$129 Virginia MCLE - 12 Credits

ABA Ethics Rule 3.3 and Electronic Data Discovery

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: Ethics

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

The course provides an in-depth exploration of ABA Model Rule 3.3 and its critical application to electronic discovery, emphasizing the attorney?s duty of candor toward the tribunal. It examines ethical obligations to disclose adverse legal authority and correct misrepresentations in both traditional and digitally stored evidence, addressing challenges such as metadata integrity, preservation of electronic evidence, and the complexities introduced by advanced technologies like AI, blockchain, and predictive coding. Additionally, the course discusses practical issues including client fraud, improper handling of encrypted or cloud-based data, and the ethical pitfalls of automated document review, ensuring that legal professionals are well-equipped to maintain the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of digital evidence in modern litigation.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

An Introduction to E-discovery and AI - Live Webcast

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This course gives attorneys a practical, court-aware foundation in the electronic discovery process and how modern artificial intelligence tools, including Technology-Assisted Review, change preservation, review, and production decisions. It defines electronic discovery and the lifecycle of identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing electronically stored information, then walks through the Electronic Discovery Reference Model as a framework for managing that work efficiently. The course also explains where machine learning and natural language processing fit into discovery workflows, including how Technology-Assisted Review learns iteratively from human-coded examples and what that means for defensibility and transparency. Finally, it covers key Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concepts that drive day-to-day discovery practice, along with the duty to preserve, litigation holds, and proportionality so attorneys can better manage risk, cost, and vendor oversight in both litigation and firm operation

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

Critical Soft Skills for Attorneys

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This comprehensive course is designed to equip legal professionals with the essential interpersonal and self-management abilities necessary to navigate the high-pressure environment of law. The curriculum covers a wide spectrum of communication skills, ranging from maintaining composure and clarity under pressure to active listening and accurate issue-framing. It emphasizes emotional intelligence through modules on regulating emotions during conflict, building rapport through empathy, and delivering bad news with care. Beyond client interactions, the course addresses professional advancement and efficiency by exploring time and project management, collaboration across roles, and the nuances of managing up with senior stakeholders. Ultimately, the training aims to foster a sustainable and successful practice by teaching attorneys how to handle ambiguity, engage in business development, maintain integrity, and mentor junior colleagues.

Faculty:

• Brian Emerson

Cybersecurity for Attorneys

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This comprehensive course, "Cyber Security for Attorneys," addresses the legal profession's increasing dependence on digital infrastructure and the critical need to protect sensitive client data from sophisticated cyber threats. Participants will explore the ethical duty of technological competence and understand why law firms are prime targets for hackers. The curriculum covers common threats such as phishing, ransomware, and wire transfer fraud, while providing practical guidance on defensive measures like multi-factor authentication, email encryption, and secure remote work practices. The course also details essential strategies for developing firm-wide cybersecurity policies, creating incident response plans, managing vendor security, and complying with data breach notification laws.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

eDiscovery Project Management and Cost Control - Live Webcast

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This course provides a comprehensive guide to managing the electronic discovery process with a focus on operational efficiency and financial oversight. It covers essential strategies ranging from initial project scoping, early case assessment (ECA), and legal hold execution to advanced technical topics like data mapping, custodian identification, and the use of analytics for review reduction. You will learn how to navigate complex challenges such as cross-border data transfer, privilege review workflows, and spoliation risk, while also mastering practical skills in budget forecasting, vendor management, and the implementation of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). By emphasizing the integration of technology?including Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and metrics dashboards?this course equips legal and IT professionals with the tools to streamline workflows, ensure defensibility, and significantly reduce the costs associated with litigation and data production.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

eDiscovery with Slack, Teams, and the Cloud - Live Webcast

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This course provides legal professionals with essential strategies for managing electronic discovery in modern collaboration environments. The course contrasts traditional email-based discovery with the unique challenges of dynamic chat platforms , addressing the complexities introduced by Slack, Microsoft Teams, and cloud storage. Participants will learn to navigate critical issues such as the preservation of ephemeral messages, emojis, and GIFs ; maintaining context in fragmented conversations ; and handling hyperlinks and attachments. The curriculum covers practical applications including updating legal hold notices , implementing preservation in Microsoft 365 , using platform-specific APIs and tools like Microsoft Purview , authenticating chat data for admissibility , and negotiating modern ESI protocols. The program also emphasizes the ethical duty of technological competence while addressing key legal principles like proportionality , privilege , and cross-border data privacy.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

Ethical Consideration in eDiscovery and Technology Assisted Review

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: Ethics

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This CLE course provides attorneys with an in-depth understanding of how the American Bar Association?s Model Rules of Professional Conduct apply to modern eDiscovery practices. Participants explore how technology-assisted review (TAR) intersects with key ethical duties such as competence, diligence, confidentiality, client communication, and supervision. Through detailed discussions of Rules 1.1 through 8.4, the course emphasizes the importance of informed oversight, transparency, and continuous education when using machine-learning tools in discovery. Attendees gain practical insight into mitigating risks, maintaining fairness, and ensuring ethical compliance while leveraging TAR?s efficiencies in contemporary litigation

