He provided accounting services for real estate transactions, and he earned his income, or some of it, from fees from the interest on the money in the escrow account, precisely the money taken by the Supreme Court. After the Supreme Court confiscated this money, he lost a sizable part of his business. How the Court can regulate real estate escrows in the first place is hard to understand. Later, a D.C. firm took over management of the litigation. As a nonpracticing attorney who wishes to preserve my right to practice, I am pleased to see some heroic volunteer efforts and some rule modifications that mitigate the burden that acquiring CLE credits can place on practitioners and nonpracticing attorneys alike.
Live CLEs can be purposeful events.
You may also get to see what other people are knitting, what magazines they are reading, breathe canned meeting-room air for several hours all the venerable elements of putting in your time. Imagine selecting a topic based on interest rather than price. You can tune in and tune out according to time and motivation factors. What a boon to those of us in the boondocks. Even from Vashon Island, I spend four hours per round trip to Seattle Center by ferry and bus.