How to Handle Sticky Professional Conduct Issues - Advice for the Well-Intentioned Attorney
You don’t steal money from your client, you don’t shred smoking-gun evidence, you don’t lie to opposing counsel. You are an ethical attorney.  Not all prohibitions, however, are so clear cut.  Here’s a discussion about some of the important professional conduct issues that can trip up even the best-intentioned attorney, based on insights from the Director of the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility.

– Susan M. Humiston, Director, Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility

How to Manage Ethics, Negativity and Stress in the Legal Profession
Our duties as lawyers and zealous advocates can put us in the line of fire of difficult parties and opposing counsel, while requiring us to maintain the integrity of the profession and respect the rights of others.  Lawyers frequently deal with contentious litigation, looming deadlines and a mountain of cases.  The pandemic, social unrest and trauma in the face of institutional racism, economic downturn, and a hostile political climate multiplies the impact on our health. This presentation will focus on how stress, negativity and ethical duties can all affect each other and how we, as attorneys, can better manage those areas in our practice and in our lives.

– Judith M. Rush, Director of Mentor Externship, University of St. Thomas School of Law
– Chase L. Anderson, Esq, Case Manager, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
 

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This course features Emily Baxter, Founder and Executive Director of We are All Criminals. She will examine the disparate impact of the criminal legal system on people of color, poor people, and Indigenous people across the country while challenging mass incarceration by clearing pathways for people behind bars to have their voices heard, faces seen and humanity recognized. Ms. Baxter is joined by Nadine Graves, host of the new podcast The Waiting Room, and Louise Waakaa’igan, poet and author of the newly published collection This Is Where.

– Emily R. Baxter, Founder and Executive Director, We Are All Criminals, Durham, North Carolina
– Nadine T. Graves, Hennepin County Adult Representation Services
– Louise Waakaa’igan, Poet