4freeCLE: free continuing legal education: October 2025

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!

These days, you can’t pick up a legal journal or receive an e-newsletter that doesn’t have an AI article. Whether you willingly embrace the idea of incorporating AI in your practice or are reluctantly considering it, your ethical obligation to understand it remains the same. Speakers Joe Salvati, CEO of Arcuity ai, Inc., and Erin McCartney, J.D., AVP of Risk Management and Marketing at Attorney Protective, discuss how to effectively and ethically use AI in the legal context and how to avoid the risks related to its use. Lawyers of all ages and practice areas will benefit from a broad overview of this trending topic.
Title:
To Infinity and Beyond: Using AI in Your Practice
Webinar Date+Time:
October 22, 2025
1:00PM EST / 12:00PM CST / 11:00AM MST / 10:00AM PST
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!
Speakers:
Joe Salvati
Erin McCartney
CLE Credit:
Typically, Attorney Protective webinars are eligible for ethics credits in most jurisdictions; please consult your state's website.
By:
Attorney Protective

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October 22: Evaluating Fire Losses from First-Party Property and Subrogation Perspectives

This webinar will explore the intersection of first-party property insurance coverage and subrogation investigations regarding fire losses. The presenters will discuss key topics such as evaluating the scope and extent of damages, causation, common policy terms, valuation, and relevant statutes. The presenters will also address the legal hurdles to recovery, such as liability insurance limits, comparative fault, and subrogation waivers.

Title:
Evaluating Fire Losses from First-Party Property and Subrogation Perspectives
Description:

Webinar Date+Time:

Wednesday, October 22, 2025
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
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Credit:

CE is approved in NC and FL. 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:

Josh Tumen, Member
Cameron D. Young, Associate

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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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October 22: Due Diligence in Intellectual Property Transactions

This course provides an overview and understanding of the due diligence process in relation to transactions involving intellectual property assets. Tools for researching a company’s intellectual property registrations, ownership status, strength and value, and resources such as checklists, forms and model agreements will be reviewed.
Title:
Due Diligence in Intellectual Property Transactions
Webinar Date+Time:
October 22, 2025

2:45pm - 4:00pm Eastern Time

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Speaker:
Kristen Baginski
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.

By:
LexisNexis

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

October 17+21: Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts

American businessman 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 harness 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 Date+Time:

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Speaker:
Ethan Basham
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, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
By:
LexisNexis

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Friday, October 10, 2025

October 30: A Quarter for Your Thoughts: New York Employment Law Q3 2025 Developments and Trends

Join Michael Schmidt, Janice Sued Agresti, and Jamie Ansorge as they host the latest installment in this quarterly webinar series. In this webinar, Mike, Janice, and Jamie will discuss the most recent New York legislation and proposed bills from the third quarter of 2025 that employers should be watching.

Title:
A Quarter for Your Thoughts: New York Employment Law Q3 2025 Developments and Trends
Description:

Webinar Date+Time:

Thursday, October 30, 2025
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - Register Now!

Credit:

CLE is approved in NY, CA, PA, TX, IL, and NV and available in NJ through reciprocity. MN CLE has been applied for approval. You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:

Michael C. Schmidt Vice Chair, Labor & Employment Department, Cozen O’Connor
Janice Sued Agresti Member, Cozen O’Connor
James L. Ansorge Senior Principal, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies

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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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October 14: Unmasking the Financialization of Healthcare with Jacqueline Fox

Financialization of healthcare drains our current system of resources it needs to provide care. It occurs when money is siphoned off for private profit through mechanisms such as rent seeking, gamesmanship, and exploitative price setting.

This is not an ethically neutral activity, and the people profiting in this way ought to justify why they are entitled to this money, given the foreseeable negative effects what they are doing has on people’s health. This important problem is masked by current accounting methods and healthcare billing methods, which need to be changed to allow for a more transparent assessment of what is really occurring.
Title:
Unmasking the Financialization of Healthcare with Jacqueline Fox
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum
Webinar Date+Time:
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time
In-Person for STUDENTS; Virtual for all others
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Speaker:

Professor Jacqueline Fox
Jacqueline Fox teaches Health Care Law and Policy, Public Health Law, Bioethics, and Torts. She has published numerous articles on health law, health care financing and regulation, and health care reform in publications including the University of Cincinnati Law Review, Buffalo Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, and The Hasting Center's Health Care Cost Monitor. Her current work closely examines the newly created Independent Payment Advisory Board, which is tasked with capping the costs of the Medicare program. She has published op-ed pieces in The State newspaper and appeared on local and regional news shows speaking on the subject of health law. Her work on Medicare, in particular, has been cited in a number of scholarly publications and one of her contributions to the Hastings Center health reform publications has been the subject of an article in the New York Times. She has also been an invited speaker at universities including Oxford University, the University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins University, and Yale University. She was a visiting professor at the Santa Anna University in Pisa, Italy, for the spring semester of 2009. Fox received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, she was a Greenwall Fellow at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, and a Donaghue Scholar of Research Ethics at Yale University.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:

Ohio: 1 hour of CLE credit has been approved
Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority.

