Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

Corporations may approach diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives via more analytically driven recruitment and retention efforts that employ indirect, race neutral, proxy measures to build a diverse workforce while avoiding legal challenges of discrimination. This assessment considers how anti-bias training practices and promotion policies to senior executive or board positions might satisfy measurable DEI outcomes without implementing diversity quotas or triggering an anti-DEI backlash from employees. Ultimately, the intent is to survive the strict scrutiny commands of the Equal Protection Clause and thereby avoid “pernicious stereotype[s]” or “race . . . used as a negative.”.

The challenges corporations must overcome to develop legally defensible DEI metrics and goals that satisfy the Supreme Court’s recent call for “metric[s] of meaningful representation” that are not based upon “proportional representation” or “racial balancing” while still preserving the litigation shield to claims of discrimination and attaining measurable DEI goals. This issue is timely given calls for enhanced corporate disclosure legislation in tune with the SEC’s approval in August 2021 of a diversity disclosures mandate for boards of Nasdaq-listed companies, along with the ongoing litigation challenging those rules in Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment, National Center for Public Policy Research v. SEC, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 3805.

Attorneys at any level who seek greater clarity on how to best serve legally mindful and socially responsible corporations that wish to prioritize progress on DEI goals without alienating segments of the workforce or engaging in mere virtue signaling. This includes preserving the litigation shield of corporate clients from claims of either discrimination based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or concerns of reverse discrimination based on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduce core concepts in the diversity, equity, and inclusion DEI space such as equality versus equity, opinion or belief formation, stereotypes versus prejudice and discrimination
• Canvass recent legal developments in DEI at the federal and state levels in the educational context to the extent they are precursors of or predictors for ongoing legal developments in the corporate context
• Explore the possible reasons for inefficacy of DEI trainings and elusiveness of longitudinal goals to shift corporate culture and achieve greater diversity in the workplace
• Connect corporate social responsibility (CSR) praxis in the environmental social governance (ESG) context with DEI initiatives and illustrate the linkage between trends towards hard and soft information regulation
• Evaluate the vulnerability to discrimination litigation of corporations with ambiguous metrics and goals underlying DEI initiatives (e.g., trainings and long-term workforce diversity balancing goals)
• Assess “show and tell” disclosure requirements on corporate board diversity and whether soft information regulation of this variety is likely to move the needle on achieving DEI outcomes

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, December 19, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Rules of Professional Conduct in the various jurisdictions are notoriously full of black holes and missing guidance: ethics rules lag behind the reality of legal practice, and there are stubborn problems in the ethical practice of law that the profession still wrestles with. Ethics is always evolving, and one of the ways this evolution can be seen is in legal ethics opinions, the periodic holdings of ethics committees in the nation’s bar associations attempting to settle perplexing ethics conflicts and dilemmas.

Unfortunately, most lawyers don’t keep up with these often important new analyses in their jurisdictions, never mind others. Attendees will be guided by legal ethicist Jack Marshall who follows these important analyses and will explain them so participants in this program can be forewarned and forearmed. 

The Legal Ethics Grand Tour identifies and explores critical legal ethics issues that each state, the District of Columbia, and the American Bar Association have recently clarified. Attendees will learn about the many legal ethics traps and landmines of emerging technologies and the proper usage of social media. Attorneys as whistleblowers, conflicts of interest, and when they cannot be waived will be discussed. Marshall will also supply attendees with useful tools, references, and information on emerging developments in this comprehensive exploration of recent legal ethics issues. 

This course is ideal for all attorneys interested in recent legal ethics developments.

Learning Objectives:

• Emphasize the importance of state, D.C., and American Bar Association legal ethics opinions (LEOs) as essential resources for lawyers to keep up-to-date on the constant evolution of legal ethics standards
• Analyze how jurisdictions influence each other
• Define the perils of practicing outside one’s home jurisdiction without checking the current jurisdiction’s recent LEOs
• Distinguish between legal ethics opinions and the Rules they interpret
• Focus on the major legal ethics opinions from many sources to protect a lawyer from serious ethical missteps and malpractice
• Apply invaluable legal ethics analysis tools and techniques to professional dilemmas and conflicts when they arise

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:

Sunday, December 14, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Artificial Intelligence is currently impacting every facet of society. This course offers an update on this ever-evolving AI landscape, from developments within the United States  Copyright Office to the status of lawsuits in the United States. 

Attendees will gain insight into the issues arising at the intersection of AI, art, and the law. They will learn about the current approaches to AI by the US Copyright Office and the United States Judiciary, the legal issues involved and rulings handed down in AI-related cases in the U.S., and AI-related ethical issues and judicial positions to be aware of. 

This course is designed for attorneys at the basic or introductory level of legal practice who work in or are interested in art law. Exploring AI's Influence on Art and Law is specifically designed for attorneys who want an introduction to AI issues in art and law.

Learning Objectives:

• Review artificial intelligence & the United States Copyright Office
• Explore artificial intelligence and fair use policy
• Investigate artificial intelligence and suits involving visual art and music
• Identify the intersection of artificial intelligence and lawsuits involving authorship 
• Explore artificial intelligence and lawsuits involving journalism
• Discuss artificial intelligence and ethics

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

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Sunday, December 14, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025

The opportunity to learn about the seldom-explored area of law, sports law, is a great opportunity for an attorney, even if they do not practice in this field. This course will describe the basic procedure for challenging various occurrences that arise in sport and where attorneys can educate themselves further on the rules and regulations governing these sports. 

Attendees will explore how the legal field plays a role in sports such as boxing, wrestling, and volleyball among others. Legal professionals will delve into the regulatory bodies in each sport and the processes sports related cases follow. 

Practitioners who either practice, dabble in, or are otherwise interested in learning more about the regulatory procedures behind some of their favorite sports are encouraged to attend this course. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Observe the regulatory/legal procedures behind some sampling of the world’s professional sports
• Identify where to look and what to think about when faced with an athlete in certain professional sports who has a rules/regulatory issue arise in the course of their careers or during a particular competition
• Explore basic pointers to advise the agents and managers of athletes in certain sports as to how to handle rules/regulatory issues that may arise regarding their athletes
• Review how to educate athlete clients in various sports about how to avoid and mitigate certain violations of their chosen sport’s rules/regulations
• Identify when the Court of Arbitration for Sport, or other judicial/quasi-judicial bodies may or may not be available for an appeal
• Examine exceptionally niche areas of sports law that help create a more well-rounded sports law practitioner

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Central Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mountain Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Pacific Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Alaska Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, December 15, 2025