Bench & Bar March/April 2025

SPOTLIGHT

JUNE 5

THURSDAY Earn up to 6 CLE credits, including 2 ethics credits.

DR. DEBRA AUSTIN is a nationally recognized expert in lawyer well-being and author of The Legal Brain: A Lawyer’s Guide to Well-being and Better Job Performance .

CAMILLE VASQUEZ specializes in high-profile litigation and complex legal disputes and is well known for representing Johnny Depp in the defamation case that he brought against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. FEATURE OTHER GREAT CLE TOPICS: Supreme Court Rules Hearing, Providing Law-Related Services, Kentucky’s Expungement Laws, Education Law, Unclaimed Property, Technology in the Courtroom, and more!

FRIDAY Earn up to 6 CLE credits, including 2 ethics credits JUNE 6

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JIM HIGDON is the co-founder and chief communications officer of Cornbread Hemp. He is also the author of The Cornbread Mafia , a nonfiction account of his Kentucky hometown’s outlaw cannabis operation.

CREIGHTON WATERS serves as Chief Attorney, State Grand Jury Section for the Office of the South Carolina Attorney General. Most notably, he was the lead prosecutor in the Alex Murdaugh case featured in the Netflix series, Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal . FEATURE

ON-DEMAND AVAILABLE MAY 1 – JUNE 30, 2025 ON-DEMAND TOPICS: Survival Guide for Tax Audits, Immigration Law, Hidden Assets, and more! Earn up to 6 hours of CLE credit, including 2 ethics credits.

OTHER GREAT CLE TOPICS: Navigating AI in Legal Practice, Jury Selection, Bankruptcy News, Ethical Considerations in Closed and Settled Cases, and Corporate Transparency Act Update, to name a few!

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