Online CLE Course Catalog

From allegations to violations and everything in between, lawsuits between organizations and their employees are an ever-present threat for businesses today. In order to mitigate potential litigation risks, a strategic and proactive approach is required by in-house counsel teams. Join as our expert speakers share insights on taking preventative measures including creating robust policies and procedures, identifying potential issues before they escalate, and effectively managing communications and documentation.

This course is NOT eligible for CLE credit.

As female legal leaders, we’ve made it but questioning our achievements despite one’s abilities and credentials is a common mindset affliction. In a male-dominated working environment, it is even more important as women to understand the importance of exuding confidence, owning your power, and being comfortable as a legal leader. Knowing your worth is essential to future growth, earning trust and respect, and it enhances your ability to lead. Join this session as expert panelists share their struggles and best practices in owning your seat, consistently providing value to the organization, and how to strive for bigger and better opportunities.">This course is NOT eligible for CLE credit.

As female legal leaders, we’ve made it but questioning our achievements despite one’s abilities and credentials is a common mindset affliction. In a male-dominated working environment, it is even more important as women to understand the importance of exuding confidence, owning your power, and being comfortable as a legal leader. Knowing your worth is essential to future growth, earning trust and respect, and it enhances your ability to lead. Join this session as expert panelists share their struggles and best practices in owning your seat, consistently providing value to the organization, and how to strive for bigger and better opportunities.

This course is NOT eligible for CLE credit.

While it can be heavily stigmatized, failure can also provide opportunities for learning and growth when it is embraced. As a legal leader, designing a space where you and your team feel safe enough to fail is the cornerstone of achieving a culture of resilience and high performance. Join this lively and inspirational session as our panelists speak to the value of removing power from our fear of failure, how to transform setbacks into success for business, and guiding others through times of change, challenge and adversity.">This course is NOT eligible for CLE credit.

While it can be heavily stigmatized, failure can also provide opportunities for learning and growth when it is embraced. As a legal leader, designing a space where you and your team feel safe enough to fail is the cornerstone of achieving a culture of resilience and high performance. Join this lively and inspirational session as our panelists speak to the value of removing power from our fear of failure, how to transform setbacks into success for business, and guiding others through times of change, challenge and adversity.

Arguing appeals is its own art, and arguing immigration appeals adds a level of complexity. Peter Afrasiabi has litigated well over 100 immigration appeals, and uses that experience and his advocacy teaching experience, to give you a nuts-and-bolts program here on how to prepare to argue your immigration appeal. With real world examples and a specific multi-step process to employ, this program will arm you to be present the best appellate argument possible in the context of the highly politicized immigration arena.

Can a state secede? It is unconstitutional? The answer is not as crystal clear as you may think. In this program, Peter Afrasiabi takes you on a fun, interesting journey asking these questions: What does the Constitution say about secession? What does it implicitly say? How do the tenth and fourteenth amendments impact the analysis? What is the scope of the Supreme Court’s post-Civil War opinion on this question? By looking at these questions and some of the data about growing secession movements form California to Texas, as well as some famed legal scholars works on the question, this program gives you all the legal arguments for and against the question of the constitutionality of secession.

Implicit bias is assessed here by looking at our three major areas of IP law—copyright, patent and trademark—and discussing the required issues of implicit bias through the lens of a survey of our IP laws. In this program, intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi takes you on a fun, interesting journey asking these questions: Does copyright law and fair use as it collides with modern AI technologies require us to assess, where implicit bias in the stock of material that AI is learning on, whether fair use and copyright law need to take that into account in deciding the AI fair use questions being litigated? Do the large differentials in male to female inventor patent grant rates, and the differential in male to female patent examiners, create implicit bias in the patent system, especially where we have elastic patentability concepts on abstract ideas? Do our trademark laws’ central focus on the archetypal “consumer” create their own bias issues by not seeing the “consumer” as an actual person? These and other interesting implicit bias issues, with strategies to combat implicit bias, are addressed.

When Facebook’s parent company changed its name to “Meta,” was that the first time you heard the term “Metaverse”? What is “The Metaverse” and what legal issues does it raise as people begin to socialize, work and share experiences in this new virtual/augmented reality space? In the latest installment of this popular series, Peter Afrasiabi answers these important questions that already are creating issues of first impression in copyright, trademark, right of publicity, criminal and sex law.

We all know that CLE programs are boring and a chore to watch. But we’re breaking the rules – a CLE program that’s intentionally funny and (gasp) entertaining, yet somehow still informative. In the latest installment of this popular series, Mark Wooster, presents a humorous take on the unethical conduct of lawyers from some classic 1960's TV series. Reserve your seat today and we’ll waive the two-drink minimum! Rules covered include: ABA Model Rules 1.1, 1.9, 3.3 & 4.1.

We all know that CLE programs are boring and a chore to watch. But we’re breaking the rules – a CLE program that’s intentionally funny and (gasp) entertaining, yet somehow still informative. In the latest installment of this popular series, Mark Wooster takes on more outrageous conduct by fictional lawyers in television series, in addition to sharing his sympathies for the real-life lawyer who unwittingly starred in the infamous “I am not a cat” clip that recently went viral. Rules covered include: ABA Model Rules 1.6, 3.3, 7.1 & 8.4; Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6 & 7.1.