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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 Practitioner’s Toolkit for Capacity Testing and Expert Witness Analysis
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The materials will (1) give the attorney a working understanding of how to test for capacity, (2) explain clinical capacity testing, (3) help the practitioner to understand how and why the tests are done, and (4) explain how to review expert opinions on clinical testing.
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Probate and Trust
Litigation
Administrative Law Basics
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2.0 Standard CLE Credits
This CLE will focus on the basics of Minnesota’s administrative law process, including contested case practice at the Office of Administrative Hearings. The CLE will provide an overview for any practitioner interested in expanding their practice into representing parties before the OAH, and is particularly suitable for attorneys who wish to provide pro bono and low bono representation, and law librarians who may receive questions about administrative law issues from pro se parties.
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Public Law
Administrative Law
Building an Estate Planning Practice | Practical Insights from a Panel of Experienced Estate Planners
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
For attorneys contemplating opening an estate planning practice or expanding your practice areas to include estate planning. Learn from this panel of highly experienced estate planning attorneys about the business side of starting and sustaining a practice, as well as some substantive topics that attorneys new to this area of the law need to know.
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Probate and Trust
Buying and Selling Lakeshore Property in Minnesota
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Hear from Duluth longtime real estate attorney Paul Kilgore about buying and selling lakeshore property, including title, access, land use, liability and riparian rights issues.
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Real Estate
Client Representation in Residential Real Estate Brokerage
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1.5 Standard CLE Credits
Representing residential real estate consumers in brokered transactions, including agency relationships and licensing statute impacts your clients’ rights; spotting licensing violations and breaches of fiduciary duty; representing sellers; representing buyers; trips and traps for consumers and how to avoid them; ancillary services and products, and why you should care; forms; arbitration, and more.
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Small Firm Practice
Real Property
Commemorating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment 100 Years of Voting Rights and Civic Engagement
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Did you know that Minnesota can claim the first woman to vote in the nation, after the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920? And that we also hold the current record for the highest voter turnout in the nation? Come learn more about Woman Suffrage in Minnesota, and how our voting rights continue to expand - and be challenged - today.
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Constitutional Law
Common Interest Communities: Unit Resales and Related Issues
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Legal requirements and procedures for resales of units within common interest communities (condominiums, planned communities, and cooperatives), and will address issues relating to unit resales.
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Real Property
Comparison between Commercial and Residential Eviction
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Many lawyers are somewhat familiar with Minnesota Statutes Chapter 504B that addresses much of the relationship between landlords and tenants. The distinctions between residential and commercial evictions can be subtle and nuanced but also dramatic. These differences arise out of the 504B statute and also caselaw. This presentation would focus on those differences and similarities and how the last five years has changed that comparison.
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Real Property
Do Overs, Mulligans, and Second Chances | Winning Strategies for Post-Decisions Motions
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
It’s never fun to lose, and trying to steal victory from the jaws of defeat can be a risky proposition. Though post-trial motions remain critical to correcting errors and positioning your case for appeal, if they are misused they can take your case from bad to worse. In this session, we’ll review the common forms of post-decisions motions, the best uses of each, their necessity (or not) for keeping issues alive on appeal, common mistakes lawyers make in post-trial motions, as well as tips and tricks for how to most effectively and strategically deploy these motions in your practice.
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Appellate Practice
Litigation
Don’t Panic! The Basics of an Ethics Complaint
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1.0 Ethics CLE Credit
Co-presenters from the 2nd District Ethics Committee provide a summary of the ethics complaint process, from complaint to disciplinary recommendation.
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Ethics
Easements 101
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Basics about easements: What are they? How do they work? Best practices, tips, and tricks.
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Real Estate
Easy Time, Billing, and Accounting Options
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1.5 Standard CLE Credits
It’s no mystery that law firms need software to run their business – to store data, manage workflow, avoid conflicts, and serve their clients. The problems faced by most law firms is that there is no time to find the right software, it is difficult to determine which features are valuable to your team and clients, and the number of options out there often keep firms from making a decision. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to navigate the features in several time, billing & accounting programs – giving legal professionals a jump start on the research they should be doing before picking a product for their firm.
