ONLINE LEGAL CLE

• Introduction to Legal Nurse Consulting
• Nursing Primer on the Law: Being Named in a Lawsuit
• What the Nurse should do to Prepare for a Deposition
• Charting with a Jury in Mind

Learn more about these online CE courses.

American Bar Association Center for CLE
The American Bar Association is an accredited provider of continuing legal education in all states allowing Mandatory Continuing Legal Education credit for self-study. Here are a few of the specific practice areas providing CLE:

• Antitrust Law
• Business Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution
• Government and Public Sector
• Intellectual Property Law
• Labor Law
• Law Practice and Litigation Management
• Litigation
• Taxation
• Tort and Insurance Practice

American Law Institute - American Bar Association
The American Law Institute - American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Direct-to-Desktop CLE courses feature selected lecture presentations and accompanying course materials from ALI-ABA's live courses of study in an online format. Here are the online continuing legal education courses available:

• Fundamentals of Copyright I
• Fundamentals of Copyright II
• Negotiation Stages and Techniques

California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB)
Founded in 1947, CEB is a nonprofit, statewide continuing legal education provider. It is part of the University of California and is cosponsored by the State Bar of California. Here are the subject areas providing continuing legal education credit:

• Business
• Employment
• Civil Litigation
• Estate Planning (Legal ethics)
• Family Law
• Real Property
• Required Subjects - Legal Ethics, Substance Abuse, Emotional Distress, Elimination of Bias and Law Practice Management

Center for Continuing Education
The Center for Continuing Education (CCE) offers online self-study articles for which credit can be earned towards Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE). The following articles are available online for self-study:

• Ethics: Judicial Disqualification
• Sports Law Fundamentals: Parts 1 and 2 (Contracts, Agents, Financial Considerations and Labor Law)
• Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession
• Recognizing and Understanding The Stages and Effects of Stress in Your Life: Part 1 (Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of Substance Abuse and Emotional Distress)
• Part 2: Adopting New Behavior Patterns To Prevent and Manage Low Self-Esteem Communication and High Stress Behavior (Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of Substance Abuse and Emotional Distress)

Celesq, Inc.
Celesq® offers many online courses for continuing legal education. Visit the site to learn more about these the programs available for CLE for your state.

CLEonline.com
CLEonline.com delivers continuing legal education (CLE) programming in the form of online CLE seminars to attorneys and other professionals via the World Wide Web. Here are a few of the online CLE seminars available:

• Additional Ethical Issues Facing In-House Counsel
• Anticipating Will Contests and How to Avoid Them
• Confidentiality and Privileges in Electronic Communications
• Conflicts of Interest: Joint Representational Conflicts in Texas
• Consumer Bankruptcy Law: Nuts & Bolts for the Non-Specialist
• Corporate Counsel Wrongful Discharge Claims: Ethics, Policy and Practice
• Effective Negotiation and Mediation Advocacy
• Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession
• Engagement Letters for Texas Litigators: Forms, Issues, and Analysis
• ICANN / WIPO Domain Name Disputes: Procedures And Analysis
• IP Litigation Issues: Trade Secrets, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
• Improve Your Legal Writing: Ten Plain-Language Tips
• Introduction to Financial Statement Concepts for Attorneys
• Legal Ethics for Corporate and In-house Counsel

Cognistar.com
Cognistar offers online continuing legal education (CLE) for lawyers, judges, and others with an interest in the law. Here are a few of the many online continuing legal education presentations available:

• Bankruptcy Law Primer
• Conflicts of Interest: Concurrent Representation
• Copyright Law Update
• Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege
• Cybersquatters and Cybergripers: Resolving Domain Name Disputes
• Dealing with NY IDAs (Industrial Development Agencies)
• Eliminating Bias in the Legal Profession
• Intellectual Property Pearls and Perils
• Intellectual Property vs. Antitrust: Current Issues
• Lawyers and Stress: Recognition and Management
• Mergers & Acquisitions and Joint Venture Antitrust for Corporate Lawyers
• Patent Law Update
• Privacy Issues in E-Commerce
• Technology/Internet Mergers & Acquisitions
• The Internet and Securities Law: Current Issues and Trends
• Trademark Law Update
• Valuation Techniques for Mergers & Acquisitions

DigiLearn
DigiLearn offers online continuing legal education, including many ethics and legal specialization credits. Here are a few of the many online continuing legal education presentations available:

