California MCLE - Ethics and Specialty Courses
This is a listing of Ethics and Specialty CLE Courses for California. Please make your selection below of California CLE courses. Click "Add To Cart" to purchase Individual CLE Courses. For more information about a particular CLE course, click on the "More Info" link. Click the "Preview" button to view a short preview of the course.
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Justice Can Only Be Blind if the Jury Reflects Our Diverse Society
The importance of a defendant having a jury composed of their peers is a tenet of jurisprudence. Historically, this has not always been the case for all defendants on trial. Our panelists will provide a deep dive into the importance of ensuring the impaneling of a diverse jury reflects our society and its values. More Info
$501Elimination Bias -
Avoiding and Responding to State Bar Inquiries
This CLE program will help practitioners identify and implement various risk management tools that can help them avoid common ethical missteps and client complaints to the state bar. The presenters will discuss the types of conduct and practices that will most frequently draw the attention of bar prosecutors or clients, the lifecycle of a bar investigation, and will provide insight and analysis on best practices for responding to bar complaints. Participants will leave with a better... More Info
$751.5Ethics Credits -
Decide to Thrive: The Case for Lawyer Well-Being
Do you believe it's not possible to be a healthy lawyer? Do you think that you have to work harder to make more money? Do you think that there's only one way to practice law? Join Julie Bonasso, Esquire, a former practicing AmLaw 100 firm attorney and master certified coach as she takes on the objections and myths of being a lawyer in these challenging times. Julie shares her story and those of other attorneys who have decided to create the life they desire, fueled by well-being. She de... More Info
$501Wellness -
How Microaggressions Can Dismantle an Organization’s Professional Development & Diversity & Inclusion Goals
The random comments that we make, the pronouns that we use, the jokes that we share, and the assumptions that we “innocently” state are slowly and cumulatively making our co-workers and clients very uncomfortable. Moreover, this behavior is likely causing professional development, economic, and reputational harm as injured parties silently leave our organizations. This dynamic CLE session utilizes social science, and current events to provide participants with a greater awareness of i... More Info
$501Elimination Bias -
Common Mistakes Lawyers Make with Clients and How to Avoid Them
Many lawyers may not fully understand the Bar rules and ethical considerations regarding client representation and make ethical mistakes regarding whether to take on a client representation, continue the representation, and terminating the representation (and everything in between). This CLE course will address some very important ethical considerations to help lawyers avoid making mistakes with clients. More Info
$751.5Ethics Credits -
Ethics & The Electronic Ages: Understanding Heightened Legal & Ethical Responsibilities
Law firms are struggling with how to guard against and respond to data breaches. Now that Ethical Rules of Conduct (and your specific State’s professional rules of conduct for lawyers) and the real risk of monetary and other penal impact to you truly exists, and the Rules (and other law) obligate you to take new and expansive steps to protect data, it is critical you appreciate your risk, and how to take steps to avoid data breaches, as well as how to handle and mitigate such breaches.... More Info
$501Ethics Credit -
Ethics Primer: Privileges, Confidentiality And Conflicts Of Interest
What is the attorney client privilege? When does it apply? Can it be waived? Does it apply during an investigation? Does it apply to former employees? What about confidentiality? What is covered by the work product privilege? This CLE Lecture will discuss the basics, and subtleties, of the attorney client privilege, work product privilege, and confidentiality. It will also cover the identification, and avoidance, of conflicts of interest, including attorney disqualifications.... More Info
$501Ethics Credit -
Intervention Strategies for Helping Legal Professionals
With the alarming prevalence of substance use and mental health disorders in the legal profession, it is imperative that we are all armed with the knowledge and insight of how to approach someone who may be struggling. Certain approaches yield greater results than others. While many of us have viewed the “Intervention” show on television, Johnson style interventions don’t typically produce excellent results. Language is key when approaching someone you care about and having them be able to “he... More Info
$501.25Competence Issues -
Effective and Ethical Paralegal Litigation Techniques to Enhance Your Firm's Productivity During the Pandemic and Beyond
Join experienced litigator Kenneth Mother as he provides a very practical overview of how legal assistants can efficiently, and ethically, assist attorneys in litigation. Covering ethics to e-filing, filing documents (so you can actually find them when preparing for trial), to finding the layers of court rules, discovery -- including deposition digest -- trial preparation and trial process, this program will provide paralegals with the tools they need to help attorneys run their liti... More Info
$751.5Ethics Credits -
Practicing Law in a Pandemic: Remote Lawyering in the Age of COVID-19 PART II
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought sweeping changes to the way industries function both in the US and across the globe. As industries adapt to this new reality and the workforce learns to function remotely, risk assessment has changed as well. In the legal profession, that means a complete re-evaluation of confidentiality and client responsibility with a focus on risk management, client and staff communication and how to establish long and short term plans to effectively and successfully naviga... More Info
$501Ethics Credit