Leadership and Ethics: 2025 Update

This registration form is for Thursday, August 7, 10:00 a.m.–Noon ET

  • Webcast with Live Q&A
  • Telephone with Live Q&A

This program was also presented on May 13, 2025.

MCLE Credit: 2.0 (Ethics: 1.0)
Live-Interactive Credit: 2.0 (all dates, all formats)
Designation Credit: 1.0 Ethics (Designations Information)

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Why Attend?

  • Become an ethics leader and apply your lawyerly critical thinking skills to evaluate ethical situations and opportunities.
  • Discover the leadership strategies that work best for lawyers in preeminent law firms and legal organizations, in negotiations, in counseling clients, in litigation, and in working with others to improve how they lead.
  • Explore new trends in leadership and how to avoid poor management and leadership practices.
  • Discuss the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and legal ethics.


Taught by Herb Rubenstein, author of Leadership for Lawyers, this seminar is designed to teach you to think critically about the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct and become a thought leader in the field of legal ethics.

In addition, you will learn about the leadership strategies that work best for lawyers in the most respected law firms and legal organizations, in negotiations, in counseling clients, in litigation, and in guiding others to improve how they lead. Leadership is not taught as a course in law school, so this course fills an important gap to help you become a better lawyer by becoming a better leader.

Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct covered include:

  • Rule 1.1 (Competence)
  • Rule 1.6 (Confidentiality)
  • Rule 1.7 (Conflict of Interest)
  • Rule 2.10 (Third-Party Neutral)
  • Rules 3.3 and 4.4 (Candor Toward the Tribunal and Respect for Rights of Third Persons)
  • Rule 5.4 (Professional Independence of a Lawyer)
  • Rule 8.3 (Reporting Misconduct)

A few updates for this 2025 seminar include:

  • New trends in leadership in the relationship between leadership behaviors and power and authority given
  • The difference between leading leaders and leading followers as well as how to avoid “micromanagement” and other poor management and leadership practices
  • Ethical issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence and how it relates to Rule 1.1 (Competence) and the ABA Legal Opinion 512 (Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools)
  • The new amendment to Rule 8.4 of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct adding paragraph (f) prohibiting agreements between lawyers and clients, limiting bar complaints by clients
  • The role of the “Duty Judge” provided by local court rules for emergencies and how to get on the docket and practice in front of this judge

 

 

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 at 11:59 p.m. the day preceding the 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 $40 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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