CLE Package: Biennial Compliance for GA Attorneys (18 hours)

The "CLE Package: Biennial Compliance for GA Attorneys (18 hours)" delivers a comprehensive curriculum designed to sharpen core legal skills, address modern practice challenges, and support professional standards. This robust 18-hour program brings together critical topics spanning emerging legal technology, advanced litigation and dispute resolution tactics, strategic communication, decision modeling, and fundamental professional ethics.

Modern legal practice is increasingly shaped by technological innovation, demanding a thorough understanding of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and confidentiality obligations. This package provides extensive coverage of generative and agentic AI tools—including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot—exploring their integration into daily workflows, automated drafting within Microsoft Word, vendor contract evaluation, and firmwide risk governance. It also examines the critical ethical and regulatory dimensions of AI adoption, addressing court sanctions, supervision requirements, data privacy, and emerging cyber threats.

Beyond technology, the curriculum addresses essential litigation, practice management, and professional conduct topics through practical frameworks. Key areas covered across the program include:

• Managing difficult opposing counsel and challenging clients while preserving integrity, setting boundaries, and maintaining ethical composure.
• Navigating the full lifecycle of civil mediation, including case evaluation, mediator selection, briefing, negotiation sequencing, and settlement structures.
• Executing advanced courtroom cross-examination techniques to deconstruct expert methodologies, expose bias, and challenge opposing witness testimony.
• Building resilience, managing stress responses, and projecting confidence in high-stakes legal environments and complex negotiations.
• Utilizing MBA-level decision analysis frameworks to evaluate uncertainty in settlements, transactions, and strategic client decisions.
• Handling difficult workplace conversations, feedback delivery, and fee discussions with clarity and calm.
• Recognizing the impact of cognitive and unconscious biases on decision-making and addressing barriers to inclusion within legal organizations.

By combining practical technological guidance with essential courtroom advocacy and ethical practice principles, this curated package delivers a well-rounded educational experience tailored to the demands of contemporary legal practice.