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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.
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.
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.
Presented by: Chase L. Andersen, Esq., Client Services Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
One ethics on-demand credit has been approved, 10/21/2024 - 10/21/2026 (#516100).
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: As lawyers, our duties under the Rules of Professional Conduct underpin our service to clients. We are accustomed to quiet withdrawals, transfers of representation, and serving clients well, even when clients are at their most difficult. We work in the midst of looming deadlines, mountains of cases, negativity, and other stressful conditions. Our duties as advocates frequently put us in the line of fire with difficult parties and opposing counsel, while requiring us to maintain the integrity of the profession and respect the rights of others. Learn how stress, negativity, and ethical duties interact and how we can better manage our practice, our lives, and our ethical obligations.
Presented by: Leslie Street, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Director of the Wolf Law Library, William and Mary Law School
One standard on-demand credit has been approved, 06/21/2024 - 06/21/2026 (#510332).
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: An introduction and overview of primary legal standards and cases involving libraries and content restrictions in libraries – Pico, US v. Am. Library Association, Inc., etc. Covers legislative developments in various jurisdictions involving library governance – Legislative efforts to restrict library’s collection development and remove content; broader restrictions on library and librarian conduct, including creating new criminal and civil causes of action against librarians; state legislative efforts in some jurisdictions to protect libraries and librarians. Discusses current cases and controversies emerging from these new laws: Library cases; publisher cases; “Vigilante Federalism”: laws allowing private actors to take private rights of action against libraries or librarians (concept taken from the law review article written by Jon D. Michaels and David L. Noll appearing in the Cornell Law Review); also efforts to bring criminal charges against library staff in different jurisdictions. What does the future look like?
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.
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.