Hooked on CLE: March 2023
Session 1: Ted Lasso Ethics - Five lessons lawyers should learn from Ted Lasso. Session 2: NiFTy Uses of NFTs and Other Emerging Technology for Cybersecurity - Blockchains, cryptocurrency, and non-fungible tokens are all components of the metaverse. Explore the use of private and public blockchains, NFTs, and other “metaversal” technologies as part of an information security program as well as cybersecurity considerations that organizations should keep in mind when deploying these technologies. Session 3: Student Loans - Gain insight into the constantly shifting student loan legislative landscape. Session 4: Small Crimes and Misdemeanors Related to Aging, Dementia, or Mental Health Issues - A roadmap for attorneys who counsel clients and their families seeking practical resolution of these matters. Session 5: Diversity and Equity Issues for Small Businesses - Every business should be committed to diversity and equity irrespective of its size. This section will discuss how small businesses can be intentional about doing their part to create a more equitable workplace and community. Session 6: Website Accessibility Lawsuits - The ADA requires that websites be accessible to those with disabilities. Hear what “accessibility” means for websites and the legal theories behind such suits, and take away effective strategies for dealing with a claim against your client.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 4.00 hrs | 1.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 2/29/2024
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Hooked on CLE: March 20234.2 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Some highly relevant topics and some not relevant at all.
Website Accessibility Lawsuits
The ADA requires that websites be accessible to those with disabilities. Hear what “accessibility” means for websites and the legal theories behind such suits, and take away effective strategies for dealing with a claim against your client.
Includes: Video Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 12/31/2023
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Website Accessibility Lawsuits4.56 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
“I Can Still Work After I Get Out, Right?” Licensed Professionals in Texas Before and After A Criminal Case
Occ. Code Chapter 53 empowers state agencies to deny or revoke occupational licenses based on criminal history, but that power is limited in crucial ways. Explore how to advise criminal defendants about licensing consequences before they plea in a criminal case and explore the options available after a conviction or a deferred adjudication.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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“I Can Still Work After I Get Out, Right?” Licensed Professionals in Texas Before and After A Criminal Case4.27 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
2022 Administrative Case Law Updates
Session 1: Case Law Update: Part I - Examine significant administrative law cases issued during the last year. Session 2: Case Law Update: Part II - Examine significant administrative law cases issued during the last year.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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2022 Administrative Case Law Updates3.25 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
2022 Texas Administrative Law Legislative and Operational Updates
Session 1: Texas Public Information Act and Texas Open Meetings Act - Hear the latest legal developments and gain practice tips. Session 2: SOAH Update - The State Office of Administrative Hearings has adopted an entirely new system for tracking and setting cases. Learn about our new docketing and case-assignment procedures, and how they will allow SOAH to provide high-quality hearings services to Texans. Session 3: Agency Spotlight: Texas Department of Public Safety - Exploring the various regulatory programs within the Department of Public Safety.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides No Materials
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.50 hrs
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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2022 Texas Administrative Law Legislative and Operational Updates3.25 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Ethics and the Agency Lawyer: Conflics, Fiduciary Duty, and Confidential Information
A brief refresher and update on these ethical areas, including a discussion of typical scenarios faced by agency professionals.
Includes: Video Audio Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr | 1.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Ethics and the Agency Lawyer: Conflics, Fiduciary Duty, and Confidential Information3.75 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Good CLE, fairly long.
Ethics as an Elected Official and an Attorney
Two practitioners, from different types of practice, but with the same ultimate message, talk about how to technically do what's right and how and why to just do right.
Includes: Video Audio Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 0.75 hr | 0.75 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Ethics as an Elected Official and an Attorney5 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Hooked on CLE: December 2022
THIS MONTH: Tales from Trial: The Boeing Case is Shot Down • The Role of the GC: Managing Enterprise-Wide Cybersecurity Risk • Readable Legal Writing • Cross Examination • Get Schooled! Practice and Professional-Identity Lessons from Law School Clinics
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 4.00 hrs | 1.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Hooked on CLE: December 20224.06 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
the cross examination seminar was really great. i also enjoyed the round table discussion on the airline simulator trainer and thought the point of view from both sets of attorneys very good.
