.5 hrs | MCLE available to TalksOnLaw “Premium” or “Podcast” members. Visit www.talksonlaw.com to learn more.)

First up, Senate Bill 1249 in Congress proposes to change how navigable airspace is defined, and would give the first 200 feet above the ground to states and private property owners.This bill also gives mandatory standoff distances from structures, including 200' laterally and 50 feet over the top of structures. Sadly, this is not a new idea. 5 years, we spent a significant amount of time fighting something similar proposed by the Uniform Law Commission (or ULC) proposed the same before being shut down.This is obviously a terrible idea and is proposed by a US Senator Mike Lee from Utah, who has a history of proposing bills that would severely limit UAS operations.Please reach out to your senators and representatives, as this affects ALL UAS operators, including drones, model airplanes, FPV, and helicopters.Next up this week, some news for recreational flyers who fly at the Academy of Model Aeronautics, or AMA, club sites. The AMA announced they've secured a National Authorization that allows members flying at designated club sites within Class G airspace to operate above the standard 400-foot Above Ground Level, or AGL, limit for routine flying. Depending on the specific site's location and assessment within Class G, the new authorized altitude limit could be up to 700 feet AGL, or even 1,200 feet AGL. Third up, DJI has expanded its enterprise payload lineup with two new accessories aimed at public safety and inspection users. They've launched the Zenmuse S1 Spotlight and the Zenmuse V1 Speaker. The S1 Spotlight is designed for the Matrice 300 RTK and Matrice 350 RTK platforms. It's a high-intensity light source with an effective illumination range of up to 150 meters, or about 492 feet. It features adjustable brightness levels and can synchronize its angle with the gimbal's pitch movements, keeping the light focused where the camera is looking, which is pretty neat. Then there's the Zenmuse V1 Speaker, which is compatible with the Matrice 300 and 350 series drones. This isn't your average Bluetooth speaker; it boasts a maximum volume of 120 decibels and an effective range of about 100 meters, or 328 feet, at a more typical 75 decibels. It supports text-to-speech conversion, audio storage, and real-time playback, making it useful for broadcasting instructions or warnings during emergencies. These kinds of accessories really enhance the utility of these enterprise platforms for first responders and inspection teams.And finally this week, ParaZero, known for their drone safety systems, has launched the SafeAir M4 parachute recovery system, specifically designed for the DJI Matrice 4 series drones. ParaZero's Press release says the SafeAir M4 meets the requirements of the ASTM F3322-22 standard for parachutes used in Operations Over People, or OOP. https://dronexl.co/2025/04/16/dji-launches-zenmuse-s1-spotlight-and-zenmuse-v1-speaker-for-enterprise-drones/https://dronexl.co/2025/04/15/parazero-launches-safeair-m4-drone-parachute-system/https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1249/text/is?format=txt&overview=closedhttps://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2025/04/15/flying-sites-in-class-g-airspace-granted-higher-altitudes/?_gl=1*1uaan0o*_gcl_au*NzU5NzI5MTc0LjE3NDQ5MDM2MzA.&_ga=2.207238160.221137029.1744903630-1851979334.1744903630

Dr Thaddeus Pope joins Health By Law to discuss updates to the Uniform Law Commission's Health-Care Decisions Act. Recorded May 20, 2024.

Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. For the next few weeks, we refresh several of the show's earliest episodes. During these dog days of summer, it's a good time to bring back some of our early episodes that cover fundamental topics that nonprofit leaders and aspiring leaders need to understand. In this week's refresh of my very first episode, I provide an overview of the choices of legal form for nonprofit organizations that are intended to be tax-exempt under U.S. law. Before we even get to the questions of tax exemption, charitable fundraising, regulatory compliance, governance, and the myriad legal issues that charity and foundation leaders need to think about, a basic understanding of the legal entity is really important. Since this first episode, we've added the podcast to our YouTube channel, so listeners might want to look over the playlist on our channel that covers all the basics and also our broad coverage of the formation mechanics in 32 states. Show Notes: The ABCs of Nonprofits, Second Edition By Lisa Runquist Delaware Model Certificates of Incorporation Model Nonprofit Corporation Act, and states where adopted Uniform Law Commission on Uniform Unincorporated Association Act status EO Radio Show #84: Nonprofit Book Review: ABA Guidebook for Directors of Nonprofit Corporations Farella YouTube podcast channel If you have suggestions for topics you would like us to discuss, please email us at eoradioshow@fbm.com. Additional episodes can be found at EORadioShowByFarella.com. DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to be, nor should it be interpreted as, legal advice or opinion.

This is Episode 2 of a two-part series on Advance Directives where host Stephanie Dorvil talks to Nathan Kottkamp of Williams Mullen in Richmond, VA, who is a member of the ABA Post-Acute Care Continuum Task Force about recent proposals to update the Uniform Law Commission's Health Care Decisions Act that prescribes minimum requirements for advance directives. Nathan, drawing from his extensive ethics and legal expertise, worked with the Uniform Law Commission to update this law to encourage more U.S. jurisdictions to adopt more realistic, implementable standards for these very important documents. Resources: Uniform Law Commission – Health Care Decisions Act: https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home?CommunityKey=3df274d6-776b-4780-8e4e-018a850ef44e; https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/publications/bifocal/vol45/vol45issue1/new-health-care-decisions-act/

According to the Heartland Institute, the Uniform Law Commission has quietly changed the Uniform Commercial Code across the country, putting individuals' wealth at serious risk if there is a financial crisis. You will be surprised to learn the truth about your investments. South Dakota is the first state in the country to attempt to protect its citizens' rights when they purchase securities. The second big story we cover is about the UN's Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration agreement. This important story explains why there is mass migration to the US from all over the world. We also include good news from Alabama!

Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to discuss the latest news on brain death. They discuss (a) the impact of the Uniform Law Commission placing on hold revision of the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), (b) the American Academy of Neurology's (AAN) new and problematic guidelines for determining brain death, and (c) informed consent concerns arising with normothermic regional perfusion (NRP). Resources 1. Dr. Christopher DeCock info - https://www.essentiahealth.org/find-doctor-provider/profile/christopher-decock/ 2. Bioethics on Air #109 - https://www.ncbcenter.org/bioethics-on-air-podcast-cms/bioethics-on-air-episode-109-redefining-death-by-revising-the-udda 3. Bioethics on Air #119 - https://www.ncbcenter.org/bioethics-on-air-podcast-cms/bioethics-on-air-episode-119-update-on-udda-revisions-and-concerns-with-normothermic-regional-perfusion 4. Uniform Determination of Death Act – https://lchc.ucsd.edu/cogn_150/Readings/death_act.pdf 5. AAN 2023 DNC Practice Guidelines - https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000207740

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse from the Ruth Institute asks if ‘conversion therapy' should be banned all over the world. Michael Vacca on the Uniform Law Commission expanding euthanasia.

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse from the Ruth Institute asks if ‘conversion therapy' should be banned all over the world. Michael Vacca on the Uniform Law Commission expanding euthanasia.

