Estate Planning Bundle Includes:

• $50

  Skip Tracing for Lawyers

  General Credits: 1.25

  Attorneys in most areas of practice, especially trust and estates, personal injury, malpractice, debt collection and real estate law occasionally encounter situations requiring the location of missing people. This includes heirs, beneficiaries, witnesses, shareholders and debtors. In many insta...

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• $50

  Legal Ethics in Tax Practice

  General Credits: 1

  Lawyers generally understand that tax is a niche practice area with unique characteristics. The distinguishing factors include not only the technical aspects of the discipline, but also the way practitioners need to mind ethical standards. On top of the ABA Model Rules and the ethics codes of t...

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• $100

  Safeguarding Your Business & Investment Clients with Proactive Asset Protection & Estate Planning

  General Credits: 2

  An effective Asset Protection & Estate Planning Program for Business & Investment Clients should address family and legacy considerations, complete asset protection and tax optimization simultaneously. In addition, it should be easy to use, capable of expanding through time to embrace growth in yo...

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• $50

  Essential Estate Documents: Don't Delay Until It's Too Late

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE program addresses a common concern: people commonly put off or do not seriously consider necessary documents for universal eventuality: death, incapacity, or providing for others who will have to step in. This one-hour course will cover basic documents and suggested text, how and when th...

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• $50

  The Use of Trusts in Government Benefits Planning

  General Credits: 1.25

  This CLE presentation will address the use of various types of trusts in government benefits planning, including revocable trusts, spousal planning using revocable trusts, long term care planning using Irrevocable Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts, Supplemental Needs Trusts, and long-term care plann...

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• $50

  Selecting the Appropriate ADR Forum for Your Case

  General Credits: 1

  Initial Decisions in choosing an ADR Forum for Tort Cases are significantly important given that not every lawsuit fits each and every ADR Forum. First, identifying the choices of ADR forums (Binding ADR with high/low parameters, Non-Binding Mediation or Hybrid Non-Binding/Arbitration or Med-Arb....

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• $50

  Corporate Transparency Act: Critical Terms and Concepts

  General Credits: 1

  The Corporate Transparency Act went into effect January 1, 2024, under which the beneficial owners of almost every entity will need to be reported to FinCEN unless a specific statutory exception applies. Existing entities will have one year to comply, while newly formed entities will have only 90...

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• $100

  The Nuts and Bolts of Ethics: No Nonsense

  Ethics Credits: 2

  This course will explore the origins of ethics and focus on how that obligation to remain virtuous and honorable still impacts lawyers today. The course will focus on the 5 C’s of Virginia Ethics (i.e., Competence, Communication, Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest, and Candor). Each has a si...

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• $75

  Veterans Update: What's New from Congress, The Courts and The VA

  General Credits: 1.5

  For over three decades, the United States has been at war. Conflicts in Kuwait, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other areas throughout the world have left many Americans with physical and mental disabilities that affect them for the rest of their lives. The Department of V...

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• $50

  Starting, Managing and Growing Your New Practice

  General Credits: 1

  Starting any new business can be daunting. You have the legal knowledge and perhaps even some clients, but how do you start and manage the business side of the firm—something typically not taught in law school! This CLE will focus on effectively managing the business and tips for running an e...

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• $75

  Wetlands Law & Policy: From the Federal Clean Water Act to Local Administration

  General Credits: 1.5

  Wetlands Science and Law became a very important part of general environmental law, primarily beginning with the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s. Wetlands has paramount importance from the mushy area behind a residential backyard to mitigating Global Climate Change. Topics will include, but i...

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• $100

  Navigating AI Ethics and Detection: Insights for Lawyers and Legal Professionals

  General Credits: 1

  Ethics Credits: 1

  This CLE course will provide legal practitioners with a sound, backdrop of the legal environment of ethics in the use of generative AI. The landscape is rapidly changing and practitioners should bear this mind as they apprehend the materials and discussion offered in this course. The course wil...

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• $50

  Virtual Isolation: Is Hyperconnectivity Helping or Harming the Legal Professional?

  Mental Health/Abuse Credits: 1

  If we stop to think about what we look at most during the day, the answer would probably not be our family or friends, nor our clients or colleagues. The most feasible option would be our mobile phone. Smartphones are now our companions for work, social, leisure and even family life. However, exces...

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• $50

  The Mediator's Toolkit: 15 Strategies Towards A Successful Mediation

  General Credits: 1.25

  Mediation has been called an art and not a science. It is true that there is not one specific way to conduct a mediation. However, there are tried-and-true methods for facilitating a successful mediation. That success will be determined by the attainment of Win-Win by both parties. This CLE pro...

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• $75

  Fundamental Rights to a Clean, Safe and Healthy Environment: The Case for Green Amendments

  General Credits: 1.5

  This CLE course introduces an emerging intersection of environmental and constitutional law that proves promising in the field of public interest environmental law and advocacy: fundamental environmental rights. Green Amendments, as they’ve been termed, are self-executing provisions added to the...

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• $50

  Navigating the Uncharted Legal Terrain of Artificial Intelligence

  General Credits: 1.25

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that studies the development and implementation of algorithms and software that allow machines to think and act like humans. AI has many different forms, the most popular of which are machine learning like ChatGPT, natural language proces...

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• $50

  The Nuts and Bolts of Guardianships

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE course will focus on basics of what a guardianship proceeding is, sometimes called a conservatorship in some states, and how it differs from advanced directives such as health care proxies and powers of attorney. We will discuss when such a court proceeding is and what courts look for in...

