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Presented by: Stephanie L. Grace, Research Librarian, UC Davis School of Law
One elimination of bias on-demand credit has been approved, 10/28/2026 - 10/28/2028 (#556755).
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: In 2021, the Cleveland Indians became the Cleveland Guardians. This program traces the two parallel records behind that change: 50 years of civil rights and trademark litigation and more than 60 years of sustained Native advocacy. Drawing on research sources including federal and state court dockets, agency records, and the Black and Indigenous press, the program examines what courts could and could not do, and asks a research question with implications well beyond this case: whose voices get recorded in the press and legal record, and what does that mean for how legal researchers reconstruct a contested history?
Presented by: Daniel J. Brazil, Principal Attorney, Brazil Sweeney Law Group
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 7/7/2026 - 7/7/2028 (#550729).
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: Presenter Daniel J. Brazil focuses primarily on personal injury and wrongful death claims resulting from car accidents, bike accidents, trucking accidents, and motorcycle accidents, as well as working with workers’ compensation claims. This presentation covers the following topics that Minnesota attorneys should be aware of in regard to bicycle and e-bike cases:
- Types of Bicycle Injury Cases
- Defense Tactics
- Combatting Defense Arguments
- Forensic Analysis
- Computers & Apps
- Municipal Cameras, Ring/Nest Cameras, Private Businesses
- Common Car v. Bike Crashes
- Driver cell phone use
- UM Claims – The Hit & Run Driver
- Road Defect Cases
- Damages - Common Issues
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Presented by: Sierra Grandy, William Goren, and Sonja Peterson
One elimination of bias on-demand credit has been approved, 11/14/2025 - 11/14/2027 (#539180).
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 panel, hosted by the Minnesota Disability Bar Association and moderated by attorney Sierra Grandy, features attorneys William Goren, and Sonja Peterson, sharing their lived experiences of practicing law with a disability. Panelists will discuss their first-hand experience regarding disability, ableism, and advocacy to educate attendees on identifying and addressing bias and prejudice—particularly ableism—within legal practice and the justice system. Panelists will explore how ableist assumptions and systemic inaccessibility affect clients, colleagues, and legal outcomes, and will discuss strategies to foster more inclusive and equitable legal environments. Second, the course examines the structural barriers—both personally and externally—that inhibit the full participation of lawyers with disabilities. Through their lived-experience narratives, and discussion of practical tools for advocacy, the course empowers legal professionals to challenge discriminatory practices and become agents of change in both public and private legal sectors.
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Presented by: John J. Carney, Esq., Chief Technology Officer, Carney Forensics
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 06/18/2025 - 06/18/2027 (#530965).
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 course discusses the ways in which AI can be used in legal settings and delves into the ways attorneys can ethically use AI to enhance their legal practice. Carney explores some of the pitfalls and mistakes others have while using AI and explains the way to avoid these mistakes while doing legal research.
John Carney, Esq. is the Chief Technology Officer and lead digital forensic examiner at Carney Forensics, where he has been helping clients with electronic and mobile device evidence for the past seventeen years as an expert witness. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science degree. He earned his JD at Mitchell-Hamline School of Law and is a federally and state-licensed attorney in Minnesota. He is a Fellow in the Jurisprudence section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He serves on the Minnesota State Bar Association’s AI Committee and Tech Law Section.
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Presented by: Rebecca Holschuh, Kelly Pierce, Jeff Wojciechowski, Hennepin County Attorney’s Office
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 03/17/2025 - 03/17/2027 (#524806).
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: In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Tyler v. Hennepin County, a case involving the foreclosure and later sale of a property for unpaid property taxes. Pursuant to state law, the County sold Geraldine Tyler’s property for a sum that exceeded the tax debt and distributed the net proceeds to local government entities. The Supreme Court ruled that by allowing government to keep the surplus from the property sale, Minnesota law violated the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause.
This session will describe Minnesota law as it existed before Tyler, explain the case’s progress through the federal courts and to the Supreme Court, and summarize the Court’s ruling. It will also outline the legislative changes to Minnesota’s law that settled the case and other class actions filed after the Supreme Court’s ruling and provide an overview of Minnesota’s new forfeiture process. It will also cover lawsuits filed after Tyler and describe other state-level legislative changes.
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Presented by: Joan Bibelhausen, Executive Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and Jon Tynjala, Client Services Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
One mental health and substance use on-demand credit has been approved, 01/15/2025 - 01/15/2027 (#521207).
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 course is designed to educate attorneys to identify, understand, and to from the legal profession and from the practice of law biases against persons because of disabilities related to mental and chemical health issues. Powerful stigmas remain attached to both chemical health and mental health related disabilities, and the ABA study clearly shows that barriers to seeking help included “not wanting others to find out they needed help” and “concerns regarding privacy or confidentiality.” Because of those stigmas, discrimination occurs both to impaired lawyers and by lawyers toward impaired clients and potential clients. By educating attorney about the misconceptions surrounding chemical health and mental health issues, they will be better positioned to eliminate barriers to hiring, retentions, professional development, and full participation of attorneys disabled by chemical or mental health issues. They will also be less likely to discriminate against their clients or potential clients with chemical dependency or mental health related disabilities.
Mental and chemical health crises do not occur overnight. Rather there is a clearly recognized continuum that gives rise to those problems and chronic stress is the #1 predictor of major depressive disorder. Further, 40 – 60% of those suffering from depression are likely to be addicted to or abuse alcohol or other mind altering drugs. This program provides a condensed version of LCL’s standard mental health and chemical dependency program and provides the perspective of the place of chronic stress earlier in the continuum with the hope that attorneys in the audience will recognize the need for help before significant damage is done to their clients, their practices and their lives. Chronic stress has always been addressed as a risk factor in LCL’s education about mental health and chemical dependency. In this program, the discussion is expanded to cover the aspects of the practice of law and the legal profession that create the manner in which lawyers are particularly vulnerable and thus at greater risk of chemical and mental health disorders.
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Presented by: Isabella Salomão Nascimento, Attorney, Ballard Spahr LLP
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 12/20/2024 - 12/20/2026 (#519607).
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 Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minn. Stat. §§ 13.01 et seq., guarantees the right of the public to know what its government is doing. The statute establishes a presumption that government data are public and accessible by the public—indeed, the Minnesota Supreme Court has called this “the heart of” the MGDPA. So how do we go from such strong principles to discussions of the MGDPA as merely a “data classification” statute? This session will discuss the basic obligations imposed by the MGDPA on government entities and their designated officials to respond to requests for government data, offer both hypothetical and real-world examples of proper and improper responses to a data request, and provide the potential penalties for failing to comply with the law.
While the presentation did not have written materials, the Law Library has compiled a list of the cases and references mentioned by Ms. Salomão Nascimento, for those curious to learn more.
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