DVDs available for Elimination of Bias Credit
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2 Elimination of Bias CLE Credits Minnesota
Tuition: $119.00
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The People We Serve: The Crazy, The Dangerous and The Psychopaths
Step by Step: Moving Toward Legal Rights for Same-Sex Couples
Collateral Consequences and Expungement Update
(This session available for shipment April 20, 2010)
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The People We Serve: The Crazy, The Dangerous and The Psychopaths
2 Elimination of Bias CLE Credits Minnesota
Tuition: $119.00
An overview of the Minnesota Commitment Act focusing on legal issues surrounding mentally ill, mentally ill and dangerous, chemical dependent, and sexually dangerous and sexual psychopath petitions and their overlap with criminal prosecution. This session will focus on the challenges of dealing with these individuals and the inherent bias within the criminal justice system against those with mental impairments. A prosecutor, defense attorney and court appointed psychologist will offer different perspectives on the commitment process and what to do if you are ever involved in a commitment case. Interesting and informative even for attorneys not practicing in this area of law.
Presenters: Mary M. Huot, Esq. [Mary M. Huot, Counselor at Law]; Beth Sullivan, [Assistant Ramsey County Attorney]; Dr. Peter Meyers [Board Certified Psychologist, Founder Red Tail Hawk Services, Inc.: Forensic Assessment Services and First Examiner to Ramsey County]
Step by Step: Moving Toward Legal Rights for Same-Sex Couples
2 CLE Elimination of Bias credits [Minnesota]
Tuition: $119.00
In June 2009, the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) received a report from its Task Force on the Rights of Unmarried Couples identifying dozens of priority areas for discrete statutory reform in such areas as family, criminal, estate and trust, and tax law. In addition, the MSBA approved the Task Force's executive summary, which called the exclusion of same-sex couples from the legal status of marriage as "state-approved second-class citizenship" that throws such couples into a "legal void." This panel presentation will briefly survey the national backdrop against which Minnesota developments are unfolding, and then examine in greater detail the Task Force's past and ongoing work, particularly its inventory of proposed legislative changes.
Course Chair: Phil Duran, [Legal Director, OutFront Minnesota]
Presenters and Panelists: David Ahlvers, [Attorney, Family Solutions Law Group], Jane Bowman, [Attorney, Foreclosure Relief Law Project; Board Member, Project 515], Rebecca Heltzer, [Heltzer and Burg PLC], J. Lee Novelli, [Senior Associate Attorney at Kathleen M. Newman + Associates, P.A.]
Collateral Consequences and Expungement Update: Leveling the Playing Field
(Available for shipment April 20, 2010)
The effects of collateral consequences for criminal charges are significant both in scope and impact. These consequences can be direct, such as denial of voting rights or a lifetime ban from welfare benefits, or indirect, like denial an apartment or job based on a criminal history check. The myriad of consequences are having a negative impact on our society as a whole while the gravest consequences disproportionately affect minority and lower income residents. One safety valve for these consequences is expungement. Unfortunately, the limited expungement procedures in place are complex and expensive to pursue, frequently placing them out of the reach of those individuals most harshly affected by collateral consequences. To that end, the Minnesota Legislature, in 2006, established a Collateral Consequences Committee to study the issue and make recommendations for changes. This program will outline the collateral consequence and expungement issues and provide updates on legislative activity on those issues.
Course Chair: Thomas C. Plunkett, Esq., [Attorney at Law]
Presenters and Panelists: Kelly J. Keegan, Esq., [Bandt Criminal Defense] Phil Carothers, Esq., [Assistant Ramsey County Attorney] |