In the United States, food insecurity is unevenly distributed. Recent data suggests that white households have nearly a third to one half the food insecurity rate of Black and Hispanic households. While research on the reasons for food insecurity typically focuses on income, a body of research suggests that wealth could be an important factor in food security. According to today's guest, Conner Bailey, professor emeritus of Rural Sociology at Auburn University: "Land is one of the major sources of wealth controlled by Black families in the South, and much of this land continues to be owned as heirs property." Thus, if we want to understand differential food and security, we need to consider that the wealth implications of heirs property. Interview Summary   Connor, recently, the topic of heirs property has attracted much attention from researchers, policymakers, and civil society. Can you briefly describe the phenomenon of heirs property and why you think it's important?   I think of heirs property as, in a phrase, "the legacy of Jim Crow." By that, what I mean is that during the Jim Crow era, imagine say 1880, you're 15 years after the end of the Civil War, and you're a Black farmer, and you've bought some land, are you going to write a will to pass that property down to your heirs? Probably not, because your access to education is pretty limited. Moreover, there are no Black lawyers because where are the Black lawyers going to come from if there's no education for Black people, right? That's the Jim Crow era. So, what's your choice? You're not going to go to the white lawyers for the courthouse gang that you simply don't trust. The whole legal system is something that Black farmers, and Black people generally, fundamentally did not trust. This is the era of lynching after all, when people would be pulled from their homes, and in front of the law, nobody would be able to say who perpetrated these crimes. It was a difficult time for African-Americans, for Black people, for Black farmers generally. They wouldn't write wills because they didn't trust the legal system. What we end up with is that family that bought land in 1880, and they pass on, and the next generation, and the next generation, they're still not writing wills. We know that many people don't have wills. I don't know, Norbert, if you have a will. I don't need to know, but the fact is, many people, white and Black alike, and Hispanic and others, in this country don't have wills. But when they die, they're able to sort things out before it passes on to the next generation and becomes increasingly complex and confused and tangled. That's not true in the case of African-Americans and some other politically marginalized populations, white people in Appalachia, Hispanics, Native Americans, Hawaiians. heirs property is not just a Black phenomenon in the South, though that's where my research and most research on heirs property has been.   What we end up with in the case of the Black South, heirs property is something that is multi-generational. It's not simply dying without a will intestacy, but it's the dying without a will over multiple generations so that you end up with maybe 200 people who own a house or a piece of property, farm, or some forest land. How do you make decisions in a situation like that on maintaining a house, or improving the farmland, or planting trees, or whatever it is you're going to do with that property? How are you going to go to a bank and say, "I want a mortgage"? They're going to say, "Well, how do we know who's got the rights to sign on a mortgage?" As a result, there's no access to commercial credit. Until very recently, and we can come back to this later, Black farmers had no access to government credit programs through the US Department of Agriculture. They could not get credit loans. If you were in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and you were wiped out by hurricane Katrina, you had no access to FEMA support because you did not have clear title. Heirs property is a form legally called Tenancy in Common. That means you don't have clear title. Nobody has clear title. Everybody owns a share of the property as a whole. Now, one of the reasons it's important is it's not a small phenomenon.   Today, based on research that I've done with my colleague Ryan Thompson at Auburn University, there are in the 11 states of Appalachia and the South, 5.4 million acres of heirs property worth something like $43 billion. That's after enormous amounts of land have been lost through predatory actions. Legal but predatory partition sales, tax sales, and the like. Heirs property is a source of vulnerability. People have lost property in large areas. That whole stretch of coast of the South Atlantic, from Myrtle Beach down to Jacksonville, Florida, all that resort land, that was Black-owned land until after World War II. In the 1950s, once malaria was controlled in that area, bridges were built to the Sea Islands, developers followed, and properties were basically stolen through legal means, through something called a partition sale. Now you've got this enormous resorts being built there, much money being made, but these people who have lived there for generations have been dispossessed.   So, why is it important? It's for all these reasons, for these moral reasons, for the impact of the fact that you've still got millions of acres that's tied up in heirs property that people can't develop and utilize effectively for farming or forestry, or even for their own homes. It's one of the main reasons of wealth disparities, as you mentioned at the outset, Norbert. That the wealth disparities between white and Black are enormous. The St. Louis Fed just last month put out a study that showed that for every dollar of wealth that white Americans own, Black Americans own 24%. Black Americans own very much less wealth. Heirs property is one of the reasons. It's not the only reason, but it's one of the reasons, because lands have been stolen, lands have been lost, and those lands that still remain in heirs property, five-plus million acres just in the south of Appalachia, are underdeveloped, underutilized, and under-preserved.   Thank you for that. Connor, I want to ask you a question about trust. It's in the paper, and you mentioned it earlier, this idea of African-American, Black households, Black individuals not trusting the legal system. The reason I want to push on this is one could argue that trust could be because you may not know any better or you don't have enough information. We don't trust strangers because we just don't know what they could do. I'm wondering if another way of looking at this, something I've learned from people who do work on bioethics, Wylin Wilson here at Duke and others have talked about this, about the systems being untrustworthy. It's not that people aren't aware or can't navigate, but rather that the system or the institutions have proven not to do right by individuals. How does that characterization sit with the work that you've been doing?   Well, as I've been working on heirs property, as I have for 15, 16 years now, this phrase, "Black farmers, property owners generally did not trust the legal establishment, didn't trust lawyers, the courthouse gang," that's an easy statement to make. But as I started looking at the literature on heirs property, there wasn't a lot of background to that. I spent several months reading a bunch of older literature, W.E.B. DuBois, Arthur Raper, and others who were documenting what it meant to be Black in the rural south in the early decades of the 20th century. It's very clear to me that Black property owners and Black residents of that region as a whole had very good reasons not to trust the legal system. It was used against them in many cases. People simply avoided going to the courthouse whenever possible.   Now, this is an important point, and so thank you for exploring that with me. I've got to ask, I know you were at Auburn University and you're now retired. What led you to study heirs property and unearth its importance? Why are you still doing this work?   The second question is very easy to answer but also very important. There is a moral quality to the research that is done on heirs property. The work that I'm doing - and others, and I'm not the only one - the work that we are doing has a moral quality to it. We're trying to identify problems and redress wrongs. That's what gets me up in the morning. I mean, I'm seven, eight years, seven and a half years out from retirement. but I'm still publishing on this topic because it's important. Now, how did I come to realizing that? From a very good graduate student of mine named Janice Dyer, who was working in West Alabama on a different project, having nothing to do directly, we thought, at the time, on heirs property. The project was really on small scale wood harvesting and processing so that people could build homes using wood that's on the land that they owned. Janice came back after spending some time out in the field and said, "Hey, there's this thing, heirs property. People don't have clear title to their land." I said, "Oh, okay." I read a little bit about that, but she said, "No, no, this is a really important thing. Pay attention." Okay, Janice, I'm going to pay attention. And you know, here I am 16 years later. I'm still paying attention. One of the reasons professors get better at their jobs, and Norbert, you should appreciate this, is that we work with really bright students over time, and we gain so much from working with these students and undergraduates as well. So, I came to this because a graduate student pulled me into it and said, "Pay attention. This is important."   Thank you for that. I do agree there is something critical about engaging students to understand that topic. I want to actually take that a step further and because I know of some of the other work that you've done, how have you engaged communities in this work? Obviously, this is not an ivory tower kind of issue. This is something that affects the livelihoods of everyday people. How and in what ways are you engaging that community of folks?   I work with people in civil society organizations like the Center for Heirs Property Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina, created by a woman named Jenny Stephens back in the early, I think, 2004 or 2005, and other organizations that represent people who own heirs property. I've been working with people in the legal community through the Uniform Law Commission and all kinds of other groups. It's simply a matter of understanding that what we can do in the ivory tower is important because we can document the extent of heirs property, for example. That doesn't take working with communities, but we need to be working with people in communities affected by heirs property so that we understand the real significance of it and to keep the moral energies flowing. So, for example, my co-author on a couple of recent papers, Ryan Thomson at Auburn, he did his doctoral dissertation with the Gullah Geechee in South Carolina, which is near where Jenny Stephens in the Center for Heirs Property Preservation is located. Ryan worked actually far more closely with people who were heirs property owners and organized around that issue than I have done. But it's really important to understand from the people who are living the life of heirs property owners and who are facing the struggles to understand what are the issues so that as researchers, we can try to address those issues and try to come up with policy recommendations that might be helpful.   Thank you. One of your recent publications titled, "Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations," recently won the annual Rural Sociological Society's Best Paper of the Year award. First, congratulations, but secondly, can you explain your approach and your findings.   As I was saying earlier, I was looking at the question of trust, the trust of Black property owners and Black residents of the South to the legal system. As I was reading that literature, the idea of critical race theory simply emerged into my consciousness. I did not start off my reading saying, "Okay, I'm going to go look for evidence that's going to show critical race theory." Rather, it kind of emerged because critical race theory talks about the longstanding, deep institutional patterns of discrimination that are built into our legal system, our cultural system, our educational systems. They are so deeply ingrained that we often don't even recognize them, or we consciously, sometimes, ignore them. But there are discriminations built deeply into our systems sometimes that we don't recognize. What heirs property represents, as I said at the very outset, the legacy of Jim Crow. The legacy of Jim Crow is all these institutional limitations placed on Blacks in terms of access to education, legal services, and commercial loans, insurance for their properties, redlining in cities of where you could get government assistance or not. All these things are built in and are deeply embedded. Even though we have removed many of the outward mechanisms and trappings of racial discrimination, these patterns are still there. To speak of heirs property in terms of critical race theory simply made sense. It emerged the realization in my mind that this phenomenon of heirs property is rooted in these institutional relationships. It sort of hit me between the eyes with a two-by-four. It was like, wow, this is a perfect use of a theory to help explain a phenomenon. That's what academics, we should be pretty good at that, but that's what I've basically done. I don't think of myself as a theoretician, but the theories help us understand here are the key variables, the key phenomenon that we need to focus on if we're going to understand that particular phenomenon.   The question of reparations, which is the last term in that title, refers specifically to the Gullah Geechee, and I was talking about earlier, about that stretch of land. It's now billion dollar resorts. It's unrealistic to think that anybody's going to come and take that land away from Hilton and Sheraton, and all these major corporations, and give it back to the Gullah Geechee. That's just not realistic. But what if we charged a 1% lodging tax? There are already people coming and using those resorts who are already paying six and 7% on top of their bill for police and fire protection and things for the local counties and municipalities. What if we added 1% and gave that to the Gullah Geechee? There's a couple of entities, and I believe to others to make that decision. Who? But there's the Gullah Geechee Nation, and there's also a federally mandated Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. It's a 501 organization. Monies from that could be utilized to support the Gullah Geechee in clearing title for their remaining heirs property or for buying new properties to replace those that have been stolen, legally, but still stolen. So, to support the subsistence fishing and farming activities that have supported the Gullah Geechee for many, many generations, stating back to the post-Civil War era.   Thank you for that. This is going to really move us into this last question that's connecting this idea of, and I appreciate how you talked about how theory can help us as researchers do the work that we do, but then there are implications of that theory to actual policy and the lived experiences of folks. My question is, how has the research that you and others have done on heirs property affected policy at the local state or even federal levels?   As I said, there's a large number of researchers and others working on heirs property. I want to give a shout out to a couple of organizations that have been really critically important. The Southern Rural Development Center based at Mississippi State has become a really important convener of a lot of us working in this heirs property space. We have regular monthly Zoom calls. We have subcommittees on research, on policy, and on education and extension that meet regularly. There's a policy center at Alcorn State University that has become very important in helping organize and support research on heirs property. There's the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta that has also served as a convener and bringing people together. So, we've got individuals. We've also got some really important institutional actors that are providing continuity for those of us who are wanting to find a mechanism to interact, but they're providing that mechanism. There's a lot of people working on the question of heirs properties becoming increasingly visible not only in the research space but also among policy makers. For example, in the 2018 Farm Bill, there was wording introduced and passed in the 2018 Farm Bill, that allowed heirs property owners who were farming land to gain access to what's called a farm number through the Farm Service Agency. The farm number is critical, because if you have a farm number, you can now get a loan from USDA. Before that, heirs property owners could not. Basically, farmers operating heirs property now for the first time have access to credit through the USDA. That's a very important step forward. It actually came from a South Carolina Republican Senator Scott, and an Alabama Democrat Doug Jones, who worked up the wording on this, and it got later placed into the Farm Bill.   The other thing that's happened is that FEMA, I mentioned Katrina earlier, FEMA has revised their policies so that now, if you can prove you've lived in that home, you've lived on that property, you've paid property taxes, you've got maybe home insurance or whatever, if your property is damaged, destroyed in a natural disaster, a storm, FEMA will now help you. But 10 years ago, that was not the case. This happened only in the last couple of years. The point is, people have started to pay attention to heirs property. I've got to say people working in the media like Politico and The Atlantic and the New York Times, and The Washington Post, they've picked up on this. They've called researchers. They've called people like me and colleague Ryan, and they've gotten the facts from us, and they've developed it. They've gone and interviewed people, and they've developed the stories. And the media has also drawn a lot of attention to the issues associated with heirs property. It's been kind of a full-court press. We've all been moving forward on this.     Bio   Conner Bailey is an emeritus professor of the Department of Agricultural and Rural Sociology in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University. He holds a Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University. His research has focused on the problems of persistent poverty associated with resource dependence, the emergency of grassroots environmental movement surrounding issues of environmental and natural resource management, issues of environmental justice, and the human dimensions of fisheries and coastal resource systems. Bailey has been working on the issues of heirs property for more than 20 years. His publication "Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations," recently won the annual Rural Sociological Society's Best Paper of the Year award.

Why does the The Uniform Law Commission want to change the definition of brain dead? (Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA))  Hugh Brown, Executive VP of American Life League, joins Trending with Timmerie to discuss this (2:54) and an intriguing study on who the most attractive women are.  (22:37)  The role of grace in Catholic anthropology – Pope Saint John Paul II's Theology of the Body. (43:10)   Resources mentioned :    American Life League – Hugh Brown  https://all.org/   Litany of Humility https://relevantradio.com/2020/11/the-litany-of-humility/   Article on redefinition of brain dead  https://www.ncbcenter.org/messages-from-presidents/uddarevisions

Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to update listeners on efforts to redefine death by revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA). He also discusses important medical and ethical concerns with normothermic regional perfusion (start at 36:25). Resources 1. Dr. Christopher DeCock info – https://www.essentiahealth.org/find-doctor-provider/profile/christopher-decock/ 2. Bioethics on Air #109, Redefining Death by Revising the UDDA – https://www.ncbcenter.org/bioethics-on-air-podcast-cms/bioethics-on-air-episode-109-redefining-death-by-revising-the-udda 3. Uniform Determination of Death Act – https://higherlogicdownload.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/UNIFORMLAWS/4d19d096-be64-3c0f-ae71-a514b64c06a6_file.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAVRDO7IEREB57R7MT&Expires=1676665298&Signature=TyhShhP9KKdB%2Fhrlzz0xrFYVgdY%3D 4. Submission of the NCBC and USCCB to the Uniform Determination of Death Committee of the Uniform Law Commission – https://www.usccb.org/resources/Joint_submission_NCBC_and_USCCB_on_UDDA_2023.pdf 5. American College of Physicians statement on revising the UDDA – https://www.acponline.org/sites/default/files/documents/clinical_information/ethics-professionalism/acp_letter_to_ulc_cmte_on_udda_06-07-23.pdf 6. “Normothermic Regional Perfusion – The Next Frontier in Organ Transplants” – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2805776 If you enjoy our podcasts, please consider making a donation to the NCBC at https://www.ncbcenter.org/donate

Rocky Dhir chats with Bench Bar Breakfast speakers Justice Debra Lehrmann and Timothy Berg about the mission and efforts of the Uniform Law Commission. They explain what the ULC does, the processes of projects undertaken by the commission, and how their acts provide consistency while still promoting the autonomy of the states.  Justice Debra Lehrmann is the Senior Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. Timothy Berg is General Counsel at Fennemore Craig, P.C.

Rocky Dhir chats with Bench Bar Breakfast speakers Justice Debra Lehrmann and Timothy Berg about the mission and efforts of the Uniform Law Commission. They explain what the ULC does, the processes of projects undertaken by the commission, and how their acts provide consistency while still promoting the autonomy of the states.  Justice Debra Lehrmann is the Senior Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. Timothy Berg is General Counsel at Fennemore Craig, P.C.

