Texas Ethics CLE Courses

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

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 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.

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.

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 course will cover safeguarding mental health, managing workload effectively, and remaining fully present for clients through boundary setting.

This course will guide you through the dynamic ways AI can be leveraged ethically to create compelling marketing materials such as blogs, video content, print advertisements, and other marketing materials, and will go over the Rules of Professional Conduct that you should be aware of and how to avoid missteps.

Join us as we explore Model Rule 1.6 regarding attorney confidentiality and how attorneys must make reasonable efforts to prevent the disclosure of confidential client information.

Imposter syndrome, also called perceived fraudulence, involves persistent feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence. This program will discuss how imposter system impacts legal professionals and what lawyers can do to overcome it.

This seminar will utilize litigation examples to discuss various Rules of Professional Conduct, including but not limited to Rule 1.1 (competence), Rule 1.3 (diligence), Rule 1.2 (attorney/client relationship), Rule 1.4 (communication), Rule 8.3 (regulation), Rule 8.4 (misconduct), and so much more!

This seminar will take a deep dive into the conflicts of interest rules 1.7-1.10 and the nuances of each rule.

This course delves into the critical importance of resilience in navigating the challenges of working as a lawyer, whether in a law firm or in-house or as a solo practitioner.

Times are changing, and TikTok is becoming the mainstream to get messages out to younger generations. However, TikTok does not come without ethical concerns for attorneys, especially if used for attorney advertising. This seminar will discuss the ethical issues associated with TikTok, including attorney advertising, and look at some live attorney influencers to see if their videos truly comport with the Rules of Professional Conduct.

This seminar will explore Rule 8.4(g), bias, and civility in the legal profession.

This program will dive into the evolving rules regarding lawyer professionalism and their interplay with legal ethics and will highlight recent cases that address legal professionalism.

The Title VII of the Rules of Professional Conduct is Rule 8.4(g). Learn how this anti-discrimination rule can affect you and your practice. This seminar will go through case scenarios and examples, as well as explore which jurisdictions have this rule on their books, and which jurisdictions do not. This is an emerging rule that is gaining traction and attorney discipline cases are mounting. Stay ahead of the curve and learn how to protect yourself now!

This program will focus exclusively on how the ethical rules governing conflicts of interest apply to transactional attorneys.

This will be a “how to” course for independent counsel to quickly, easily, and cheaply resolve insurance conflicts of interest with a single mantra: “Just say no!”