Deadline to Register: October 8, 2015
Lawyers often see clients who appear to be suffering from substance misuse, addiction or other impairments. While it is not our job to diagnose, what is our role, responsibility and opportunity? How do our biases govern our actions and behaviors? What if the issue is not with a client but with a colleague? The answers are seldom simple and never easy. This program will provide an ethical framework as well as practical guidance and resources for lawyers facing these questions.
The Family Law Section membership will meet prior to the CLE at 9:30 a.m.
Presenter:
Joan Bibelhausen, is Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers. Joan received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and is admitted to practice in Minnesota. She has significant additional training in the areas of counseling, mental health and addiction, diversity, employment issues and management. She has spent more than two decades working with lawyers who are at a crossroads because of mental illness and addiction concerns as well as work/life balance, stress and related issues.
Joan is a member of the MN State Bar Association, Hennepin and Ramsey County and American Bar Associations, and MN Women Lawyers, among others. She has served on the ABA Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs (CoLAP) and on its Advisory Commission, She has chaired CoLAP’s Education Committee and is vice chair of its Conference Planning Committee. She has chaired the MSBA Life and the Law Committee and the HCBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section and has co-chaired the HCBA Diversity Committee. Joan also served on the MSBA Board of Governors and HCBA’s Strategic Planning and Leadership Institute task forces and currently serves on the board of the Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance. She has developed and presented numerous CLE and other programs and has written on mental health and addiction, career and life balance and satisfaction, stress, diversity, marketing and other issues of concern to the legal profession.
Joan coauthored “Reducing the Stigma: The Deadly Effect of Untreated Mental Illness and New Strategies for Changing Outcomes in Law Students“, recently published in the William Mitchell Law Review (Vol. 41, Issue 3).
CLE Credits:
1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE credit approved | Event Code: 210670
Cost:
Section Member: Free
MSBA Member not in the section: $5.00
Non-Member: $10.00
Law Student: Free
Remote Participation:
Teleconferencing and webcasting are available. Please indicate this option when registering. Instructions will be emailed to you on Friday, October 9.
Satellite locations - if you would like to host a satellite location, please contact Jenn Brask at jbrask@mnbar.org
*Please RSVP to the law office if you plan to attend and let them know when you will arrive.
Duluth/Esko- hosted by Peter Radosevich
*Cold pizza and beverages provided
Radosevich Law Office
3 Hwy 61 E
Esko, MN 55733
(218) 879-0008
**CLE & Business Meeting**
Northfield- hosted by Carl Arnold
Arnold Law and Mediation PLLC
220 Division St. S.
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 786-9999
**CLE only**
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Questions? Contact Jennifer Brask | 612-278-6305