Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

The juvenile justice system can present significant challenges for attorneys, requiring skillful navigation to ensure the best possible outcomes for young clients. The repercussions of a guilty plea can affect a juvenile’s life far into adulthood. This course is designed to equip attorneys with a thorough understanding of the legal and ethical issues surrounding guilty pleas in the juvenile justice context.

Attendees will gain insight into the juvenile justice process, including its historical foundations, evolving trends, and potential future developments. The program will also address attorney ethics in juvenile matters, the lasting consequences of guilty pleas, and the dynamic roles and interactions among attorneys, the courts, victims, and families.

This course is suitable for attorneys at all stages of their careers, particularly those interested in expanding their practice into juvenile or criminal law.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the core principles of juvenile justice.
2. Identify the roles of the defense attorney, family, victim, and the court play in the guilty plea.
3. Explain the ethical obligations defense attorneys have in ensuring juveniles understand the full implications of a guilty plea.
4. Analyze how defense attorneys can ensure that a juvenile defendant is fully aware of collateral consequences.

Course Time Schedule:

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

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, May 11, 2026
Monday, June 1, 2026
Monday, July 13, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
Monday, September 14, 2026

Attorneys who develop a strong understanding of artificial intelligence and its practical applications can gain a distinct competitive edge, enhancing efficiency, streamlining workflows, and ultimately delivering greater value to clients. As AI tools become more accessible across the legal field, it is increasingly important for attorneys to understand these technologies, even if they do not plan to use them directly. Awareness of how opposing counsel, clients, or the courts might employ AI is essential to maintaining technological competence.

This program offers a comprehensive overview of AI tools designed specifically for legal professionals, with a particular focus on their applications in various practice areas. Participants will examine the advantages and drawbacks of these tools, including cost considerations, security risks, and potential ethical and professional implications of AI in legal practice.

Designed for attorneys across all practice areas, especially those with limited technological experience, this seminar offers a practical and accessible introduction to the evolving intersection of law and artificial intelligence.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and describe the various AI Tools developed specifically for attorneys.
2. Recognize and describe the advantages of using AI Tools in their practice. 
3. Explain the disadvantages of using AI Tools in their practice. 
4.  Evaluate and appraise AI tools and determine which, if any, are suitable for their specific practice areas. 
5. Distinguish between ethical and non-ethical use of AI tools in the practice of law.
6. Develop a framework for assessing AI Tools as they come into development.

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:

Thursday, May 14, 2026
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 2026

In an era where constant connectivity is the norm, attorneys face growing challenges related to digital overuse and the stress, distraction, and burnout that can follow. This course explores digital addiction through the lens of attorney wellness, examining its classification as an impulse control disorder and its impact on mental and physical health, focus, productivity, and overall well-being.

Attendees will learn how excessive reliance on smartphones, computers, and other devices can contribute to anxiety, sleep disruption, and impaired judgment, ultimately affecting professional performance and personal fulfillment. The program will provide attorneys with tools and strategies to create healthier digital habits, set boundaries around device use, and adopt mindful approaches to technology that support sustainable legal practices and ethical decision-making.

Designed for attorneys in all practice areas, this course supports personal and professional well-being by addressing a modern risk factor that can silently erode resilience, engagement, and quality of life in the legal profession.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the concept of addiction and explore what makes social media and other online content addictive.
2. Identify the signs of digital addiction and the consequences of digital addiction on mental health.
3. Assess and apply tools available to overcome digital addiction.
4. Recognize how digital addiction can impair a lawyer’s ethical duties and apply relevant ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to mitigate professional risk.

Course Time Schedule:

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

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Thursday, May 14, 2026
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Lawyers, the legal profession, law firms, and even legal ethics scholars are facing rapidly developing events and meteoric developments that threaten to upend the assumptions of law practice, and possibly worse. Bedrock assumptions about what constitutes ethical practice are being challenged. Technology and the reactions to the pandemic have exposed deep anachronisms in what have been regarded as settled legal ethics principles. This makes it a frightening time to be a lawyer and a challenging time to be an ethical lawyer.

This program examines critical practice challenges that the Rules of Professional Conduct do not adequately address, and in some cases, not at all. From recent legal developments to the date of the seminar, and from festering legal ethics dilemmas that lie lurking in the shadows, “The Legal Ethics Curse” will challenge, engage, and even frighten attendees. This is an intense, multidisciplinary, hypothesis-based program. Attendees will leave with new tools to address legal ethics problems when they arise, and will be prepared to prevent them from arising in the first place.

This course is designed for attorneys across all disciplines, regardless of experience, who are interested in the evolving landscape of legal ethics.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
2. Evaluate the context, application, and limitations of the ethics rules, with an emphasis on the varying rules across jurisdictions and the risks of non-compliance.
3. Identify when legal ethics issues arise and address them.
4. Gain legal ethics problem-solving skills by examining complex legal ethics problems.
5. Explore recent legal developments and legal ethics dilemmas.
6. Anticipate the legal ethics issues likely to arise in 2026.

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Central Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Mountain Time: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Pacific Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Alaska Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Thursday, May 14, 2026
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Thursday, July 30, 2026