Free CLE January 2025+

January 2025 Free CLE

January 17:

* Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts. By LexisNexis.

January 21:
* Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward. By LexisNexis.

* Getting Trade Ready in 2025: Strategies to Navigate Tariff Impacts. By Cozen O'Connor.

January 22: 

* M&A Year In Review: Utilizing Research Tools To Identify Trends in the Deal Market. By LexisNexis.

January 23: 

* Outsmarting Implicit Bias: How Bias Shows Up and Strategies to Counteract its Impact. By National Conflict Resolution Center.

January 24:

* Bankruptcy Fundamentals. By LexisNexis.

January 27:
* Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Legal Implications of Using AI in Employment Decisions. By LexisNexis.
January 29:
* Breached! Cybersecurity 101. By LexisNexis.

* Artificial Intelligence in Employment: Emerging Laws and Compliance Requirements. By LexisNexis.

* Review of Significant D&O Cases for the Second Half of 2024. By Cozen O'Connor.
January 31:
* Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts. By LexisNexis.

* Research Skills for IP Litigation. By LexisNexis.

* Forms, Forms, Forms! How to Find and Create the Legal Form That You Need Right Now. By Alameda County Law Library.

February 2025 Free CLE

February 3:

* Breached! Cybersecurity 101. By LexisNexis.

February 4: 

* The Dawning of a New Era: Combining Extractive and Generative AI for New Possibilities. By LexisNexis.

February 5: 

* Preparing Your Client for Mediation. By WSBA.

February 6:
* Bankruptcy - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. By CES.

* Resistance to Results: How to Drive Change At Your Mid-Sized Firm. By Clio.

February 7: 

* Moneyball for Civil Litigation. By LexisNexis. 

February 10:
* Clio's Legal AI Virtual Summit. By Clio.

February 11: 

* Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward. By LexisNexis.

February 12: 

* Ethical Dangers of Isolation in the Profession. By Minnesota State Law Library.

* ESG and the Climate: Emerging Risks & Compliance. By LexisNexis.

* Balancing Artificial Intelligence Innovations, Best Practices, and Ethics in Legal Proceedings. By Veritext.

* 22 Lewd Chinese Women: Chy Lung v. Freeman. By Fordham.

February 13: 

* The Blue Prints: Advanced Strategies for Resolving Construction Disputes and More. By National Conflict Resolution Center.

February 14:

* The Dawning of a New Era: Combining Extractive and Generative AI for New Possibilities. By LexisNexis.

* Research & Drafting Techniques For Corporate Law. By LexisNexis.

February 18: 

* The Dawning of a New Era: Combining Extractive and Generative AI for New Possibilities. By LexisNexis.

February 19: 

* Check, please! Ethical Billing Practices To Avoid Fee Disputes. By AttorneyProte tive.

* A Handy Primer on Drafting and Updating Employee Handbooks. By LexisNexis.
February 20:
* Ethics Jeopardy: Answers and Questions. By Clifford Law Offices.

February 21:

* Cyber Law and Cybersecurity Insurance 101. By LexisNexis.

* Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts. By LexisNexis.

February 24:

* Breached! Cybersecurity 101. By LexisNexis.

February 25: 

* Marijuana in the Workplace: An Update and a Look Forward. By LexisNexis.

February 26:

* Artificial Intelligence Key Legal Issues. By LexisNexis.

March 2025 Free CLE

March 5: 

* Research Skills for Litigators. by LexisNexis.

March 6:

* Why Lenders Miss Closing Dates. By CES.

March 7:

* HIPAA - Understanding Enforcement, Penalties & Research Strategies. By LexisNexis.

March 11:

* Use of AI and ChatGPT/LLM In the Law Profession. By Alta Pro.

March 12:

* Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Sector. By LexisNexis.

March 19: 

* Groundbreaking Video Technology: From Advanced Web Cams to Detecting Deepfakes. By Veritext.

* Cybersecurity and Data Breaches. By LexisNexis.

* Evaluating Hospital Procedures for Authorizing Emergency Abortion. By Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

March 21: 

* Researching Experts and Judges. By LexisNexis.

March 25:

* The Future of Legal Pricing: Exploring Value-Based Models. By Perrin.

March 26:

* Introduction to London Arbitrations. By Perrin.

March 28:

* Due Diligence in Intellectual Property Transactions. By LexisNexis.

* Trends to Watch in Antitrust Law. By LexisNexis

April 2025 Free CLE

May 2025 Free CLE

May 1: 

* Being an Advocate and Shaking Hands Afterwards.  By National Conflict Resolution Center.

May 22:

* The Role of Civility in Negotiations: Engaging in Collaborative Discussions and Dealing with the Challenges of Inflexible Negotiators.  By National Conflict Resolution Center.

June 2025 Free CLE

June 26:
* Probate Pitfalls: Understanding the Impact of Elder Financial Exploitation.  By National Conflict Resolution Center.

That's it for now! Share this information freely, send me any updates, and best of luck to you and yours in the year upcoming - REW.

P.S. If you're in Texas, subscribe to Abdul Faraki's Free CLE for Texas Lawyers.