Cost:
Free and open to the public.

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October 14: Defining Your Firm’s Mission, Vision, and Values

Join Bill Sansone, CPA and private law firm advisor, and Sy Sommer, Esq., of LEAP Legal Software, for the first session in a two-part CLE series designed to help law firm leaders and attorneys unlock growth and build a lasting legacy.

Your firm’s mission, vision, and values aren’t just statements on paper. They are powerful tools that guide decision-making, strengthen operations,

and position your practice for long-term success. In this session, you will:

Reflect on your firm’s purpose, leadership, and business model.
Learn practical strategies to align daily operations with long-term goals.
Discover how to create a values-driven law firm that succeeds in today’s fast-changing legal landscape.

Whether you’re a solo practitioner or managing partner, you’ll leave with actionable insights to drive measurable growth, enhance leadership, and create a thriving law firm.

Title:

Defining Your Firm’s Mission, Vision, and Values

Date and Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT

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Speakers:

Bill Sansone is a licensed CPA in New York, New Jersey, and Florida, with over 40 years of experience helping law firms turn financial data into actionable growth. He specializes in practice management, profitability analysis, strategic and business planning, partner compensation, cash flow management, budgeting, operations review, and auditing and tax. A recognized leader in the legal industry, Bill frequently speaks to law firm audiences at bar associations, the American Law Association, and forums like The Managing Partner Roundtable Summits. He has also presented at Columbia Business School and served on the advisory board of First Bank in Princeton, NJ.
Sy Sommer is the Director of Product Enablement at LEAP Legal Software. Sy is a 2010 graduate of Fordham Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. Sy began his career in the Family Law Department of Manhattan law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. After three years with DHC, Sy took a role with JPMorgan Chase Bank in Brooklyn, NY where he served as an Associate Vice President Senior Counsel in the bank’s Mortgage Banking Litigation group. In 2018, Sy sought to apply his legal education and experience in the legal technology space and joined LEAP with excitement to further the company’s mission of helping attorneys to be more productive with cloud technology.

CLE Credit:
LEAP will seek MCLE accreditation in CA, CT, FL, IL, NJ, NY, PA, and RI. Additional states may be requested upon completion of the course.

By:

LEAP Legal Software.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

November 7: U.S.-- China Dispute Resolution: New Tactics for a New Environment

Title:

U.S.-- China Dispute Resolution: New Tactics for a New Environment

Description:

U.S. and China as the #1 and #2 global economies shape global business and many U.S. business have ties related directly/indirectly to China. But the current economic and geo-political environment are making U.S. businesses think twice about how and what to do with their current business, new business, or even dissolving/diversifying your business relating to China. Such business decisions make it more possible for commercial disputes to arise. Further, the U.S. increasing restrictive sanctions and tariff regulations and China’s retaliatory measures require more prudent legal protection applications that also mitigate harmful dispute actions. Whether your company is involved in trade, investment or sale of goods in China, it is necessary to prepare your company/client for potential disputes or manage current disputes with “real-time” & on-the-ground” knowledge of updated China laws, strategic considerations & risk mitigations in the following key areas:

Due Diligence (pre-contract measures)
Contract structuring & terms
Administrative Proceedings
Alternative Dispute Resolution (Settlement, Mediation, Arbitration)
Litigation (incl. JRE).

Webinar Date+Time:
November 7, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT
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Speakers:

Arthur Chiu - Cyan Law Firm, Beijing, China
Wei Shi - Cyan Law Firm, Beijing, China.

By:
Washington State Bar Association; Sponsored by ALPS. Developed in partnership with the WSBA International Practice Section.

Credits:

Washington State: 1.00 Law & Legal Procedure
Other States: Certificate of attendance provided upon request.

Cost:
Developed in partnership with the WSBA International Practice Section Free.

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Sunday, October 5, 2025

October 23: Navigating Accommodations for Mental Disabilities

Determining reasonable accommodations for workers with disabilities can be a complicated process for employers. The challenge is amplified when employees claim mental health issues such as depression, stress, anxiety, or burnout, all of which can be recognized as protected mental disabilities under federal and state laws, but may be difficult to recognize. This webinar aims to demystify the process by exploring what constitutes a protected mental impairment and outlining employers' legal obligations to provide reasonable accommodations. Additionally, we will delve into recent case studies and agency guidance to highlight best practices for fostering a supportive and compliant workplace environment.