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Small Firm Practice
Estate Planning for Family Law Attorneys
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This presentation will provide an estate planning overview for family law attorneys, highlighting concerns that arise in divorce and/or custody cases for which estate planning approaches or tools may be beneficial.
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Ethics and Technology | Practical Tips for Your Practice
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1.5 Ethics CLE Credits
According to Rule 1.1, comment 8, Minnesota attorneys are now expected to know the benefits and risks associated with technology in their practice. This session will review our ethical obligations when it comes to technology and provide tips for ensuring compliance.
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Technology
Small Firm Practice
Ethics
Great Minds Think Differently
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE Credit
One of our greatest strengths is the diversity of how our brains think and how we each approach and experience the world around us. Neurodiversity celebrates that strength and diversity among all of us, including those who have cognitive differences such as autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and mental health disabilities. This CLE will dive into the concept of neurodiversity, and how we can accept and support our clients, friends, family members, and colleagues who think differently.
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Elimination of Bias
Grounding Your Practice in Wellness | Bringing Your Best Self
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The demands of our practice can bring us out of balance. During this session we will talk about simple ways to right yourself and right your legal practice.
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Wellness
Growing Your Practice, Making Partner | A Professional Development Panel Discussion
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Join our panel as they discuss how to grow your practice and become partner. Our panelists will share their own experiences of professional development and offer advice for what should be top of mind for new lawyers as they look to expand their business and reach partner.
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New Lawyer Essentials
Handling Military Family Law Cases - Navigating the Booby Traps and Minefields without the Flak Jacket
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
In addition to the active members of the Armed Forces, the Minnesota’s Guard and Reserve are facing increased mobilizations and multiple deployments. In today’s military operating environment, it is more likely than ever that an unwary practitioner will find themselves dealing with a service member. Critical to advocating effectively for your client requires the practitioner to understand pension division, military pay, child support but also the various benefits available to service members and their families. This presentation will provide practitioners with a once over the world on dealing with the common family law issues when a military member is involved and were to turn for help.
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Military and Veterans Law
Family Law
Help for Attorneys in Crisis – Dealing with Lawyer Addiction and Impairment
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1.0 Elimination of Bias Credit
How to recognize and obtain help when you, a work colleague or other professional colleague may have a substance use, mental health, or other issue that affects behavior, conduct and performance. Topics include understanding the issues, approaching the lawyer (including interventions), arranging assistance such as treatment, and practice management issues during and following a reduced work schedule or leave of absence. Colleagues can save careers, families, and lives.
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Wellness
Elimination of Bias
Probate and Trust
Helping Family Law Clients Understand Differences Between Common Types of Retirement Programs
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Tom Hughes will describe the differences in defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans in marriage dissolution cases. MSRS, PERA, TRA and FERS special considerations and common misunderstandings will be discussed. The importance of survivor benefits and the tax considerations in receiving QDRO and IRA payments will also be reviewed.
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Family Law
Identifying Tax Impacts for Planning, Administering, Litigating, and Settling Estates
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Overlooking certain tax issues could create a monster in the closet! Scott Ruhsam will help you understand the tax issues that come into play when you are drafting a client’s estate plan which thereafter flows and interplays with the administration of a trust or estate. In addition, Scott will outline the importance of the tax perspective during settlement options in estate and trust litigation…because no one wants the tax issue to come back and haunt them!
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Probate and Trust
Immediate Responses to Criminal Law Questions
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1.5 Standard CLE Credits
Hear from two criminal law practitioners about how to respond to calls with criminal law inquiries, before you even refer the caller/client to a criminal law attorney. What to advise when someone calls with “Do I take the test?” in a DWI situation, including criminal and civil impacts of different responses. What to respond when someone calls about being questioned by police, and how to respond to calls about police searches (house/apartment/office/car), touching on constitutional protections, search warrants, and consent.
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Criminal Law
Implicit Bias and Unconscious Bias as it Relates to Self Awareness and Accountability
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE Credit
Marriage and family therapist Joe Reid, LMFT, Ph.D., will explore implicit bias/unconscious bias on the part of family law attorneys with the following presentation goals: - Define implicit bias and unconscious bias - Define and practice mindfulness as a resource and skill - Understand and explore my defense mechanism - Exploring how perceptions impact my relationships with others and how it impacts my decision making - Self assess my awareness and openness to the other (perceptions, values, beliefs, choices).
