Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

Legal professionals must be equipped to address a client’s needs, problem solve, and successfully manage time in order to ensure satisfied clients. This course offers techniques, trends, tips, and resources that attorneys can begin implementing for better problem solving.

Attorneys attending this program will gain confidence in their interactions with clients and the ability to bring meaningful resolution to matters. In this course, legal professionals will learn collaborative and creative strategies, tactics and techniques for problem solving day-to-day, as well as how to approach the intake of new client matters.

This course is appropriate for attorneys seeking to inject some creativity into (or re-invigorate) their approach to problem solving. The program is intended for newer attorneys or experienced attorneys who may be new to transactional or in-house work.

Learning Objectives: 

• Define and analyze the basics of solving any problem
• Implement a framework for success in one’s legal practice
• Identify, size up and resolve the matter at hand
• Create more positive interaction with clients while effectively and efficiently resolving legal matters
• Evaluate the steps and considerations when doing intake of new legal issues

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Central Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Mountain Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Pacific Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Alaska Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, August 11, 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
Monday, December 8, 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, July 21, 2025
Monday, July 28, 2025
Monday, August 4, 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025

Due to its far-reaching implications, attorneys working in regulatory, criminal, or business law must understand the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This course provides a solid foundation on the CSA and its applications, equipping attorneys to better assist clients with compliance, enforcement, and other legal matters. Attending this course will enhance participants’ ability to identify potential legal issues and advise clients effectively in this evolving legal environment.

This course will explore the CSA’s structure and scope, including its drug classification system, key regulatory provisions, and enforcement mechanisms. It also examines changes in controlled substance scheduling and processes. Attendees will gain practical tools for navigating CSA-related cases and advising clients on compliance strategies.

This program is ideal for attorneys in criminal defense, healthcare, regulatory compliance, corporate law, or government roles. It will also benefit any legal professional seeking a deeper understanding of federal drug policy and its legal implications.

This course is designed for attorneys at any level of law practice; prior knowledge of the CSA is not required. It is ideal for attorneys who are new to this area of law, seeking a refresher, or want to broaden their knowledge of the CSA.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the historical context and legislative intent behind the CSA
• Identify and explain the CSA’s framework and classification system, including drug scheduling
• Analyze the roles and responsibilities of regulatory agencies such as the DEA and FDA under the CSA
• Apply knowledge of registration, licensing, and compliance requirements for professionals regulated under the CSA
• Recognize prohibited acts and the penalties associated with CSA violations, including enforcement trends and legal defenses

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Central Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Mountain Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Pacific Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Alaska Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

This course is also being presented on the following dates:

Monday, August 4, 2025
Monday, September 15, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025

It is important for attorneys to learn about challenges to legal ethics principles posed by lawyers succumbing to alcoholism and/or addiction and the ways in which the legal profession is currently seeking to prevent, or remedy, such problems. Even attorneys not suffering from alcoholism or addiction have a professional responsibility to learn about, and apply critical analysis to, the legal profession's ongoing efforts to prevent, or attempt to remediate, problems for this profession. Attorneys who are "recovering" from either condition (or both) can contribute valuable insights in an interactive seminar on the subject such as this seminar.

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 who is required to attend a CLE seminar on "substance abuse" and any other attorney recognizing the professional responsibility to understand how the legal profession and the courts are currently seeking to (a) reduce the number of lawyers succumbing to such problems, (b) provide effective remedial assistance when needed, and (c) apply suitable disciplinary measures when necessary.

Learning Objectives: 

• Examine 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
• Explore 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
• The judiciary generally encourages lawyers to participate actively in the regulatory control over our profession generally and the conduct of lawyers individually. Therefore, each attorney has a duty to keep abreast of such disciplinary and regulatory activities and as much as possible to actively participate (pro bono, of course) in, and support, such activities
• Explore the "illness" nature of alcoholism or addiction
• Develop and implement regulatory measures to provide remedial assistance to those suffering from such illness, but do not let the goal of remediation to completely eclipse ethical (and moral) responsibility
• Analyze how the public perceives the legal profession as a "self-regulating" profession" and how this underscores the duty of the legal profession to handle  this regulatory responsibility in ways that increase, rather than diminish, the public's confidence in our legal system
• Recognize the legal profession’s duty to avoid letting compassion unduly repress the sense of responsibility to protect the justice system from the too-widespread perception among the public that lawyers can always avoid the consequences of their own shortcomings or misconduct

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:

Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025