Presented by: Mike R. Carlson, Gray Paper Legal, LLC
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 01/30/2024 - 01/30/2026 (#499306).
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: Three Eras of Legal Research (‘Print, ‘Search’ and ‘Find’). Since the 12th Century, the technology we use to access the law has framed the way we think about the craft of practicing the law. Are new AI tools situated at the cutting edge, reforming our perception of legal practice? Or are they better situated in a prior era? The answer is, ‘it depends.’
Presented by: John Q. Barrett, Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law, St. John's University
One elimination of bias on-demand credit has been approved, 01/10/2024 - 01/10/2026 (#497996).
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: John Q. Barrett takes an important look at history to empower today’s lawyers to recognize bias that may come in different forms. He discusses the history of how war has affected and influenced laws and treaties—or been entirely unconstrained by laws. He then looks at the events of World War I and its legacies through trials and treaties that influenced Nazi leadership to enact policies and act on their antisemitic views. The Nazi regime used their power to assert a worldview that was biased against many groups, but because it was a time of war, they were able to act unrestricted. Eventually, at the end of World War II, the Allied powers utilized legal means to hold Nazi war criminals accountable for their actions, leading to the Nuremberg trials. Furthermore, he discusses the legacy of these trials and their legal precedence to later war crimes and tribunals, and the way that legal power continues to be wielded today. In this presentation John Q. Barrett will aid participants in learning more of the details around the Nuremberg Trials after WWII, as well as help draw lines between history and the present day.
Presented by: Douglas G. Morris, Retired Assistant Federal Defender at Federal Defenders of New York and Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School
One elimination of bias on-demand credit has been approved, 12/12/2023 - 12/12/2025 (#496845).
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: Douglas Morris takes an important look at history to empower today’s lawyers to recognize bias that may come in different forms. For instance, he will discuss early efforts that targeted Jewish lawyers as “political opponents” rather than naming religion. The Nazi regime then masked its anti-Semitism as anti “liberal lawyers.” Eventually the Nazis permitted Jewish lawyers who had fought in World War I to remain in good standing, while other Jewish lawyers had to request readmission to the bar – a posture that served to stratify the Jewish legal profession. As these various policies took place over time, non-Jewish lawyers benefited from less competition and were incentivized to ignore the increasing bias being animated against Jewish lawyers. In this presentation Doug Morris will aid participants in learning more of the details around the lives of Jewish lawyers during WWII, as well as help draw lines between history and the present day.
Presented by: Marshall Tanick, Meyer Njus Tanick, PA
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 12/07/2023 - 12/07/2025 (#496704).
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: This timely program, 60 years to the day of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, will explore some of the little-known but important legal connections between that landmark event and the state of Minnesota, including case law, literature, and other lore relating to it.
Documentary screening and panel discussion
Panel discussion and Q&A with: Jon Osaki, the documentary’s producer; Lorraine K. Bannai, coram nobis team attorney; and Keiko Sugisaka, managing partner at Maslon, LLP.
Two elimination of bias on-demand credits have been approved, 07/14/2023 - 07/14/2025 (#488686).
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: This documentary sheds light on the people and politics that influenced the signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. It exposes the lies used to justify the decision and the cover-up that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The documentary also examines the parallels to the current and recent climate of fear, targeting of immigrant communities, and similar attempts to abuse the powers of the government.
At the conclusion of the screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A. Through a moderated discussion, the panelists will focus on the importance of honesty before the court and the legal ethics consequences. The panelists will also touch on the limited checks to executive rules in the judicial system and explore the roots of the judiciary’s highly deferential approach. Finally, the panelists will discuss how understanding history and the tenor of historical times can aid in understanding issues in confronting current biases and fears today. See related materials and speaker bios on the Hennepin County Law Library website.
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: 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.