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Virginia CLE® Essentials: Designed to get straight to the heart of what you need to know to succeed. View available Essentials seminars.
Hanging a Shingle:Starting and Perfecting a Successful Law Practice: This seminar is a unique opportunity to hear and learn from attorneys who have started their own law firms and can provide you with tips to put you on the right path to hanging (or polishing) your shingle.
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Upcoming Seminars that may be of particular interest to new lawyers.
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Links to primary sources, Virginia courts, and other important legal information
sources.
Legal Ethics Opinions:
Virginia CLE® maintains a collection of recent Virginia legal ethics
opinions that may be searched by key words or LEO number.
Fastcase: A web-based collection
of state and federal cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and more. The Virginia
State Bar has made Fastcase available at no cost to all licensed Virginia attorneys.
Log in to the VSB Members
Area to access this powerful online resource.
Young Lawyers
Conference: All active and associate Virginia State Bar members
in good standing, age 36 and under, as well as those members admitted to the Virginia
State Bar as their initial bar for less than three years, are automatically members.
The Young Lawyers Division of the
Virginia Bar Association: YLD is a separate entity of the VBA organized
to promote the interests of, to encourage public service by, and to encourage and
promote fellowship among young lawyers.
Community Connection Videos (Expand/Collapse)
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Episode 1: We asked two of our respected faculty for their guidance on building a fulfilling legal career. Their advice may surprise you!
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Episode 2: Making the best of your first year practicing law.
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Episode 3: What's the best advice someone has given you that you've actually taken?
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Time Management
This is the Time Management session from the November 2012 live seminar, Backpack
to Briefcase: The New Virginia Lawyer. |
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Networking and Client Development
This is the Networking and Client Development session from the 2016 seminar, Backpack to Briefcase: The New Virginia Lawyer. |
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Principles of Ethics and Professionalism for Virginia Lawyers
Tom Spahn of McGuireWoods LLP and Justice Donald Lemons discuss the ethics and professionalism
principles for Virginia lawyers endorsed by the Virginia Supreme Court, recorded in 2013. |
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