CLE: Virginia Legal Ethics Update (Pending Virginia Approval for 1 CLE Ethics Credit)

  • Thursday, March 18, 2021
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Live Interactive Webcast

Registration

  • Member in good standing for the 2020-2021 membership year.
  • Does not currently hold membership with the Alexandria Bar Association.

Attorney Ryan Brown from Arlington Law Group has been providing annual ethics updates for the thirteen years, giving timely information to help you reduce risk and meet your ethical obligations.  This year's annual ethics update provides the latest information on Virginia legal ethics for your practice, including: Legal Ethics Opinions (LEOs), recently approved and proposed changes to the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct (RPCs) and Supreme Court of Virginia procedural rules, and recent legislative matters.  Learn from recent disciplinary cases and get up to speed on ethics rule changes in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Attending members earn one ethics CLE credit as part of your membership benefits.

After this CLE, plan on attending the March Membership Meeting
at 6:30 p.m. an evening of cooking & comedy!

Ryan A. Brown, Esq.
Attorney & Counselor at Law
Arlington Law Group




Ryan A. Brown was born in Kansas City and raised in California. His first job in the  computer industry began at the age of eleven, building and repairing personal computers for a local store in Santa Barbara, California. In 1993 he began a computer and Internet consulting firm and started the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Santa Barbara.


Ryan went on to attend Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received a BS in Computer 
Science with departmental and school honors and a BA in Spanish in 2000. Ryan is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon and the ACM, and won awards for undergraduate research and teaching. Continuing at Johns Hopkins, he received a Masters of Science and Engineering in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins in May of 2002. 


After completing his Computer Science studies, Ryan went on to earn a Juris Doctorate Magna Cum Laude in December of 2006 from George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, with concentrations in business, tax and estate planning law. 

Since starting Arlington Law Group in 2007, Ryan has worked with a wide array of businesses and individual clients on estate planning, business law and tax planning. Ryan also works with several technology start-up and early stage companies on company governance, private placements of stock and debt, and computer and Internet law.


Ryan has served and continues to serve on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit organizations. Ryan 
currently serves on the board of the Arlington Virginia Chamber of Commerce, serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Arlington Corps of the Salvation Army, previously served on the board of the Arlington County Bar

Association, and has volunteered for several pro-bono projects in Northern Virginia including Wills for Heroes which provides free wills and estate planning documents to first responders (police, sheriff, fire & paramedics). Ryan regularly gives seminars on estate planning, tax and business law, teaches an annual Continuing Legal Education class at George Mason University School of Law and occasionally guest lectures at the law  school.

Office Location and Hours

Alexandria Courthouse
The Alexandria Bar Association
520 King Street, Room 202
Alexandria, VA 22314


Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. by telephone 703-548-1106 or email at alexbar@alexandriabarva.org