Presidential Records Act vs the Espionage Act. The Uniform Law Commission is trying to separate children from parents. Mythology Wednesday: Chris Michaels and the Crystal Skull

The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association. During this episode, Nita Farahany discusses her cognitive liberty concept, as well as her book: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. Research Question: Prof. Farahany asks what can we do individually to tell fact from fiction, safeguard against manipulation, engage critical thinking skills, and develop greater mindfulness so that we may flourish in the Digital Age. What are the limits of the human mind to protect against distortion of cognitive freedoms? Resources: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita Farahany Prof Nita Farahany's Webpage https://law.duke.edu/fac/farahany/ Recent news article: “We need a new human right to cognitive liberty” Link to full show notes and resources https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-147 Guest Bio:  Nita A. Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. She is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, the Founding Director of Duke Science & Society, the Faculty Chair of the Duke MA in Bioethics & Science Policy, and principal investigator of SLAP Lab. Farahany is a frequent commentator for national media and radio shows and a regular keynote speaker. She presents her work to diverse academic, legal, corporate, and public audiences including at TED, the World Economic Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival, Judicial Conferences for US Court of Appeals, scientific venue including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Neuroscience, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and by testifying before Congress. Her current scholarship focuses on the implications of emerging neuroscience, genomics, and artificial intelligence for law and society; legal and bioethical issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic; FDA law and policy; and the use of science and technology in criminal law. In addition to publishing in legal and scientific journals, as well as edited book volumes, Farahany is the author of the forthcoming book The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (St. Martin's Press 2023). In 2010, Professor Farahany was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and served until 2017. She is an appointed member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, an elected member of the American Law Institute and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, past President of the International Neuroethics Society, an ELSI (ethical, legal, and social implications) advisor to the NIH Brain Initiative and to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an appointed member of both the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders and the Standing Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities and National Security Needs for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and a member of the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks and Expert Network for the World Economic Forum. She served as Reporter for the Study Committee and later Drafting Committee on updating the Uniform Determination of Death Committee for the Uniform Law Commission. In 2022, she was appointed by Governor Roy Cooper to the NC Delegation for the Uniform Law Commission, and currently serves in that capacity. Farahany is a co-editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and on the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. She also serves on scientific and ethics advisory boards for corporations. Farahany received her AB in Genetics, Cell, and Developmental Biology from Dartmouth College, an ALM in biology from Harvard University, and a JD and MA from Duke University, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy. In 2004-2005, Farahany clerked for Judge Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, after which she joined the law faculty at Vanderbilt University. In 2011, Farahany was the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School. About: The Information Professionals Association (IPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell, on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

Carla L. Reyes (@Prof_CarlaReyes) is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Professor Reyes is a nationally recognized leader on issues raised by the intersection of business law and technology. Professor Reyes was appointed the Chair of the Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters in September 2021. The work group is charged with considering policy priorities related to blockchain technology in Texas. Professor Reyes was also named an American Bar Foundation Fellow in June 2021 and named one of the Women of Legal Tech 2020, an honor bestowed by the American Bar Association Legal Technology Resource Center. Professor Reyes currently serves as the Research Director for the Uniform Law Commission's Technology Committee, an Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, an Expert Member of the UNIDROIT Work Group on Private Law and Digital Assets, and an Expert Member of the UNIDROIT Work Group on Best Practices for Effective Enforcement. Professor Reyes also contributed to the Uniform Law Commission and American Law Institute 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code. Show topics: 2022 UCC Amendments Emerging Technology's Unfamiliarity with Commercial Law Moving Beyond Bitcoin to an Endogenous Theory of Decentralized Technology Regulation: An Initial Proposal Distributed Governance If Rockefeller Were a Coder & much more. Disclaimer: Jacob Robinson and his guests are not your lawyer. Nothing herein or mentioned on the Law of Code podcast should be construed as legal advice. The material published is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Please seek the advice of counsel, and do not apply any of the generalized material to your individual facts or circumstances without speaking to an attorney.

Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, joins Joe Zalot to discuss how proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) could change the legal definition of brain death. Resources 1. Dr. Christopher DeCock info – https://www.essentiahealth.org/find-doctor-provider/profile/christopher-decock/ 2. Uniform Determination of Death Act – https://higherlogicdownload.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/UNIFORMLAWS/4d19d096-be64-3c0f-ae71-a514b64c06a6_file.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAVRDO7IEREB57R7MT&Expires=1676665298&Signature=TyhShhP9KKdB%2Fhrlzz0xrFYVgdY%3D 3. Uniform Law Commission - https://www.uniformlaws.org/home

Jones Day partner Kim Desmarais discusses the Uniform Law Commission's and American Law Institute's proposed amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and their potential impact on commercial transactions involving digital assets and other emerging technologies. Read the full transcript on the Jones Day website.  

Andrew "Drew" Hinkes (@propelforward) is a partner in K&L Gates Miami office and the Co-Chair of its Global crypto practice. Drew is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law, where he co-teaches "Digital Currency, Blockchains, and the Future of the Financial Services Industry.” Since 2019, Drew has been an advisor to the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Emerging Technologies Digital Assets Working Group, focusing on commercial transactions involving digital assets. Dr Andrea Tosato (@Andrea_Tosato) is an Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the School of Law of the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Andrea was actively involved in the ULC/ALI UCC and Emerging Technologies Committee that drafted the amendments to the UCC to accommodate emerging technology developments. At present, he is contributing to the adoption and enactment process of this novel legal framework at state level. Show highlights [3:40] What is Article 12? [15:40] Process of creating Article 12 [30:00] Controllable electronic records [42:00] Benefits of Article 12 [49:00] Filing financial statements & much more Links Article: Carla L. Reyes, Creating Cryptolaw for the Uniform Commercial Code Article: Kara J. Burce, Christopher K. Odinet, and Andrea Tosato, The Private Law of Stablecoins If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review. You can subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on the latest episodes. Around the Blockchain's weekly newsletter is my go-to source to stay updated on crypto law - you can find this incredible resource here. Disclaimer: Jacob Robinson and his guests are not your lawyer. Nothing herein or mentioned on the Law of Code podcast should be construed as legal advice. The material published is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Please seek the advice of counsel, and do not apply any of the generalized material to your individual facts or circumstances without speaking to an attorney.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed critical ambiguities in state law, especially in regard to the ownership and responsibility of public health orders. Governors often relied on a general statutory power to take 'necessary' actions in response to COVID's threats. Yet, some courts found this statutory authority was so vague that it violated the separation of powers, and they set aside vital public health orders. Meanwhile, some state legislatures attempted to terminate emergency declarations by joint resolution, which was unconstitutional according to one state supreme court. In this episode, we are joined by Professor Rob Gatter, the director of the Center for Health Law Studies and an expert in public health law. Professor Gatter is also currently serving as the Reporter on a project of the Uniform Law Commission to draft a model state law addressing these such ambiguities. *This episode was recorded live on October 20, 2022 as the final installment of this year's Health Law Live series.

In this episode of Commitment Matters, Mary speaks with Sylvia Smith Turk, Division President at Stewart Title Company, and co-chair of ALTA's State Legislative and Regulatory Action Committee. During their conversation, Sylvia or Mary mentioned: AS co-chair of ALTA's State Legislative and Regulatory Action Committee (SLRAC), Sylvia gave a great update on its work, including how it has evolved in the past few years and recent speakers like PRIA and UNC (I couldn't quite tell if this was an M or N – to figure out who this was. Can you help?) The subject of Redaction is complex, as Sylvia explains – highlighting concerns from both the business and consumer perspective. Learn more about Data Redaction in Government Documents in this primer. ALTA also offers a number of resources on their Redaction and Record Shielding page.Discriminatory Covenants also remains a topic at the forefront in our industry. Sylvia talks about how these illegal and unenforceable restrictions can still do harm and this CLTA article offers a look at questions you may be askingSylvia reports that the Uniform Law Commission is drafting language around restrictive covenants and is a great way to get involved in the discussions. Here's a link to the Restrictive Covenants in Deeds Committee.Mary and Sylvia tag team to offer a brief 101 on the topic of Data Privacy and ALTA provides a number of educational tools to help you get up to speed on the subject.California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) back in 2020, with the basic posture that a consumer's data is their own, but both Sylvia and Mary talk about how much more in-depth this legislation – and its implementation - truly is; and how it has added pressure for a Federal bill.The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act already requires the title and settlement industry to ensure privacy of consumer date and Data Privacy statements have been provided for years because of this.Wire Fraud continues to increase in our industry. Check out this helpful document from TLTA on how to avoid and respond. As Sylvia mentions, ALTA provides a number of resources as well. HELOC transactions are back in Sylvia world and HousingWire recently posted an article noting they are “raging back.” Read that here.Foreclosures are slowly increasing as well, but Sylvia notes they are nowhere near what had been the norm in the 2010's. ATTOM reports on the first six months of 2022's Foreclosure Activity here.As Sylvia mentioned, Cash Buys are still a thing, too. This article estimates almost a third of U.S Home purchases are this type of transaction right now.Mary and Sylvia recount their experiences with advocacy and legislation. The ALTA Advocacy Summit Is a great way to dip your toe in these waters and both host and guest encourage you to get involved!Got a topic or guest idea you want featured? Leave a voice message at 214.377.1807 or email podcasts@ramquest.com. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, or visit RamQuest.com/podcast to download the latest episode. Lastly, we love to see when and how you're listening. Share our posts, or create your own and tag them: #CommitmentMattersPodcast

Tom Wark is a wine writer, wine public relations company owner (Wark Communications), and our trusted resource for figuring out what is going on with the US wine industry and how it affects us, as wine drinkers. In his role as the executive director of the National Association of Wine Retailers, he manages and helps direct lobbying, litigation, and membership strategy and management for the retailers in the US and in that role has really helped dissect and expose some of the logistical and really cultural issues around wine in the US. He is the author of “Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog”.   Photo: Tom Wark. Source: "Fermentation Blog"   In this show we discuss a variety of topics, including the recent threat to US interstate wine shipping from the Uniform Law Commission. The bulk of our conversation revolves around the historical legacy of alcohol Prohibition in the US and the damage it caused to the way alcohol is sold, marketing and viewed in the United States.   Our main topics for the show: The latest news from the Uniform Law Commission, a body of lawyers from all 50 states who try to create laws that states can adopt and adapt based on common principles. We discuss the misguided nature of their proposals, and how it could potentially affect wine shipping in the United States The history of Prohibition in the United States – how it came about based on the events and culture of the 1910s and how, during the repeal, systems were set up that are now outdated but have enormous ripple effects in how wine is sold, distributed, and ultimately viewed in the US The Crusaders were a group that fought to repeal Prohibition in the 1930s. Photo: Smithsonian Institute We touch on the active temperance movement of today and why the temperance lobby has a big problem fighting against wine, in particular. We mention marijuana as well, and the coming reckoning for that new industry. Here is the Washington Post article we reference: “From Dry January to Fake Cocktails, Inside the New Temperance Movement”     Tom tells us what the US market would look like without a three-tier distribution system (Hint: pretty awesome) and the multitude of choices it would open up for producers and retailers.   I highly recommend that you subscribe to Tom's very well-written blog, which is full of excellent and novel thinking. Click here to sign up. _______________________________________________________________ Thanks to our sponsors this week:    Wine Spies uncovers incredible wines at unreal prices - on Zinfandel, Barolo, Champagne...you name it - up to 75% off! It's not a club and there's no obligation to buy. They have a build-a-case option, so you can mix and match wines while enjoying free shipping on every purchase. Visit www.winespies.com/normal you'll get $10 credit to use on your first order! Check them out today!   If you think our podcast is worth the price of a bottle or two of wine a year, please become a member of Patreon... you'll get even more great content, live interactions and classes!  www.patreon.com/winefornormalpeople   To register for an AWESOME, LIVE WFNP class with Elizabeth go to: www.winefornormalpeople.com/classes

Ryan Metcalf, of the Modernist bar in Fresno, joins Chris and Drew on this delightful episode of The Good Bottle Podcast. The crew discusses strange judicial overreach and how the champagne life chooses you, and not the other way around Stories: https://irishliquorlawyer.com/liquor-industry-insights/uniform-law-commission-and-its-questionable-constitutional-mandates/ https://www.foodandwine.com/news/common-champagne-drinking-mistakes Dope Follows: @winetalkwithtesh @lostcausestudio @adrianbliss @rjmetty Show - The Bear --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/goodbottlepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodbottlepodcast/support

On this episode Gus is joined by Professor Rob Hevery, a law professor at Albany Law School, where he researches and writes about technology, law, and society, covering topics such as the internet, drones, robots, AI, and human augmentation. He is also a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Quantum Networks, where he is researching policy-making surrounding development and implementation of the Quantum Internet. And that is our topic on this episode: quantum networking, law, and innovation. Hang on, it's a wild ride.Episode Notes:Robert Heverly is a tenured associate professor of law at Albany Law School, where he has taught since 2010. Professor Heverly has also taught at Michigan State University College of Law and at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and was a Resident Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (where he retains an affiliation). Prof. Heverly is a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Quantum Networks, where he is researching policy-making surrounding development and implementation of the Quantum Internet. Prof. Heverly researches and writes about technology, law, and society, covering topics such as the internet, drones, robots, AI, and human augmentation. He teaches classes in Torts, cyberspace law, copyright law, and unmanned aerial vehicles.  His article, “More is Different: Liability of Compromised Systems in Internet Denial of Service Attacks” was recently published in the Florida State University Law Review. Prof. Heverly was Chair of the AALS Internet and Computer Law Section and was the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's “Uniform Tort Law Relating to Drones Act.” He holds a J.D. from Albany Law School and an LL.M. from Yale Law School.Links:Center for Quantum Networks (CQN): https://cqn-erc.org/About quantum networks: https://cqn-erc.org/about/

This Nonprofit Basics episode gives an overview of the choices of legal form for nonprofit organizations that are intended to be tax exempt under US law. Before we even get to the questions of tax exemption, charitable fundraising, regulatory compliance, governance and the myriad legal issues that charity and foundation leaders need to think about, a basic understanding of the legal entity is really important. If you have suggestions for topics you would like us to discuss, please email us at eoradioshow@fbm.com. Additional episodes can be found at EORadioShowByFarella.com.  Resources: The ABCs of Nonprofits, Second Edition By Lisa Runquist  Delaware Model Certificates of Incorporation  Model Nonprofit Corporation Act, and states where adopted Uniform Law Commission on Uniform Unincorporated Association Act status  DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to be, nor should it be interpreted as, legal advice or opinion.

