CLE/Education

Webinar - CLE Pass Eligible
Thursday, Sep 17 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed how prospective clients find legal help – and most law firms have no idea how they’re appearing (or not appearing) in AI-generated results. This program presents original research covering how law firms appear across three major AI platforms – Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google AI Overviews – in nine markets and six practice areas. The findings are counterintuitive, platform-specific, and directly actionable.

Webinar - CLE Pass Eligible
Wednesday, Sep 23 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way businesses operate—but it is also creating new opportunities for fraudsters. Attorneys are increasingly being targeted by sophisticated AI-enhanced scams, including deepfake audio and video impersonations, business email compromise, fraudulent wire transfer requests, and social engineering attacks designed to exploit trust and urgency.

Webinar - CLE Pass Eligible
Thursday, Sep 24 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Most attorneys understand the rules governing trust accounting, billing, and payments, yet maintaining compliance often remains a challenge. This CLE introduces the concept of the compliance infrastructure and explains why risk often stems not from a lack of knowledge, but from disconnected systems and everyday workflow breakdowns. In this CLE, attendees will learn how small errors in timekeeping, invoicing, or payment handling can cascade into serious trust accounting violations, and how those risk compound when processes are not fully aligned.

Hawthorne Inn
2421 Berlin Tpk.
Berlin
United States
Friday, Sep 25 9:00 AM to 4:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Agenda

This seminar helps legal professionals in the worker’s compensation field navigate complex cross over issues. The day begins with a comprehensive fact pattern followed by a breakdown of overlapping rules from the ADA, FMLA, OSHA, ERISA and state-specific acts like the Connecticut Paid Family and Medical Leave (CTPFMLA) and CFEPA. Sessions also address transitional duty obligations and alternative return-to-work solutions, closing with an interactive panel review of the opening hypothetical.

Webinar - CLE Pass Eligible
Wednesday, Sep 30 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

A 60-minute lunchtime interactive zoom program that shows you how to identify familiar behavior you turn to because of stress and start to find other neural pathways to cultivate instead… so it no longer feels as if the stress runs the show!

Webinar
Thursday, Oct 1 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

This program will cover how to set-up legal instruments in Microsoft Word the right way - whether you're creating a new document or editing an existing one. If a document is set-up correctly, it always responds to editing the way you want it to, the formatting remains perfect, and you never have to figure out why your formatting goes sideways because It never does.

Webinar - CLE Pass Eligible
Thursday, Oct 1 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

This program examines law firm profitability as a core component of professional responsibility and effective law practice management. While many law firms focus primarily on increasing revenue or growth, sustainable profitability is more often driven by disciplined cash flow systems, informed financial decision-making, effective supervision, and intentional leadership practices.

Zoom Meeting - CLE Pass Eligible
Thursday, Oct 8 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

This session examines how bias operates today, not through overt exclusion, but inside the ordinary language of legal risk management, and inside the ordinary language of enforcement itself. Drawing on the presenter's consulting work advising corporate general counsel through the current wave of DEI-related enforcement, this session traces six years of employer decision-making, adoption, retrenchment, and litigation, from 2020 through mid-2026, and gives attorneys a working test for telling real legal risk apart from bias dressed as compliance, in either direction. The session uses live, contested litigation as its central case study, including a motion currently pending in federal court that itself rests on a compliance defense, to show how enforcement actions can turn on close legal analysis rather than assumption alone.

CBA Law Center
538 Preston Ave., 3rd Fl.
Meriden
United States
Thursday, Oct 8 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Generative artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to daily reality in the practice of law—and the ethical exposure has moved with it. Connecticut attorneys are drafting with it, researching with it, and running their front offices on it, often without a clear sense of where the Rules of Professional Conduct draw the lines. This program closes that gap. In two hours, attendees will learn how Connecticut’s existing ethics framework—anchored by Rule 1.1 and its technology-competence comment—applies to generative AI, what ABA Formal Opinion 512 requires, and how the national wave of AI-sanctions cases (including a Connecticut matter) translates into concrete duties. The program is deliberately practical: every segment ties to a specific Rule, every risk is paired with a workflow that manages it, and attendees leave with a sample firm AI policy, a prefiling verification checklist, and a vendor-neutral field guide to the tools lawyers are using.

Saint Clements Castle and Marina
1931 Portland-Cobalt Rd.
Portland
United States
Thursday, Oct 22 8:00 AM to 6:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Agenda

Join us for the Ninth Annual Connecticut Bankruptcy Conference featuring Bankruptcy Judges from throughout New England, and in-depth programming on timely and cutting-edge topics in commercial and consumer bankruptcy law presented by top practitioners and regional judges.

CT State Community College, Gateway Campus - Curran Community Center
20 Church St
New Haven, Connecticut
United States
Friday, Oct 23 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

For over a decade, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit has been a cornerstone of our collective journey toward a more inclusive and equitable legal profession. Please join us on Friday, October 23, 2026, for the 11th Annual Connecticut Bar Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit: The Collaborative Blueprint.

Newport Harbor Island Resort
1 Goat Island
Newport, RI

Sunday, Nov 1 6:00 PM to 1:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
2026 Workers' Compensation Retreat Flyer

Join us at the Newport Harbor Island Resort for the 2026 Workers' Compensation Retreat, November 1 - 3, 2026. Learn essential practice based information to hone your skills and practice.

Legislative Office Building (LOB)
Wednesday, Nov 4 8:00 AM to 1:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

The legal system was built around the assumption that both sides have the knowledge, resources, and representation to navigate complex rules and procedures. But, the reality is legal help is financially out of reach for many CT residents who, when their legal rights are at risk, sometimes have to try to navigate a system designed for lawyers on their own. The CT Judicial Branch’s Access to Justice Commission is hosting this half-day, free, conference to bring together people who want to use their legal or professional skills to help others and be a part of implementing change to reduce the barriers and obstacles that stand in the way of meaningful access to courts, the legal system, and justice. At the conference, you will discover resources and tools that you can use to enhance your skills and better serve individuals facing legal matters. You can meet, connect, and share ideas with others in the CT legal community like you – lawyers, judges, and professionals who care about narrowing the access to justice gap. You will hear from inspiring and knowledgeable presenters including (1) Senator Chris Murphy, (2) Chief Justice Raheem Mullins, and (3) Author and Innovator Sateesh Nori. You’ll have an opportunity to learn about various opportunities to do meaningful pro bono or volunteer work.

Saint Clements Castle and Marina
1931 Portland-Cobalt Rd.
Portland

Thursday, Nov 5 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Agenda

Don't miss this premier event for estate planning and tax attorneys. The day will kick-off with a networking breakfast followed by both plenary and break-out sessions. National speakers will present on cutting-edge tax and estate planning issues. This year’s program includes a full-day track for estates and probate and tax paralegals and young lawyers.

Thursday, Nov 12 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Join Brianna Dally, privacy and cybersecurity attorney at Troutman Pepper Locke, and Diana Scott, Founder and CEO of BlueCastle IT Solutions LLC, for a candid, one-hour lunchtime webinar that reveals the cyber incidents and legal issues that often stay out of the spotlight. You will hear real-world stories of potential and actual cyber incidents, including what triggered them, how they unfolded, and what steps could have helped prevent or mitigate their impact. This CLE will walk through the compliance obligations that apply before an incident occurs and the legal requirements that arise afterward, including notification timelines, regulatory exposure, and affirmative duties to implement preventative safeguards under applicable privacy and cybersecurity laws. Rather than serving only as a refresher, this program will focus on what is happening in practice, what is not always discussed, and what the law requires organizations and legal professionals to do in response.