Overall it was an enjoyable course with useful topics.
How Smart People Deal with Difficult People
In these polarizing times, we must rely on intelligence when interacting with difficult others. We'll discuss the science behind avoiding contempt, recognizing motive attribution asymmetry, and learning to coexist with disagreement so that we can behave ethically—even when we don't feel like it.
Includes: Video Audio Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 0.50 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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How Smart People Deal with Difficult People4.4 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
How to Avoid Grievances: Board of Disciplinary Appeals
An overview of BODA and suggestions for how to avoid grievances.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 0.75 hr | 0.75 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Practice Tips and Strategies for Trying the Administrative Law Case
Session 1: Making and Responding to Objections at SOAH - This presentation discusses the role of objections at final merits hearings at SOAH or at trial. Learn how to play offense and defense, and how to preserve error. Session 2: Tips and Strategies for Working with Expert Witnesses - Hear insight and gain practical tips on expert witness selection, preparation, and strategical concerns, as well as discovery and cross-examination. Explore the role of expert witnesses in pursuing enforcement actions, including a look at the developing technology in the post-COVID landscape. Session 3: Judicial Panel - Engage in an unscripted round-robin discussion, with time for questions from the audience.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides No Materials
- Total Credit Hours:
- 2.50 hrs
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Privacy and Security Roundtable: Risks, Strategies and Ethics
Join Information Technology and Risk Management experts to discuss risks, strategies and ethics in today’s legal environment.
Includes: Video Audio Paper
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr | 0.50 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Readable Legal Writing
Creating readable legal writing requires several techniques: accessible format, clear organization, manageable sentences, and correct mechanics. This presentation addresses each of those briefly, offering current recommendations and best practices.
Includes: Video Audio Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Readable Legal Writing4.92 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
The Roots of the APA and How They Grew
When the APA was passed in 1975, it rested upon well-established, fundamental principles and practices. Explore several of those principles and practices embedded in the APA with attention to how they have stood the test of time.
Includes: Video Audio Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 0.50 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Employment Law Public Sector Update 2022
Hear the latest on matters affecting government employees, including developments in the First Amendment, due process, privacy, political patronage, and state law protections in the public workplace.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 0.75 hr
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 7/31/2023
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Employment Law Public Sector Update 20224.67 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Answer Bar: Young Attorney Challenges (Ethics)
Session 1: Life and the Law: Ethical Issues Facing the Young Lawyer - Explore the potholes and sharp curves that await the beginning trial lawyer on the road to a successful litigation practice, through the characters and plot of a recently published novel about a young personal injury lawyer practicing in Houston. Session 2: The Disciplinary Process - This presentation covers the disciplinary process, some tips on responding to a grievance, and some of the common rule violations. Session 3: How to Ethically Build Diverse Relationships in the Legal Profession - Law is one of the most relational and least diverse professions in the country. Learn how to ethically address and overcome the challenges of building diverse relationships in the legal space. Explore a guide for attorneys through the pitfalls of achieving meaningful diversity and inclusive relationships in their practice, discuss tools to intentionally build and strengthen diverse relationships, and receive practical techniques to make your practice a safe and inclusive place for the diverse and non-diverse to work together. Session 4: Technology Use and the Ethics that Come with It - The 2020 Covid 19 pandemic forced dramatic changes in practice styles, with most lawyers and their clients shifting from working in offices to working remotely from home. Technology was at the center of these changes with “Zoom” meetings, “e-signing,” “e-filing” and related technologies playing an even more critical role in the practice of law. This panel of ethics experts will examine the issues raised by these practice shifts, including discussion of alternative technological methods of service in litigation and potential waiver of attorney-client privilege due to the misuse of technology. Session 5: Ethics of Social Media - The world of social media has engulfed us all. Not only has it transformed our society, but it has worked its way into every legal field as well. Discover the ethical issues facing you as attorneys—and that of your clients—in this social media age. Session 6: Resilience: How to Survive and Thrive in a High Stress Practice - Why do some people handle stress and rebound from failure better than others? We will discuss the skills and practices developed by the US Army to combat depression, fight off PTSD, and handle high stress engagements and jobs, … like being a lawyer. Session 7: Lawyer Wellness - Get evidence-based strategies to help navigate the stress of our extremely demanding profession. Learn how small changes in our daily approach to the practice of law can greatly improve work-life balance.