Directed trusts have become increasingly popular over the past few decades, in part, for the flexibility they offer in managing trust assets. In a directed trust, a person other than the trustee holds power to make decisions over investment, management, distribution, or some other aspect of trust administration and has the power to direct the trustee. As common as they've become, many states' statutes have yet to iron out the legal uncertainties that arise when a nontrustee (or a “trust director”) holds power over the trust. In an effort to provide clarity and guidance, the Uniform Law Commission approved in 2017 the Uniform Directed Trust Act (UDTA), which has been adopted in some form by 16 states as of 2022. Professor John Morley, the reporter of the UDTA, explains some of the practical innovations and key provisions in the new law, including the scope of the powers of the trust director and the fiduciary duties of the trust director and trustee.

Melissa Costello is the creative lead and chief storyteller for MELISSACOSTELLO.COM's video-centric take on branding and marketing. In this episode, she shares the value of telling stories in marketing and why marketing through video works for lawyers. They talk about how lawyers today need to start thinking differently about their business and embrace marketing. The most important kind of marketing that is especially effective for law firms is using client testimonials. Melissa says that there's no substitute for testimonial videos, story telling is the most engaging medium of communication and people will want to do business with you if you tell them your clients' stories.  Timestamps:Marketing through storytelling (1:16)How to create engaging marketing (7:50)Different types of video (19:51)Why video marketing works for lawyers (28:20) “It is one of your greatest assets, the stories that your clients would be only too happy to tell - of how you changed their life, how you saved their business. Attorneys to a very large degree think that they provide a very intellectual product, and a legal product is anything but.” - Melissa Costello Connect with Melissa Costello:Website: https://melissacostello.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaCostello.comChicago/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissacostellochicago/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/melissacostelloYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbZ8FHOYkCwD078T9dJgVYg/featured Melissa Costello, Creative Lead and Story TellerMarketingMelissa Costello is the creative lead and chief storyteller for MELISSACOSTELLO.COM's video-centric take on branding and marketing. Telling stories and building brands that impact people's businesses and people's lives is her passion. Her upbringing engaged her in a lively mix of both the fine arts and the marketing arts, joint passions shared by numerous members of the extended family. It's in the blood as is a restless curiosity. Costello has been awarded both domestic and international honors for the videos and television commercials she has produced for more than 30 years through her companies in Chicago and Los Angeles, and in collaboration with former political media consultant, David Axelrod for clients such as President Barack Obama and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/melissacostello Have comments, questions, or concerns? Contact us at feedback@1958lawyer.com Episode Transcript:Ron Bockstahler  0:29  Welcome to the show. I am your host, Ron box dollar. And today we have a super special guest because he's one of my favorite people. And definitely one of my favorite people to talk to Melissa Costello. Welcome to the show, Melissa.Melissa Costello  0:40  Hey, thanks, Ron. It's really fun to be here already. Thanks.Ron Bockstahler  0:46  Again, it's funny because we generally get together for coffee, and now we're doing it over a show.Melissa Costello  0:50  Exactly. And we can't stop. You know, it's also good to have a 45 minute cut off point, I suppose.Ron Bockstahler  0:57  Well, you know, let's talk about you take us, you know, in your bio, which I didn't read the whole thing, but you actually talk about, there's my notes here. Your family engaged in a lively mix of fine arts and marketing arts. What are you talking about?Melissa Costello  1:10  What does that mean? You know, storytelling is actually what it means we it's coming at storytelling from a number of different disciplines. My dad's dad was an attorney. He was a litigator, he was brilliant at they used to say he created a spell in the courtroom, my father became a copywriter, my father, you know, took that notion of storytelling and applied it to, you know, huge corporations in America, he worked at Leo Burnett, his brother started an advertising agency, and you know, was another brilliant storyteller and writer, my sister is a script writer, it's in the blood, my son is a writer. So at the dining room table, you know, my sisters and I were the in house focus group. So it's like, girls, what would you think if we could cut apples into stars? Would you like that? What would you call it? What would you dip it into? You know, was, to me, the notion of marketing of advertising was play, this is what we're playing. This is fun. And I still bring that sense of playful discovery to my work, because that is what storytelling is, you find the story and you share it. And who doesn't love to tell a good story?Ron Bockstahler  2:26  We're talking most of our audiences are attorneys. And they're generally if they're litigators, they got to be a great storyteller. But Why do so few use video to tell their story digitally, to prospective customers?Melissa Costello  2:42  Well, that's a really that's a really good question. Ron. It's mystifying in the 21st century. You know, when you look back at where this whole thing started, you know, originally, video storytelling was called TV commercials. And it was in the very, you know, it was in the mix for an advertising agency, and it was cost prohibitive for most, because you'd have to have a massive crew. And you'd have, you know, in those days, I can't even imagine what the rates were like in the 50s and 60s when they began advertising. And by the way, it was very primitive. When you look at some of those old ads, they're horrible. I mean, by today's standards, things would, you know, the art has evolved. It's very sophisticated. But I would say that, as things have shifted forward, as things have evolved, I don't understand why people don't use it more often. Except that if you buy it on your own, you're usually not going to get a great product, you're going to if you go through an advertising agency, they have vetted a solid filmmaker, for you to work with. But I think smaller organizations have a hard time accessing those individuals accessing those companies. And they also have a hard time justifying the cost, you know, and expense is something that comes up often. But I, you know, what I say to my clients is what's really expensive, is doing it poorly and not using it. I mean, you're throwing money away, do it right. And you can use it over and over and over and over and over again. So, you know, in the legal world, you have such extraordinary stories to tell. They are the thing that almost every law firm leaves on the table. Every time they talk about marketing, it is one of your greatest assets are the stories that your clients would be only too happy to tell of how you change their life, how you saved their business. I think attorneys to a very large degree, think that they provide an intellectual product and a legal product is anything but I know from my own experience, having been in small claims court, represented by David Goodman, thanks very much, David, shout out. I know and I haven't done anything wrong, but the Feeling you have the anxiety? The Am I a bad person? What am I doing in small claims court? That David, you know, definitely stepped in, corrected everybody's perception. The judge was like, Oh, well, yeah, da, I can't tell you what he the gift he gave me. It's beyond money. It is He gave me peace of mind. And he also well gave me peace of mind and what,Ron Bockstahler  5:27  hopefully a win.Melissa Costello  5:30  He definitely gave me a win. He definitely gave let's backRon Bockstahler  5:32  up because I want to go into the cost, the sticker shock of quality, storytellers and what you need. But I want to talk more about let's get a little I want our listeners to have a more of a understanding of your past your history, the amazing clients you've worked with. I mean, you've worked with David Axelrod and a lot of his clients. So let's talk about maybe your top one or two clients that you've done video done storytelling with?Melissa Costello  5:57  Well, certainly, Barack Obama. Yeah, that was a high point it working with somebody, first of all, who's so verbal, so bright, and so kind and such a gentleman and really couldn't find anything wrong with him. Like I didn't, I didn't have to cover up any flaws in the filmmaking, you could say. And also working with David Axelrod, who you know, just an utterly brilliant strategist, and then bringing the emotion to his work through film. It was absolutely a high point. And then my children even started to feel like they were engaged in the campaign to the point that on the night that he won, I was in Grant Park with my son, and he turned to me and he said, Mom, we did it with tears in his eyes. Because, you know, the politicians would cycle in and out of our home, we would shoot in our home all the time, it became kind of a backstage for Axelrod's company. And you know, mayors and governors and whatever everybody would kind of pass through at some point, and the children would get to meet them.Ron Bockstahler  7:03  You know, David Axelrod is a brilliant marketer, political media strategist is what he's doing. whatever title you give him, at the end of the day, he understands if he was running a law firm, he would know how to make that the number one law firm in Chicago. That's true. And so when we're talking to the law firms right now that are listening, the attorneys that are listening to this, they need to start thinking maybe bigger or differently about how they're going out and approaching their business in general, and marketing in today's world, and I'm actually been slow to the digital world arena, and you know, tick tock, and everything's on video. And, you know, but everyone has to embrace that, which means they got to embrace someone that can make them look really good. And help them tell their story.Melissa Costello  7:50  I you know, again, back to the intellectual product concept. The other thing that almost all firms want to communicate is we're worth it worth worth the money that you're spending on us. And how do they do that? They do that with the ubiquitous skyline. It's like, you know, Attorney law firms have no idea how often someone in marketing says, Don't tell me they've got a skyline right there at the top of the homepage, and the or they've got, you know, some fabulous shot of their marble clad, you know, lobby or whatever they've got. That's not what moves people to hire you what moves people to hire you. First of all, is testimonials. You know, if there's one thing to me in marketing, the biggest thing that social media shifted, is the shift from, I'll take you at your word that you're a brilliant lawyer versus ah, I want to hear it from your clients. That's what social media taught us is to go to the people who are the user of the product or the user of the service, and ask them what they think, what was their experience like? Well, it's come to the point where there is no substitute for testimonial marketing. I mean, you and I did it together. It because every time you show, a testimonial video, in a room, you have just invited your most vulnerable, most enthusiastic, you know, former clients who love to hang out with you. They're right there in the room with you. And they are absolutely consistent. Every single time they show up. They are just as brilliant as they were the last time just as effective. How can you not do that?Ron Bockstahler  9:30  It's funny, you brought up the skyline and you know the most of these websites, you go find the five white guys that are sitting in their suits, and that's the picture to put it on their website. But that is not the picture that gets anyone to want to work with them. And it's hosted on they missed the emotional connection. If you go to one of these, you're watching TV and a commercial comes on to donate money to dogs or to kids, you know, St. Jude's it's an emotional video play and they are raising money from people they don't know No. So it's almost like the attorneys got to catch on law firms got to understand that they got to do the same thing, they got to create emotion, when someone's going through a difficult time. And you they, they want to call you because you show that emotion, in a video on your website, anywhere that that potential client can go and see it, that's what's gonna bring them in.Melissa Costello  10:20  Absolutely. And when we say emotion, emotion isn't just hand wringing and tears. Emotion is a full spectrum, emotion is surprise, emotion is humor. You know, it's this whole spectrum that pulls people in, it's like, oh, my gosh, there are human beings there. They're human beings, they're this is one of the first things that you learn when you go to art school is that one of the things that defines art is surprise. And, you know, like, Oh, I didn't expect to see that, or I didn't expect to hear that. Or the surprise, in terms of a testimonial could be, oh, my goodness, somebody else has experienced that. That's emotion. That's the kind of emotion you want to build into marketing, that engages anyone who goes to your site, you can do it in a website, you can do it in collateral, you can even do it in print. You know, certainly in video, it's easier in video, because video is real time and people moving and the sound of their voice and all of it.Ron Bockstahler  11:21  But if you're putting together a marketing campaign, which this is what every law firm should be looking at as an all all encompassing marketing campaign, you want to have the same messaging going out there. It's just, yeah,Melissa Costello  11:31  well, the thing that consistency does for you, is it doesn't undo you, because it stays the same as it travels, you know, as people experience it. For instance, you know, if I do a really great video, and you put it on a really bad website, and most websites are really bad, they're just incomplete. That's the way I view it. You put it on a really bad website, a visitor to your site goes, which firm? Are they? Are they the website? Or are they the people, the brilliant people in the video? Or are they somewhere not even represented? You know, anytime you raise questions, you lose them, you lose them, if you make them stop and go hang on a minute, they're gone, they're gone. So it's your opportunity,Ron Bockstahler  12:13  which is interesting. You're doing digital marketing, you can measure and you'd have video out there you can measure if people are coming and talking to you from that, versus the billboard that's a big argument with you know, spending a ton of money on those billboards. Are they really effective? Well,Melissa Costello  12:27  you know, they're doing something Otherwise, they wouldn't still be up there. I go ahead.Ron Bockstahler  12:32  No, no, no, I agree. They're doing something if they're being done in conjunction with a really solid digital campaign.Melissa Costello  12:41  You know, I always found it just so curious that, you know, the attorneys who generally advertise on the highways are the PIO attorneys who might be causing accidents, because their billboards. So it's like, it becomes, you know, it's, you know, ethically, I don't know, I don't know, makes me wonder.Ron Bockstahler  13:01  Lot of questions. Let's keep, let's see, is there any one particular area of law that does better with video?Melissa Costello  13:09  Well, I would say yes, certainly, personal injury, big in part. Now, this is a funny thing, in part, because you've got these guys who are just run volume practices, they don't know your name, they don't know your story, they just get in the door and hand you off. And I feel like when a personal injury attorney actually demonstrates that they care, it is flying in the face of that wallpaper of billboards, and of late night TV ads that just, you know, these people why it's so clear why they're doing what they're doing. Let me put it that way. It's about money. It's about a volume practice. So it creates an opportunity for a different kind of pie attorney to demonstrate it to demonstrate it in video to demonstrate it on their website.Ron Bockstahler  13:56  What about family law? Let's talk family news. Some areas of law. Oh, do they all I mean, does everyone benefit from video?Melissa Costello  14:06  Everyone benefits from good video? Yes. You know, it's back to that. What's really expensive, what's really expensive? Is spending any kind of money on video that doesn't represent you and represent your firm. And when I say represent, I mean the why, as well as the What the Who are you? You know, so many websites, so many videos, Rob, you have the pleasure of getting to know someone through conversation, you know, the conversation you and I are having and I'm watching you nod and I'm watching a smile. That needs to be a part of what happens when you go to someone's website. That's the whole purpose. It's an introduction, so why not make it as round and compelling as possible and that means showing up with the why showing up with your humor showing up with your surprises.Ron Bockstahler  14:57  And when they don't. This is what we did do video together and you were amazing, because you sit, you know, they don't see you on a video. But you're the one that's asking questions. You're talking, you're having a conversation. And then the end product is that client that's giving those responses, which, you know, at least I know, for a model office suite, it was amazing. I was like, wow, this is this is crazy good at this. We have so many great clients are saying so many great things that I never would have even thought to ask those questions. And that I think, is what the benefit. That's where law firms attorneys are gonna really benefit from working with Melissa costello.com.Melissa Costello  15:34  Well, thank you, Ron, it's, you know, interviewing. Interviewing is an interesting skill when I started. And I had my production company in Los Angeles, and I was interviewing for Jenny Craig. And I thought it was about getting a really great list of questions. