This program will provide a comprehensive synopsis of regulatory innovation initiatives emerging across the United States, including developments such as regulatory sandboxes, alternative business structures, allied legal professionals, and community justice workers. It will highlight key research findings and data collected to date, with a particular focus on consumer-oriented legal services. It will explore how these innovations and insights can inform and benefit a wide range of stakeholders, practitioners, ethics attorneys, regulators, and others by enhancing access to justice, improving delivery models, and navigating evolving ethical and regulatory frameworks. The program will also explore whether attorneys can work remotely without committing the unauthorized practice of law. Attorneys will learn about ABA Model Rule 5.5, exceptions to the unauthorized practice of law, and recent opinions regarding unauthorized practice of law, including ABA Formal Opinion 495, ABA Formal Opinion 498, and state opinions.
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Closed-captioning available
2025-09-26 14:00:00
2 hours program
Session I – Types of Insurance Adjusters and How to Negotiate with Them – Jorge R. Aviles
This session explores the various roles insurance adjusters play in claims handling and offers practical strategies for negotiating effectively with each type. Attendees will gain insight into adjuster motivations, constraints, and tactics, and learn how to tailor their approach to maximize claim outcomes and successful resolutions.
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Session II – Positioning the Case for Maximum Settlement Value – J. Wesley Hisaw
This one-hour session goes beyond the basics of dealing with adjusters and dives into how to position a case for top-tier settlement value. Drawing on years of experience negotiating with insurers across Mississippi and Tennessee, attorney J. Wesley Hisaw breaks down the timing, documentation, and psychological triggers that drive adjuster decisions. Attendees will learn how to prepare demand packages that command attention, recognize when an adjuster’s authority is tapped out, and apply structured follow-up strategies that move a claim toward resolution without unnecessary litigation. This session focuses on how to think like an adjuster while negotiating like a trial lawyer.
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This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.
Date / Time: December 10, 2025
Closed-captioning available
2025-12-10 14:00:00
Reptile tactics often end in nuclear verdicts but they begin long before trial, embedded in the structure of the legal industry, marketing strategies, and early litigation moves. This program starts by breaking down the Reptile theory itself, then connects the dots between industry-level shifts (TPLF, ABS, private equity), aggressive lawyer advertising, juror conditioning, and practical, stage-by-stage defense strategies.
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Date / Time: December 29, 2025
Closed-captioning available
2025-10-07 14:00:00
This program begins with the foundations of generative AI, introducing large language models and transformer architecture, then moves into practical applications for legal professionals. Participants will learn how to design and deploy custom GPTs in OpenAI and build agent-based automations in Microsoft Copilot, both of which enable legal teams to streamline repetitive work across transactional matters, litigation management, and broader legal operations. The program also highlights how to use OpenAI projects and Microsoft’s integrated tools to scale and organize AI-driven efficiencies across the legal function.
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Date / Time: December 19, 2025
Closed-captioning available
2025-10-30 14:00:00
Social media platforms and digital services hold critical evidence across virtually every area of civil practice from business disputes and employment matters to family law and personal injury cases. The ability to subpoena social media and digital records in litigation is a key component of investigation, discovery, and enforcement strategies. This CLE will provide attorneys with the legal frameworks, practical strategies, and technical know-how needed to effectively obtain digital evidence from third-party platforms while navigating privacy laws, compliance challenges, and evolving case law. Drawing on their extensive experience litigating hundreds of online defamation, harassment, and digital privacy cases across 26+ states, presenters Aaron Minc and Michael Pelagalli will guide attendees through the entire process, from drafting targeted subpoenas and preservation requests, to overcoming platform objections, to ensuring admissibility of digital evidence at trial.
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Closed-captioning available
2025-12-11 14:00:00
1.5 hours program
Session I – Understanding UCC Article 4A: Risk Allocation and Remedies in Funds Transfers – Shelli Clarkston
We will discuss the existing frameworks used by courts in determining liability for fraudulent wire transfers, as well as how UCC Article 4A handles liability and when the financial institution will be liable or the accountholder will be liable. There are specific requirements that must be met in order for a financial institution to avoid liability. We will also look at recent case law and trends, as well as how insurance companies are determining whether to provide coverage for these transactions.
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Session II – Bank Fraud Today: Trends, Tactics, and Legal Responses – William Huttenbach
Financial institutions spend an enormous amount of time and money helping customers who have fallen prey to fraudsters. This session will begin with a discussion on statistics on bank fraud and trends on new tricks used by fraudsters. We will discuss specific things to do to help reduce bank fraud losses. Finally, we will review the most recent and landmark cases involving bank fraud.
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Closed-captioning available
2026-02-18 14:00:00
September 5, 2025
3 Hour Program
October 30, 2025
2 Hour Program
March 30, 2026
2 Hour Program
December 11, 2025
1.5 Hour Program
Session I – Foundations of Equine Law: Regulatory Landscape and Practice Essentials – Peter Sacopulos
Until December 2020, thoroughbred, quarter horse, and standardbred racing were governed and regulated by state race commissions. On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA). The result being that thoroughbred horse racing is now governed by a federal set of rules. Quarter horse and standardbred racing remain governed and regulated by state racing commissions/authorities. Both HISA and state regulatory programs provide for an adjudication system that utilizes an administrative adjudication process coupled with a right of judicial review. This session will review HISA, its constitutional challenges, the Absolute Insurer Rule, and the federal and state administrative and judicial adjudication process.
