2025 is coming to an end...so now is the time to start thinking about and ensuring you have all the required ethics credits you need. NACDL is here for you! We've compiled three of the best ethics presentations from the year and are making them available to stream online On-demand. Get your Ethics credits on your own time, and on your own pace!
Sessions Included:
1. Balancing Scales: Ethics and Advocacy (State & Federal) | Jeffrey S. Weiner
2. Ethically Using AI for Trial Preparation: Managing Overwhelming Caseloads | Felix Valenzuela
3. Justice by Algorithm: AI, Bias, and Ethical Challenges | Prof. Sonia M. Gipson Rankin
WHEN: Available to Stream On-demand through December 31, 2025
WHERE: Streaming Online
PRICING: NACDL Members: $99 / Non-Members: $129
Training Summary: Earn your ethics credits for 2025 by learning from some of the best criminal defense attorneys in the country! This comprehensive year-end ethics program brings together three of NACDL’s most practical and timely presentations—helping defense lawyers meet their ethics credit requirements while sharpening their understanding of the professional challenges facing today’s practice. This special compilation includes the highest-rated legal ethics presentations delivered at NACDL conferences in 2025!
In Balancing Scales: Ethics and Advocacy (State & Federal), you'll examine common disciplinary pitfalls and ethical dilemmas in criminal defense cases—from conflicts of interest and client communication to contempt and confidentiality. The session gives lawyers concrete strategies for protecting their licenses while maintaining zealous advocacy in high-stakes state and federal cases.
Ethically Using AI for Trial Preparation shows how to ethically integrate artificial intelligence into daily practice and the core tasks of trial preparation. From summarizing discovery and drafting cross-examinations to analyzing juror questionnaires and post-trial sentencing data, this session demonstrates how AI can save time, improve accuracy, and enhance client representation while safeguarding confidentiality and professional responsibility.
Finally, Justice by Algorithm: AI, Bias, and Ethical Challenges explores how emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and algorithmic risk assessments—are transforming criminal justice. Attendees will learn how to recognize bias in digital evidence, challenge AI-generated outputs, and meet their ethical duty of technological competence under the Model Rules.
Together, these sessions provide an essential ethics update for criminal defense practitioners—offering both caution and innovation for the year ahead.
CLE CREDIT: NACDL will apply for up to 3 hours of Ethics CLE credit in all states, where applicable. Approval is not guaranteed for all states and jurisdictions. Approved states are listed below as updated.
Approved states (to date) are listed below. It will continue to be updated: Alabama (3), Arizona (3), Arkansas (pending), California (3), Florida (3.5), Georgia (pending), Mississippi (pending), Missouri (3.5), Nevada (pending), New Hampshire (3), New Mexico (3), New Jersey (3.5), New York (3.5), North Carolina (pending), Oklahoma (pending), Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina (pending), Tennessee (3), Texas (3), Utah (pending), Vermont (3), Virgin Islands (3), Wisconsin (pending).
ACCESS: A link to access the online trainings will be provided after registration.
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