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Crimmigration: Avoid Giving Bad Advice to Immigrant Defendants
This CLE course focuses on how criminal proceedings can directly affect a non-citizen’s immigration status and long-term ability to remain in the United States. By exploring the overlap between criminal defense and immigration law, the program provides practical guidance for identifying issues that may trigger adverse immigration outcomes. Participants will learn how to provide accurate, legally sound advice to immigrant clients, minimize avoidable mistakes, and uphold the ethical and... More Info
$501General Credit -
Projecting the Future of Cannabis Law: Policy, Market, and Compliance Impacts
This CLE program explores the legal contradictions and policy shifts that have defined cannabis regulation in the United States for more than half a century. Although cannabis was once a commonly used agricultural and medicinal product, federal law dramatically changed course in 1970 when the Controlled Substances Act classified it as a Schedule I substance—effectively criminalizing most uses, restricting scientific research, and declaring it to have no accepted medical value. Despite t... More Info
$501General Credit -
The New Definition of Legal Ethics and Competence in the Age of AI
This ethics CLE examines how artificial intelligence affects lawyers’ professional obligations under existing Rules of Professional Conduct. While the Model Rules themselves have not materially changed, the program discusses how evolving legal workflows and increased reliance on technology influence the application of ethical standards relating to competence, communication, confidentiality, supervision, and candor. The course addresses the use of AI as a tool in legal practice, includi... More Info
$751.5Ethics Credits -
Ethics in Mediation Practice: What ABA 518 Means for Attorneys
As mediation continues to expand across legal practice, so do the ethical responsibilities placed on attorney-mediators and advocates who participate in the process. With the recent release of ABA Formal Opinion 518, attorneys are now faced with new guidance—and new questions—regarding neutrality, client communication, conflicts, and the boundaries of advocacy within a mediated setting. This CLE program breaks down what ABA 518 means in practical terms, outlining how it aligns with and... More Info
$501Ethics Credit -
The Evolution and Devolution of Civility
This CLE program examines the evolving role of civility in the legal profession and the increasing attention courts and regulators are paying to attorney conduct. As concerns about incivility in litigation, motion practice, discovery, and courtroom advocacy have grown, courts have turned to disciplinary authorities and professionalism rules to address conduct that undermines the administration of justice. The effectiveness of these efforts, however, has been uneven, particularly in large juris... More Info
$501Ethics Credit -
Legal Ethics Update: Trends and Challenges for Today’s Lawyers
This CLE program provides an in-depth review of the most significant ethics opinions issued over the past year by the ABA and various state bar authorities. The session will not only outline the governing rules but also explore their practical impact on day-to-day legal practice. The program will then examine several notable ethics challenges that surfaced during the year, including the pressures placed on attorneys by external forces such as political efforts that tested the independen... More Info
$501Ethics Credit -
Drafting Stronger Patents: A Practical Project Management-Based Framework for Surviving Alice
In this CLE program, a patent attorney and former USPTO examiner from the Business Methods Technology Center 3600 introduces a project management–inspired framework for drafting patent applications that satisfy 35 U.S.C. § 101. Attendees will learn practical, prosecution-ready strategies informed by the latest USPTO developments, including the August 2025 memo to the examining corps, Director Squires’ precedential decision in Ex parte Desjardins, and recent USPTO hour updates. In a lan... More Info
$501General Credit -
Employment Eligibility Verification: Form I-9 Compliance and Workplace Enforcement Actions
This CLE program provides a clear and practical examination of the employment eligibility verification system with a focus on the real-world demands placed on employers. The session begins with an analysis of Form I-9 requirements, the statutory framework that governs them, and the procedural rules that create strict liability for seemingly small errors. Participants will learn how verification obligations arise, how timing rules operate, and how common mistakes continue to expose employers to... More Info
$501General Credit -
Injustice on Trial: The Scottsboro Boys and the Struggle Against Jim Crow
In 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, when thousands of Americans “hopped boxcars,” and rode the freight rails around the county in search of work, camping in “hobo jungles” that grew up around railroad yards, nine black teenagers, mostly in their late teens, one only thirteen years old, found themselves accused of a crime that later trials would show beyond a shadow of a doubt had never occurred. The case was no doubt similar to many others that took place in the Jim Crow South, som... More Info
$751.5General Credits -
Service, Therapy, Emotional Support, and Courtroom Animals: Laws, Practices, and Policies
Animals provide humans with a variety of support. Some of the most common are service animals, therapy animals, emotional support animals, and courtroom animals. Each of these are separate and distinct both in terms of the services they provide and the laws and regulations that apply. The purpose of this CLE program is to identify each of the types of animals that provide support, the laws and regulations that apply, common practices in the use of these services, and public policy cons... More Info
$501General Credit