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• $50

  "Oh The Places We'll Go": Mediating With An Open Mind While Managing Expectations

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE course will discuss the mechanics of mediation/dispute resolution and the myths associated with dispute resolution. During the course, we will discuss the and attempt to eliminate the reluctance to participate fully and transparently in mediation to allow parties to identify on their o...

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• $50

  Corporate Transparency Act: Lessons from Round One of Implementation

  General Credits: 1

  Since January 1, 2024, many legal entities operating in the United States—including domestic and foreign entities—have been considering whether to file beneficial ownership information ("BOI") reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN"), pursuant to the Corporate Transparency A...

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• $50

  Rudiments of Social Security Disability Practice

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE program will review the sequential steps established by the Agency for proving both adult and childhood disability. Each step will be explained per the Agency expectations, with additional comments derived from having presided over adjudications regarding the subject for 25 years. Thi...

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• $50

  Equity & Inclusion Confusion: Discrimination and Other Trending Employment Law Topics for Non-Employment Lawyers

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE will introduce non-employment lawyers to employment law, beginning with the unusually challenging question of employee vs. independent contractor and the implications of worker classification. We will summarize federal laws governing the employment relationship including Title VII, The...

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• $50

  Mandatory Abuse Reporting for Oregon Attorneys

  Abuse Reporting Credits: 1

  Oregon’s elusive education requirements for child and elder abuse reporting can be met in this one, exciting, thrilling story-based CLE. So, while this will certainly be less entertaining than the latest superhero blockbuster, we will use real life examples of what elder abuse and child abuse...

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• $100

  Search and Seizure Fundamentals

  General Credits: 2

  In this CLE presentation, retired FLETC Senior Legal Instructor will provide a functional overview of search and seizure law under the Fourth Amendment. The presentation will start with and introduction to the Fourth Amendment, followed by a look at when the Fourth Amendment applies, and finish...

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• $50

  Social Security Disability 101: What Attorneys Need to Know From Beginning to End

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE course aims to offer attorneys a comprehensive understanding of Social Security Disability Practice, encompassing an in-depth exploration of the entire process, challenges, and effective solutions involved in securing benefits for disabled individuals. Through this presentation, partic...

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• $50

  PFAS: The Forever Chemicals

  General Credits: 1

  Developed in the 1950s, PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) have been used in the manufacture of non-stick coatings, waterproofing materials, fire-suppression chemicals, and other products. Water supplies and food throughout the world have been found to contain PFAS. Studies have linke...

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• $50

  ChatGPT and Related Products: The Legal Ramifications

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE presentation is intended to help practicing attorneys better understand the legal consequences of current-day (ex. ChatGPT) artificial intelligence (AI) products. This begins with a discussion of current AI products, their operation, and fundamentally what they are and are not. This fa...

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• $75

  The Ten Worst Ethics Nightmares You Can Have

  Ethics Credits: 1.5

  This program will be a rapid analysis of the 10 disastrous errors you can make in the world of Legal Ethics that will give you nightmares or even derail your career. These groups of errors are not totally inclusive of the challenges that face a modern practitioner but anyone who is actively eng...

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• $50

  Ethical Issues in Representing Clients with Diminished Capacity

  Ethics Credits: 1

  This CLE course will cover some of the legal rules applicable to attorneys working with clients who experience diminished capacity and the consequent potential for fraud and abuse against a client with diminished capacity. In this course, attendees will learn how to identify a client who has dimini...

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• $50

  Why Lawyers Need to Bill Strategically in an Age of Legal Artificial Intelligence

  General Credits: 1

  Artificial intelligence, in terms of developments like ChatGPT, is new to a lot of people, but the idea of using computers to "outsource" certain work -- such as repetitive work -- away from lawyers has been around for a while. Because computers don't get tired, bored, hungry, or distracted, they'...

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• $50

  ADA: Reasonable Accommodations and the Interactive Process

  General Credits: 1

  The ADA is one of the most complicated and legalistic employment laws out there. This CLE will ensure that employers better understand the legal compliance obligations under the ADA including engaging in the interactive process when an employee has requested a reasonable accommodation. Making sur...

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• $50

  Ethical Considerations When Responding To Lozada Complaints

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Immigration is a rewarding practice area with a collegial group of practitioners. While immigration law is among the most complex, a great benefit is colleagues who generously share their knowledge and experience with one another. This makes it even more difficult when one lawyer must prepare and...

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• $50

  Effective Mediation: What the Mediator Needs to Know to Resolve Your Case

  General Credits: 1

  The latest statistics indicate that well over 95% of all civil cases settle before trial. Mediation is an effective tool that contributes to this high pretrial resolution. This CLE course is designed for beginners and seasoned attorneys to assist in streamlining written and oral presentation...

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• $50

  Five Steps to Protect Your Firm from Catastrophic Cyber Attacks

  General Credits: 1

  In this CLE program, you will learn the 5 critical steps needed to protect your law firm and client data from malicious cyber attacks. These crucial steps will dramatically increase your overall security stance and will lessen the chances of you becoming a victim to cybercriminals. Cyber attack...

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• $200

  Statutory Interpretation: Do the Words “because of… sex” Include “Sexual Orientation” and “Transgender Identity”?

  Access Justice Credits: 4

  “…because of sex.” They seem like simple words, but are integral in the context of employment discrimination. This CLE course will address prior United States Supreme Court litigation such as Hopkins and Oncale regarding whether sexual orientation and transgender identity were included in the...

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• $50

  The Ethics and Art of Settlement at Mediation

  General Credits: 1

  This course will focus on the best way for attorneys to benefit from mediation, including presentation, psychology, strategy and the moves that help to get the best results. The course will examine the mediation process and how ethical behavior can ultimately lead to success. The presenter will...

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