Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

Over fifty lawsuits related to artificial intelligence have been filed worldwide, with a myriad of issues at play. This course provides an overview of these suits, their comparative aspects, and the emerging themes among them. Legal practitioners working in or interested in art law will gain insight into national and international issues regarding AI, art, and the law.

Attendees will learn about complementary and contradictory rulings and policies in the U.S. and abroad in places such as China and the United Kingdom. Focus will also be given to the legal practitioner’s duties and responsibilities regarding the ethical use of generative AI tools in daily practice.

This course is designed for attorneys seeking an introduction to AI issues, both nationally and internationally, in the fields of art and law.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore legal issues involving AI internationally. 
2. Examine legal issues involving AI in the U.S.
3. Review AI legal issues that are on Appeal in the U.S.
4. Assess the intersection of generative AI and ethics.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Central Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Mountain Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Pacific Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Alaska Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Friday, March 13, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
Friday, April 3, 2026
Friday, April 10, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026

Attorneys should attend this program to learn how to assess the shifting boundaries of the executive branch's prerogative power as presidents exercise legislative and judicial authority through various means, including executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, executive agreements, signing statements, pardons, vetoes, and national security directives.

Attendees will learn how to classify and assess the Constitutionality of executive privilege by past, present, and future presidential administrations. Historical antecedents, along with recent executive actions and resulting litigation, will provide the primary basis for the analysis.

Attorneys with any level of experience seeking to better understand whether executive prerogative power and “presidential leverage” are an encroachment upon legislative and judicial constitutional powers or inherent in the penumbra of constitutional powers vested in the executive branch are encouraged to attend. This question is explored via concrete examples of presidential actions and associated case law.

Learning Objectives:

1. Engage in a historical review of different theories of presidential power from Abraham Lincoln through Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2. Evaluate the perceived modern trend toward Unitary Executive Theory from post-World War II to the second Trump Administration.
3. Evaluate the efficacy of the federal judiciary and Congress as checks on the exercise of presidential prerogative powers via case law and ongoing litigation.
4. Assess direct presidential prerogative powers that have been most commonly exercised by modern presidents since Ronald Reagan, including executive orders as strategic policy tools to achieve desired results via concrete examples.
5. Illustrate the indirect powers of the executive branch to achieve desired outcomes via presidential leverage, such as the paralysis by analysis via Presidential Commissions, veto warnings, executive signing statements, and agenda removal to encourage defunding/dismantling government programs inimical to the president’s agenda.
6. Delineate the potential advantages and disadvantages of executive overreach given the scope of the president’s enumerated Article II powers.

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:

Friday, March 27, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
Friday, June 19, 2026

This seminar will delve into the most critical cases on the Supreme Court’s docket for attorneys of all backgrounds. Attendees will receive an updated explanation of the current state of the Supreme Court, along with an understanding of how each decision is shaped by the current court’s composition of justices.

Cases will be discussed from both a legal and factual perspective, so that attendees are aware of the legal issues that govern the decision and how the decision may affect the parties, lawyers, judges, and legislators moving forward.

For cases that have been decided, participants will be provided an analysis of every opinion provided by the Justices to note the differences in judicial perspectives. For cases pending before the Court, the presenter and the attendees will discuss possible outcomes. The course will also be updated with relevant Court current events throughout the year.

This program is suitable for attorneys with any amount of experience who are interested in learning about Supreme Court cases.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the current composition of the Supreme Court and how each Justice approaches issues based on the topic of law.
2. Examine each Justice’s judicial perspectives and how the most recent Supreme Court appointments have altered the composition of the Court.
3. Explore how the Supreme Court manages and disposes of cases from a practical perspective. This includes learning about the types of cases that come before the Court, the frequency of cases being overruled, and how litigants progress from the trial court stages of the Federal system through the U.S. Supreme Court.
4. Assess the legal background for recent Supreme Court cases. This includes cases that span the past 50 years, with a focus on addressing historical and recent legal issues, such as the First Amendment, Separation of Powers, and Due Process.
5. Evaluate the most important Supreme Court cases on the docket during this period, with an understanding of the specific issues facing the Court. This analysis will discuss the litigant’s arguments regarding the lower court decisions being appealed.
6. Predict a case outcome based on the information within the presentation to understand Supreme Court cases better.

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:

Friday, May 8, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
Friday, November 6, 2026
Friday, December 18, 2026

This program offers attorneys an examination of the various factors that can contribute to a false confession. Attorneys will develop a nuanced understanding of why innocent individuals may confess to crimes and how such confessions create complex constitutional and procedural issues. False confessions are a significant cause of wrongful convictions, and it is essential for attorneys working in criminal law to understand why and how false confessions happen, and also to know the legal protections for defendants who have falsely confessed.

The program will analyze the most relevant constitutional amendments and state and federal court cases that have formed the bedrock of the law on false confessions. Attorneys will learn about practices and tactics used by law enforcement officials to elicit false confessions, including strategic deception, false evidence ploys (FEPs), and minimalization and maximalization tactics. The program will also highlight some high-profile cases where false confessions were obtained to illustrate how false confessions occur in the real world, and it will offer potential safeguards against false confessions.

Attorneys with any amount of experience and interest in false confessions and the law are encouraged to attend. The program will be beneficial for prosecutors, law enforcement legal advisors, defense counsel, and law clerks.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review of Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment interrogation rights.
2. Recognize police interrogation tactics that may lead to a false confession from an adult.
3. Examine the legal issues concerning juvenile interrogations and why youths may be more susceptible to providing false confessions.
4. Discuss when Miranda protections are to be afforded to suspects, as well as the United States Supreme Court’s standard for juveniles being in “custody.”
5. Discuss high-profile adult and juvenile confession cases.
6. Learn about potential safeguards for limiting false confessions.

Course Time Schedule:

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

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Saturday, March 14, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026