Founded in 1989 by Leo C. DiEgidio, the Academy of Continuing Legal Education seeks to provide classes which will be useful to small-office practitioners who encounter a wide variety of legal issues of concern to individuals, families, and small businesses. The Academy has engaged judges, magistrates, administrative hearing officers, and experienced private practitioners, to present a continuing series of three-hour presentations at various locations around Ohio, each of which is approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio toward fulfilling an Ohio attorney's biennial requirement of continuing education.
Since 1994, the Academy has presented an annual week-long seminar, each of which have provided from fourteen to twenty hours of CLE, each seminar including the mandatory instruction in Ethics and Substance Abuse, and since 1998 including the mandatory instruction in Professional Responsibility.
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A historical review of the 1994 to 2006 Annual Seminars. The photograph shows Academy members Mark Stefan and Chris Mallin (partially obscured by specimen of local fauna), in philosophical discussion between classes during the 1996 Seminar, presented in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, November 15 - 25. (Cuidado! Past performance is not a guarantee of future results!) |
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The Academy has adopted a Registration Fee Discount schedule for Advance Registrations for attorneys employed by those County Prosecutors and other county offices which have very small staffs. That Fee Discount Schedule is online at http://academyofcle.com/Discount.pdf.
Economic circumstances have made it necessary, for the first time in 2009, for the Academy to establish formal policies for Registrations, Payments, Cancellations and Refunds. Those policies are online at http://academyofcle.com/RegPolicy.pdf.
The Academy presents a one-day Election Law program April 7, 2010. The program will focus on issues relating to Campaign Finance, the Partisan Primary, and Minor Party and Independent Candidacies, including discussion of The United States Supreme Court decision of January 21, 2010, on corporate and union advertising in election campaigns. Details, a program outline, and a registration form are available here.
The Academy will present another one-day Foreclosure Law program as the Attorney-General's lawsuit against HomEq Servicing, claiming violations of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, and private litigation advancing similar claims against HomEq, develop.
The Academy is considering a program on Small Business issues, to include choice of entity, procedure for creation of entity, debt and equity financing, taxation, sale of entity, merger, dissolution, domestic relations and probate considerations. Specifcs will be posted when a decision is made. Suggestions are invited, AcademyofCLE@aol.com.
The Academy contemplates a November 8 and 9, 2010, program, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, with an environmental law theme, to celebrate the economic recovery. Details will be posted online at http://academyofcle.com/sem10nov.htm when that decision is made. Mark your calendars for Veterans Day 2010.
For email information concerning classes or registration, inquire AcademyofCLE@aol.com. Telephone (330) 592-4513.
The Academy's Founder, Leo C. DiEgidio, passed away September 17, 1996. For a brief look at some of Leo's many accomplishments, click here.
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