Virginia MCLE - Intellectual Property Courses
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Live WebinarThursday, November 12, 202610:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Time (EDT)
Live Webinar: The Rules of the Road for AI and Patent Practice
This CLE program examines the evolving role of artificial intelligence in patent practice, with a focus on the practical, regulatory, and professional issues attorneys must consider when incorporating AI into their work. The program will address current and emerging AI developments affecting the profession, including confidentiality, accuracy, attribution, disclosure, client communication, supervision, and the appropriate use of AI-assisted tools. The program will also examine how AI ca... More Info
$1002Total Credits1 Ethics -
Live WebinarThursday, November 12, 20261:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time (EDT)
Live Webinar: From AI Experiment to Repeatable Legal Workflows
This CLE course examines the practical and legal considerations involved in moving from experimentation with artificial intelligence to repeatable AI-assisted workflows in patent practice. The program will explore how AI is changing patent preparation and prosecution, legal-service delivery, staffing, training, workflow design, and the economics of professional work, while considering how attorneys can incorporate these tools without sacrificing quality or creating additional risk. The... More Info
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Kings of the Internet on Trial: The Future of Section 230
For more than two decades, Section 230 has provided online platforms with significant protection from liability for third-party content, helping fuel the growth of the internet and social media. As platforms evolved, however, companies increasingly relied on algorithms, product design, autoplay, and other features designed to maximize user engagement. This CLE program examines the growing legal challenges to the scope of Section 230 immunity, particularly claims that social media platfo... More Info
$751.5General Credits -
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AI and You: Creating, Protecting, and Monetizing Your Work Product—and Your Clients'
This CLE course explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the practice of law and creating new opportunities—and challenges—for attorneys. This program will examine how lawyers can effectively leverage AI as a professional resource while understanding the legal, practical, and business considerations that come with its use. Attendees will learn strategies for using AI tools to enhance legal work, protect valuable work product, and identify opportunities to monetize AI-assiste... More Info
$501General Credit -
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AI and Software Ownership: Copyleft, Open Source, and Legal Risk in the Age of AI Coding Tools
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming software development, with tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, and other AI-assisted coding platforms becoming commonplace in startup and enterprise environments. While these tools can dramatically increase development speed, they also raise important legal questions involving copyright ownership, open-source licensing obligations, patent protection, software due diligence, and investor scrutiny. This CLE... More Info
$501General Credit -
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Law in the Age of Large World Models: Navigating Liability, Autonomy, and Synthetic Reality
Artificial intelligence is expanding beyond language generation into systems capable of modeling and influencing the physical world. This CLE course examines the rise of Large World Models (LWMs) and physical AI systems that generate synthetic environments, simulate real-world outcomes, and increasingly impact engineering, robotics, and autonomous decision-making. Participants will explore the legal risks and challenges created when AI tools move from visualization and scenario generati... More Info
$501General Credit -
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Defending Trade Secret Claims: Contesting Whether a Trade Secret Exists
This CLE program examines the foundational elements of trade secret claims, with a focus on defense strategies for challenging whether a legally protectable trade secret exists. Participants will review the requirements of specificity, economic value, and secrecy, as well as the role these concepts play in trade secret litigation. The program will also address common defenses, practical litigation considerations, and key jurisdictional variations that may affect the analysis. Learning Obj... More Info
$501General Credit -
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From Workflow to Automation: Expert AI Use in Legal Practice
This CLE course is designed as the third installment in the AI for Legal Practice series. The first course introduces attorneys to the fundamentals of AI, including effective prompting techniques. The second course explores advanced ChatGPT capabilities, including Projects, Memory, Tasks, Custom GPTs, file uploads, model selection, and AI-assisted drafting with appropriate quality control. Building on that foundation, this third course examines how attorneys and law firms can use AI to develop... More Info
$751.5General Credits -
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Trademark Blind Spots: What Every Business Attorney Needs to Know
This CLE course will help business attorneys identify trademark risks embedded in routine client work—especially during entity formation and brand development, where problems often arise before trademark counsel is involved. This program provides a practical risk-awareness framework, covering what business attorneys need to understand about trademarks versus other forms of intellectual property, the limits of LLC approvals and DBAs, and how to guide clients through business naming decisions, i... More Info
$501General Credit -
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Counseling the Startup: Legal Strategy for High-Growth Ventures
Representing a “tech startup” or other venture that will seek outside investment during the early years of its operations offers challenges that attorneys won’t face when representing a traditional small business. Startup founders (also known as “entrepreneurs”) have different personalities, goals and objectives than small business owners, and accordingly will have different needs for legal services. When working with startups, you will often find yourself as an “outside general coun... More Info
$1002General Credits