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Session II – Structuring the Equine Enterprise: Entity Selection and Tax Planning Considerations – Robert Webb
This session will explore how the legal and tax structure of an equine enterprise can significantly influence its long‑term financial outcomes. Drawing on federal tax principles and practical industry experience, we will examine how choosing the appropriate entity, whether an LLC, partnership, S corporation, or sole proprietorship affects income reporting, self‑employment tax exposure, depreciation opportunities, and loss utilization. We will also discuss the IRS’s heightened scrutiny of horse operations and the importance of running the enterprise in a genuinely businesslike manner, with proper recordkeeping, budgeting, and operational discipline, to avoid reclassification as a hobby under the §183 “hobby loss” rules. Using real‑world guidance the session will highlight how entity choice and documented profit motive can help protect deductions, withstand IRS challenges, and position a horse business for tax‑efficient growth.
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Session III – Negotiating and Drafting Equine Industry Agreements – Jennifer Guidea
This session examines the transactions and contracts most common in the equine industry, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, boarding contracts, and breeding agreements. It focuses on the core deal terms and drafting architecture that make these agreements enforceable and workable in real operations, covering ownership and registration transfer, trial and installment structures, care obligations, insurance and indemnification provisions, and clear remedies when things go wrong. Attendees will learn practical approaches to allocating risk and drafting dispute-ready provisions for common contingencies such as health and soundness disclosures, hereditary conditions, foal guarantees, risk of loss, and payment, deposit, or refund disputes, while accounting for key state-specific considerations.
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Session IV – Equine Business Protection: Crafting Waivers, Rules, and Risk Management Plans – Allison Ecklund
This session will focus on essential legal and operational considerations for equine businesses, covering the drafting of waivers and releases in boarding, training, and event contracts to mitigate liability. Attendees will also explore the development and enforcement of stable rules, practical risk management strategies, effective crisis management and emergency response planning to ensure safety and compliance in the event of accidents or emergencies. The session offers valuable insights for equine professionals aiming to protect their businesses and clients.
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Session V – Equine Liability in Practice: Real Estate Issues and Insurance Strategies for the Equine Industry – Peggy Hosking and Heather Wright
In this session we will discuss some legal considerations that are unique purchasing and leasing real estate intended for equestrian use. We will touch on items to investigate during due diligence such as zoning, permitting, licenses and environmental requirements such as storm water and runoff water management, manure management and dust management. Then we will discuss additional considerations when leasing property for equestrian use, including repair and maintenance responsibilities, arena maintenance, landscaping maintenance, biosecurity, evacuations, employees, liens, abandonment of animals and waivers of liability. We will close this section with a brief outline to insurance for equestrian operations which will be covered in the next segment.
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Closed-captioning available
2026-02-12 13:00:00
Session I – Humane Handling, Labeling, and Compliance: Legal Essentials for Food Producers and Processors – Felicia Kerney and Shelby Bobosky
This session offers an in-depth examination of humane handling and slaughter laws, exploring the federal and state frameworks that govern compliance, enforcement, and common pitfalls faced by producers and processors. It also examines the labeling and marketing regulations surrounding claims such as “organic,” “natural,” “free-range,” and “grass-fed,” including approval processes, evidentiary requirements, and emerging challenges in truth-in-labeling enforcement. Finally, the session provides practical guidance for attorneys advising farmers and processors, covering strategies for managing audits, investigations, and corrective action plans, as well as best practices for drafting and reviewing contracts and supply-chain representations to ensure sourcing, verification, and traceability compliance.
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Session II – Farmed Animal Welfare Laws: Federal, State, and Advocacy Perspectives – Vanessa Shakib and Will Lowrey
Although over 9 billion animals are used and killed for food each year in the United States alone—numbers that far exceed any other societal use of animals—legal protections for chickens, pigs, cows, turkeys, and other farmed animals are virtually nonexistent. This session will provide a synopsis of the limited federal and state legal protections afforded to these animals on the farm, in transport, and at the slaughterhouse. This session will highlight gaps in the current legal and regulatory framework, discuss laws intended to impede transparency into the use of animals in agriculture, and provide examples of efforts by animal advocates to find creative ways to use the legal system to reduce the suffering of these animals.
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Session III – Humane Handling and Risk Management in Meat and Poultry Production – Kelly Nuckolls
This session includes a brief synopsis of the humane handling regulations required for businesses that slaughter food for human consumption. It also includes advice for farmers either partaking in slaughter for human consumption or relying on a third party to process their animals. Risk management is essential for meat and poultry farmers – it ensures a humane handling violation does not occur, animal welfare is maintained, and that their products are not accidentally condemned by inspectors.
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Date / Time: December 11, 2025
Closed-captioning available
2025-12-11 13:00:00
2.5 hours program
Session I – Service Animals & Workplace Accommodations – John Rodgers and Katherine E. Griffin
Join myLawCLE for “Service and Emotional Support Animals!” This session will make you want to sit and stay. In this session, you will bone up on accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, specifically discussing service and emotional support animals as workplace accommodations. Presenters will discuss practical applications of the law and walk through hypothetical scenarios that arise frequently in the real world. You will also learn about different types of service animals – for example, the difference between a service dog, therapy dog, and facility dog.
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Session II – Housing & Public Access Disputes Involving Service and Support Animals – Jeremy Cohen
Learn how to navigate the legal challenges surrounding service and emotional support animals in housing and public spaces. This session will cover key distinctions under federal law, recent case trends, handling denials, documentation pitfalls, and how to advocate effectively for clients facing access issues with landlords, HOAs, or businesses.
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Session III – Dopamine, Oxytocin and Lawyers, Oh My! – Dr. Margaret Cochran
A discussion of the neurobiology and psychology or the how and why emotional support animals play such a vital role in enriching and maintaining the mental health of countless people across the life span – including but not limited to, attorneys!
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Closed-captioning available
2025-07-25 14:00:00
2.5 hours program
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