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Elimination of Bias
Family Law
Insurance Claims 101 for the Non-Insurance Lawyer
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1.5 Standard CLE Credits
Learn about the basics of insurance claims from an experienced insurance law practitioner whose practice focuses on appeals and motions, mainly in the areas of administrative law, insurance coverage and insurance bad faith.
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New Lawyer Essentials
Litigation
Introduction to Business Valuation in a Marital Dissolution
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Factors to consider when determining whether a business valuation is needed in a divorce; common business valuation terminology; introduction to valuation approaches and methods; discussion of the income approach; and common errors in a business valuation report.
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Family Law
Law and Literature Trial Trilogy | Race, Gender, And Bias in Three Acts Trial Act III | “Twelve Angry Men”
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE credit
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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Elimination of Bias
Litigation
Law Day CLE | Reconsidering Criminal Justice After the Death of George Floyd
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1.25 Elimination of Bias CLE credits
The death of George Floyd nearly a year ago shook the nation and the world. Among other things, it re-focused criminal law reformers on the continuing problems of racial disparities, over-incarceration, and the relationship between the police and the communities they serve. Mark Osler, a former federal prosecutor and reform advocate who teaches at the University of St. Thomas, will talk about these swirling currents and what might come next.
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Elimination of Bias
Law Day CLE-Persistence and Change in Felon Voting Restrictions
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
A half-dozen defendants sat in the courtroom, all described as “model probationers” living and working in Minneapolis. But they were facing new felony and the atmosphere was tense. Their crime? Illegal voting. They did not sell their votes or stuff the ballot box, they simply arrived at their polling place and cast ballots like so many of us did. Their new felony charges arose because in 27 US states it is illegal to vote while serving a probation sentence in the community. This talk will review research and policy developments in felon disenfranchisement law and policy, with a focus on developments in Minnesota. After addressing the origins, scope, political and racial impact, and public opinion on the practice, it considers the meaning of these legal restrictions in the context of contemporary debates in the United States and other nations.
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Criminal Law
Constitutional Law
Law in the Time of COVID: Virtual Court and Administrative Practice
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2.0 Standard CLE Credits
How local tribunals are handling court hearings and trials in this time of COVID, with restrictions, partial re-opening, and social distancing recommendations. Hear about different practice areas and from both perspectives, bench and practitioner.
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Legal Paraprofessional Pilot Project Update
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Update on the progress of the work of the Taskforce on the Legal Paraprofessional Pilot Project, charged with developing a pilot program allowing a limited expanded scope for paraprofessionals (under lawyer supervision) in one or more of three areas: housing law, family law, and creditor-debtor law. Justice Thissen would like to engage in a discussion with lawyers about the direction of the pilot program, about both concerns and hopes for the idea.
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Family Law
Legal Parentage without Marriage | Lessons from Bischoff v. Vetter
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
• Jack DeWalt, attorney for the Petitioner and Appellant, will share his experience representing a non-biological parent that did not marry the birth mother, or adopt the children, in her case seeking recognition as a legal parent.
• Mary Pat Byrn, attorney and legal scholar on same-sex couples and parenting, will share her views on the Bischoff case and how attorneys should address similar cases in the future.
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Family Law
Legal Writing | Striving for Clarity
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1.25 Standard CLE credits
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
Lessons from COVID | Best Practices for Interviewing, Hiring, On-Boarding, and Orienting Remotely
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2.0 Standard CLE credits
Tips, processes, protocols for how best to function remotely: remote interviews and hiring; introducing new hires into the organization’s community and keeping them engaged; and ensuring ongoing mentoring and professional development opportunities are available and utilized. Discussion will include framework and principles for successful orientation of new attorneys, generally and virtually, with special attention to inclusivity in our COVID times.
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Lexi's Case- Minnesota's First Quad-Parent Adoption
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Increasing use of assisted reproductive technologies and open adoption, coupled with the recognition of same-sex marriage, have redefined the meaning of “family.” An issue on the leading edge involves whether a child can have more than two parents under Minnesota law. Attorney Jason Brown will discuss his recent experience in successfully concluding an adoption involving four parents. The family dynamics are as interesting as the legal issues involved in Lexi’s case.