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're not expecting this. And then go plowing through that list so diligently and hang on a minute, don't cut. Let me make sure we haven't forgotten. No, that's not what it's about what I discovered as I became, you know, a more mature and more skilled interviewer. And watched great interviewers like David Axelrod, for instance, what I discovered is, it's about being present for the dialogue. That's really what it is. If you are a good listener, you will have a good interview. Because you have to find that story. It's not something you already necessarily know when you walk into the interview. Yes, I have the basic, okay. The person went here, they were hurt in a car accident, they met this attorney, everything is good. Okay. That's not really the story. The story could be, my daughter was sick. You know, I was at risk of losing my job. I didn't know how. That's the deeper story. And that's, that's what's fun to find.Ron Bockstahler  16:49  Big, I'm thinking to myself, wow, you know how many people I mean, I was, and I mentioned this before, it's like, you have the opportunity to call Melissa Costello and just talk to her about putting together video, to me is amazing. We could all just reach out to you, because you've done so many celebrities, and just obviously super famous people and your experiences is unsurpassed. You are a great storyteller. So I just think it's that connection that you have, if I'm a listener, I'm going to be hanging out as soon as the show's over, I'm going I'm going to give her a call, I want to I need to have her in my office, because I need to understand how I can better connect with more clients or even better connect with my current clients.Melissa Costello  17:26  Thanks, Ron, so much of it is so simple. I will say this, you know, one thing I do you know, for instance, I call it videos, let me back up a second. I call it video centric marketing. Because I lead with video, I lead with your most powerful marketing tool. And then I take everything we gather on the day of the shoot, all of those stories, all of those images, all of those surprises, all of that emotion. And I share it on all media, I put it on your website, I put it in social media, I cut the video down into bite sized chunks, and I share it everywhere. And that is that is the power of consistent storytelling. I mean, I even do something on websites lately. I've been doing something I call case stories forget case studies, case stories, which means Ron box dollar came to me he had been in a car accident and buffet and I tell both sides of the story in a more complete way than I can afford to take the time to do in the video. Because the videos got to be under three minutes. And you got to finish watching it and go, Wow, I just found my law firm. You know, that's my objective.Ron Bockstahler  18:41  Okay, so that made me think you do different types of video because you did. You know, we had a three minute longer video branding video. And I called you and I said, I got a pitch. I'm doing a pitch. And I need a short video. And you cranked out I don't know what like a 32nd client testimonial video. I don't know exactly what you call it. But I was like, wow, like changed everything. Even I was sitting during the pitch I was sitting there going. This is amazing. changed everything. So talk to the different types of videos that are that you put together.Melissa Costello  19:15  Sure, sure, sure. And they're all kinds. They're the typical product that most law firms are interested in is a branding video. So it gets featured at the top of your landing page. And it's, you know, here are the big, you know, the important people in the firm you need to meet you know, here are the founders. And then here are some of their clients. Not every law firm feels comfortable putting their clients on camera. I hear this every time Oh, nobody will agree to do it. And I say you know what, when you have performed the kind of life changing business changing service that you have performed for them, they are delighted and actually honored to be asked. And by the way, they have a great time on the shoot. That's a whole other story. Like I think Your client can go if they want to. They're hanging out. They're hanging out. They're like, this is cool. I'm sorry, I lost my, I lost my thread where it was.Ron Bockstahler  20:09  You know? That's funny because I think I was hesitant that how many clients would sign up and say, hey, yeah, we'll come in and do video. And it was overwhelming. I think we had in two days, it was so many clients. So you're right.Melissa Costello  20:21  It's surprising. It's surprising. But don't you love to help someone who has done something wonderful for you? Absolutely.Ron Bockstahler  20:30  It's a pleasure. It's human nature.Melissa Costello  20:32  It is human nature. So that's your basic branding video. There's, you can also do a straight up testimonial, like you and I did together on a straight up testimonial video just clips of people saying extraordinary things. One client of mine likened it to going to your own funeral without having to die. He said the things I heard them saying I can't. What are they talking about me? Another type of video is you can do practice area videos, you can do bio videos, lino, let's talk about who you are, and why you got into law and you know, give us the whole backstory. Oh, another thing you can do is, you know, I also do animation. It not necessarily, though, actually, the Uniform Law Commission wanted to talk about an animated piece about how a uniform law gets developed, how it gets passed, you know, what that process is like? SoRon Bockstahler  21:27  isn't that when you talk about the bios, I mean, cut you off, but make the attorney human. Exactly making it. So that those prospective clients are going, Man, I just want I connect with this person. Yeah, you know, I mean, how often I talk to family law attorneys that it's not unusual for someone to hire someone and then leave with, you know, six months later, fire them, and jump to someone else. But if they've gone through that video, and they've had that experience, and you're human, it's very unlikely that they're going to do that.Melissa Costello  21:56  And I think it's especially important for legal practices, because there is a great deal of mistrust for attorneys on the street, there is not just PII attorneys, I know from my own experience, looking for a divorce attorney, how harrowing that was, if I could have gone to someone's website, clicked on a button, and countered a human being who actually seemed like they had my best interest at heart, it would have been done deal. And this is the thing, this is the thing about, there's an opportunity here for smaller firms, because big firms are not doing it either, by the way, and when they do it, they do it poorly. So you have the opportunity to not only compete with bigger firms, but to beat bigger firms, if you are doing a better job of representing who you are, what your values are, what life changing things you've done for your clients. It's I don't know why everybody isn't trying to do it. I can't get itRon Bockstahler  22:57  digital marketing world that we're in today, which didn't exist 20 years ago, it has given everyone a level playing field. So if you're out there, and you're picking a business today, and if you get clients, but they're not real repeat business, and you see one firm grow, but that small solo practice has the opportunity to become just as large in today's market if they do it the right way.Melissa Costello  23:18  Mm hmm. And you know what, the smart ones get this, the smart ones there. It's not that they have more money. It's that they recognize that there's something missing from the way they're representing their firm and their work. They get it, they get it before others get it. And in family law, it's incredibly powerful for that reason I was talking about before that, how do I find someone I can trust? How do I find someone who I really think is going to listen? How do I find someone who doesn't view me as a case number, who really views me as a human being as a mother, you know, in a complex network that I'm trying to save and move forward in a safe way?Ron Bockstahler  23:58  We have so much, there's so much there. But I really want to jump into the world of TiC tock videos out there everywhere you see, I've seen a couple of attorneys that are doing their own videos and my old school thought was if you're doing something that's better than nothing, but I'm not always so sure that's the case. When you're doing in I get you try to create something low budget you're trying to get started. But it's just that I guess it's I guess you maybe want to look at what type of clients you want to go after. Mm hmm. And you bring in a professional bringing in Melissa Costello's team and creating thing and by the way, let's talk about B roll footage. So explain to people I guess maybe talk about the process. So I don't think people understand it. Just because I come in for two days. You got footage for two years of new new stuff. So let's talk how it all works.Melissa Costello  24:46  Well, this is you know that my style of shooting is not like anybody else's style of shooting and it's because of my layered history. I did television commercials for quite a few years and then I did political commercials for 11 years. And then I decided to take all the skills that I had learned in those two areas and distill them and create a method of shooting, that would work for a smaller budget, you know, because those were 40 5060 to 100. And, you know, the television commercials were hundreds of 1000s of dollars for a one day shoot. And, you know, without editing, by the way, and you know, the political commercials would be 4050 60,000 a day, well, that's not tenable for the average smaller firm, and I want to work with the smaller front, I want to work with a midsize firm, and help them differentiate. So, damn, I lost my train of what was that? A B roll. My style of shooting. So what I do is I, first of all, I shoot with three cameras, there are three cameras rolling all day long. I'm doing interviews all day back to back to back to back. And the other two cameras are grabbing B roll. What B roll is, it's anything that gets cut into your video, that doesn't feature a person talking on camera. So a person like a newscaster talking on camera. And by the way, this is one of the things I learned in filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute is if what you are looking at is the same thing that as what you are hearing, you are missing 50% of the opportunity to communicate, right? So talking heads, even though you need it because you need to see who is this guy? How does he move? What do I see in his eyes? That's important. But what's equally important is when you get to look at that person in their environment, not talking, what is the office look like? What are their clients look like? How do they look like? They're they have an easy relationship between each other? Can they laugh? Or is it all terribly serious? Does it look respectful? And you know, what's the demographic at this firm? Are there women? Are there people of color? What kind of you know, is there an economic diversity of clients at this firm? All of this is something that gets communicated through B roll. It's the subtext of everything that the attorney says on camera. So you know, this is why this gets into, you know, this is like film class, and I apologize, but this is why it is such a concentrated powerful tool. It's because, you know, the what's the trope, a picture's worth 1000 words, it has been estimated by Forrester Research, I think it is that a minute a video is worth like 1.8 million words or 1.7 million words. How can that possibly be true? It's because of all the things that are unspoken. What am I wearing? Do I nod when I listen to you speak? Am I do I look like a happy person? What's my environment like previous that office, I heard a train go by all of this is subtext. And it is a gift to be able to communicate some of those softer values without having to say, I'm actually a very nice person. If somebody said that on camera, you wouldn't believe them anyway. So that's the value of B roll.Ron Bockstahler  28:20  Here's where I get excited about you social media and video. It's so popular, but you almost have to have it. But you could do shorts, I don't know what the technical icon shorts, quick shorts of that B roll footage where everything you're communicating the atmosphere who you are without saying a word, but you can have a talk over telling another story. I bet it happens more. And I'm going to try to pay attention when I watch TV. Again, in a commercial, what I'm looking at is not someone talking but I'm looking at B roll and someone's talking. It's not the same I bet that happens 95% of the time. But using a quality operation, like what you've done. And what I've experienced with you is I can put out your shorts on social media saying New messages with that B roll that's already been shot time and time and time again. And that the more you do that, whatever the initial cost was, I mean, your ROI just is going it's going to explode. And the business you're going to bring in you at some point want to maybe pause the commercials or do those shorts going on social media because you're gonna have so much work coming in. But here's the great thing is you're running a law firm is stressful, and you got to do so many things. And one of the biggest things that attorneys have to worry about is where's my next client coming in? Because when I'm done with this, you know, it's that it's like all sales, right? The roller coaster goes up and down and things are great. I'm working, I'm busy, busy, but I'm not prospecting my getting a business off sudden, I got nothing. And I got to start the whole process again. But if you had quality video, and you're okay, let me turn my video back on let me put my short school back on social media and then I could just bring in those clients again, it's almost like turning the faucet on. Mm hmm.Melissa Costello  29:51  And in a funny way, you know, the pandemic and zoom has habituated people to communicating like this So I feel like videos even more important than it has ever been. I mean, we all got hooked on it, you know how it is you get on a phone call and you go, yeah, it's kind of flat, the phone is a little bit flat, it's a little empty compared to what I'd become used to communicating with you, as I see right now. You know, the other thing I want to talk about it and social media, social shorts, I agree with you, as I call them to, is, it is so economical to change them up. They are basically a 32nd television commercial or a 22nd, television commercial, they're tight. And, you know, if you create them in a group, they are incredibly affordable, really, the most expensive part is the day of the shoot, that's where the bulk of your money is going, then you've got assets that you can be rolling out, for forever, forever. I mean, unless you leave your firm like that, or you sell your firm or whateverRon Bockstahler  30:57  did your firm but I mean, it's still the same day, you can just recreate using that asset as you go, I love this, you'd say it's an asset, because that's what it is. Now you actually have a marketing asset that you can reuse, you could voiceover for a very long time.Melissa Costello  31:11  Exactly. It's limitless. The problem, actually, the problem is coming up with the best, you know, choose the best idea for the social short, because I, you know, sitting here, the two of us could sit here and talk about a model Office suites, and in one minute have 20 ideas for social shorts. That's the challenge is trying to rein yourself in and do the best 20 That's what it is. I'll tell you,Ron Bockstahler  31:36  Melissa, it's only a challenge when you're sitting with someone that's creative, and understand how to tell a story. That's the difference. You know, I've worked with you I've worked with others. And that is a huge difference. And I just don't think it's prevalent. I don't think a lot of great storytellers are out there that are law firms can go to and say, I want to bring you on to tell our firm story because no one's saying it that way. So when they're saying, hey, I want a videographer to come in and shoot a video.Melissa Costello  32:01  i You're absolutely right. And you have to start with the story. If you don't have there's an old what, how does it go? If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. This is a Hollywood, a Hollywood or maybe it's Broadway, you know, Maxim, that, you know, if you don't have the story, you got nothing. And the same thing is true of a video. And the same thing is true of a website. And I It shocks me that even though 90 At least no, probably more like 95% of all law firm websites are indistinguishable from each other. They are all utterly generic. I mean, you go to the homepage, and you're like, give me can you give me something to sink my teeth into Please, I'm begging you. But oh, my train of thought, let me write stories. That's gonna what store gonnaRon Bockstahler  32:53  run out of time. Okay, here's the great news. Melissa's gonna be coming back. And we are going to co host several shows over the next two months. And we're going to focus on marketing. Marketing is such a big world is so much involved in there's so many different specialty areas. And I think if you know, the law firm, the attorneys I talked to I know or just an even myself, sometimes we're like, wow, this is so overwhelming. Where do I start? How do I go find someone, I'm going to upgrade my website, I'm going to I'm going to do some SEO, or I'm going to do some PPC, but they're not doing it all, you know, as one encompassing, you're basically then a we keep spending money, but not getting the results that in our mind, we think we should get. So we're going to try to help them with that. So Melissa, and I will be interviewing different experts in their area of marketing. Let's understand those areas. And let's find out what they need. It will be taken. I'll set it up so you can feed us Ron be at a matassa calm, you can ask questions, we'll address your questions during the shows, we're gonna have a lot of fun with talking about marketing and how you can make the most of what's out there with the resources you have. Now, I know there's you want to talk about and the investment because you know, videos, not inexpensive. Good video, it's definitely not inexpensive. It's gonna cost you some capital. But the ROI is there. I know you want to chat about that. Let's give us your take.Melissa Costello  34:09  Well, I would say again, because I was explaining earlier about this asset that you create isn't just a video, it creates the content for your website. It creates social media shorts that you send out on a regular basis. So you use the same asset you keep going back to and when I by the way. Another thing that I do whenever I shoot is arguably I give too much content there. There probably is such a thing run you would know. I mean, hours and hours and hours, literally eight hours of interviews with multiple people and eight hours no 16 hours because they're two cameras shooting B roll 16 hours of B roll. I know what to pull out of there. But I think I do are amortizing that shoot day across all these different chains. Animals, that is a great value, that is a terrific value. And the imagery is beautiful. And the quality of the interviews are shared over and over again. And I mean, you could send out a social short, that was nothing but a couple of quotes from people on your video, that would be really powerful just in and out done, and go, Wow. And there are so many moments like that, that we capture over the course of a day. In addition to that, I asked my clients, can you anticipate something that you'd like to talk about perhaps down the road, something you might want to add to your website, something you might want to future in social media, it could be something happening in the industry, it could be something happening in our larger culture, it could be, hey, maybe we want to get video bios in the can and use them down the road, you don't have to spend it all now that's the point. It's an investment that you can roll out, you know, over time, over years, really over years.Ron Bockstahler  36:03  I'm sold on it, I've just seen how it works. It's so effective. But if you want to take the risk of not having a new clients coming in the door, not having the revenue to support your lifestyle, and you know, enjoy your life, because it's all about you know, work life balance. That's what we always talk about. You got to have some video in your marketing blitz, you got also had redefine your marketing, I think, you know, meeting with Melissa, I think that is definitely the first start to understand this. Here's the other thing. I got a lie love by Melissa. It's not about oh, can I get this work? It's about how do we create? What's your story? Let's talk about your story. And let's see isn't an effective a compelling story that we can present to clients? And that's your approach, your approach is just different. It's not about oh, here's my fee, and here's what we're gonna do. No, no, no, no, it's not. Let's talk about your story. And it makes the attorney it makes your clients come out and say, Wow, let me think through what is my story.Melissa Costello  36:56  And it's growing things is growing things. Ron, you and I, this is one of the reasons we always have a lively conversation. We both love to grow things. We both love to make things happen for other people. I mean, when I hear back, you know, from a client, this happened not long ago, a client said, you know how you said, I can't give you an exact measurement of you know, what you can expect video to do. And she said, You're wrong. A week later, I had clients saying, you know, I am hiring you. I saw your video. And now I get what you know, I get how you're different. That's the thing. What differentiates you isn't your practice area, it's you. And that's what's palpable on video in a way that isn't palpable anywhere else. Powerful, huh, we have toRon Bockstahler  37:45  wrap it up. But we will be back. I think our next show that I'm going to have is we got Micah Dylon coming on and we're going to talk about being an author, what's the value of being an author and how that sets you apart in your area of practice. So come back into the next show. But Melissa, I want to leave it back to you as the last words. Last thing you want to communicate more is yours.Melissa Costello  38:04  I would say show up, do whatever you can to show up in you know in your full complexity in your in the richness of who you are as an individual and who you are as a professional. And the best way to do it is on video. The most unforgettable way to do it is on video. It sticks.Ron Bockstahler  38:23  So Melissa, on your website, you got a quote from Mark Lebowski, any firm that doesn't have video and the best video they can afford is losing business every day. They just don't know it.Melissa Costello  38:36  Isn't that amazing? Yeah. Mark. Mark said it was palpable. It was a palpable shift. Yeah,Ron Bockstahler  38:43  it's a must have in today's digital world. Yeah, Melissa, it's been how can our listeners get a hold of you?Melissa Costello  38:51  They can go to my website, Melissa costello.com is my very simply the name of my company and my URL. They can take it my phone number? Absolutely. They can call me at 312305 7500 and leave a message because I don't necessarily pick up calls I don't recognize. But I do get back to people.Ron Bockstahler  39:14  I've always found your really, really easy to get ahold of. So give us a call. I mean best just go to Melissa costello.com. Reach out to her from there, or just continue listening to the 1958. Lawyer Melissa will be co hosting and we'll be talking about marketing. So tune in the next several shows will be dedicated to understanding marketing, what you need, how we will answer any questions. So you know, send in your questions to Ron be at a Mott ofs.com and we will address those questions. Thanks for joining us today. I look forward to hearing from you and having you on the show next month. Thanks, Melissa.Melissa Costello  39:46  Thank you, Ron. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

