Engineering Law Seminar
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What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:00 pm
Oklahoma Contract Law Primer for Engineers
S. Potts
Contract formation and the elements of an enforceable contract
Bargaining power and understanding contract terms
Duties, performance, and professional standards
Liability – warranties, guarantees, indemnities, and breaches of contract
Non-compete/non-solicitation agreements and terms – enforceable or not?
Misappropriation of trade secrets and business information
Professional Liability Law
W.M. Hill
Reviewing the grounds for professional liability claims
Identifying who can bring a claim
Examining common sources of professional liability claims
Reviewing defenses to liability claims
Determining damages
Participating in dispute resolution: arbitration,mediation, litigation
Obtaining Insurance coverage for professional liability claims
Understanding the Investigatory and Disciplinary Practices of the Oklahoma State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
J. Seay
Understanding the Department’s disciplinary powers
Reviewing prohibited practices and grounds for disciplinary action
Investigatory procedures
Disciplinary hearings
Administrative and other penalties and enforcement
Cyber Security Issues for Engineers
J. Seay
Cyber security threats and business’s exposure to data breach
Day in a life of a cyber security breach and how to respondin the event of a breach
Coverage that is available under a cyber insurance policy to illustrate how the coverage matches up with the steps taken after a breach
Intellectual Property Essentials for Engineers: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets
M. Brockhaus
Securing ownership of your designs through patents, trademarks,copyrights, and trade secrets
Leveraging your intellectual capital through licenses, and othertechnology agreements
Policing intellectual property rights and preventing infringement
Resolving intellectual property disputes
Credits
This seminar offers 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers
Speakers
Diane Black
Secrest, Hill, Butler & Secrest, P.C., TulsaSecrest, Hill, Butler & Secrest, P.C., TulsaMs. Black joined Secrest, Hill, Butler & Secrest in 2013. She has been an insurance defense lawyer for over 13 years. She brings an in-depth knowledge of insurance policy interpretation coupled with trial experience. Her work focuses on defending “bad faith”, coverage disputes, real estate, construction, products liability, professional liability and general liability. Ms. Black received her B.A. degree in 19994 from the University of Tulsa and graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1999.
Marc Brockhaus
Dunlap Codding P.CDunlap Codding P.C., Oklahoma CityMr. Brockhaus leads Dunlap Codding’s Electrical Engineering & Systems group. He also practices in the areas of intellectual property, technology, computer and patent law and is involved in counseling, transactions, litigation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Brockhaus has prosecuted patent applications in the United States and abroad in the electrical, software and mechanical arts, including telephony equipment, semiconductor design and fabrication, computers, computer networking, digital cameras, electronic test equipment, web-guiding equipment, firearm safety equipment, protective vests, explosive detection equipment, optics and optical equipment, software programs and business methods. He has also been involved extensively in patent-related litigation and licensing efforts involving the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Mr. Brockhaus has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and received his J.D. degree and his Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1997, where he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1993.
Sara E. Potts
Partner, Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson LLP – Oklahoma CityMs. Potts concentrates the majority of her practice on commercial litigation, corporate/business disputes, insurance, litigation defense (employment, transportation, professional liability, and products liability), and construction. In addition to her trial and litigation practice, Sara also counsels clients on a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including corporate formation and governance, director/officer liability, employer liability, employee terminations/severances, member disassociations and expulsions, shareholder disputes, and prelitigation dispute resolution. While she is based in Oklahoma City, Sara’s practice involves all areas and counties within Oklahoma, and she is admitted to all Oklahoma state and federal courts, as well admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.