Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

Video games are a dynamic global medium and a leading avenue through which audiences engage with intellectual property. As technology advances and interactive content becomes increasingly mainstream, virtually every major brand or IP is expected to have a digital presence. Attorneys advising on development, licensing, or brand strategy must understand how legal frameworks influence creative decisions, shape business models, and affect long-term content use.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the legal landscape of video game development, with a focus on licensing, rights management, and collaborative deal structures. Participants will explore how development and publishing agreements allocate responsibilities, define creative and financial control, and manage risk in both current and evolving projects.

Designed for attorneys with limited to moderate experience in intellectual property, the program provides insight into how video game law intersects with trademark, copyright, and emerging legal challenges in the interactive media sector.

Learning Objectives:

1. Evaluate how game business models affect legal structuring.
2. Identify key provisions in licensing and development agreements.
3. Examine the risks associated with intellectual property ownership, usage, approvals, and user-generated content.
4. Enhance communication and contract strategies to support teams in interactive development environments.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Central Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Mountain Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Pacific Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Alaska Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Saturday, April 4, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Saturday, July 25, 2026

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, April 26, 2026
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Attorneys should attend this program to gain a clear and timely understanding of the complex regulatory environment surrounding cryptocurrency and digital assets, particularly in light of the significant shifts under the Trump administration. As crypto adoption accelerates, legal practitioners face heightened risks related to enforcement, compliance, and constitutional protections. This program equips attorneys with actionable knowledge to advise clients on regulatory obligations, constitutional challenges, and strategic risk management in a volatile legal landscape.

Attendees will learn about the roles of key federal agencies (SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, IRS) and recent enforcement trends impacting the crypto space. The course will cover emerging constitutional concerns, particularly under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments, as they relate to crypto privacy, speech, and property rights. Special attention will be paid to evolving developments under the Trump administration, including federal crypto reserve policy, rollback of enforcement teams, stablecoin legislation, and deregulation of banking services. Participants will also gain practical insights into crypto compliance strategies and litigation risk.

This program is ideal for attorneys who represent clients in fintech, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 industries, as well as those working in financial regulation, constitutional law, white-collar defense, and compliance. It is also highly beneficial for in-house counsel, regulatory advisors, and policy professionals navigating digital finance and emerging technologies. This program is suited for attorneys with a foundational understanding of financial regulation or technology law who seek to expand their expertise in the evolving legal, constitutional, and compliance frameworks governing digital assets and cryptocurrencies.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and Interpret Key Crypto Regulatory Frameworks
2. Analyze Constitutional Implications of Crypto Regulation
3. Assess the Impact of Recent Federal Policy Shifts under the Trump II Administration
4. Develop Practical Crypto Compliance and Risk Management Strategies
5. Evaluate Cross-Border and Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Challenges

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, June 29, 2026
Monday, August 31, 2026
Monday, December 28, 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, April 6, 2026
Monday, April 13, 2026
Monday, April 20, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
Monday, May 4, 2026