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

Ethical Considerations in Email Discovery

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: Ethics

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This CLE course, titled Ethical Considerations in Email Discovery, examines the intersection of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the technical demands of managing electronic evidence. The curriculum guides legal professionals through the lifecycle of email discovery, from preservation and collection to review and production, while highlighting specific ethical duties such as competence, confidentiality, and diligence. Key topics include the necessity of understanding metadata and storage systems, the supervision of non-lawyer assistance, and the management of conflicts of interest that may arise within voluminous email data. By analyzing rules concerning candor toward the tribunal and fairness to opposing counsel, the course aims to help attorneys build defensible processes that minimize risk and uphold professional integrity in the digital age.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

Fundamentals of Attorney Well-Being

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: Well-being

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This CLE course equips lawyers with a practical, evidence-informed toolkit for sustaining attorney well-being while maintaining high performance in demanding legal environments. The course defines well-being as a multidimensional skill set, then explains how stress physiology can erode concentration, judgment, and health, and how to distinguish burnout from depression and anxiety so participants can respond appropriately. From there, it delivers concrete, usable strategies on sleep fundamentals, sustainable boundaries and availability norms, time and attention management systems that reduce chronic overload, emotional regulation in conflict-heavy practice, managing perfectionism and fear of mistakes, and interrupting rumination and worry. The program also covers mindfulness without mystique, micro-breaks and recovery routines, flexible exercise and nutrition habits for long days and travel, substance use risk warning signs, building social support outside the firm, healthy communication and assertiveness, handling difficult clients without emotional spillover, secondary trauma and compassion fatigue, creating psychological safety on teams, digital hygiene for email and notifications, coping with trial and deal surges, financial stress as a well-being factor, effective use of therapy, coaching, and employee assistance programs, preventing isolation in remote and hybrid practice, ergonomics and injury prevention, values-based career alignment, recognizing when professional help is needed, crisis planning for acute stress, and building a long-term well-being plan with accountability.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

Mobile Device Discovery in Litigation - Live Webcast

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This course, "Mobile Device Discovery in Litigation", provides legal professionals with a comprehensive guide to navigating the complexities of Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) involving mobile devices. The curriculum addresses the unique challenges mobile devices pose due to their personal nature, diverse data types, and the proliferation of apps. Key topics include identifying relevant devices and data sources, comparing collection methods, managing company-owned devices versus BYOD policies, and crafting effective legal holds. Participants will explore strategies for preserving and discovering challenging data types, including text messages, disappearing messages, cloud backups, location data, and data from social media and health apps. The course also delves into critical legal issues such as the dangers of client self-collection, spoliation, proportionality arguments, privacy concerns, the Fifth Amendment, authenticating evidence, hearsay objections, and working effectively with digital forensics experts.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

Recognition and Elimination of Age Bias

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of recognizing and eliminating age bias within the legal profession. Participants will learn to identify subtle implicit bias patterns, often encoded in language and cultural narratives, and understand how common stereotypes can distort professional judgment regarding leadership and innovation. The curriculum details critical legal duties under the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) as well as significant state-level variations in places like California and New York. Attendees will gain practical, evidence-based strategies for every stage of the employment lifecycle, including crafting age-neutral job descriptions, diversifying recruiting channels, anonymizing resume screening, and structuring interviews with validated rubrics to ensure objective, merit-based evaluations. Furthermore, the course offers actionable guidance on managing multi-generational teams, conducting neutral workplace investigations, and utilizing workforce data to detect and interrupt biased decision paths.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

The Importance of Civility in the Legal Profession

Virginia MCLE Requirements Credit Type: General

Virginia MCLE Course Details:

This CLE course examines civility as a core professional and ethical obligation in legal practice, distinguishing it from mere courtesy and exploring how civil conduct underpins effective advocacy, judicial efficiency, and public trust in the justice system. Drawing on real-world litigation contexts?including courtroom advocacy, written practice, discovery disputes, negotiations, client management, and digital communication?the course analyzes how incivility escalates conflict, increases costs, undermines ethical compliance, and harms lawyer well-being, while also addressing power dynamics, bias, and high-conflict practice areas. Participants will gain practical strategies for maintaining zealous advocacy without crossing into incivility, responding skillfully to uncivil conduct, meeting judicial expectations, and integrating civility into professional identity, mentorship, and firm culture, reframing civility not as a ?soft skill? but as a foundational competence essential to justice, professionalism, and long-term success in the legal profession.

Faculty:

• Berry Crawford

12 Credit - Virginia CLE Bundle - 2026 - $129

Easily fulfill the entire Virginia MCLE requirement, including 4 hours of live, interactive programs and 2 hours of ethics/professional responsibility with our specially compiled 12 Credit Virginia CLE Bundle. These courses have been approved by the Virginia State Bar for full CLE credit.

4.0 Hours Live Webcasts> 2.0 Ethics

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4 Credit - Virginia CLE Live Bundle - 2026 - $59

Easily fulfill the 'live, interactive program' portion of the Virginia MCLE requirement with our specially compiled 4.0 Credit Virginia CLE Live Bundle. These courses have been approved by the Virginia State Bar for full CLE credit.

4.0 Hours Live, Interactive Credits

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