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Unlimited On Demand CLE Pass
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The MSBA, HCBA, and RCBA offer hundreds of hours of On Demand CLE programming each year covering over 25 practice areas. With Unlimited On Demand, you can access that content in a way that is convenient and cost-effective.
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A View from the Bench | Housing Court and Landlord/Tenant Law Update
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The Honorable Referee Melissa J. Houghtaling will provide her observations on the recent impact of COVID-19 to practice in the Hennepin County Housing Court. Referee Houghtaling will advise practitioners on the Court’s current efforts to assist all stakeholders with the unprecedented effects of the global pandemic on housing court practice.
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Real Property
Real Estate
Advanced Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
In-house attorneys face frequent and sometimes complicated challenges in establishing and preserving the attorney-client privilege with their clients. This presentation aims to place such issues in useful context, give examples of better and worse approaches, and offer guidance on how to minimize the chances that your emails will one day end up on a big screen in a crowded courtroom.
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Business Law
Eminent Domain 2020 - Issues for the Coming Decade
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Eminent Domain 2020 is your guide to the future of eminent domain. Ben has done his best to peer into the crystal ball and project some of the hotly contested issues in eminent domain and right-of-way in the coming decade. The session will cover alternative public crossing and coordination methods, easement interpretation rules based on recent appellate cases, and an overview of national trends on eminent-domain-related issues. The session will also cover appropriate best practice tips where applicable to these issues.
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Real Property
Eminent Domain Case Law Update
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This CLE will provide a case law update in the field of eminent domain. Ben will discuss and review some of the key appellate cases coming out of Minnesota’s appellate courts, including the recent decisions of Hennepin County v. Laechelt, Minnesota v. Elbert, Minnesota Sands LLC v. Winona County, White Bear v. Stoddard and others.
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Real Property
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Considerations as the Legal Industry Returns to the Office
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE Credit
Join a panel of specialists working in EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion), Recruiting, and Professional Development to discuss strategies for inclusion, retention, and recruiting in the pandemic. In particular, the panelists will cover historical trends in the legal industry during a crisis, what happens as legal professionals start to return to work, identifying and overcoming biases that could emerge during the pandemic, inclusion and engagement strategies for everyone in the office or working from home, and more.
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Employment and Labor Law
Elimination of Bias
Eviction Expungement Basics
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This CLE will cover the basics of eviction expungement, from the current impact of evictions on low-income renters to the legal foundations for eviction expungement by motion. This CLE will also talk briefly about the inclusion of expungements as part of settlement agreements, as well as the nuts and bolts of how to bring a separate motion for expungement before the court.
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Housing
Eviction Update During the Pandemic
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Larry McDonough, Senior Minnesota Counsel, National Anti-Eviction Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will discuss the status of evictions under Minnesota Executive Orders, CDC Eviction Suspension Order, and other federal and state laws enacted in 2020 The training will be based on his Eviction Prevention Training for Lawyers under Pandemic Orders and Laws.
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Housing
Evidence of Construction Related Interference Damages After Hennepin County v. Laechelt
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In this course, the attorneys representing Hennepin County and Tami Laechelt in the case Hennepin County v. Laechelt will address the admissibility of evidence of construction related interference following the Supreme Court's decision in that case. The attorneys will also discuss how the Supreme Court's decision will impact how the acquiring authority and the property owner prepare for and schedule commissioners hearings.
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Construction Law
Exemption - Protecting Consumers From Garnishment
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This presentation will discuss the ins-and-outs of exemptions in Minnesota. The panel will address when exemptions apply and how it can be utilized to effectively protect consumers’ income and property from garnishment.
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Consumer Protection
Forfeitures | Differing Legal Perspectives on how Criminal and Civil Law Interact Throughout the Forfeiture Process
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Observe a panel of specialists working in diverse areas of the law discuss the intricacies of forfeiture law. The panel will consist of both civil and criminal attorneys on both sides of the process. The speakers will discuss the basics of how criminal law interacts with civil law to result in forfeitures of both personal and real property, the rights of the respective parties involved (i.e., the accused, secured creditors, government), and best practices. The panel will also discuss how the changing forfeiture laws have impacted their practice and the parties involved.
