Virginia Live Bundle 2024-2025

Navigating support orders, including their establishment, modification, and enforcement, can be a complex legal process. This course will guide attorneys through the legal frameworks that govern support orders, from establishing initial standing to enforcing orders.

Attorneys should attend this program to learn about why and how support is established, as well as the enforcement tools that can be used to collect if it is not paid.  The program will outline and explore the legal issues surrounding support orders, establishing paternity, and the conditions and provisions of support orders. The different enforcement tools and remedies available under federal and state laws will be discussed.

This course is designed for attorneys with little or no experience who are interested in family law. Attendees will be given a foundational understanding of support orders.

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the components involved in establishing a support order. 
2. Recognize and apply components to modify a support order.
3. Evaluate the effective and issue dates to establish and/or modify a support order. 
4. Differentiate between financial and non-financial obligations.
5. Distinguish between administrative and judicial remedies and how they are implemented. 
6. Recognize those enforcement remedies that are manually initiated or computer-generated.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Central Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Mountain Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Pacific Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Alaska Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Sunday, June 28, 2026
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Sunday, September 27, 2026

The opportunity to learn about the seldom-explored area of sports law, combat sports law, is an excellent opportunity for an attorney, even if they do not practice in this field. This course provides attorneys with a unique opportunity to explore the specialized and often overlooked field of combat sports law. Whether or not you currently practice in this field, understanding the regulatory landscape of professional combat sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) can enhance your legal expertise.

Attendees will gain a comprehensive overview of the procedural frameworks for challenging disciplinary actions and navigating the appeals process within these sports. The course will also highlight current trends and developments shaping the legal environment in combat sports.

Legal practitioners who handle or wish to expand their knowledge of the regulatory and disciplinary aspects of combat sports, as well as the dynamic and complex realm of sports law, will find this program especially valuable.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the basics behind the regulatory and legal procedures of some of the world’s professional combat sports.
2. Consider where to look and what to think about when faced with an athlete in certain combat sports who has a rules and regulatory issue arise in the course of their career or during a particular bout or competition. 
3. Explore basic pointers to advise the agents and managers of athletes in certain combat sports as to how to handle rules and regulatory issues that may arise regarding their athletes.
4. Assess ways to educate athlete clients in various sports about how to avoid and mitigate certain violations of their chosen combat sport’s rules and regulations.
5. Examine exceptionally niche areas of sports law that help create a more well-rounded sports law practitioner.
6. Identify when the Court of Arbitration for Sport, or other judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, may or may not be available for an appeal in combat sports.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Central Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mountain Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Pacific Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Alaska Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, June 29, 2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
Monday, July 20, 2026
Monday, August 3, 2026
Monday, August 24, 2026

The prospect of representing clients whose ventures involve controlled substances, such as clinics, retreat centers, educational businesses, religious institutions, retail outlets, and other related businesses, presents unique opportunities for attorneys, but also unique ethical challenges. This program addresses those challenges at several levels.

First, this course will cover the duty of competence and review the types of federal and state laws that attorneys need to be familiar with to satisfy that duty and screen clients. Participants will examine issues related to the scope of client representations, including the ABA Rules of Professional Conduct and selected state variants, as well as practical considerations for screening clients and drafting limited-scope representation agreements. This course will examine the ethical issues unique to patenting psychedelic substances from the vantage point of both the Psychedelic Bar Association’s North Star principles and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Rules of Professional Conduct. Lastly, obligations relating to the preservation of evidence under the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct will be explored.

This course is designed for attorneys with some experience in business or intellectual property law; however, attorneys interested in how cannabis law intersects with these fields are also encouraged to attend. Psychedelics and cannabis remain largely illegal in the United States under federal and various state laws. This seminar does not encourage or condone activities that violate applicable laws.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the rules of professional conduct relevant to accepting and representing clients with ventures that involve psychedelics or cannabis.
2. Review key federal and state laws relating to psychedelics or cannabis to satisfy competence requirements.
3. Evaluate ethical issues that may arise in representations relating to psychedelics and cannabis.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Central Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Mountain Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Pacific Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Alaska Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, July 27, 2026
Monday, August 24, 2026
Monday, September 28, 2026
Monday, October 26, 2026
Monday, November 30, 2026