The Iowa Uniform Trade Secrets Act was created from the uniform trade secrets act drafted and approved by the Uniform Law Commission. This means that most, if not all, of the other states in the U.S. will have the same or similar general law regarding trade secrets. Read the full article here: https://www.oflaherty-law.com/learn-about-law/iowa-trade-secret-violations-under-iowas-uniform-trade-secrets-act O'Flaherty Law now serves over 105 counties across Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. If you have any questions regarding a case or would like to speak to one of our attorneys after watching a #LearnAboutLaw video, give us a call at (630) 324-6666 or send us an email at info@oflaherty-law.com to get in contact with someone from our team. Subscribe to our channel for daily videos dedicated to all things law and leave a comment with any questions about this topic. Find us online for more legal content and to stay connected with our team - Website: https://www.oflaherty-law.com/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oflahertylaw - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oflahertylaw - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oflahertylawGroup/ **None of the content in this series is intended as paid legal advice. In this video, we discuss Iowa trade secret violations under Iowa's Uniform Trade Secrets Act and answer the following questions: What constitutes a trade secret in Iowa?, What constitutes a trade secret violation in Iowa?, What kind of damages are awarded in a trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit?, and What should I do if an employee has disclosed company trade secrets?

Indianapolis attorney Greg Taylor became a member of the Indiana Senate Democratic Caucus after being elected to represent Senate District 33 in November 2008. As a business and government attorney, Taylor joined the Senate with a breadth of knowledge and experience regarding economic development and job creation.In November, 2020, Senator Taylor was elected Indiana State Senate Minority Leader.A member of several local organizations, Taylor understands and appreciates the diversity found in the community and workplace. He has been appointed as a member of the Commission on the Social Status of Black Males, the White River State Park Development Commission, the Uniform Law Commission, the Public Defender Commission, Code Revision Commission as well as the State Fair Advisory Commission.Listen as we discuss the status of the legalization of cannabis in the state of Indiana as it relates to social justice, healthcare and the positive economic implications that it could bring.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/freshemp)

In this episode of The Open Door, panelists Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and Christopher Zehnder talk with D. Alan Shewmon, M.D., on Brain Death and Actual Death. (December 18, 2020)This week on The Open Door we discuss “brain death” and the determination of actual death. The topic brings us to the heart of what it is to respect the dignity of the human being. It is particularly timely, since the Uniform Law Commission is currently studying the possibility of revising the 40-year-old Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA). Our special guest is D. Alan Shewmon, M.D. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. We will ask Dr. Shewmon the following questions. As always, feel free to add to the list!1.Just what is the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), and how did it come about?2.Is the brain the “master integrator” of the body from which it would follow that when the brain stops functioning the body dies, that is, “disintegrates”?3.What inconsistencies do you see between (a) the biological concept of death, (b) the UDDA's criterion of “irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain,” and (c) the diagnostic protocols now considered as the medical standard?4.Can you outline particular cases that help shape your thinking about such inconsistencies?5.Should the UDDA be revised to eliminate its neurological criterion in favor of a circulatory-respiratory criterion of death? 6.How strong is the case for introducing a consciousness or personhood-based criterion concept of death?7.Do you see problems in thinking of brain death as a purely clinical diagnosis?8.What motivates the proposal, on the part of some, to eliminate hypothalamic function from the category of “brain function”?9.Should an apnea test as a part of determining brain death require the consent of a patient's proxy?

