The Nebraska State Bar Association plans a full slate of continuing legal education programming during the upcoming 2020 Annual Meeting despite shifting to a virtual format.

The meeting will run Monday through Friday of next week, and it will feature mostly on-demand CLEs with some “live replays” – sessions that were prerecorded but that attendees can view during a live performance, allowing them to be more easily scheduled.

The 2020 conference will offer more than 65 hours of CLE, including several unique webinars, according to a news release:

• “Easiest Catch: Don’t be Another Fish Caught in the Dark Web” will feature general session speaker Mark Lanterman, a former member of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Taskforce, discussing the ethics and compliance a half hour of ethics credit.

Additional scheduled webinars available during the Annual Meeting week include the following:

• NLAP Seminar: Encouraging Others to Get Help (2 CLE ethics hours)

• Navigating Tech: Finding the Right Solutions for Your Firm (1 CLE hour)

• Values First: A New Approach to Hiring and Firing Team Members (1 CLE ethics hour)  (Sponsored by the Law Practice Management Section)

• Pro Bono Summit (3 CLE hours, including 1 ethics hour)

• Diversity: Toward a Better Understanding (1 CLE ethics hour)

• NSBA Casemaker Seminar - Introducing Casemaker 4: A Comprehensive Guide (1 CLE hour)

• Meditation with Dean Moberly - Attorney Mindfulness: Why Meditation Might Be The Answer (1 CLE ethics hour) (Live)

• NSBA NebDocs Seminar - NebDocs: Increasing Efficiency, Accuracy, and Client Satisfaction in Your Law Practice (1 CLE hour)

Additional on-demand webinars include the following:

• ADR Section Seminar: Ethical Issues in Mediation and Arbitration: Addressing Diminished Capacity, Conflicting Interests, and High (2 CLE ethics hours)

• Agricultural Law Section Seminar: Agricultural Bankruptcy: Two Perspectives (1 CLE hour)

• Bank Attorneys Section Seminar: Default Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic: 2020 Banking Law Update (1 CLE hour)

• Bankruptcy Section Seminar: Bankruptcy in Brief: Five Things You Need to Know About Bankruptcy Practice (1.5 CLE hours)

• Business Law and Corporate Counsel Sections Seminar: The Economic and Legal Fallout of COVID-19 for Nebraska Businesses: A Panel Conversation (1 CLE hour)

• Christian Legal Society 2020 Annual Program (2 CLE hours, including 1 ethics hour)

• Civil Litigation in District Court: A Play with Three Acts (2 CLE hours) (Sponsored by the Omaha Bar Association Young Lawyers Division)

• Diversity: Toward a Better Understanding (1 CLE ethics hour)

• Elder Law Section Seminar: Special Needs Trusts 101: The Basics (2 CLE hours)

• Family Law Section Seminar: Current Trends in Child Support (State and Federal) (2 CLE hours)

• Government and Administrative Practice and Natural Resources and Environmental Law Sections Seminar: Did We Plan For That? Planning and Zoning Issues in Environmental Law & The Age of COVID-19 (2 CLE hours)

• Health Law Section Seminar: Healthcare Fraud: Recent Developments and Enforcement Issues (1.5 CLE hours)

• Immigration Law Section Seminar: Raul and Dave Go To Washington: Local Immigration Attorneys’ Experiences At, and Leading To, the U.S. Supreme Court (1 CLE hour)

• Indian Law Section Seminar: McGirt v. Oklahoma: Impacts of the Decision (1.5 CLE hours)

• Intellectual Property Section Seminar: Intellectual Property Challenges and Opportunities Associated with a Pandemic (1 CLE hour)

• The Intersection of Estate Planning And Marital Planning (1 CLE hour)

• Labor & Employment Law Section Seminar: The Work Environment After Coronavirus (1 CLE hour)

• Midlands Bar Association Seminar: Conversation on Bias in the Legal Profession (2 CLE ethics hours)

• Midwest Innocence Project Seminar: Innocence in Practice: The Ins and Outs of Wrongful Conviction Cases (1.5 CLE hours)

• Military & Veterans Law Section Seminar: The New VA Appeals Process (1 CLE hour)

• NATA Seminar: Paperwork Law School Never Taught You (2 CLE hours)

• Navigating Tech: Finding the Right Solutions for Your Firm (1 CLE hour)

• NLAP Seminar: Encouraging Others to Get Help (2 CLE ethics hours)

• NSBA Casemaker Seminar - Introducing Casemaker 4: A Comprehensive Guide (1 CLE hour)

• NSBA Child Support Calculator Seminar - 2020 Child Support Calculator Update (1 CLE hour)

• NSBA NebDocs Seminar – NebDocs: Increasing Efficiency, Accuracy, and Client Satisfaction in Your Law Practice (1 CLE hour)

• Pro Bono Summit (3 CLE hours, including 1 ethics hour)

• Public Interest Law Section Seminar: Census 2020 (1 CLE hour)

• Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section Seminar – Real Estate Hour 1: Economic Development and Financing Tools for Commercial Real Estate Projects (1 CLE hour)

• Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section Seminar – Real Estate Hour 2: Managing the Unmanageable: HOAs and Condos (1 CLE hour)

• Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section Seminar – Estate Planning Hour 1: An Estate Planner and a Litigator Walk Into the (Virtual) Bar Meeting…and Present on Estate Planning & Litigation (1 CLE hour)

• Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section Seminar – Estate Planning Hour 2: Retirement Plan Distribution Update (1 CLE hour)

• Values First: A New Approach to Hiring & Firing Team Members (1 CLE ethics hour) (Sponsored by the Law Practice Management Section)

• Women and the Law Section Seminar: Privacy in a Pandemic: Requirements and Best Practices for Data Protection in COVID-19 Times (1 CLE hour)

Access to on-demand CLEs will be provided the morning of Monday, Oct. 12. Emails for live replay sessions will be send an hour before each event starts.

Scholarships for up to 2 hours of free CLE are available through the Nebraska State Bar Foundation. To make a confidential request, email Lisa Henrichs at lhenrichs@nebar.com) with the name of the program.

The registration deadline is today, Thursday, Oct. 8, at 5 p.m.  Register for the Annual Meeting at nebar.com/event/NSBAAnnualMeeting_20.