California MCLE Courses On-Demand

This seminar will go through the numerous provisions of Rule 1.8 with cases, examples, and details so that you do not get caught in its crosshairs or disciplined under Rule 1.8!

This program explores how chronic stress, sleep deprivation, and substance use systematically impair the legal professional's brain's prefrontal cortex—the hub of ethical reasoning, memory, and judgment.

This session explores the science and psychology of emotional labor, stress accumulation, and trauma exposure in legal settings.

This course will examine how advanced forensic science was used in the Golden State Killer case.

This course will cover steps of a tax audit, the eggshell audit, the attorney-client privilege in the tax realm, and the necessity to retain a Kovel accountant when there are underlying criminal tax issues that are lurking.

This course will dive into the IRS appeals aspect of a tax controsversy.

A thorough understanding of asset protection methods is a key component of estate and business planning. In this program, Douglass Lodmell presents the tools and information you need to educate your clients in this complex area of law.

This course will present a broad overview of what scientific research has discovered about eyewitness identification, and the resulting best practices recommendations for police.

Criminal and civil attorneys alike rely data gathered from the Internet of things as evidence. This course will explain to attorneys how this data is collected, and the places that such data is stored.

This seminar will discuss Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6 Confidentiality and others associated with attorney presence online. This seminar will also discuss how to ethically respond to negative online reviews from clients and third parties. In addition, this seminar will use real life case scenarios to reinforce the ethical rules that can be violated. If you are often online, this is a seminar you will not want to miss.

This program confronts the mental health issues lawyers have been faced with as a result of the epidemic and gives them the tools needed to combat negative impacts and stay on a path toward a healthy, purposeful, and productive lifestyle.

This program will dive into gambling addiction, including its warning signs, risks, co-morbidities, related ethical issues, and the toll it can take on the legal profession.

This program will explain the common types of evidence that can be recovered from cell phones and how that evidence can be used in a case.

This program will dive into the dichotomy of state and federal laws regarding the cannabis industry.

There has been a dramatic increase in impairment due to alcoholism, addiction and mental health disorders among members of the legal profession. Hear from our expert as he shares his story of trauma, and learn how you can recognize the unhealthy and potentially life threatening shadow it can cast.

This presentation will delve into the rules of US Tax Court.

This course will go into detail and review conflicts Rules 1.18 (prospective client conflicts), 1.9 (former client conflicts), Rule 1.10 (imputed conflicts) and Rule 1.11 (government conflicts).

This seminar will explore the various dynamics of the attorney-client relationship. It will discuss taking directions from your client (Rule 1.2), keeping your client informed (Rule 1.4), confidentiality (Rule 1.6), setting and collecting fees (Rule 1.5), and firing a client.

This program will cover the various first day motions that are filed in chapter 11 individual and business cases.

Do you use ChatGPT in your practice? Have you thought about what ethical rules apply? This seminar will explore the ethical risks associated with lawyers using AI, particularly ChatGPT in their practice. You will not want to miss this seminar if you want to stay competent on this new emerging technology.