In this first episode of PropertyCon Podcast I speak with Professor John Lovett, De Van D. Daggett, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in New Orleans. He has been active as a legal practitioner and a clerk for the United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the past years John has been reporter drafting the Uniform Easement Relocation Act (UERA) under the auspices of the Uniform Law Commission (www.uniformlaws.org). During the podcast we discuss the Uniform Easement Relocation Act, which was inspired by Louisiana law, that - in its turn - is inspired by French law. The UERA offers a unique example of a legal transplant in the area of property law. You can find the UERA here: https://www.uniformlaws.org/viewdocument/final-act-with-comments-51?CommunityKey=ec690784-90d6-42c3-99ea-1e13a49c8540&tab=librarydocuments More information on John Lovett: https://www.loyno.edu/academics/faculty-and-staff-directory/john-lovett Please follow PropertyCon at @PropConOnline on twitter and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Almost all states have adopted marketplace facilitator laws, which require online platform operators to collect sales tax on behalf of sellers. But the laws are a patchwork of different rules and definitions. In this episode, Matt Hunsaker discusses efforts to promote uniformity, including the Multistate Tax Commission, Uniform Law Commission, National Conference of State Legislatures, and the Council on State Taxation. Questions & Comments: mhunsaker@bakerlaw.com bakerlaw.com/matthunsaker

A discussion of The Uniform Law Commission’s new Electronic Wills Act from ACTEC Fellows that chaired the drafting committee. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, ACTEC, is a professional society of peer-elected trust and estate lawyers in the United States and around the globe. This series offers professionals best practice advice, insights and commentary on subjects that affect the profession and clients. Learn more in this podcast.

Christopher Robertson is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. He is affiliated faculty with the Petrie Flom Center for Health Care Policy, Bioethics and Biotechnology at Harvard, and a reporter for the Health Law Monitoring Committee of the Uniform Law Commission. Robertson also founded the Regulatory Science Program, with support from the University’s four health science colleges. You can read Dr. Robertson’s full bio here: https://law.arizona.edu/christopher-robertson Books by Christopher Robertson Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It https://www.amazon.com/Exposed-Health-Insurance-Incomplete-about/dp/0674972163/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Christopher+Robertson%2C+Exposed%3A+Why+Our+Health+Insurance+Is+Incomplete+and+What+Can+Be+Done+about+It&qid=1585515418&sr=8-1 Nudging Health:  Behavioral Economics and Health Law https://www.amazon.com/Nudging-Health-Law-Behavioral-Economics/dp/1421421011/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Nudging+Health%3A+Behavioral+Economics+and+Health+Law&qid=1585515518&sr=8-2 Blinding as a Solution to Bias:  Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law https://www.amazon.com/Blinding-Solution-Bias-Strengthening-Biomedical/dp/0128024607/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Blinding+as+a+Solution+to+Bias%3A+Strengthening+Biomedical+Science%2C+Forensic+Science%2C+and+Law&qid=1585515575&sr=8-1

Special Episode 2 Decoding the New Mexico Legislative Process  Host Rhiannon Samuel, Executive Director of Viante New Mexico, talks with the Legislative Council Services’ Raul Burciaga to explain how New Mexico’s legislative process works and how it is different from other states.   Hosts & Guests Rhiannon Samuel Raul Burciaga  Resources Common Ground Issues Viante's Process  Join Viante New Mexico Download Episode About This Episode Host Rhiannon Samuel, Executive Director of Viante New Mexico, talks with the Legislative Council Services’ Raul Burciaga to explain how New Mexico’s legislative process works and how it is different from other states.   The New Mexico Legislative Council appointed Raúl Burciaga as the Director of the Legislative Council Service (LCS) in 2010.  He has primary responsibility for administration of the LCS, the nonpartisan drafting and legal research agency of the New Mexico Legislature.  Additionally, he is responsible for the control, care, custody and maintenance of the State Capitol, the grounds and other legislative buildings.  Raúl is a member of the New Mexico Compilation Commission, which oversees the compilation and publishing of New Mexico laws, and he’s a member the national Uniform Law Commission, which recommends uniform laws for states to consider enacting.  Raúl joined the LCS in July 2000 after graduating from the University of New Mexico School of Law.  Before attending law school, he worked for 15 years in the administration of federal health care programs.  He has been lead staff for numerous legislative interim committees, task forces and other work groups.  From 2000 to 2007, he served as the primary bill drafter and legal research attorney for health care legislation.  He has worked on impeachment investigation committees and as staff to legislative ethics committees.  He served as the LCS assistant director for drafting services from 2004 until 2010, when he became director.  He is a licensed attorney in New Mexico.        Recent Posts NM Legislature 2020: Expectations and Predictions by Rhiannon Samuel | Jan 17, 2020 | Podcasts, UncategorizedSpecial Episode 3 NM Legislature 2020: Expectations and PredictionsHost Rhiannon Samuel, Executive Director of Viante New Mexico, talks with longtime New Mexico political journalist, Dan McKay, about the political landscape of the state legislature and the upcoming... Decoding the New Mexico Legislative Process  by Rhiannon Samuel | Jan 10, 2020 | Podcasts, UncategorizedSpecial Episode 2 Decoding the New Mexico Legislative Process Host Rhiannon Samuel, Executive Director of Viante New Mexico, talks with the Legislative Council Services’ Raul Burciaga to explain how New Mexico’s legislative process works and how it is different from... What is a Citizen Legislature? by Viante New Mexico | Jan 3, 2020 | New Mexico Legislature, PublicWhat is a Citizen Legislature? Here in New Mexico, we have what is called a “citizen legislature”, meaning that our state lawmakers do not receive a salary and typically have full-time occupations outside of their legislative duties. This system was implemented over...

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Joni lived in a religious cult for 13 years where her true self became buried, sharing “It’s sort of an abdication of your own responsibility to stay in charge of yourself. That’s the cult experience, but you can get that experience outside of being in a cult.” Hear how saying “no” fueled the courage to move forward with a high school education and four small daughters, ultimately becoming a Circuit Court Judge. Joni’s honesty about “The grip of what I saw for myself was different than the circumstances I found myself in - the fight was for myself” is pure inspiration for all!Joni Clark is a judge for the Second Judicial Circuit in South Dakota. She was elected to that position in 2015 after serving as a Magistrate Judge. Prior she was an elected South Dakota State Representative for eight years and a State Senator for two where she led extensive public advocacy work in the areas of banking, trust, business, criminal justice and civil/criminal laws. Joni has been the only woman to Chair a SD House Judiciary Committee. Additionally she was Chair for the revision of the SD Criminal Code (only 2nd revision in SD history) and Co-Chair of the Legislature Executive Committee. During her tenure, she led significant national and international efforts with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) as Chair of the Law and Justice Committee, and appointment to the Executive Committee.Throughout Joni’s career she has been a champion for the advocacy issues of women and children. She served as the attorney for the SD Network Against Family Violence & Sexual Assault. Joni was a member of the national Uniform Law Commission on Human Trafficking and the US Commission on Civil Rights. Additionally she was the Divisional Dean of the Criminal Justice and Public Administration program at Colorado Technical University. Her experience includes extensive presentations, published articles and awards.Joni graduated from Augustana College/University of Sioux Falls and the University of South Dakota School of Law. She has a National Judicial College General Jurisdiction Certificate and an Executive Education Certificate from the Kennedy School of Government. Joni is a mom and grandmother with four grown daughters.

Divorce affects the design of a family. How do you negotiate now to avoid complications and ease tensions down the road, especially when it comes to a new step or blended family? This episode will help you figure out how to do just that. Key Points:  - Take a peak into the future to see what life after divorce looks like for many people - Better understand the difference between "blended" and "step" family - Consider how the financial terms you create NOW play out LATER - especially when someone re-marries. - Tips to create a mindfully-constructed agreement and parenting plan.  Sponsored by Main Line Family Law Center For more information, please visit: Main Line Family Law Center at https://myhealthydivorce.com Episode Host, Adina Laver, Founder, Courage to Be Curious, (formerly Divorce Essentials) Find Adina Laver at: https://couragetobecurious.com Guest: Dr. Margorie Engel About Margorie: Margorie Engel, MA, MBA, PhD, is an author, speaker, and media consultant specializing in families complicated by divorce and remarriage. Dr. Engel's specific areas of expertise are in family finance, law, and social policy.  A past president of the Stepfamily Association of America, she is a founding member of the National Stepfamily Resource Center at Auburn University and its Stepfamily Expert Council. Dr. Engel also participates in projects of The Uniform Law Commission that provides states with non-partisan, well conceived, and well drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law. She is currently observing the work of the Drafting Committee on Non-Parental Rights to Child Custody and Visitation. A member of a stepfamily for 30 years, she has five daughters (combination of bios and steps), five sons-in-law, 16 grandchildren, and one great-grandson – giving a large stepfamily age-range from one month to 76 years.  Their daughters were all teenagers when Stephen and Margorie were married and - everyone has survived!

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law.

A discussion of the Uniform Law Commission’s new Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act, UFIPA, created in July 2018. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, ACTEC, is a professional society of peer-elected trust and estate lawyers in the United States and around the globe. This series offers professionals best practice advice, insights, and commentary on subjects that affect the profession and clients. Learn more in this podcast.

Blockchain attorney Morvareed Salehpour takes us into the rabbit hole on the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act. Why is this important? After all, crypto is borderless! That is true, but U.S. businesses have to comply with federal and state laws – which can be a patchwork of different regulations, sometimes without much guidance as to how they should be applied. We talk about the Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit organization that was established in 1892 to look at variations and similarities in state laws, and propose uniform laws that all the states can adopt to make things easier for business. The Uniform Law Commission has proposed a piece of legislation that has now been introduced by five states including California.If passed, it will affect businesses that exchange, transfer or store virtual currency – including the exchange of digital representations of value in online games. Potentially, this can improve the cost of compliance for cryptocurrency and related businesses. However, this is a long range project, since each state must adopt the proposed legislation.Some companies have gone out of business trying to cope with the cost of compliance. Morvareed proposes that clear guidance in the form of regulation will stimulate business. In fact, the existing Uniform Commercial Code, first proposed in 1940, took more than 20 years for full adoption, and has been called “the backbone of American commerce.”LINKS FROM THIS EPISODESalehpour Legal ConsultingLinkedInTwitterThe Uniform Law CommissionThe Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses ActCalifornia AB1489Uniform Commercial CodeOne Dozen Rabbits is a podcast of The Rabbit Hole, a woman-powered blockchain community. We are building the community we want to see for the success of all. Producers: Ann Willmott & Zayi Reyes SPONSORTo make this podcast, we turned to the best resource we know, vo2gogo, and got ramped up fast. Get the special Rabbit Hole price on Mastering Audio Podcasting parts 1 and 2, and you will also get two 30-minute private coaching sessions. Want to podcast like a pro? This is how.FOLLOW US DOWN THE RABBIT HOLERabbitHole.network@rabbithodl on Twitter

On this episode of #TheCryptoShowHawaii local crypto advocate Alex Paer discusses the crypto Hawaii groups strategy to make inroads with legislators for a more crypto friendly Hawaii. Tim Houk also in studio shares his take on trading and investing in crypto. The Colin Gallahger joins the show to expand on Alex's topic of legislation. Colin has been very active in the California fight against oppressive crypto legislation. Colin also proves to be very versed in other crypto laws all around the country. Show notes: ULC (Uniform Law Commission) is pushing bitlicense again with the help of Coin Center and others. The larger community has defeated their bilicense efforts before - three times in California since 2015, two times in Alaska, two times before in Hawaii, and the community has defeated ULC bitlicense once in every other state it has been introduced in since 2015. Bitlicense has NEVER been made law in ANY U.S. state - not even in NY where it was passed by regulatory action. Here we are ready to defeat it a fourth time in California! Colin Gallagher suggests the community create OUR OWN bill, different than the below, that would create a security standard for exchanges - NOT another permit requirement. Colin feels that all of the below bills are NOT recoverable and that we need to DEFEAT, not try to amend them. Below are 2019 proposed bitlicense garbaggio bills. OPPOSE. AB1489 (CA Bitlicense): https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1489 Versions in other states: Nevada's SB195: https://legiscan.com/NV/bill/SB195/2019 Oklahoma's HB1954: https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/HB1954/2019 Hawaii's SB250 https://legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB250/2019 Hawaii's HB70 https://legiscan.com/HI/bill/HB70/2019 California's AB953 (Stablecoins/Cannabis) https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB953 Rhode Island has also just introduced language supported by the Uniform Law Commission and the Conference of State Banking Supervisors about virtual currency law - a proposed Rhode Island bitlicense and other bills. OPPOSE. Colin's Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/aupvig/time_to_fire_up_a_million_angry_kitt3hs_again/ Shilling for bitlicense: Uniform Law Commission Various Banks Facebook (follow the money - note they are contributing to legislators who are pushing AB 1489, AB 953, and other similarly crummy bills in California https://CoinCenter.org https://Blockadvocacy.org Ghost Management Coinbase Robinhood Others brief amendment to show notes I provided. The Rhode Island proposed bitlicense from the ULC is found here: https://legiscan.com/RI/text/H5776/2019

Texas A&M Law Professor William Henning is a former Executive Director of the Uniform Law Commission and has fingerprints on and has his fingerprints on laws in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands that affect your everyday life. He talks with Jon this week about some of the laws he's helped draft and enact, and just how far ranging the work of the ULC is.

