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: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Central Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Mountain Time: 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Pacific Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Alaska Time: 6:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 5:30 AM - 7:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Friday, April 24, 2026
Friday, May 1, 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026
Friday, May 22, 2026

This course provides practical guidance and analysis on evaluating whether a potential personal injury claim is worth pursuing and how to effectively litigate such claims to maximize value for clients. The content is designed to be broadly applicable, offering a foundational framework that is not confined to any one state or jurisdiction.

Attendees will gain insight into the key factors that determine whether to accept a personal injury case, techniques for evaluating cases, and strategies for successful litigation. The course also includes a focused discussion on the unique considerations involved in wrongful death claims.

This program is ideal for attorneys with little to no experience in personal injury law who are interested in pursuing a career in this practice area. It also serves as a valuable refresher for attorneys who currently handle personal injury matters, whether prosecuting or defending these claims.

Learning Objectives:

1. Evaluate when a personal injury case has merit and value, and decide whether to take the case.
2. Examine ways to effectively litigate a personal injury case to ensure the utmost value for you and your client(s).
3. Assess approaches in wrongful death cases.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Central Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Mountain Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Pacific Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Alaska Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Friday, May 29, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
Friday, August 7, 2026
Friday, September 4, 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: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Central Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Mountain Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Pacific Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alaska Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Friday, May 8, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
Friday, June 19, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Friday, July 10, 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 25, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Saturday, June 13, 2026