Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

The rate of cyber attacks continues to grow each year and will most likely continue to grow. This course will shed light on attorneys' ethical obligations and responsibilities in safeguarding client data and how to recognize and respond to common forms of cyberattacks. 

Attendees will familiarize themselves with pertinent ethics rules and guidelines, ensuring compliance and heightened protection for their clients. This program will walk through common types of cyberattacks, how to recognize them and respond to them, including potential ethical requirements to notify clients. 

This program is designed for attorneys at all levels of experience who regularly use technology in their practice. It makes it highly relevant and beneficial for legal professionals across the industry.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore ethical rules to protect client data
• Recognize and respond to five common forms of cyberattacks
• Realize ethical requirements when responding to a cyberattack
• Evaluate what should be included in an incident response plan

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Central Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Mountain Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Pacific Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Alaska Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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, December 29, 2025

Once a niche practice area, antitrust has been making headlines seemingly nonstop for the last few years. In a rapidly changing political environment, what do attorneys need to know to stay current in this dynamic area? This CLE provides a foundation in selected emerging issues.

First, we will start with a sleeper hit. Once a mainstay of antitrust enforcement asserted in hundreds of cases per year, the Robinson Patman Act (RPA) has been largely abandoned by federal enforcers since the 1980s. Now several high-profile cases– including a plaintiff-side jury verdict– have brought this price discrimination law back into the spotlight. We will cover the core elements and defenses relating to RPA claims, as well as recent case law trends. 

Second, we will review the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) resurrection of Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which seeks to promote competition by preventing “interlocking directorates.” A rare “per se” rule in a sea of judge-made “rule of reason” antitrust jurisprudence, Section 8 categorically prohibits directors and officers from simultaneously serving on a competitor’s board. Exceptions are limited– but are there nonetheless gray areas relating to this bright line rule? 

Finally, we will turn to efforts to revive a long-lost remedy: structural separations. Legendary breakups of Standard Oil and AT&T, and even the attempted breakup of Microsoft can seem like fables from distant eras dominated by completely different technological paradigms. Have the Big Tech cases brought us any closer to revitalizing one of the most powerful tools in antitrust law in a lasting way? What about a divestiture order targeting an obscure door and window manufacturer? We will cover recent outcomes as well as doctrinal developments.

This CLE provides a foundation that equips attorneys of all experience levels with a background on core legal frameworks and an understanding of emerging issues. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify core elements of selected federal antitrust laws
• Analyze trends in federal and private claims
• Spot issues that arise when adapting lesser used authorities to modern contexts
   

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 presentation will cover Supreme Court cases from the past, present, and future of the Supreme Court’s docket. Attendees will be provided background on the current state of the Supreme Court, along with an understanding of how each decision is a product of the current court’s composition. Cases will be discussed from both a legal and factual perspective, so that attendees are aware of the legal issues which govern the decision and how the decision may affect the parties, lawyers, judges and legislators moving forward.  For cases that have been decided, the presentation will provide 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.  

This course is suitable for attorneys at all levels that are interested in learning about current Supreme Court Cases.

Learning Objectives: 

• Examine the current composition of the Supreme Court and how each Justice approaches issues based on the topic of law
• Identify each Justices’ judicial perspectives and how the most recent Supreme Court appointments have altered the composition of the Court
• 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, how often cases are overruled, and how litigants progress from the trial court stages of the Federal system through the U.S. Supreme Court
• Assess the fundamental legal elements which underlie the Supreme Court cases discussed in the lecture, which will focus on Constitutional law, Government Regulation and Civil Rights
• Analyze both broad and narrow categories of law for each case that are pertinent to the resolution of specific cases covered in the presentation
• Develop an understanding of the specific cases in the presentation to be able to formulate an understanding of the issue narrowly presented before the Court
• Predict an outcome based on the material in the presentation to better understand Supreme Court cases and likely follow along with outcomes after the presentation is concluded

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