Tuesday, March 3, 9:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. ET
This program was also presented on September 24, 2025.
| MCLE Credit: | 3.0 (Ethics: 3.0) |
| Live-Interactive Credit: | 3.0 (all formats) |
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
―Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm
Applying the general principles of legal ethics has never been easy, and in 2025, thunderclouds, high winds, and lightning bolts have rendered charting an ethical course in legal practice more perilous than ever. Major upheavals are lurking in law firm practice, tort law, family law, government practice, commercial law, corporate law, and especially technology while bar associations struggle to keep up. It is an exciting and interesting time to be a lawyer, if one doesn’t mind uncertainty and constant challenges.
Legal Ethics: The Gathering Storm is an entirely new, fast-moving, and eye-opening seminar that examines many of the storms on the horizon and how a responsible, able lawyer should prepare for them. In a lively combination of hypotheticals, stories “ripped from the headlines,” and explorations of new developments both sunny and cloudy, this Virginia CLE seminar will supply your needed hours of legal ethics credits and will prepare you for rainy days ahead.
The course will examine:
Legal ethicist, lawyer, dramatist, and writer Jack Marshall will present this interactive course. He is president of ProEthics, Ltd., an ethics expert and a Massachusetts and D.C. attorney who teaches and consults on legal ethics issues, regularly presenting (over the past 20 years) seminars to bar associations, law firms, trade associations, corporate legal departments, non-profits, and government agencies. He has taught legal ethics at the Washington College of Law, and is the author, with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson, of “The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow.”
Registration Deadlines:
| Webcast: | 10 minutes prior to seminar. If you register for a webcast the day of the seminar, your e-mail receipt will include a link to launch the seminar and download the materials. |
| Telephone: | Online registration ends 10 minutes prior to seminar Call (800) 979-8253 to register up to one hour prior to the seminar |
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $60 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE®.
Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.
Inclement Weather Policy and Updates
MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a seminar late or leave it early, or both, you must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must be written on your MCLE form.
Private recording of this program is prohibited.
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9:00 | Legal Ethics: The Gathering Storm, Featuring Jack Marshall |
12:15 | Adjourn |
Jack Marshall, ProEthics, Ltd. / Alexandria
Jack Marshall is president and founder of ProEthics, a 26-year-old national ethics training firm. A Massachusetts and D.C. lawyer and professional writer and stage director, Mr. Marshall specializes in bringing the techniques of theater, comedy, and satire to the legal ethics CLE, and regularly presents jurisdiction- and practice-specific seminars to bar associations, law firms, corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies nationally and internationally.
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