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Family Law
LGBTQ+ SCOTUS Update: Why It Matters and What You Need to Know
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1.25 Elimination of Bias Credits
Who are LGBTQ+ individuals and what legal rights do they have? At the beginning of June, less than half of states offered protections for LGBTQ+ people. What has changed in light of the recent Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County? Learn why this decision matters, what it changed, and what work still needs to be done.
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Elimination of Bias
Mental Health in the Legal Profession - Real Solutions to Real Issues
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2.0 Elimination of Bias Credits
Today’s attorneys are faced with a multitude of issues; challenging and stressful cases, the expectation to always be available, balancing personal and professional priorities, among other factors. This CLE program will delve into how the practice of law can affect one’s mental health, examine the possible consequences than can result from those challenges and, most importantly, discuss real solutions for addressing those issues.
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Elimination of Bias
Wellness
Nellie Francis, Champion of Women's Equality and Racial Justice
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE Credit
Dr. William Green’s presentation will be on Nellie Francis, an often overlooked local black woman who both participated in leading the campaigns for women's suffrage in 1919 and (in the wake of the lynchings of three black men in Duluth in 1920) drafted and successfully lobbied the bill to make lynching a crime. The presentation is a moving and compelling story not often told of how a Minnesota black woman helped shape the 19th amendment by bringing together white and black women in a united front. Capping off the program is a fantastic question and answer session that wraps with Dr. Green’s thoughts on systemic racism and how we can all take part in the current conversation and shape the future.
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Elimination of Bias
New Lawyers Section Pro Bono Eviction Expungement Training
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Join the RCBA New Lawyers for their annual volunteer event in March. This year we are switching to a volunteer event more related to the legal community, providing pro bono legal advice to low income clients seeking eviction expungements. The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis have impacted low income Minnesotans in large numbers. Helping someone expunge an eviction from their records can make a big difference in their life, helping them find safe and affordable housing.
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Nonmarital Issues in Divorce
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Understand financial aspects of martial dissolutions is critical. This presentation will cover old and new nonmarital issues in divorce and provide examples of nonmarital tracing for different assets.
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Family Law
Of Prenups and Probate: Probate Litigators Discuss How to Advise Clients Through Love, Death, and the Death of Love
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
What happens when your client’s estate planning hasn’t kept up with your client’s relationship status?
Join Mason & Helmers probate litigators Emily Valentine-Grimm and Karin Ciano for a hair-raising journey to the intersection of Probate Place and Family Way. We’ll discuss how old prenups create new pitfalls; how divorce affects existing beneficiary designations; how to advise clients on the elective share and other spousal rights; and whether family court or probate court is the right place to resolve your client’s dispute.
All this plus tips on drafting prenup language that will waive a future spouse’s right to statutory exempt property!
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Probate and Trust
Passing the Torch | Estate Planning Considerations for the Small Business Owner
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Small business owners face unique estate planning challenges. Issues of incapacity, the transfer of property, and family harmony can be further complicated when the family business is the primary asset. This CLE examines the tools available to the estate planning attorney when working with a small business owner.
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Probate and Trust
PR Problems for the PR’s Attorney | Legal Ethics in Probate and Trust Representations
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1.0 Ethics CLE Credit
Karin Ciano and Jennifer Peterson of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility welcome your questions in advance of their CLE on avoiding ethical pitfalls in probate and trust planning, administration, and litigation. This Q&A session will help you mind your Ps and Qs under the PR rules so you can get back to focusing on your PR clients ASAP.
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Probate and Trust
Practical Insights to Unique Probate Problems
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1.0 Standard On-Demand CLE Credit
Every probate is unique, and in one way or another, complex to some degree. We will review what the fiduciary role entails and provide practical insight on handling several types of problematic probate issues from handling personal property, administering taxes and managing conflicts of interest. We will provide real world scenarios and practical solutions to resolve and settle these common probate problems.
