The CBA is offering a dedicated series of CLE seminars specifically tailored for solo/small firm practitioners like you! These seminars are designed to address the various issues and challenges faced at small firms, covering topics including:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join us at the CBA Law Center for breakfast, followed by three hours of engaging IOLTA, ethics, and law practice management continuing legal education. Members and former members of the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel and Statewide Bar Counsel will provide practical guidance on managing attorney trust accounts, maintaining compliance with professional obligations, and reducing risk in law practice operations. Attendees will gain insight into the role of disciplinary counsel, common ethics violations, recent disciplinary developments, trust account recordkeeping and reconciliation requirements, audit preparedness, and best practices for risk.
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.