The "big picture" challenges to legal ethics principles posed by advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related high-technology advances require consideration from attorneys. Stephan Hawking, the leading physicist of the latter 20th and early 21st centuries, predicted (until his death in 2018) that "artificial intelligence" would be mankind's "last invention." How near or far into the future is such a fate awaiting humanity? Will he be proven right, or will human intelligence (HI) manage to prevent such an apocalypse? How long will AI's "childhood" last? Can humans (or will humans) identify evolutionary changes warranting countermeasures so they don't become irreversible revolutionary changes for the worse rather than the better? Do not ethical duties of the legal profession necessarily include continuing vigilance regarding such technological changes to enable us to protect and preserve the tools (such as attorney-client confidentiality and privilege) needed for the legal profession to continue performing our most important mission: to protect liberty writ large?

Attendees will cover topics such as how AI was viewed in the past, how it has evolved in the present, and possible future implications. The types of AI and their classifications will be discussed. Participants will learn how the judiciary has treated AI and current questions and issues related to AI usage in the legal profession.

The format of this program combines the lecture method with the Socratic method, fostering extensive interactive participation and critical analysis of a broad range of issues relevant to the seminar's subject matter. This approach goes beyond merely chronological descriptions of specific topics and subtopics. In other words, the content of each workshop (and the order and extent of emphasis upon particular topics and subtopics) will be substantially influenced by the nature and extent of interactive participation regarding specific aspects thereof. Depending on the number of participants in a particular seminar, the format typically results in most, if not all, participants engaging in conversational-style, interactive discussions and analyses of specific topics during the seminar, and also permits interruptions, questions, challenges, and other contributions throughout the seminar. Think of collegially enjoyable and enlightening round-table discussions. It's a form of learning that involves thinking while interactively participating, rather than learning solely by listening (the latter of which is the lecture method).

This program is designed for any lawyer who understands: (a) that the very nature of the constitutional form of government is to protect the good of liberty from the evil of tyranny, (b) that, therefore, the primary mission of our profession is to protect liberty writ large within the bounds of the rule of law [in contrast to the rule of men (mankind)], and (c) that protecting such good from such evil requires our profession to be disciplined by understanding essential principles of science in seeking to prevent the latter from destroying the former.

Learning Objectives:

1. Refresh what should be every lawyer's common knowledge of unique aspects of the legal profession in contrast to all other professions, occupations, etc.: It's the effect of the Constitution's (and each state constitution's) vesting of "the judicial power" of the sovereign in its "Supreme Court" and its thereby incorporation of the evolutionary nature of the judiciary's common law inherent judicial power (i.e., sui generis power) to define, prescribe, and enforce educational, moral, ethical and civil standards for the practice of law and the status of lawyers as officers of the courts.
2. Understand that common law inherent judicial power (sui generis power) in an adversarial system created under common law, the supreme court of the sovereign (i.e., the U.S. Supreme Court and each state supreme court) creates structural and functional tools for the administration of justice – i.e., rules of evidence, burdens of proof, procedural rules, definitions of the practice of law, regulatory control over the conduct of attorneys, and the nature and scope of attorney-client confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, and attorney work-product. 
3. Examine how the judiciary generally encourages lawyers to utilize modern devices, programs, applications, and procedures, and in some contexts specifically requires the utilization of particular devices, programs, applications, and procedures while also requiring lawyers to utilize them in ways that comport with duties imposed by the judiciary upon lawyers.
4. Explore how lawyers' uses of AI and similar or related programs, applications and procedures intrinsically undermine the extent of privacy necessary for proper utilization of particular tools (such as attorney-client confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, and attorney work-product), and such undermining of privacy a fortiori interferes with, or jeopardizes, lawyers' abilities to utilize them in ways that comport with duties imposed by the judiciary upon lawyers. This creates a conundrum. 
5. Evaluate the significance of such a conundrum where privacy is undermined; lawyers must have sufficient scientific literacy to recognize the contexts in which technology can undermine or even negate efforts by lawyers to satisfy the legal and ethical duties imposed upon them by the judicial branch as "officers of the courts." 
6. Assess how the nature and ubiquity of technological threats to lawyers' ethical duties are such that efforts by individual lawyers to counter or negate such threats cannot succeed without overt and comprehensive regulatory measures by the courts to provide constitutionally effective countermeasures against such threats.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Central Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mountain Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Pacific Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Alaska Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, June 29, 2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
Monday, July 13, 2026
Monday, July 20, 2026
Monday, July 27, 2026