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Probate and Trust
Practicing Family Law During A Pandemic
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The Hennepin and Ramsey Bar County Associations present a panel discussion regarding the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the practice of family law. The panel will feature the Honorable Referee Elizabeth Clysdale from Ramsey County, Kevin McGrath of McGrath Dispute Resolution, LLC, and Tom Tuft of Tuft, Lach, Jerabek & O’Connell, PLLC.
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Family Law
Real Estate Legislative Update
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
What happened at the legislature this year in real estate area, including tolling of statutes of limitation and the possible $25 soil and water district surcharge on deed and mortgage recordings.
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Real Estate Section - Redevelopment Agreements and the Ford Site Redevelopment
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Assistant City Attorney Eric Larson will provide an overview of the 122-acred Ford Site Redevelopment and present some of the key elements of the redevelopment agreement between the City and the developer.
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Real Property
Real Estate Section: Timeshare Basics
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1.0 CLE Standard Credit
How timeshares work, trends in the industry, legal issues that should concern timeshare owners; how to get out of timeshares, and some very basic information about how timeshares are created.
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Real Estate
Recent Changes to Minnesota’s Guardianship Law
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Join us for a panel discussion of experienced practitioners to hear about their interpretations and experiences with the recently changed guardianship law.
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Probate and Trust
Restructuring Commercial Leases During COVID-19
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The COVID-19 pandemic and related government restrictions have caused a severe drop in sales for many restaurants and retailers and has forced many office tenants to send their employees home to work. This course will help the attorney with a commercial tenant navigate the choppy and changing waters of rent restructuring during these uncertain times. Topics to include rent deferrals and abatements, force majeure, operating covenants, co-tenancy provisions and more.
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Real Estate
Solo Small Firm Section - Digital Marketing for Solo Small Firm Law Firms - How To Maximize your Online Presence to Attract More Ideal Clients
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1.5 Standard CLE Credits
Internet traffic has increased 70% in the past few months. Online marketing is more important and powerful than ever for client development. Learn about digital marketing. Topics will include your website, Linked In, Facebook, ads, and webinars. She will educate us on how in interview and hire marketing help – from part time contractors to agencies.
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Small Firm Practice
Tax Issues Relating to Sole Proprietors and Small Law Firms
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1.5 Standard CLE Credits
Learn about current tax topics important for sole proprietors and small law firms, including business structure/entity selection; sales tax issues and common questions; income tax filing issues; retirement planning options and reporting; and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) accounting and taxation.
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Small Firm Practice
That's Why They Call it Practicing Law
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Through 27 years of practicing law, David Kempston has learned that providing excellent service means focusing on the client relationship. Kempston will share his vision of how to do the ordinary tasks better and by doing so, the client becomes the focus—resulting in improved representation. His approach recognizes that lawyers differ and possess varying inherent customer service skillsets. Regardless of the starting point, however, lawyers can improve their craft if they are willing to learn how to apply principles of great customer service.
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Small Firm Practice
New Lawyer Essentials
The Courthouse is Not My Employer, But it is My Place of Work
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE
Breastfeeding provides numerous benefits to baby, mother, and even to the environment and the economy. Minnesota looks from our statutes to be a breastfeeding-friendly state, but there is room for improvement. Hurdles still exist for mothers who want to breastfeed and the laws do not remove all those hurdles. Learn the benefits of breastfeeding that go beyond baby, how Minnesota law compares to the nation in promoting and protecting breastfeeding and lactation, and the legal importance of the distinction between employers and location of work for lactating mothers.
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Wellness
Employment and Labor Law
Elimination of Bias
The Implications of Technology and Social Media for Domestic Violence and Family Court Cases
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Interactive workshop exploring how batterers use phone technology, social networking and GPS to circumvent injunctions for protection, supervised visitation, and child custody.
Also explore how victims can overcome communication issues using mobile and communications tools, designed for high conflict parents.
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Criminal Law
Technology
Family Law
The Nimble Law Practice
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1.5 Ethics CLE Credit
Successful solo and small firms need to be nimble in order to manage variations in workload, supplement expertise or skill sets, deliver excellent and cost-effective legal services, build and maintain a consistent client base, and be resilient in challenging times. This practical program will explore how the Rules of Professional Conduct apply to and promote the nimble law practice.
