West Virginia CLE Course Catalog

A panel of experts discusses the heightened scrutiny and enforcement actions by the SEC against financial firms for compliance violations, emphasizing the need for policy and technological adjustments to mitigate risks and avoid penalties.

A panel of experts discusses how AI is transforming securities enforcement, regulation, compliance, and practice, examining the SEC's use of AI, proposed regulations, ethical concerns, and the need for firms to adapt policies and technologies to manage risks and comply with evolving standards.

A panel of leading experts discusses the critical importance of accurate financial disclosure and proactive measures to mitigate accounting fraud risks, emphasizing the increase in SEC enforcement actions, notable cases, and the need for stringent accounting controls.

A panel of leading experts discusses the government's intensified efforts against money laundering and fraud in the digital assets and cryptocurrency space, highlighting significant litigation involving Ripple, Terraform, and Coinbase, and emphasizing the need for regulatory clarity in the crypto industry.

Drawing upon his personal experience as a former law firm lawyer in addition to guidance from psychologists and other experts in the field, Zach McGee discusses professional burnout among lawyers: what it is, how it impacts attorneys in and out of the office, how to spot it and how to address it. Zach also reviews the legal ethics rules that require lawyers to provide competent representation to our clients, and require supervising lawyers to ensure that more junior lawyers meet this obligation, which may become implicated when lawyers are suffering from professional burnout.

This program looks at an actual case of a weaponized legal system, what the Supreme Court called a “crusade,” by exploring the Cold War trials of Harry Bridges. Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi, who authored the definitive book on the Harry Bridges trials from National Archive and FBI FOIA records, takes one of the four trials Bridges was subjected to, and looks at how the legal system was contorted to produce what was persecution by prosecution, identifying along the way some of the issues that led the Supreme Court to so conclude.

This program uses a hypothetical negotiation between lawyers representing a writer seeking to sell a script and a film studio seeking to buy it to illustrate how the ethics rules apply when lawyers act as negotiators. Participants will walk away with concrete, practical advice, including: What you can and cannot misrepresent or conceal in a negotiation and why; wow to handle tricky issues such as estimates of price or value, willingness to compromise, bottom lines and settlement authority; what statements of law or fact may be considered “material” in negotiations; and when puffing, posturing and exaggerating cross the line.

The program will include a review of the legal ethics rules that apply to lawyers when we negotiate as well as some powerful techniques you can use to legally, ethically and strategically respond when the other side is using negotiation “dirty tricks” and bad faith tactics against you.

Join Peter Afrasiabi as he takes you through the pros and cons of the Deepfakes Accountability Act, a proposed federal law that would create criminal and civil liability for creators of unauthorized deepfakes.