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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.