West Virginia Live CLE Bundle 2023

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, September 8, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025

This program will explore strategies for effectively managing challenging client behaviors and adversarial opposing counsel. Participants will learn proven methods of communication, techniques for assessing client challenges, and approaches for maintaining professionalism in even the most tense legal contexts. Emphasis will be placed on emotional intelligence, boundary setting, and fostering collaborative courtroom dynamics.

Attorneys should attend to strengthen their communication and case management skills, particularly in high-conflict or emotionally charged cases. The program offers practical guidance for dealing with mental health issues, personality disorders, and unprofessional behavior in opposing counsel.

This course will cover how to identify and categorize demanding clients, techniques for communicating clearly and compassionately with clients and counsel, and strategies for protecting professional boundaries and declining or terminating representation. Tips for handling disruptive or unethical opposing counsel while maintaining professionalism will also be presented.

This program is ideal for family law attorneys, litigators, and solo practitioners who regularly interact with high-conflict clients or contentious opposing counsel. Attorneys with some to moderate levels of experience will find the most benefit from this course.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and assess different types of demanding clients using a structured history and behavioral assessment model.
2. Understand effective communication practices with both clients and opposing counsel, including pros and cons of each method.
3. Strategize for setting expectations and boundaries to manage client relationships ethically and effectively.
4. Explore methods for disengaging from unfit representation scenarios through ethical withdrawal or non-engagement.
5. Navigate difficult opposing counsel while upholding courtroom decorum and professional standards.

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, August 18, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
Monday, September 1, 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
Monday, September 15, 2025

As nearly all states have adopted tech competency requirements for licensed attorneys, attorneys should attend this program to learn about their ethical obligations regarding technology and law practice. The webinar will also help practitioners stay up-to-date with the most recent guidance issued by the American Bar Association (“ABA”) and state authorities concerning cloud computing, cyber security, and generative AI. 

Attendees will learn state ethics rules and advisories addressing tech competency. The webinar will cover related professional responsibilities that are likewise implicated by the use of technology in legal practice, including maintaining client confidence, keeping clients informed, billing clients for work product generated with technology, supervising other attorneys and legal staff, and honoring attorneys’ duty of candor to courts and other tribunals. 

This course is designed for attorneys at any level who use electronic data systems and technology in their law practice. When supervising junior attorneys and staff in tech competency, managing attorneys will also benefit from learning about strategies to meet their professional responsibilities. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Review professional competency requirements associated with using technology in law practice, including amendments to state ethics rules and recent advisory opinions from the ABA and state bar authorities
• Explore the interplay between tech competency and other professional responsibilities, with specific attention to confidentiality rules, client disclosures, and supervision
• Identify tech competency obligations associated with storing and keeping confidential client information secure from cyber intrusions
• Examine the latest ethics guidance on using generative AI in providing legal services
   

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:

Monday, August 25, 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Monday, November 17, 2025
Monday, December 15, 2025