Title:
Navigating Accommodations for Mental Disabilities
Description:

Webinar Date+Time:

Thursday, October 23, 2025
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
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Credit:

CLE is approved in NY, CA, PA, TX, IL, and NV and available in NJ through reciprocity. MN CLE has been applied for approval. You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:

David L. Barron Member, Cozen O'Connor
Elena Hillman, Member, Cozen O'Connor
Michele Ballard Miller, Chair, West Coast Labor & Employment, Cozen O'Connor
Nandini Sane, Member, Cozen O'Connor

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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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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

November 11: Understanding the FDA Pathway: Regulatory Basics for Biomedical Device Innovators

This presentation is designed to help break down the FDA premarket submission process into a practical foundation, explaining fundamentals of device classification, the key premarket submission pathways, and the strategic considerations that can help you avoid common pitfalls and set your product up for success.

Title:
Understanding the FDA Pathway: Regulatory Basics for Biomedical Device Innovators

Webinar Date+Time:

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.
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Credit:

CLE is approved in NY, PA, TX, IL, NV, and CA. MN CLE has been applied for approval. You may be able to self-apply for credit in some other states.

Speakers:
Aselle Kurmanova, Member, Cozen O'Connor
Danielle E. Sapega, Member, Cozen O'Connor

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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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October 3: Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Sector

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the energy industry in profound ways. Energy companies are utilizing AI and machine learning to optimize energy production, forecast demand, detect equipment failures, and streamline operations. This rapid adoption of AI is creating new legal issues and challenges for attorneys advising energy sector clients.

This CLE provides an overview of how leading energy companies are currently deploying AI across their operations. It will examine use cases such as predictive maintenance, automated trading, smart grid management, and dynamic pricing algorithms.

In addition, the CLE will explore emerging legal issues surrounding the use of AI in the energy domain. This includes regulations governing AI explainability and transparency, liability issues, data privacy concerns, and intellectual property rights. Attendees will gain insights into contractual, compliance, and litigation risks associated with AI systems. Finally, the program will discuss how attorneys can leverage AI to better serve their energy industry clients. This includes streamlining due diligence and discovery, reviewing contracts and filings, predicting case outcomes, automating routine legal work, and providing data-driven legal strategy and advice.

Attendees will leave better prepared to counsel energy clients on the legal implications of AI adoption and harness AI tools to enhance their own legal services. This course will benefit any attorney whether you are completely new to this area or have some understanding of how artificial intelligence works.

Upon completion of this course, you will:

• Develop an understanding of how artificial intelligence is being utilized by the energy industry.

• Gain knowledge of the legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence use.

• Learn about tools and resources utilizing artificial intelligence to effectively represent your energy clients.
Title:
Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Sector
Webinar Date+Time:
October 3, 2025
12:45pm - 2:00pm Eastern Time
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Speaker:
Aaron Eberle
Credit:
1 credit hour in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.

By:
LexisNexis

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October 24: The United Nations At 80 (CLE)(ad)

Eighty years ago, the United Nations was born from the ashes of global conflict with a bold mission: to maintain international peace and security, promote human rights, and uphold the rule of law. As the world faces escalating crises — from climate change to armed conflict, from mass displacement to democratic backsliding — the UN’s role is under renewed scrutiny.

This timely and thought-provoking CLE program brings together leading international law scholars and practitioners to examine the evolving role of the United Nations in today’s complex global landscape. Through expert insights and real-world case studies, we’ll explore:

🌐 The UN’s enduring contributions to international law and human rights

⚖️ The International Court of Justice and the prosecution of genocide

📊 Assessing the effectiveness of UN missions and programs

🔍 The practical value of UN bodies — such as the Aarhus Convention Secretariat — to legal practitioners, NGOs, and civil society

🧭 Whether the UN remains fit for purpose in the 21st century

Featured Faculty:

Alejandra Gonza, Executive Director, Global Rights Advocacy; former senior attorney at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; A leading voice in international human rights litigation and UN engagement.
Teresa Felizia Mayr, Legal Officer, Aarhus Convention Secretariat, Environment Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Expert in environmental democracy and international treaty implementation.
Professor Anita Ramasastry, former Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Global and Graduate Programs Barer Institute for Leadership in Law and Global Development Endowed Chair Faculty Director, Sustainable International Development Graduate Program Barer Institute for Leadership in Law & Global Development Endowed Chair
Professor William A. Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, London. One of the world’s foremost authorities on genocide and international criminal law; former member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Gaza Conflict and author of more than 20 books including "Genocide in International Law" and "The UN International Criminal Tribunals: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone".

🎓 This program is designed for attorneys, human rights advocates, international law practitioners, and anyone working with or within global institutions.

📩 Space is limited. Reserve your spot today and be part of this historic legal commemoration.

Lawyers For American Democracy

As lawyers, we have a duty to defend the foundational principles that have made the United States a leader of the free world for over two centuries. Yet our democracy is rapidly backsliding, putting core constitutional tenets—due process, separation of powers, and the rule of law—at risk.

When these principles are under attack, our oaths compel us to speak out, our training equips us to safeguard democracy, and our ethical obligations demand action. Now, more than ever, we must lead with conviction and example.

This is why Lawyers For American Democracy launched Meeting the Moment – A Call for Lawyers to Lead.

Learn More!