Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2021

This course serves as a refresher for attorneys on avoiding basic ethical issues that may arise in their practice, from properly handling client funds to maintaining the right social media presence. Attendees will review real examples and governing rules to learn how to avoid common ethical complaints from clients.

Ethical practice is a key part of legal practice and is even strictly governed by some state bars. In the age of social media, many new ethical issues arise that attorneys may not have been equipped to navigate in law school. This course has everything from basic reminders to things practicing attorneys may have yet to consider. 

This program is ideal for attorneys in any field of law. It is specifically beneficial for attorneys who frequently interact with clients.

Learning Objectives: 

• Preserve client confidence
• Protect attorney-client privilege
• Navigate new issues created by social media, such as negative online reviews
• Properly handle client funds in either dedicated client trusts or in pooled accounts
• Avoid client complaints for lack of diligence
• Avoid client complaints for failure to communicate
• Properly handle mistakes in client interfacing
• Avoid making public or online comments about pending matters
• Stay mindful of basic ethical principles so one’s judgment is not clouded by ambition, greed, or fame
• Recognize and properly respond to mental health, substance abuse, and personal finance issues

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:

Sunday, December 28, 2025

This course will provide an overview of the steps to forming a limited liability company (LLC), from checking for name availability to filing the certificate of formation to drafting the operating agreement. Attendees will learn how to file the requisite formation documents, obtain a tax identification number, register beneficial ownership identifiers with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, and draft a basic operating agreement. 

Limited liability companies are a popular choice for American business owners, making knowledge about their formation an essential tool in an attorney’s kit. Whether they seek protection from personal liability, more favorable taxation, or flexible management, this course equips attorneys to provide their clients with all the benefits of LLCs. 

This program is appropriate for attorneys and all legal professionals at any level of law practice and field of law. The course specifically benefits those practicing business law who seek to help their clients form LLCs.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the steps to forming a limited liability company
• Apply for a tax identification number on the official Internal Revenue Service website
• Register for a beneficial ownership interest with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency (FINCEN)
• Identify the basic elements of an operating agreement

Course Time Schedule:

Eastern Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Central Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Mountain Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Pacific Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Alaska Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

This course is also being presented on the following dates

Sunday, December 28, 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 15, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Monday, December 29, 2025

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