P.P.S. If you're not in Texas, why not create a Free CLE for Your State website? Very likely you know your state better than I do! If you have technical questions, let me know and we'll chat!

February 12: 22 Lewd Chinese Women: Chy Lung v. Freeman

In 1874, a ship arrived in the port of San Francisco carrying 600 passengers from China. A state official inspected the passengers and determined that 22 Chinese women, who were traveling alone, were prostitutes. He required a bond of $500 each for the women to disembark. 

The captain refused to post the bonds, and the women were detained under California law. Legal proceedings followed, including a four-day trial and appeals all the way to the United States Supreme Court, raising issues of due process, human and civil rights, and the power of states to regulate immigration. 

This program tells the story of the women, through narration, reenactment of court proceedings, and historic photographs.​
Title:
22 Lewd Chinese Women: Chy Lung v. Freeman
Date/Time:
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern Time
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In-Person and on Zoom
Fordham Law School
Moot Courtroom Room 1-01 (First Floor)
150 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023
Speakers:

By:
Fordham Law School Center on Asian Americans and the Law.
Credit:
CLE credit for this program is pending in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for a maximum of 1.0 transitional and nontransitional professional practice credit. In many other jurisdictions, you may be able to self-apply for credit.

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January 16: Ethics in the Age of Incivility: Demand Letters, Settlement Agreements, and Attorney Communications

This presentation will cover:

• The intersection of Settlement demand letters and California's Rules of Professional Conduct.
• How to Avoid a "Jay Z v. Tony Buzbee" mess!
• A rules based approach to avoiding professional misconduct allegations during settlement negotiations.
• Nurturing civil communications with opposing counsel on sensitive matters
• Settlement Agreements after Monster Energy v. Schechter (2019)
• "Approved as to Form and Content", what does this mean?
• Implications of indemnification, confidentiality, and liquidated damages language in settlement agreements.

Title:
Ethics in the Age of Incivility: Demand Letters, Settlement Agreements, and Attorney Communications
Webinar Date+Time:
Thursday, January 16, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Attendance is Limited - Register Now!
Speaker:
Scott R. Herndon, is a Plaintiff’s Trial Lawyer, focusing on catastrophic personal injury, civil sexual assault on behalf of survivors, and employment law.
By:
The Attorney Action Club is a network of San Francisco Bay Area lawyers who host monthly topical discussions on attorney work life balance and law practice management.
Cost:
Free; registration is limited
Credit:
California: 1.0 hour of MCLE Civility Sub-credit; You may be able to self-apply for other jurisdictions.

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January 15: Operating a Thriving & Successful Family Law Practice

This course will focus on the unique challenges lawyers face in handling high-conflict cases and clients experiencing intense emotions.
Additionally, this course will provide insights into key milestones, best practices, and effective strategies for promoting civility and maintaining professionalism, with a focus on Family Law, including divorce, conservatorship, and support cases.

Participants will learn strategies for conducting realistic case evaluations, establishing clear and compassionate client communication, and implementing provisions to uphold fiduciary duties.

This session will also cover ethical billing practices and explore the ways poor billing habits can erode client trust. Lastly, participants will uncover how to identify common pitfalls and warning signs and discover practical solutions for managing complex client dynamics while ensuring ethical, client-centered representation.
Title:
Operating a Thriving & Successful Family Law Practice
Date+Time:
January 15, 2025
4pm ET - 3pm CT - 2pm MT - 1pm PT
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - register now!
By:
LawPay
Speaker:
Claude Ducloux, LawPay's director of education, ethics and compliance, has nearly four decades of experience practicing law. Claude has earned many professional honors for his dedication to educating attorneys, including the Gene Cavin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Continuing Education.
Credit:
Lawpay programs are typically eligible for credit in most states, although when I posted this they had not listed the states for this particular program yet

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January 17+31: Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts

American business man and former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer once stated, “The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” 

The goal of this course today is to harnessing the potential as attorneys to learn things about online legal research you didn’t think you could learn before. This course is going to be a deeper dive into online legal research. 

According to the model rules of professional conduct, attorneys need to maintain competency, and a component of maintaining competency is to keep abreast of the benefits and risks of relevant technology. By the end of this course you all will be made aware of advanced online legal research methods to harness your potential as a researcher and to maintain a standard of competency in the legal profession. 

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

•Discover how online legal research can assist you in search methodology 

•Leverage provided connections, common terms, and formatting of content. 

•Obtain visual representations of the validity of cases and statutes. 

•Learn how online legal research platforms provide organization methods, delivery methods, and recovery methods so you can better maintain your research. 

•Gather information by practice area, topic, jurisdiction or publisher. 

•Realize alternative and advanced ways to begin research with statutes. 

•Acquire archived materials in multiple ways. 

•Find connections between results of separate searches.
Title:
Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts
Webinar Dates And Times:

• January 17, 2025 - 10:15am - 11:30am Eastern Time
• January 31, 2025 - 11:45am - 1:00pm Eastern Time

Speaker:
Karen Groseth
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.

