Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

Legal teams are increasingly expected to not only advise but also drive privacy. This course guides attorneys through the practical application of privacy by design principles in real-world settings.

Participants will learn how to bridge the gap between legal advice and day-to-day execution across the core components of a privacy program. Attorneys will understand the operations of privacy programs and how they ensure compliance.

Designed for new and transitioning attorneys, this session focuses on helping legal professionals lead privacy initiatives by equipping them with practical strategies, governance models, and frameworks. Attendees will leave with actionable insights and a customizable checklist to support privacy by design in their organizations.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the core components of a privacy program and explain how governance models affect implementation.
2. Explain the principles of privacy by design and how they apply throughout the data lifecycle, including product development and vendor selection.
3. Translate legal obligations under privacy laws into practical guidance that supports day-to-day compliance.
4. Support workflows and controls that reflect privacy by design principles, including data minimization, access limitation, retention planning, and early-stage risk reviews.
5. Manage cross-functional implementation challenges, including internal misalignment.
6. Apply a repeatable checklist to embed privacy-by-design practices across teams, projects, or systems.

Lawyers are professional writers! Attorneys often don’t think of themselves as experienced writers.  After all, they never saw an episode of Perry Mason or Boston Legal where a lawyer spends the entire time writing a motion.  But spending most of their working day writing is what most attorneys do.

Participants will leave this program with a better understanding of good writing and how that translates into better motions, briefs, contracts, and client communication. A key part of this program is a review of the neglected subject of legal logic.  Participants will see how good writing can clean up logical flaws in an argument and how sound logic leads to good writing. Writing as lawyers and legal professionals has two purposes: to persuade and, to a lesser extent, explain. This program will help attorneys achieve both.

This course is designed for any attorney looking to improve their writing as a legal professional. Two types of lawyers may find this CLE especially useful. The lawyer who knows they need to improve their writing (sometimes in desperation) and the legal writing geek.  This presentation is designed for both - each should take away something useful.

Learning Objectives:

1. Develop a clear understanding of the purpose of legal writing and logic – that purpose is usually to persuade (i.e., to sell!).  
2. Review logical structure as it relates to legal writing – how it helps attorneys persuade and sell.  
3. Review grammar (yes, grammar!) and sentence structure (including verb tense) to see how it enables attorneys to strategically use language in motions, briefs, contracts, and client communication, and how it helps them persuade and sell.

This course serves as a refresher for attorneys on avoiding basic ethical issues that may arise in their practice, from properly handling client funds to maintaining the right social media presence. Attendees will review real examples and governing rules to learn how to avoid common ethical complaints from clients.

Ethical practice is a key part of legal practice and is even strictly governed by some state bars. In the age of social media, many new ethical issues arise that attorneys may not have been equipped to navigate in law school. This course has everything from basic reminders to things practicing attorneys may have yet to consider. 

This program is ideal for attorneys in any field of law. It is specifically beneficial for attorneys who frequently interact with clients.

Learning Objectives: 

• Preserve client confidence
• Protect attorney-client privilege
• Navigate new issues created by social media, such as negative online reviews
• Properly handle client funds in either dedicated client trusts or in pooled accounts
• Avoid client complaints for lack of diligence
• Avoid client complaints for failure to communicate
• Properly handle mistakes in client interfacing
• Avoid making public or online comments about pending matters
• Stay mindful of basic ethical principles so one’s judgment is not clouded by ambition, greed, or fame
• Recognize and properly respond to mental health, substance abuse, and personal finance issues

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:

Sunday, December 7, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025

This course will provide an overview of the steps to forming a limited liability company (LLC), from checking for name availability to filing the certificate of formation to drafting the operating agreement. Attendees will learn how to file the requisite formation documents, obtain a tax identification number, register beneficial ownership identifiers with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, and draft a basic operating agreement. 

Limited liability companies are a popular choice for American business owners, making knowledge about their formation an essential tool in an attorney’s kit. Whether they seek protection from personal liability, more favorable taxation, or flexible management, this course equips attorneys to provide their clients with all the benefits of LLCs. 

This program is appropriate for attorneys and all legal professionals at any level of law practice and field of law. The course specifically benefits those practicing business law who seek to help their clients form LLCs.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the steps to forming a limited liability company
• Apply for a tax identification number on the official Internal Revenue Service website
• Register for a beneficial ownership interest with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency (FINCEN)
• Identify the basic elements of an operating agreement

Course Time Schedule:

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

This course is also being presented on the following dates

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025