Total Credits: 3 CLE, 3 Ethics
This seminar will discuss ways to handle difficult people in the law office, in court, and in life. We will talk about possible reasons behind certain actions and provide tools to help you de-escalate or redirect a difficult situation. Attorneys, assistants, and staff are encouraged to attend.
Faculty:
Gloria Cales, Gloria L. Cales PC
David Horowitz, Warner Angle Hallam Jackson & Formanek
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David Horowitz has significant experience in all child-related issues, including step-parent adoption, grandparents' rights, parenting coordination, same-sex parenting, and guardianship/conservatorship. His practice also offers guidance with prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements, complex divorce (including business valuation and complex custody and child support issues), collaborative divorce, mediation, arbitration, and court-appointed special master services. He is also a respected mediator in family law disputes and serves as a judge pro tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court. David is a Certified Family Law Specialist (Arizona Board of Legal Specialization) and a Super Lawyers honoree. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, serves on the Academy's board of governors, and chairs its Mediation Committee. He is the current chair of the State Bar of Arizona's Board of Legal Specialization Family Law Advisory Commission and an officer of the State Bar's Family Law Executive Council. David teaches Family Law and Legal Studies at Phoenix College and has been an adjunct faculty member at the Phoenix School of Law and Arizona Summit Law School. He has been practicing in Arizona for over 30 years. He received his B.S.B.A. in Business Economics (1987) from the University of Arizona Eller College of Management and his J.D. (1990) from the University of Arizona College of Law.
received her Bachelor's Degree in 1981, Masters of Science in 1983, and her Juris Doctorate in 1986, from Arizona State University. Since being admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1986, Ms. Cales primary focus has been in the area of Family Law. In 1999, Ms. Cales left the firm in which she was a partner and opened her own practice, the focus of which remains exclusively Family Law. For more than 17 years, Ms. Cales was active on the Executive Counsel of the Family Law Section of the State Bar, serving as Chair of that organization as well as numerous other offices. Ms. Cales often co-chairs and teaches seminars for the State Bar of Arizona, including the coveted "CLE by the Sea" in Coronado, California and the "Practicing with Porcupines" seminar. Ms. Cales is AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell, has been included in the Bar register of Preeminent Women Lawyers, has been recognized on multiple occasions as a Super Lawyer of the Southwest and is also currently a Judge Pro Tempore with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
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