By:
LexisNexis

January 21: Getting Trade Ready in 2025: Strategies to Navigate Tariff Impacts

Under the incoming second Trump administration, the United States is expected to adopt a more protectionist trade policy, increasing tariffs on imports, particularly from China. This shift from the previous free trade goals of G20 nations will very likely lead to higher costs for businesses and consumers due to widespread tariffs and new taxation challenges. 

Companies must develop strategies now to minimize the impacts of expected increased tariffs and duties to remain competitive in the evolving trade environment.
Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Heather Marx, Tom Wallrich, and Kristi Zentner will discuss key strategies businesses can already use to plan for and address tariff costs, including:

• Supply chain diversification
• Utilizing trade agreements
• Drawback programs
• Product classification review
• Use of the First Sale rule
• Incorporating tariff management in pricing strategy
• Monitoring policy changes.

Title:
Getting Trade Ready in 2025: Strategies to Navigate Tariff Impacts

Webinar Date+Time:

January 21, 2025
12:00 p.m. ET
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!

Credit:

The event announcement does not indicate that the sponsor has applied for CLE credit. You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:

Heather L. Marx Thomas G. Wallrich Kristi Adair Zentner

By:

Cozen O'Connor, established in 1970 and ranked among the top 100 law firms in America, has 750 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions.

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January 29: Artificial Intelligence in Employment: Emerging Laws and Compliance Requirements

This CLE explores the ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to make employment decisions, and potential risks its use, including discrimination and algorithmic bias. The course will feature key local, state, and federal laws and guidance that regulates the use of AI in screening and hiring, and other employment law issues that are addressed by government action. Attendees will receive best practice tips on following developments in the legal landscape as regulators anticipate and keep up with rapidly evolving AI technology.
Title:
Artificial Intelligence in Employment: Emerging Laws and Compliance Requirements
Webinar Dates And Times:
January 29, 2025 

12:45pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time

Register Now for this Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Bobby Puri
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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January 24: Bankruptcy Fundamentals

As attorneys in corporate finance, general litigation, real estate and other areas work to get up to speed on bankruptcy law, this course, will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of bankruptcy/ restructuring proposing hypotheticals to illustrate typical tasks and working through the case law, legislation, rules, and analysis that exist to help achieve them.
Title:
Bankruptcy Fundamentals
Webinar Dates And Times:
January 24, 2025 

12:45pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time 

Register Now for this Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Tracy Duplantier
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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January 24: The Tenth Annual Media & Entertainment Law Symposium

 

The Fordham Media and Entertainment Law Society presents an Annual Symposium that brings together influential leaders with a range of expertise to explore cutting-edge legal issues and offers a unique opportunity for professionals, practitioners, and academia across the media and entertainment industry to learn and build relationships with one another.

Title:
The Tenth Annual Media & Entertainment Law Symposium
Date/Time:
Friday, January 24, 2025
9:15 AM - 1:15 PM (ET) Eastern Time
Register Now for Virtual or In-Person Attendance!
Speakers:
By:
The Fordham Media & Entertainment Law Society (MELS) is a student-run organization that is active in the entertainment community at large and is dedicated to supporting students passionate about the law and business of film, music, publishing, art, theatre, and digital and interactive media.
Credit:
CLE credit for the program is pending in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for a maximum of 3.0 transitional and non transitional credits. In many other jurisdictions, you may be able to self-apply for credit.

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PROGRAM AGENDA

(subject to change as more speakers are added)

8:30 - 9:15 a.m. | Check-in
9:15 - 9:25 a.m. | Opening Remarks
9:25 - 10:25 a.m. | Panel 1: The Baby Reindeer Problem: Defamation in Hollywood
Kara Goryick, Partner, Nesenoff & Miltenber LLP
Sarah Schwarzman, Associate, Donaldson Callif Perez LLP
10:25 - 10:30 a.m. | Short Break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Panel 2: #Ad: Influencer Advertising and the Law
Suzanne Giammalva, Associate, Crowell & Moring LLP
David Mallen, Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Moderator: Carly Shapiro, Attorney, Carly Shapiro, Esq.
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Refreshments Break
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Panel 3: Backstage Pass: Legal Issues Shaping the Future of Live Music
Audrey Benoualid, Partner, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light LLP
David Chidekel, Partner, Pierson Ferdinand LLP
Alex Grout, SVP, Membership and Business & Legal Affairs, ASCAP
Moderator: Kike AlukoWahutu, Associate, Greenberg Traurig LLP
1:00 - 1:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks

January 29: Review of Significant D&O Cases for the Second Half of 2024

This webinar will discuss the most significant D&O coverage cases for the second half of 2024. The presenters will highlight the impact of these cases on the D&O coverage environment and provide key takeaways from these cases to assist in the handling of D&O insurance claims.
Title:
Review of Significant D&O Cases for the Second Half of 2024

Webinar Date+Time:

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET 

Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!

Credit:

CE is approved in TX, FL, NC, and OR. CLE is approved in PA, NY, TX, IL, NV, and CA. You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:

• Gary L. Gassman, Co-Vice Chair, Global Insurance Department, Cozen O'Connor
• Rafael Rivera, Cozen O'Connor Member

By:

Cozen O'Connor, established in 1970 and ranked among the top 100 law firms in America, has 750 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions.

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