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Ethics
Small Firm Practice
The PRACTICAL Tool: A Person-Centered Approach to Guardianship Assessment
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
The PRACTICAL Tool was developed by the American Bar Association, with assistance from the National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making. Developed for lawyers, it is can also be applied in any situation where a person is contemplating guardianship for another person.
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Probate and Trust
The Risks and Dangers of Social Media
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
As technology has grown to be an everyday tool for communication, education, and entertainment, social media has become a nexus for our online lives. As such, family law professionals working with survivors of online harassment/cyberstalking must understand the risks of social media and the harmful roles it can play. In this interactive course, you will do a deep-dive into how social media is used to harass, monitor, and
threaten survivors. You will explore smart phone technology, location apps, and both ubiquitous and niche social networking sites.
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Family Law
Technology
The Role of Domestic Violence in Alternative Dispute Resolution
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Settling a family law case out of court can be difficult when there is domestic violence. The dynamics of domestic violence can conflict with the purpose of mediation. Rana Alexander, Esq. of Standpoint will discuss how domestic violence affects alternative dispute resolution processes and the attorney’s role in the proceedings. She will also cover how attorneys can educate judges on why alternative dispute resolution is not always beneficial to the parties in cases where there has been domestic violence.
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Family Law
The Successful Probate Mediation
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Join us for a presentation discussing the following:
* Selecting the right mediator;
* Tips for preparing your client for mediation;
* Negotiating like you actually want to settle;
* How even a failed mediation can prepare you for trial;
* Pulling a settlement out of the mediator’s hat.
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Probate and Trust
ADR
The View from the Bench
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
Hear directly from Ramsey County Probate Court Referee Olson about current issues, and answers to your questions about probate practice in the current environment.
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Trust & Estates
Trusts and Estates Section-Estate Planning Practice in Time of COVID-Lessons Learned
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1.0 Standard CLE Credits
COVID-19 has been here for several months. What are the lessons learned from navigating estate planning practice while social distancing, working remotely, and taking necessary precautions to protect clients and law office staff? What are the best approaches to transitioning to re-entry, as the pandemic subsides, and we experience partial opening-up?
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Probate and Trust
Visual Design for Lawyers | Simple Tools for Creating Powerful Presentations
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1.0 Standard CLE Credits
Great lawyers know how to make compelling legal presentations. And knowing the basics of visual design can enhance your next presentation. In this fast-moving and fun session, the Faegre Drinker Design Lab will share simple design tools that any lawyer can use—inside and outside the courtroom. Learn how to use tools like color, composition, and typography to clarify, engage, and persuade
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New Lawyers Section
Voting Rights and Native American Suffrage
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1.0 Elimination of Bias CLE Credit
This CLE will provide a brief history of Native American suffrage and discuss current barriers to voting in Indian County.
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Constitutional Law
Tribal Law
Elimination of Bias
Wellness and Self Care | Learn a personalized systematic approach to self care
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
This one hour presentation will help you identify your specific health concerns and design a wellness self care program that suits you. Using a holistic approach we will explore various factors that affect your health and learn ways you can easily incorporate new lifestyle habits that will improve your health and wellness.
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Wellness
Will This Affect My Driver’s License?
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
A chance to get some answers and guidance regarding driver's license suspensions and revocations. What statutes will suspend a license? For how long? Are limited licenses available? What's the process from the court to DPS?
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Criminal Law
Would We Free Britney? Minnesota Guardianship Law and the Conservatorship of Britney Spears
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1.0 Standard CLE Credit
A panel discussion of the troubling and notorious case of the Conservatorship of Britney Spears by three professionals specializing in incapacity planning, guardianships and conservatorships. Minnesota is held out as a model for being protective of the rights of persons subject to guardianship and conservatorship. This circus would never happen here – or would it?
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Estate and Probate Law
You Don't (or Don't Have to) Do This For Free
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1.25 Standard CLE Credit
How to practice law AND get paid as a solo practitioner or small firm. We will provide practical tips from A to Pay on how to assess potential clients, draft your representation agreement, stay on top of receipt of payments, and know when and how to turn the matter over to collections.
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Small Firm Practice