Today with talk with the expert in the field of heirs' property rights, Texas A&M Law Professor Thomas Mitchell. Prof. Mitchell is the primary drafter of a policy crafted through the Uniform Law Commission that is in effect in 12 states and has been introduced in 7 more states and the District of Columbia. We talk about the conversations and research that started Prof. Mitchell down the path to write these laws, some of the biggest challenges that he and his coalition faced getting the policy enacted in one state, and as he puts it, "battling the ghost of Strom Thurmond."

In this episode of Sara and Josh Talk About Drones, Sara Baxenberg and Josh Turner talk about drone torts, property rights, and the Uniform Law Commission. Tune in and learn why what happened this weekend in a basement in Detroit could have profound impacts on the future of flight.

Have you ever wondered what the attitudes of lawmakers and regulators are towards privacy issues with Bitcoin and privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Monero? This past week, I traveled to Coin Center in Washington, DC to talk with Jerry Brito (Coin Center's Executive Director) and Peter Van Valkenburgh (Research Director) about the regulatory environment and congressional attitudes towards privacy-centric projects in the space.   In this episode, we talk about recent headlines including the Coinbase/IRS John Doe summons case and the Uniform Law Commission's recent cryptocurrency model state law work. Then we talk about financial surveillance law and how privacy projects fit within the regulatory environment in the United States, the importance of distinguishing between open and closed blockchains, and how the Monero community might be able to get involved in Coin Center's advocacy.   Whether you're an American wondering about your rights or about the legal issues with cryptocurrencies or are from another country and simply interested in gaining an insight into American attitudes towards these projects, this episode offers over an hour of in depth and thoughtful information.   If you're interested in reading more about Jerry and Peter's work, check out CoinCenter.org. There you can find the Open Matters paper we discussed in the episode and much more.   Music featured in the show is "The Grind" by Justin Maher and used under a Creative Commons License. https://musopen.org/music/1652/justin-mahar/the-grind/    Interested in trying out cloud computing? Visit https://moneromonitor.com/do for info on how to get $10 towards your first compute node at DigitalOcean (where we host our site!).   Enjoy the show? Please consider donating: 47SMPWHYcn5AfKzYF3c6cX94dCNcijKfdMgkCBTEmMtG4q9u9GdN7YdAmP777hfkmg52xntkDyxwh3nKcdGa2eApFAe5oZx

Legal Talk from Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay All of us at Against The Grain - The Podcast have been busy lining up great new content and interviews for future episodes. Due to scheduling issues and Leah Hind’s trip to France for a conference, we had a gap to fill in the podcast schedule. Fortunately two of our regular contributors to the Against The Grain journal, Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay were able to step in and put together a quick conversation around banned books (specifically D. H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”) and the resulting litigation that ensued. Bruce Strauch, The Citadel, Professor of Business Law (Retired) Bruce Strauch, J.D. is a Professor of Business Law and Director of the Citadel Mentors Program. He holds degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and Oxford, is extensively published in the field of copyright and trademark, is the author of nine novels and the publisher of a trade journal of the scholarly publishing industry. His wife Katina is the founder of the Charleston Conference and Assistant Dean for Technical Services and Collection Development at the College of Charleston (SC) Libraries; his son is a U.S. Army major and his daughter a medical doctor. Bill Hannay Partner, Schiff, Hardin, LLP William M. Hannay regularly represents corporations and individuals in civil and criminal matters, involving federal and state antitrust law and other trade regulation laws. He is an Adjunct Professor, teaching courses at IIT/Chicago-Kent law school in antitrust, intellectual property, and international business transactions, and is the author or editor of several books on antitrust and intellectual property law, including "The Corporate Counsel's Guide to Unfair Competition," soon to be published by Thomson Reuter's West Publishing. He is a frequent lecturer at The Charleston Conference. Mr. Hannay is active in the American Bar Association and is currently Co-Chair of the Joint Editorial Board for International Law, which is co-sponsored by the Uniform Law Commission and the ABA. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York District Attorney's Office and was a law clerk for Justice Tom Clark on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center. We also have another weekly update from Katina Strauch from her rumors segment. Katina’s Notes: As you all might suspect it is getting HOT in Charleston! Air conditioning becomes essential and it’s time for flip flops and shorts and t-shirts. Speaking of t-shirts, I signed up for one from AAAS online to support science. I also noticed that Gale (and probably others) are into the t-shirt movement. Let’s pull out all our old Charleston Conference t-shirts! We are gearing up for the 37th Charleston Conference – What’s Past Is Prologue. As you all know, the dates have been moved up slightly making many of you very happy! November Nov 6 – 7: Pre-conferences; November 7: Vendor Showcase, November 8 – 10: Main Conference. Our keynote speakers are – Brewster Kahle Founder of the Internet Archive, the San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". Loretta Parham (CEO and Director of the Atlanta University Center). Loretta is the 2017 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, and Georgios Papadopoulos, the founder and CEO of Atypon which recently sold to John Wiley. More speakers will be announced soon! charlestonlibraryconference.com PS Did you see that Loretta Parham is on the cover of the April, 2017 College & Research Libraries! The Charleston Conference Call for Papers was posted this week. Submit your proposal! Please! http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/call-for-papers/ Listen up! The innovator extraordinaire, Mark Sandler has won the 2017 Hugh Atkinson Award. Mark is the principal in Novel Solutions Consulting. He is indeed a leader of great vision with exceptional persuasive skills! Congratulations, Mark! Hip Hip Hooray! When I talked to Mark the other day, he and his wife were headed to Canada where they are planning to board a flight to Scotland! Just got an email from Mark Herring, the Director of Libraries at Winthrop. For those of you who are looking for a position in libraries, Mark has a few good ones. Head of Content Services and Library Development (http://bit.ly/2oRpBPv) And Acquisitions and Collections Management Librarian (http://bit.ly/2plFmzq). These are now posted on the ATG Newschannel at: http://www.against-the-grain.com/category/jobs/ ”Naked Lunch: The Musical” will be performed at St. Sebastian Players Theatre in Chicago June1, 2, and 3. It features the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer who are portrayed by several of Bill’s Yale Class of 1966. Naked Lunch is about one of the last landmark decisions on obscenity in the 20th Century and was just featured on Broadwayworld.com! http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/NAKED-LUNCH-THE-MUSICAL-Comes-to-St-Sebastian-Players-Theatre-20170420 Just reading about the Houghton Library at 75, A Celebration of its Collection a new book by Heather Cole and John Overholt which is due to be released on my mother’s birthday May 8. Houghton Library ― the primary repository for Harvard University’s rare books, manuscripts, and much more ― celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2017. Houghton’s holdings span nearly the entire history of the written word, from papyrus to the laptop. This anniversary volume presents a snapshot of the unique items that fill the library’s shelves. From miniature books composed by a teenage Charlotte Brontë to a massive medieval manuscript hymnbook; from the plays of Shakespeare to costume designs for Star Trek; and from the discoveries of Copernicus to the laptops of twenty-first century writers, the selections celebrate great achievements in many and diverse fields of human endeavor. I Hope to buy a copy! www.amazon.com Meanwhile, talk to y’all next time and happy summer! Katina  

Once again, the Long Arm of the Law session lights the Charleston Conference stage! In this year's session, returning favorite attorney Bill Hannay (Schiff Hardin LLP) informs the audience about the latest court cases and rulings that impact us in libraries and the information industry. For example, did you know that in September 2016 the New Delhi high court dismissed suits by three international publishers against the sale of photocopied books and pages in Delhi University? This is a verdict likely to have a wide-reaching impact on copyright laws in India. Could the case have impact more broadly? Also this year, we're particularly fortunate to be joined by first-time Charleston attendee Mark Seeley, General Counsel of Elsevier B.V. since 1995. Mark serves as Senior Vice President, heading up a legal department of 10 lawyers based throughout Europe and the United States. In his role, he is responsible for corporate organization and compliance, mergers, acquisitions, copyright policy and enforcement. Mark is a well-known figure in our community: many of us have met and interacted with him over the years. Mark will speak about "A Day in the Life of a Publisher's Attorney." Mark Seeley's Presentation PDF Bill Hannay's Presentation PDF Ann Okerson (Moderator),Center for Research Libraries,Senior Advisor to CRL Ann Okerson joined the Center for Research Libraries in fall 2011 as Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, working with that organization to reconfigure and redirect various existing programs into digital mode. Previous experience includes 15 years as Associate University Librarian for Collections & International Programs at Yale University; prior to that she worked in the commercial sector, and also for 5 years as Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at the Association of Research Libraries. Upon joining Yale, she organized the Northeast Research libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 28 large and over 80 smaller libraries negotiating for electronic information. She is one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). Activities include projects, publications, advisory boards, and speaking engagements worldwide, as well as professional awards. She is a leader in licensing electronic scholarly resources, having developed a model license adapted widely by libraries and organizations. Over the years, Okerson has also been active in IFLA and has served on its Governing Board and as Chair of its Professional Activities.Following with her love of both international and cooperative projects, she is also currently working with CERN's SCOAP3 project, as the National Contact Person (NCP) for US academic libraries. Mark Seeley,Elsevier,General Counsel Mark Seeley is Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Elsevier, and splits his time between the Cambridge, Massachusetts office and the Amsterdam headquarters. Elsevier is a leading publisher and information provider in science and health, and is part of the RELX group. Mark leads an international team of publishing and sales lawyers. The Global Rights (Rights & Permissions) team also reports to Mark. Mark also serves on the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center. Mark chairs the Copyright & Legal Affairs Committee of the International Association of STM Publishers, and is a member of the AAP (Association of American Publishers) Copyright Committee. He is a regular contributor to STM association papers on copyright issues and best practices guidelines for research journal publishing, and is a frequent speaker at copyright, publishing and other industry conferences and events. Mark also tweets occasionally (see https://twitter.com/marklseeley), recently on the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty. Education: Thomas Jefferson College, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA (B.Ph, Literature); Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Mass., USA (J.D., cum laude). Member, Massachusetts and New York bars.   William M. Hannay, Partner, Schiff, Hardin, LLP William M. Hannay regularly represents corporations and individuals in civil and criminal matters, involving federal and state antitrust law and other trade regulation laws. He is an Adjunct Professor, teaching courses at IIT/Chicago-Kent law school in antitrust, intellectual property, and international business transactions, and is the author or editor of several books on antitrust and intellectual property law, including "The Corporate Counsel's Guide to Unfair Competition," soon to be published by Thomson Reuter's West Publishing. He is a frequent lecturer at The Charleston Conference. Mr. Hannay is active in the American Bar Association and is currently Co-Chair of the Joint Editorial Board for International Law, which is co-sponsored by the Uniform Law Commission and the ABA. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York District Attorney's Office and was a law clerk for Justice Tom Clark on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center.  

Bill Hannay, Censorship and "Naked Lunch: The Musical" Did you know that some of your favorite books and literature have been considered obscene? They may have even been banned from libraries and forbidden distribution. On today’s episode we hear from Bill Hannay about banned books, obscenity trials and the four-year trial that the author of the book “Naked Lunch” endured. All this, and a musical on the thirteenth episode of Against The Grain, The Podcast. William M. Hannay, Partner, Schiff, Hardin, LLP William M. Hannay regularly represents corporations and individuals in civil and criminal matters, involving federal and state antitrust law and other trade regulation laws. He is an Adjunct Professor, teaching courses at IIT/Chicago-Kent law school in antitrust, intellectual property, and international business transactions, and is the author or editor of several books on antitrust and intellectual property law, including "The Corporate Counsel's Guide to Unfair Competition,” soon to be published by Thomson Reuter's West Publishing. He is a frequent lecturer at The Charleston Conference. Mr. Hannay is active in the American Bar Association and is currently Co-Chair of the Joint Editorial Board for International Law, which is co-sponsored by the Uniform Law Commission and the ABA. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York District Attorney's Office and was a law clerk for Justice Tom Clark on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center.