Pennsylvania Live CLE Bundle 2024-2025

The Rules of Professional Conduct in the various jurisdictions are notoriously full of black holes and missing guidance: ethics rules lag behind the reality of legal practice, and there are stubborn problems in the ethical practice of law that the profession still wrestles with. Ethics is always evolving, and one of the ways this evolution can be seen is in legal ethics opinions, the periodic holdings of ethics committees in the nation’s bar associations attempting to settle perplexing ethics conflicts and dilemmas.

Unfortunately, most lawyers don’t keep up with these often important new analyses in their jurisdictions, never mind others. Attendees will be guided by legal ethicist Jack Marshall who follows these important analyses and will explain them so participants in this program can be forewarned and forearmed. 

The Legal Ethics Grand Tour identifies and explores critical legal ethics issues that each state, the District of Columbia, and the American Bar Association have recently clarified. Attendees will learn about the many legal ethics traps and landmines of emerging technologies and the proper usage of social media. Attorneys as whistleblowers, conflicts of interest, and when they cannot be waived will be discussed. Marshall will also supply attendees with useful tools, references, and information on emerging developments in this comprehensive exploration of recent legal ethics issues. 

This course is ideal for all attorneys interested in recent legal ethics developments.

Learning Objectives:

• Emphasize the importance of state, D.C., and American Bar Association legal ethics opinions (LEOs) as essential resources for lawyers to keep up-to-date on the constant evolution of legal ethics standards
• Analyze how jurisdictions influence each other
• Define the perils of practicing outside one’s home jurisdiction without checking the current jurisdiction’s recent LEOs
• Distinguish between legal ethics opinions and the Rules they interpret
• Focus on the major legal ethics opinions from many sources to protect a lawyer from serious ethical missteps and malpractice
• Apply invaluable legal ethics analysis tools and techniques to professional dilemmas and conflicts when they arise

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Central Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Mountain Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Pacific Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Alaska Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Sunday, October 26, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence is currently impacting every facet of society. This course offers an update on this ever-evolving AI landscape, from developments within the United States  Copyright Office to the status of lawsuits in the United States. 

Attendees will gain insight into the issues arising at the intersection of AI, art, and the law. They will learn about the current approaches to AI by the US Copyright Office and the United States Judiciary, the legal issues involved and rulings handed down in AI-related cases in the U.S., and AI-related ethical issues and judicial positions to be aware of. 

This course is designed for attorneys at the basic or introductory level of legal practice who work in or are interested in art law. Exploring AI's Influence on Art and Law is specifically designed for attorneys who want an introduction to AI issues in art and law.

Learning Objectives:

• Review artificial intelligence & the United States Copyright Office
• Explore artificial intelligence and fair use policy
• Investigate artificial intelligence and suits involving visual art and music
• Identify the intersection of artificial intelligence and lawsuits involving authorship 
• Explore artificial intelligence and lawsuits involving journalism
• Discuss artificial intelligence and ethics

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:

Sunday, October 26, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025

This program presents a formal and current analysis of significant developments in Tennessee criminal law, tailored for legal professionals. It offers an in-depth review of recent decisions from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court that substantially impact criminal practice within the state. Special emphasis will be placed on rulings concerning homicide, self-defense, drug offenses, and critical procedural issues. The course will also examine significant legislative changes enacted in 2025 and evaluate their practical implications. Additionally, it will explore emerging trends that are influencing criminal law, including recent grand jury investigations in Nashville that have raised concerns about law enforcement practices.

Attorneys should attend this program to stay current on the rapidly evolving landscape of Tennessee criminal law, including critical case law developments that impact both prosecution and defense strategies. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of recent court decisions across various offense categories, learn how to apply new statutory provisions and develop strategies to navigate evolving standards in criminal procedure effectively.

This program is designed for criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, and any practitioner whose practice involves criminal law matters in the state of Tennessee. Attorneys with any amount of experience are welcome to attend.

Learning Objectives:

1. Analyze recent Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals decisions on homicide cases, including issues of evidentiary sufficiency, jury instructions, felony murder, and evolving self-defense standards.
2. Evaluate new case law regarding the insanity defense and procedural requirements for withdrawal of guilty pleas in Tennessee courts.
3. Identify significant developments in Tennessee drug offense prosecutions, including sufficiency standards for possession with intent to distribute cases.
4. Assess critical search and seizure developments in both Tennessee courts and the Sixth Circuit, including standards for cell phone warrants and regulatory stops.
5. Apply newly enacted Tennessee legislation affecting criminal practice, including changes to sexual offender classifications, voyeurism, and DNA collection requirements.
6. Recognize emerging trends in criminal justice reform as illustrated by recent Nashville grand jury investigations and exoneration cases.

Attorneys who encounter legal ethics problems can use this course to learn a methodology for solving them. Although no methodology is perfect, there is a methodology known by the acronym "MORALS" for solving legal-ethics problems or dilemmas. This seminar focuses on such methodology. 

The format of this course is a blend of the lecture method with the Socratic method, extensively involving a high degree of interactive participation and critical analyses of a wide range of issues relevant to the subject of the seminar in a manner not limited to mere chronological description of particular topics and sub-topics. Depending on the number of participants in a particular seminar, the format usually results in most, if not all, participants verbally engaging in conversational-styled interactive discussion and/or analysis of particular topics in the seminar and also permits interruptions, questions, challenges, etc. throughout the seminar. Think of collegially enjoyable and enlightening round-table discussions. It's a form of learning by thinking in the course of interactively participating rather than learning solely by listening (the latter of which is the lecture method).

Any attorney desiring to learn how to analyze legal ethics problems or dilemmas to maximize the likelihood of an ethically proper solution is encouraged to attend this program.

Learning Objectives: 

• 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
• Analyze how exercising such 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, and regulatory control over the conduct of attorneys
• Participate actively in regulatory control over the legal profession generally and the conduct of lawyers individually, as is generally encouraged by the judiciary. Therefore, each attorney has a duty to keep abreast of such disciplinary and regulatory activities and, as much as possible, actively participate (pro bono, of course) in and support such activities
• Maximize one's objectivity by seeking a thorough analysis of all relevant and material facts, issues, and laws when determining how to solve an ethics problem or dilemma
• Recognize intrinsic conflicts between "justice" (or what's "morally right") on the one hand and legal, ethical duties on the other and then analyze them to determine when attorneys must, or sometimes must not, implement an ethically correct solution that is a polar opposite of "justice."
• Assess the best way to prevent a legal professional’s self-interests in desiring to avoid damage to the legal professional’s standing in solving an ethical problem and the professional responsibility to derive an ethically proper solution

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, October 13, 2025
Monday, October 20, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
Monday, November 3, 2025