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Webinars for Business Owners and C-level Executives

This outstanding webinar series is co-produced with SBAC for business owners and C-level executives.

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From Start Up to Grown Up (Also co-produced by West LegalEd)
Webinars in this series discuss issues of interest to entrepreneurs and the professionals who advise them.  Content focus is on the legal and financial challenges, and opportunities, facing start-up companies and their founders.  Audience members will include trusted advisors to entrepreneurs as well as their trusted advisors.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Common Struggles of the Entrepreneur
• So, You’re Hiring Your First Full Time Employee?
• So, You’re Ready to Move Out of the Garage?
• Selling a Piece Yourself

Marketing Your Business
The Marketing Your Business Series is aimed at the small and medium sized business (up to $100 million in revenue) owner and executive, and cover all aspects of marketing, PR, and sales. The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Marketing v PR v Sales:  Understanding the Big Picture
• How to Write a Marketing Plan
• Marketing 101 for the Small Business
• Marketing 201 for the Small Business
• Social Media 101
• Social Media 201

Protecting Your Business and Yourself
Businesses, and their principals, must manage risk.  This series focuses on best practices for business owners and executives to protect their business- as well as their personal assets.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Personal Asset Protection
• Best Practices for Managing and Protecting your Virtual Assets

Access to Capital (Also co-produced by West LegalEd)
Cash is the lifeblood of any business and growing businesses almost always require outside financing.  This series explores various funding sources and how businesses can best prepare to tap them.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Getting Ready to Secure a Loan
• Negotiating a Loan Agreement
• Alternative Financing
• Really Alternative Financing
• SBA 504
• SBA 7a
• Looking For an Equity Partner

Finance and Accounting for the Non-Accountant and Non-CFO
Bad things happen when only the CFO or Controller understands the finances of a business.  And business lawyers who do not understand these subjects are limited in how well they serve their clients.   It doesn’t have to be that way; finance and accounting are not inherently difficult to understand.  This series will entertain as it educates and should be a must-attend for everyone in your organization.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• The Income Statement
• The Balance Sheet
• Cash is King
• Key Ratios
• Controls to Prevent and Detect Fraud
• Financing Basics

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
say leaders are born.  We don’t think so.  Leaders can be trained.  This series does that.  The webinar that constitutes this series is:

• Executive Coaching / Leadership Training

Turning Around Your Business
A stressed or distressed company is not doomed to fail; turnarounds are possible, though not easy.  This series presents practical and actionable steps a business and its advisors can take to right the ship. The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Are Your Employees Stealing From You?
• Evaluating a Company / All About Cash
• Planning and Executing a Turnaround
• Managing the Change Process
• Planning the End Game
• Cleaning Up the Aftermath

Webinars for Attorneys, Trusted Advisors, and C-Level Executives

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Complex Financial Litigation
This series deconstructs common business disputes, providing a guide on how to litigate each from beginning to end.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Fighting Over Value in a Business Divorce
• Earn-out Disputes
• Lost Profit Cases
• Valuation Fights in Bankruptcy
• Resolving Shareholder Disputes
• Was the Debtor Insolvent?

Private Company M&A Bootcamp 2013
This popular series returns for the second year, taking its audience through a thorough introductory course on mergers and acquisitions.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Fundamental Concept #1
• Fundamental Concept #2
• Process
• Special Issues
• Negotiating the Deal

Restructuring, Insolvency & Distressed Investing 2013
This series features some of the world’s top restructuring professionals talking about the basics nuts and bolts of what they do and how they do it. Designed to be extremely plain English, for the non-expert, this series is a must-attend for anyone who expects to deal with a distressed company in 2013.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses
• Everything the GC Should Know About Chapter 11
• How to Buy a Distressed Business/Assets Outside of Bankruptcy
• Creditor Bootcamp
• Basics of Bankruptcy Litigation for the Non-Bankruptcy Litigator
• Bankruptcy for Fun and Profit:  Claims Trading and 363 Sales

Intellectual Property-101
Intellectual property law is becoming increasingly important to understand, at least on a basic level. This series breaks IP law down into manageable bites that any non-IP lawyer (and any non-lawyer) can understand.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• IP issues in Setting Up a Website
• Representing Innovators and Inventors
• Choosing and Protecting Your Name and Brand
• Trade Secrets and Confidentiality
• Buying and Selling IP

Business Law Dumbed Down
These webinars are designed for the general practitioner and young lawyer looking for an introductory session.  The webinars that constitute this series include:

• How to Negotiate a Commercial Lease
• What you Must Know Before You Draft Any Contract
• Roadmap to Buying a Business
• Roadmap to Selling a Business
• Basics of Starting a Business
• ESOPs- The Most Underused Succession Planning Tool
• Drafting an LLC Operating Agreement

Webinars for Accredited Investors

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The JOBS Act: what every Accredited Investor Must Know (Also co-produced by SBAC)

• What Does it Mean to be an Accredited Investor?
• How Do you Substantiate Your Status as an Accredited Investor?
• Navigating the World of Investment Opportunities Available to Accredited Investors

The JOBS Act: what issuers and their advisors Must Know (Also co-produced by West LegalEd)

• Who is an Accredited Investor Under the Revised Standards?
• General Solicitation and Advertising in Private Offerings
• Verifying and Documenting Accredited Investor Status