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Criminal Law
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Get Your Bounce Back: Using Resiliency to Build Your Fitness to Practice
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This program reviews the lawyer impairment and well-being reports. It explores proven elements of resilience and offers examples and methods for incorporating them into our work as lawyers.
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Wellness
In the Eye of the Beholder? Key drivers of method, perception, and conflict in business valuation
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Determining the value of a business can involve a range of differences and potential disputes. These differences can range from the methodological approach, to varying perceptions of value, to deeply seeded personal or professional history that impacts the stakeholders’ point of view. Our presenters will discuss both their experience and lessons learned as well as current trends that relate to whether or not a disagreement over value can lead to legal disputes as well has how valuations play a role in resolving existing legal disputes.
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Interpreting the Minnesota Wage Theft Law and the Minneapolis Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The Minnesota Wage Theft Law became effective on July 1, 2019. The law includes civil and criminal penalties for employers that commit wage theft or fail to comply with the law’s notice and recordkeeping requirements. Sanctions for committing wage theft include imprisonment up to 20 years and a fine up to $100,000. To help prevent wage theft, Minneapolis adopted part of the state's Wage Theft Law into its local ordinance and imposed additional requirements. The Minneapolis Wage Theft Ordinance is effective January 1, 2020.
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Employment and Labor Law
Landlords and Tenants - What are your Options in the real world?
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Like most relationships, landlords and tenants try to maintain courteous interactions. Eventually, life rears its head and one party doesn't live up to the bargain. So what happens when things stop being polite and start getting real? This program will address this and other questions.
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Housing
Law and Literature Trial Trilogy | Race, Gender, And Bias in Three Acts Trial Act III | “Twelve Angry Men”
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The law embodies a perspective, but whose? These three law and literature CLEs look at the role that racial and gender biases have in the law through a discussion of three literary works: Susan Keating Glaspell’s short story,
“A Jury of Her Peers,”
Ann Petry’s short story,
“The Witness;”
and Reginald Rose’s play,
“Twelve Angry Men.”
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Legal Writing | Striving for Clarity
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Judge Bacharach will illustrate principles from his recently published book (ABA Press), entitled Legal Writing–A Judge’s Perspective on the Lessons from Science and Rhetoric.
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Legal Research and Writing
Minnesota Landlord-Tenant Anti-Retaliation Law after Central Housing Associates v. Olson
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
In Central Housing Associates v. Olson, 929 N.W.2d 398 (Minn. 2019) the Minnesota Supreme Court promulgated a new, common-law retaliation defense residential tenants can assert in an Eviction Action (“UD”) while also slightly limiting the reach of Minn. Stat. § 504B.441. This CLE seminar, by one of Mr. Olson’s attorneys, will review that case as well as other retaliation defenses – First Amendment defenses, reprisal defenses under the FHA & the MHRA, defense under Minn. Stat. § 504B.205, and defenses under Minn. Stat. § 504B.285, plus a city ordinance -- along with associated case law.
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Housing
New Minneapolis Renter Protection Ordinances - Legal Considerations for Landlords and Tenants
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Last year, the City of Minneapolis passed several new renter protection measures which are coming into effect June 1. This session will cover changes to tenant screening and security deposit laws, along with other municipal housing law changes. Join us for an overview of the new laws, and a discussion of legal implications for tenant and landlord advocates, with presenters from the City and Legal Aid.
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Paying for New Street Infrastructure
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
One of the many challenges cities face is funding new infrastructure as land within the city develops. The MN Supreme Court in the Harstad vs. Woodbury case changed the entire framework of funding for new street infrastructure. The decision has left a significant funding gap. This presentation describes the history of street fees and the court opinion in Harstad. It explores the advantages and disadvantages of various funding options and considers both the philosophical and practical options for funding new street infrastructure.
