If you practice law in Louisiana and you are looking for an easy way to get your one hour of professionalism CLE credit (or just a regular credit hour), or if you practice elsewhere and can get CLE credit from your state bar for this, I recently participated in a panel discussion on professionalism and technology for an online CLE produced by the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board. The LADB only charges $20 to take the course, so this is a very cheap way to get an hour of CLE credit. (Note that under the current Louisiana rules, you can get up to four of your 12.5 hours from an online course every year.)
I thought that the content of our panel discussion was excellent. Our moderator was Prof. Dane Ciolino of Loyola Law School in New Orleans. The four participants were two attorneys who work for larger law firms (me and Jessica Engler of Kean Miller), one solo attorney (Al Robert), and Brandi McNeil, who recently joined The Justice Collaborative in Seattle but who at the time of our recording worked as a public defender in New Orleans. We had an interesting discussion on a broad range of technology topics and we could have easily kept the conversation going for another hour if it wasn't for the fact that attorneys don't need more than one hour of professionalism credit each year so it was time for us to stop.
The LADB used a pretty sophisticated studio to produce the video, so the end result is professional. (No, we were not sitting in a black room when we recorded; that was added later, even though it didn't look to me like we were sitting in front of anything resembling a green screen.)
You can click here to sign up for the 2019 version of the course. (The LADB website also still lists the 2017 version that I was also a part of, so make sure you click on the 2019 version.) If you want to see a 60-second preview, click here or watch it embedded below:
