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register for the Afternoon Elimination of Bias portion only.
Attend the full day for a
discount on both or register for one session.
FULL DAY In Person CLE
Program:
Timeframe:
Ethics Morning Session: 9:00 AM. - 12:15
PM; check-in begins after 8:30 am
Elimination of Bias Afternoon
Session: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM; check-in begins after 1:00
pm
HCBA
Office: 600 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis | City
Center - 3rd Floor facing Nicollet Mall entrance; Suite
390
Remote attendance is
not available.
The HCBA's Law & Literature CLE seminars provide a
unique way to earn your ethics and elimination of bias CLE credits. Led by
experienced facilitators, these popular CLE programs use short articles and
works of fiction as a springboard for active discussions on legal ethics and
bias. Stories will be sent to you once you register and must be read in
advance.
Choose the morning program for the Ethics
discussion, the afternoon session for Elimination of Bias, or sign up for a
whole day and save on registration. Space is limited. Please no walk-ins,
advance registration required.
9 AM Ethics Session: the
overall goal of the Ethics program is to cause participants to think about what
it means to be a lawyer. Additionally, the program will involve a facilitated
discussion and thoughtful exploration by participants of a number of topics
which bear on the ethicality of attorney and behavior.
*Stories for the
Ethics portion include:
The Outstation by W. Somerset
Maugham
Ake Dah by Norval Morris
*Upon your completed registration,
materials will be sent to you for advance reading
1:30 PM Elimination of Bias
Session: the overall goal of the Eliminator of Bias program is to
prompt discussion among participants about the ways in which and the extent to
which attorney speech and conduct can be viewed by others as indicating some
degree of bias, prejudice, or insensitivity on issues of racial fairness and
equality. Additionally, the program will involve a facilitated discussion and
thoughtful exploration by participants of a number of topics which bear on the
racial sensitivity of attorney speech and conduct.
*Stories for the
Elimination of Bias portion include:
Good Will by Jane
Smiley
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
*Upon
your completed registration, materials will be sent to you for advance
reading
Featured
Facilitator:
Judge Timothy J. Baland | Retired Minnesota District Court
Judge (7th Judicial District)
MB CLE
Credits:
3.0 Ethics Credit applied for (morning) | Event Code:
281423
2.0 EOB
Credit applied for (afternoon) | Event Code: 281424
Remote participation is NOT available.