Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the legal industry, offering powerful tools for data analysis, legal research, e-discovery, and client engagement, among other things. However, with these advances come critical questions about ethics, transparency, and the responsible adoption of these technologies. Attorneys have an obligation to know what AI is and how it works. This program provides attorneys with a practical and accessible introduction to AI, its key types, and its expanding role in legal practice.

Ms. Littlejohn will explore how AI enhances efficiency while also examining the current and emerging tools reshaping tasks like contract drafting, e-discovery, and legal research, and how it is being used across legal disciplines. Attendees will learn about ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Westlaw’s Co-Counsel. Important ethical and regulatory considerations, including bias, confidentiality, surveillance, and guidance from the ABA and state bars, will be addressed. The program concludes with best practices for AI prompting, including how to structure effective prompts and interact with generative AI tools to produce reliable and useful outputs.

This seminar is designed for attorneys at any level of experience who want to remain competitive and informed about the digital evolution of the legal landscape.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore the different types of Artificial Intelligence.
2. Evaluate how AI can be used in different legal practices.
3. Examine ethical issues surrounding AI usage.
4. Assess how attorneys can ensure they are properly using or implementing AI.
5. Differentiate between AI chatbots and Artificial Intelligence.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Central Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Mountain Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Pacific Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Alaska Time: 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 6:00 AM - 7:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Friday, May 1, 2026
Friday, June 19, 2026
Friday, July 24, 2026
Friday, August 28, 2026
Friday, September 25, 2026

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, April 10, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026
Friday, April 24, 2026
Friday, May 1, 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026

This program will equip attorneys with the skills needed to evaluate the ethical boundaries of judicial discretion and the utility of deterrence theory in criminal sentencing. Assessing different theories of justice in the criminal system is essential for determining how to fairly and effectively balance the rights of defendants with the needs of the general public.

Attorneys will learn about the tension between consistency and individualization in the criminal justice system, different jurisprudential perspectives on law and justice, and different criminological perspectives on deviance and deterrence. The course will also analyze how modern criminological paradigms on criminality and deterrence culminated in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

Moreover, the course will explore current understandings of general deterrence factors under 18 U.S.C. §3553(a)(2): Imposition of a Sentence. Similarly, participants will also examine current caselaw regarding the ethical exercise of judicial discretion and different perspectives on the fairness of judicial discretion. Lastly, the course will compare judicial polymorphism and unitarianism to determine whether statutory phrases should have multiple meanings or if the sequence of litigation is most dispositive to outcomes.

Attorneys with all levels of experience will benefit from this course, especially attorneys seeking to learn more about the metes and bounds of discretionary authority vested in the judiciary and the ethical duty to avoid the abuse of that discretion in criminal sentencing.

Learning Objectives:

1. Evaluate the ethical tension in criminal sentencing between individualization and decisionism versus consistency and stare decisis about judicial discretion.
2. Review classical jurisprudential schools of thought on the purpose of criminal law.
3. Compare and contrast classical criminological deterrence schools of thought.
4. Assess modern criminological deterrence schools of thought.
5. Consider the emergence of deterrence theory during the 1990s “war on crime” to justify general deterrence theory and harsher penalties.
6. Evaluate deterrence theory as enacted in 18 U.S.C. 3553: Imposition of a Sentence.
7. Examine caselaw interpreting 18 U.S.C. 3553 to provide substantial discretion to courts in conducting a procedural and substantive review.
8. Review of judicial polymorphism vs. unitarianism in decision-making.

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, April 24, 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026
Friday, June 26, 2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
Friday, July 17, 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, April 18, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026