• Keeping Clients Satisfied
• Contempt in the Courtroom
• Emerging Ethical Issues
• Ethics in Mediation and Arbitration
• Internet Security, Resources and Web-Based Tools for Litigators
• Judicial Misconduct and Discipline
• Unbundled Legal Services
• Employment Law: Nuts and Bolts for the Non-Specialist
• Estate Planning: What do we do now?
• Federal Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Guidelines for Pre-Employment Inquiries
• Human Resources and the Law
• Intellectual Property Checklist

EmplawyerNet
EmplawyerNet's CLE Casino offers self-study continuing legal education courses online. Start by reviewing your State's CLE requirements and then choose your course from the following 5 categories:

• Legal Ethics
• Substance Abuse/Emotional Stress
• Law Practice Management
• Gender Bias
• General/Substantive

FindLaw.com
FindLaw offers online continuing legal education courses designed to assist lawyers to learn how to find online legal resources. These courses will familiarize the lawyer in using the Internet as a tool for doing legal research and to assist in maximizing the effectiveness of time spent online. Here are a few of the online continuing legal education courses available:

• Introduction to the Internet
• Finding Federal Law on the Internet
• Finding California Law on the Internet
• Finding CyberSpace Law on the Internet
• Finding Environmental Law on the Internet
• Finding Ethics Law on the Internet
• Finding Health Law on the Internet
• Educate Yourself About Substance Abuse Using the Internet
• Finding Property Law on the Internet
• Finding Bankruptcy Law on the Internet
• Finding Employment Law on the Internet
• Eliminating Bias in the Legal Profession

Intellectual Properties Enterprises
Intellectual Properties Enterprises offers an online self-study program for those planning to take the U.S. Patent Bar exam. The first module and the objectives of the program are available to view for free.

Internet Legal Education and Development, Inc.
Internet Legal Education and Development, Inc. (ILEAD) provides online continuing legal education (CLE) for attorneys and other legal professionals. Courses range in content from the basics of law practice to legal ethics, employment issues, immigration law, and more. Here are a few of the online CLE courses available:

• New Business Screening Form
• New Business Intake Form
• Conflicts Identification & Report Form
• Conflicts of Interest Waivers
• Pre-employment Conflicts Management
• Engagement Letters
• Non-Engagement Letters
• Terminating the Attorney Client Relationship
• Hourly Fee Agreements
• Calendar and Docket Control
• Trust Account Management
• Basic OSHA Law
• Removing the Mystery from Business Immigration Law
• Drug Testing & the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Employment Law Issues from an Employer's Perspective

Law.com
Law.com offers online Continuing Legal Education and meets CLE requirements in more than 25 states. Here are a few of the many online continuing legal education presentations available:

• Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls Facing Experienced Practitioners:
• Bankruptcy in the Dot-Com Economy
• Biotechnology: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation
• Blue Ribbon Panel - General Session, Corporate Legal Times SuperConference
• Breaking in and Making It In-House
• Building a Tech Practice: Attracting and Representing New Economy Clients
• Closing the Deal: Keynote Address, Maximilian M. Schroeck
• Closing the Deal: The Dealmaker's Discussion Forum
• Closing the Deal: The VC Scoreboard - Who's Hitting the Home Runs?
• Computer Security in the Law Office
• Concerns of Going Solo or Starting Up a Small Firm
• Copyright Law in the New Millennium
• Corporate Clients and their Outside Counsel
• Counseling Start Up Companies: Special Challenges
• Cyberspace, Privacy and The First Amendment
• Doing Business on the Web: Legal Issues
• Drafting and Enforcing Licensing Agreements

LAWLINE.COM
LAWLINE.COM provides webcasting of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses offered by its partners including bar and professional associations, law schools, and law firms. Here are a few of the online CLE courses available:

• How to Cross Examine Taped Evidence
• Litigation and Settlement of an Employment Discrimination Complaint
• Distribution of Marital Property
• The Secrets of a Successful Personal Injury Negotiator
• Basic Estate Planning
• Advanced Estate Planning
• How to Build Your Practice: Maintaining the Attorney Client Relationship
• Admissibility of Expert Witness Testimony: a Plaintiff's Perspective
• Avoiding Malpractice Claims and Disciplinary Complaints
• Trademark for the General Practitioner
• Summation
• Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer
• Appellate Process
• Elder Law
• Real Estate Closings From a Lawyer's Perspective
• How to Cross Examine an Expert Witness

