CLE/Education

Webinar- CLE Pass Eligible
Tuesday, Feb 17 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

This seminar is the first installment of a three-part segment that will examine how sentencing directly impacts an individual offender by profoundly affecting housing opportunities, employment opportunities, and public benefits in Connecticut.

Zoom Meeting - CLE Pass Eligible
Tuesday, Feb 17 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Is stress affecting how you feel (physically, mentally, or emotionally) and your interactions (with clients, colleagues, or loved ones)? Improve your wellness, quality of life, and services to your clients with techniques you’ll learn and practice to reduce stress and skill-build for resilience, as well as a 20-minute meditation to support mental space, regulation, and equanimity. This will be a weekly series with different well-being tips and techniques presented at each session, including 1-3 minute exercises for quick resets.

Webinar- CLE Pass Eligible
Wednesday, Feb 18 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Join us in a practical CLE seminar focused on how attorneys can remain visible and competitive as Google and AI-driven answer engines reshape online search. Dave Hendricks, Legal Internet Marketing Consultant and Owner of Attorney Marketing Network, will explain how SEO and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) now work together, and what law firms must do to ensure their websites, content, and online authority are recognized and recommended by platforms such as Google, ChatGPT, and Gemini. This seminar will leave attendees with clear, actionable strategies to improve rankings, authority, reviews, and off-page signals that drive modern client discovery.

Zoom Meeting - CLE Pass Eligible
Thursday, Feb 19 12:00 PM to 2:15 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

This seminar is the first of a three-installment professional-development program designed for attorneys who write or edit – which is to say, for nearly all attorneys. It moves beyond standard legal-writing tips to address the entire lifecycle of a legal document, from strategic pre-writing and persuasive organization to the careful use of AI-powered drafting and editing tools.

Webinar
Thursday, Feb 19 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

We’ve all read in the news about recent changes and cuts to federal funding. This segment of the CT Civil Access to Justice Series explores how those federal funding changes are impacting CT’s legal systems.

Zoom Meeting - CLE Pass Eligible
Tuesday, Feb 24 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Is stress affecting how you feel (physically, mentally, or emotionally) and your interactions (with clients, colleagues, or loved ones)? Improve your wellness, quality of life, and services to your clients with techniques you’ll learn and practice to reduce stress and skill-build for resilience, as well as a 20-minute meditation to support mental space, regulation, and equanimity. This will be a weekly series with different well-being tips and techniques presented at each session, including 1-3 minute exercises for quick resets.

CBA Law Center and Virtual
538 Preston Ave., 3rd Floor
Meriden

Wednesday, Feb 25 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

The afternoon begins with a Criminal Justice Section Meeting at the CBA Law Center at 3:00 p.m., followed by a 90-minute presentation by the Hon. Eliot D. Prescott, Deputy Chief State's Attorney, Inspector General.

Webinar- CLE Pass Eligible
Thursday, Feb 26 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

AI is quickly becoming as ubiquitous as search in our working lives. Just as search changes how we interact with the information at our disposal, AI tools give us new ways to process and manipulate information. Despite these tools being new, existing privacy and security laws apply to the use of these tools and contain detailed requirements for the types of assessments that organizations are expected to perform when using these tools to process personal data. We will walk through some of the more common assessments and how to approach assessing the risks, practices, and strategies for using AI tools in compliance with law and effectively.

Webinar - CLE Pass Eligible
Wednesday, Mar 11 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Appellate Procedure is its own world. Whether you find yourself the begrudging appellee after a clear-cut victory for your client or the intrepid appellant seeking to right wrongs and make new law, it helps to have a firm grasp of the tools and traps you will encounter along the way. This seminar walks you through that journey—from pre-appeal motions, to appellate tactics, all the way to remand after the appeal’s end. You will leave with an overview of how to excel in the Appellate and Supreme Court.

Zoom Meeting - CLE Pass Eligible
Wednesday, Mar 18 12:00 PM to 2:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

This seminar is the second installment of a three-installment professional-development program designed for attorneys who write or edit – which is to say, for nearly all attorneys. It moves beyond standard legal-writing tips to address the entire lifecycle of a legal document, from strategic pre-writing and persuasive organization to the careful use of AI-powered drafting and editing tools.

Quinnipiac University School of Law
370 Basset Rd.
North Haven

Friday, Mar 20 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

The Trial Skills Institute will provide participants with the opportunity to develop and hone their civil trial skills.

New Haven Lawn Club
193 Whitney Ave.
New Haven, Connecticut
United States
Thursday, Mar 26 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Join us for the premier Labor and Employment Law Symposium in Connecticut, which will cover a wide range of topics, including ethics, workplace political expression, SLRB and SBMA practice essentials, discrimination claims, arbitrations, and labor law updates.

Zoom Meeting
Thursday, Apr 9 12:00 PM to 2:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

This seminar is the last installment of a three-installment professional-development program designed for attorneys who write or edit – which is to say, for nearly all attorneys. It moves beyond standard legal-writing tips to address the entire lifecycle of a legal document, from strategic pre-writing and persuasive organization to the careful use of AI-powered drafting and editing tools. Participants will be part of a masterclass in ensuring clarity and impact in all their written communication, developing efficient and adaptable workflows, and smoothing out the often-contentious review-and-revision process that takes place before hitting “Send.” Join writing coach and former attorney Rick Horowitz for a lively and practical session that will reintroduce you to your legal-writing toolbox, including a few tools you didn't know were in there.

Webinar- CLE Pass Eligible
Wednesday, Apr 15 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

In today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape, technical expertise and intelligence alone are not enough. As artificial intelligence reshapes the profession, emotional intelligence (EQ)—your ability to understand and manage your own emotions and those of others—is what truly sets you apart. Facilitated by a psychologist specializing in attorney wellness, this CLE workshop is designed for attorneys who want to not just survive, but thrive, by elevating the essential human skills that AI cannot replicate.

Connecticut Convention Center
100 Columbus Blvd.
Hartford

Tuesday, Jun 2 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Connecticut Legal Conference (CLC) is the CBA’s preeminent event comprised of dozens of engaging CLE seminars covering a diverse range of topics in state and federal law. The day also includes an exhibitor showcase featuring a variety of companies and organizations and the CBA Annual Meeting and Luncheon, which features prestigious Connecticut-based and national speakers as well as the installation of the CBA executive committee officers for the approaching bar year.