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Continuing Legal Education

I have participated in a number of Continuing Legal Education programs in Arkansas, both as a presenter, and on two occasions as an organizer. Here are some of the materials I have written (sometimes with a little help from my friends).

Exercises from the 1997 Arkansas Appellate Advocacy Institute.

These handouts served as a springboard to discuss various issues. I did the framework of most of them, but I had a lot of help from other members of the Institute Committee.

Note: Most of the links are to PDF files. You can look at them with Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free at the Adobe website if you don't have it already. Click your back button on your browser to come back here to see the PDF files.

If you want to look at the PDF files off-line later, right click and choose "Save target as" or "Save link target as" to save them to your computer.

PDF Files

Chan v. State involves important evidence questions in a case involving an alleged car theft.

Bananaberry v. State is a prosecution for Mopery under Arkansas statutes, but the real issue is one of jury selection.

Wimpy's Wigwams v. Olive's Widget Emporium involves complicated procedural questions under Arkansas law as it existed in 1997.

We have an abbreviated trial transcript and the pleadings file. Beware, the pleadings file is kind of large, since it's a scanned PDF. One of my projects for the distant future is to try to change it into some kind of functional text file.

Here are some dated articles I have written. They have not been brought up to date. They deal with how to preserve error in a trial court so that you can successfully have it reviewed on appeal, problems with the Arkansas Rules of Appellate Procedure and Rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals as they existed when this article was published, and an article I wrote about preparing for the Y2K Crisis which, as most of you will remember, reduced us to the sub-human, cave-dweller, prehistoric society in which we all live today.

NEW! Added September 2004:

I have three PDF files on Loss of Life Damages. On this website there is also a page on Loss of Life Damages.

Web pages

Maggie Newton, Doris Compton, and I developed a Legal Writing handbook for secretaries and paralegals for a course. It was originally in WordPerfect, and it had, well, very creative use of fonts.

When I converted it over to HTML, we lost the fonts, a few pictures, and the pagination. The pagination is generally back in now, along with some of the formatting. The fonts are another matter, since people have to have the fonts on their computers to see them, unless you put them into images that take a long time to download. To avoid that, we went with some of the basic fonts that are available on most computers.

Here's some material from a Continuing Legal Education course on Insurance. Now that's boring. Also, it's way out of date. There's some of it that is dangerously obsolete.

NEW! Added September 2004: A page with a trial court ruling concerning the issue of Loss of Life Damages.

My next project is to figure out how to put Powerpoint presentations on the website.

Gerry

Gerry Schulze
EUBANKS, BAKER & SCHULZE
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