Presented by Professor Justin Simard, Michigan State University College of Law
One Elimination of Bias on-demand credit has been approved, 03/17/2023 - 03/17/2025 (#482320).
TO RECEIVE CLE CREDIT: After you have registered with the Law Library (register here) and have listened to the recording, you must report this on-demand course in the OASIS system (Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education) to receive credit. You will need to input the date you watched the CLE to get on-demand credit.
Description: Justin Simard is the author of Citing Slavery, 72 Stanford Law Review 79 (2020), and founder of the Citing Slavery Project (www.citingslavery.org). Mr. Simard’s presentation will help lawyers identify the harms that exist in the unacknowledged citation of cases involving enslaved African Americans by modern judges and lawyers. It will show how seemingly neutral legal reasoning can help hide the biases that such cases have imported into the legal system and suggest ways for the profession to address this bias through changes in research, citation, and educational practices.
Presented by: Joan Bibelhausen, Executive Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers; Faith Amdahl, Amdahl Law Office
One Elimination of Bias on-demand credit has been approved, 01/25/2022 - 01/25/2024 (#438379).
TO RECEIVE CLE CREDIT: After you have registered with the Law Library (register here) and have listened to the recording, you must report this on-demand course in the OASIS system (Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education) to receive credit. You will need to input the date you watched the CLE to get on-demand credit.
Description: Within the legal profession - statistics reveal that attorneys are more than twice as likely to suffer from alcohol abuse or dependency and 3.6 times more likely to be impaired by depression. Powerful stigmas remain attached to both chemical health and mental health related disabilities. Because of those stigmas, lawyers, judges and law students suffering from severe depression may feel there is nowhere to turn and not seek out resources that will give them relief. By educating attorneys about the misconceptions surrounding suicide, they will be better positioned to eliminate from the legal profession and from the practice of law biases against persons impaired by mental and chemical health issues that may lead to suicide. Attendees will be taught to identify the warning signs of suicidal thinking and behavior and learn three basic intervention skills that can help avert the tragedy of suicide.
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Presented by: Katy Drahos, Access to Justice Director, Minnesota State Bar Association; Bridget Gernander, Legal Services Grant Manager, Minnesota Supreme Court; Tom Walsh, Executive Director, Volunteer Lawyer's Network
One Ethics on-demand credit has been approved, 03/15/2022 - 03/15/2024 (#444409).
TO RECEIVE CLE CREDIT: After you have registered with the Law Library (register here) and have listened to the recording, you must report this on-demand course in the OASIS system (Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education) to receive credit. You will need to input the date you watched the CLE to get on-demand credit.
Description: Beginning in 2022, when completing their annual attorney registration statement, attorneys will notice three additional required questions related to the aspirational goals stated in Rule 6.1 of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct. Two questions ask about approximate hours spent the prior calendar year on pro bono service and activities for improving the law, the legal system, or the legal profession. An additional question, with a checkbox response, asks whether attorneys provided financial support during the prior calendar year to organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means. This CLE discusses the details of Rule 6.1 and how it relates to attorneys professional responsibilities to provide and report pro bono hours, as well as why there is an ongoing need for pro bono and financial support of legal services in our communities.
The focus on this particular panel will be on the professional rules and the ethics of supporting pro bono efforts through time or money.
Presented by: Marshall Tanick, Meyer Njus Tanick, PA
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 06/17/2022 - 06/17/2024 (#457525).
TO RECEIVE CLE CREDIT: After you have registered with the Law Library (register here) and have listened to the recording, you must report this on-demand course in the OASIS system (Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education) to receive credit. You will need to input the date you watched the CLE to get on-demand credit.
Description: The program will review some of the historical facts concerning the Watergate break-in 50 years ago and the ensuing events leading up to the resignation of President Nixon and criminal trials of some of the Watergate conspirators. It will focus on the little-known Minnesota roots of the Watergate scandal; the Minnesota personages that were at the core of Watergate; changes in ethical protocols for lawyers due to Watergate; new laws attributable to Watergate, including the birth of the Minnesota Data Practices Act and surreptitious tape recording laws; and Federal and state court cases in Minnesota relating directly and indirectly to Watergate.