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 5.50 hrs | 5.50 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 2/29/2024
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Answer Bar: Young Attorney Challenges (Ethics)4.17 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
So great to see so many familiar faces!
Hooked on CLE: December 2021
THIS MONTH: Voir Dire Becomes Voir Google: Ethical Concerns of 21st Century Jury Selection • The Proactive General Counsel • Employee Monitoring: An Overview of Technologies, Legal Treatment, and Best Practices • Making the Most of Your Cyber Insurance
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides No Materials
- Total Credit Hours:
- 4.00 hrs | 1.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 11/30/2023
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Hooked on CLE: December 20214.2 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Really informative.
Excellent speakers
Great Course
First Friday Ethics (August 2021)
Need ethics credit? We’ve got you covered! UT Law CLE’s First Friday Ethics streams live every first Friday of the month, and features some of our best ethics speakers and presentations for a total of 3.00 hrs ethics credit. Fulfill your entire annual ethics requirement in Texas in one day! This month includes: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (1.00 hr | 1.00 hr ethics) Voir Dire Becomes Voir Google: Ethical Concerns of 21st Century Jury Selection Engaging in online research about prospective jurors can yield game-changing information, but there are ethical risks for lawyers in doing so. Using real world examples from cases and ethics opinions, this program offers invaluable guidance for lawyers in navigating the ethical boundaries of turning voir dire into “voir Google.” 11:40 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. (1.00 hr | 1.00 hr ethics) Client Relations and Doing Business with Clients: How Far is Too Far? (REPLAY) An overall examination of fiduciary duty, client relations, grievance avoidance and issues which arise when doing business with clients. 12:50 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. (1.00 hr | 1.00 hr ethics) Both Sides Now: When Lawyers Go Too Far (REPLAY) Explore the ethical and practical concerns from the perspectives of opposing counsel. Discuss the strategies for maintaining courtesy and professionalism without compromising the obligation to zealously represent clients. Hear about the ethical challenges faced by government lawyers when adverse parties are pro se.
Includes: Video Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 3.00 hrs | 3.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 8/31/2023
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First Friday Ethics (August 2021)4.32 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Each of the three presentations were excellent.
excellent course; very informative and engaging
Strong
Voir Dire Becomes Voir Google: Ethical Concerns of 21st Century Jury Selection
Engaging in online research about prospective jurors can yield game-changing information, but there are ethical risks for lawyers in doing so. Using real world examples from cases and ethics opinions, this program offers invaluable guidance for lawyers in navigating the ethical boundaries of turning voir dire into “voir Google.”
Includes: Video Paper Slides
- Total Credit Hours:
- 1.00 hr | 1.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 8/31/2023
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Voir Dire Becomes Voir Google: Ethical Concerns of 21st Century Jury Selection4.02 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Unique course and good course
Hooked on CLE: April 2021
THIS MONTH: Both Sides Now: When Lawyers Go Too Far • Energy Insecurity and Other Issues for Underserved Communities • Late-in-Life Bankruptcies • Investigations in the C-Suite • Emerging, Disruptive, Game-Changing Technology
Includes: Video Audio Paper Slides No Materials
- Total Credit Hours:
- 4.00 hrs | 1.00 Ethics
- Credit Info
- TX, CA
- TX MCLE credit expires: 3/31/2023
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Hooked on CLE: April 20213.86 out of 5 starsWhat was the overall quality of the course (presentation, materials, and technical delivery)?Rate the overall teaching effectiveness and presentation skills of faculty for the course.How would you rate the value of the materials provided as part of the course?
Well done, but an odd mixture of topics.
I especially liked Dana Harmon's presentation about energy for underserved communities. Looking for more courses about equity and systems that impact underserved communities. Also, Investigations in the C-Suite presenter was excellent.
These courses imparted good thoughtful challenging information.