Learning Network, Inc.
The Learning Network, Inc. offers online, interactive, self-paced, just-in-time learning. Here are a few of the many online continuing legal education courses available:

• Basic Trial Skills for New Lawyers
• Buy-Sell Agreements
• Compelling Arguments: Getting to the Jury
• Correcting Qualified Plan Failures Through EPCRS
• Employment Torts

Legalspan.com
LegalSpan.com offers online continuing legal education for lawyers in many of the U.S. states and in Canada. Here is a sample of programs provided by the Federal Bar Association under the subject area of Trial and Litigation:

• Effective Direct & Cross Examination
• Essential Trial Strategy Tips and Techniques in Civil Litigation
• Honing Deposition Skills - A Mock Demonstration
• Civil Trials in State and Federal Courts
• Impact of the New Federal Rules on Discovery and Evidence Practice
• Jury Selection, Opening Statement and Final Argument Lawyer Techniques for the Plaintiff
• The Impact of Unpublished and Depublished Opinions

National Legal Research Group, Inc.
The National Legal Research Group, Inc. offers several continuing legal education (CLE) courses that are approved for MCLE/CLE credit. Here are the online continuing legal education courses offered:

• How to Be More Effective in Jury Selection
• Getting the Most out of Your Voir Dire
• The Fundamentals of Persuasive Opening Statements and Closing Arguments

Practising Law Institute (PLI)
The Practising Law Institute (PLI) offers online continuing legal education in a number of formats including web programs, live webcasts, online patent courses, The Interactive Courtroom Online and Harvard Business School Online Courses. Here is a list of interest areas in the available web programs:

• Antitrust
• Banking and Bankruptcy
• Computer Law
• Corporate
• Employment Law
• Estate Planning
• Ethics
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property
• Internet/E-Commerce
• Internet Publishing
• Law Practice Management/Skills
• Litigation
• Patent Law
• Pro Bono
• Real Estate
• Securities

RutterOnline.com
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) is offered online with the many programs offered by The Rutter Group. Here are the subject areas for programs offered online:

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Bankruptcy
• Bias
• Business Law
• Civil Appeals and Writs
• Civil Procedure and Trial Practice
• Criminal Defence
• Employment Litigation
• Ethics
• Landlord-Tenant
• Law Practice Management & Technology
• Personal Injury
• Probate
• Real Property
• Substance Abuse
• Taxation

Taecan Continuing Legal Education Online
Taecan.com offers a large selection of convenient, accredited, high-quality continuing education courses on the Internet. Online courses are provided from a variety of educational organizations. You can earn your credits at your convenience and have the reporting done automatically with your accrediting agency.

Transmedia Inc. The Objection! Game Series
Transmedia Inc. offers online simulated civil and criminal trial simulations. These games are approved for continuing legal education (CLE) credit in many states.

Virginia Law Foundation
The Virginia Law Foundation offers a wide variety of online audio seminars providing credit towards online continuing legal education (CLE). Here are a few of the online seminars available for online continuing legal education credit:

• Bar Complaints and How To Avoid Them
• Contract Formation on the Internet
• Covenants Not to Compete and the Duty of Loyalty in Virginia
• Effective Use of Advance Medical Directives
• Estate Planning Strategies Under the Tax Act of 2001
• Ethical Issues in the Practice of Criminal Law
• Hot Topics in Labor and Employment Law
• Key Points in Drafting Employment Contracts
• Privacy Issues in E-Commerce
• Recent Developments in Civil Litigation
• Recent Developments in Commercial Law
• Recent Developments in Criminal Law and Procedure
• Recent Developments in Estate Planning and Administration
• Ten Ways That Using E-Mail Raises Ethics Issues

WebCE.com LLC
WebCE's courses deliver Continuing Legal Education content through a combination of dynamic graphics, video, audio explanations, quizzes and time-tracking features. Just click on your state to see what courses are offered.

West LegalEdcenter
West LegalEdcenter is an online source for continuing legal education (CLE) programs drawn from both local and national resources. Here are a few of the specific practice areas providing CLE:

• Administrative Law
• Admiralty & Maritime Law
• Bankruptcy Law
• Business & Commercial Law
• Civil Rights
• Communications & Media Law
• Education Law
• Employee Benefits
• Environmental Law
• Estate Planning
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Law
• Internet Law
• Military Law
• Native Peoples Law