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Real Property
Price Gouging During Emergencies
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This CLE will discuss the structure and effectiveness of state emergency price-gouging laws. It will cover examples of the major types of price gouging laws states have enacted, how private suits and suits brought by enforcers differ, issues that may arise when attempting to model damages and prove causation, and the appropriateness for such claims for class treatment. Mr. Kozen will then discuss weaknesses the pandemic has revealed in the efficacy of such statutes, alternative litigation under consumer protection statutes, and ways they could be shored up in the future.
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Business Law
Professional Responsibility Year in Review 2019
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1.0 Ethics CLE Credit
This session will review highlights from 2019 in the area of professional responsibility by covering important rule changes, interesting court decisions regarding attorney discipline and new ABA opinions on ethics. This session will also look at areas that lead to private discipline that might not be obvious to the practicing bar.
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Ethics
Public Health and the Constitution
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Covid-19 is a major public health challenge, but addressing it raises many legal issues. What powers does the national government, including the president, have to address public health issues, including “opening or closing the economy,” and what powers do states and governors have? This CLE examines the constitutional issues regarding what level of government and which officials have what authority to address public health issues.
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Public Law
Real Property Case Law Update
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This seminar will discuss decisions in the last year of importance, or at least interest, to members of the real estate bar. This case law update begins with decisions issued after the November 2019 Real Estate Institute and through June 2020. We will touch on virtually all areas of real property, from adverse possession, easements, and property tax appeals to mortgage foreclosure, landlord-tenant disputes, and land use. Join us for a refresher and an update. And please stay for the social immediately following the seminar for an opportunity to connect virtually with other attorneys with similar interests.
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Real Property
Requirements that Agencies Resolve Realty/Personality Issues – What does this mean?
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
In the Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (URA), at 49.CFR 24.205 (c)(2)(i)(C) under the “planning, advisory services, and coordination” section it states, “Every effort must be made to identify and resolve realty/personality issues prior to, or at the time of the appraisal.” What does this mean? Is this rule followed? How should it be handled? Who is qualified? What is the applicable law? This rule is largely ignored. Why should it be followed closely?
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Securities 2020
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Join Zachary Robins for a securities law update. This presentation will be concerning recent changes to federal and state securities laws. Particular attention will be paid to Reg D, Reg CF, Reg A, and the MN Securities Act. Additionally, developments in new and evolving areas of law including cryptocurrency and securities tokens. The up and coming space of investment crowdfunding will be discussed, as well.
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Business Law
Should Minnesota’s Punitive Damages Statutes Be Applied In Federal Court? A Debate.
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Minn. Stat § 549.191 limits how and when claims for punitive damages can be brought. At one time, cases in the District of Minnesota unanimously held that the statute applied in federal court. However, over the past few years multiple cases have held that the statute does not apply. Jeff Justman and Josh Jacobson, who have authored dueling articles discussing this issue, will debate whether the statute should apply.
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Litigation
Student Loan Debt - How the 2020 Election Could Impact Forgiveness and Dischargeability
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This continuing legal education program will discuss student loan debt and, in particular, the current status of efforts to have it forgiven under public service programs or discharged in bankruptcy. This program will then explore how these issues could be affected by proposed action from the 2020 presidential candidates. We will discuss what the candidates are proposing, how it would affect current and future student loan debt, and whether the proposals could realistically be enacted.
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Wild West 2.0 | How Attorneys are Solving Commercial Leasing Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
COVID-19 and resulting government orders have dramatically impacted commercial landlords and tenants. The pandemic has led to a rash of nonpayment-of-rent litigation and raised questions about how attorneys should draft, interpret, and enforce commercial leases, as well as how both tenants and landlords can try to anticipate pandemic-related issues in new contracts.
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Real Property
Real Estate
Work in the Wake of COVID-19 | Tips for Employers and Employees
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
COVID-19 has changed the way we work. It has impacted traditional labor issues, transformed policies in the workplace, and redefined unemployment. Due to new legislation, employers face different bargaining obligations and novel requirements to create safe work environments. Displaced employees confront a daunting world of unemployment and the challenge of returning to work in uncertain times. Join us for a lively discussion on how to navigate this unique employment law landscape.
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Employment and Labor Law