Minnesota CLE requirements

Welcome to Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: Marketing, Promotions & Illegal Kickbacks. With the recent real estate market downturn and rising interest rates, lenders are scrambling to find customers and close loans. This leads to potential ethical and regulatory violations concerning marketing practices, especially co-marketing with real estate agents. This course covers the strict federal requirements that financial service lawyers must know to comply with RESPA marketing and promotion requirements.

As data breaches continue to proliferate, state legislatures across the country have strengthened their existing data privacy and protection statutes, or have created new ones, with an increased focus on consumer protection. This program will provide an overview of trends in this legislation, with an emphasis on how the states are shifting their focus towards compressive data privacy laws that put more control over how personal data is used into the hands of consumers. The program will also provide an overview of cyber best practices, and how those practices translate into statutory best practices.

This one hour course will provide an in-depth overview of maritime arbitration claims. This course will provide attorneys with an historical background of maritime arbitration, explain the various statutory frameworks, defined the different types of disputes brought in maritime arbitration, as well as discuss the relevant format and procedures. We will also explore the enforceability of awards, including the potential challenges to an award.

Whether you are a seasoned attorney, or just starting out, networking and growing your book of business is crucial in the private practice of law. In this presentation, we will discuss strategies for developing, growing, and utilizing a network of professionals while ensuring compliance with ethics rules. We will also discuss how to turn that network into trusted referral partners. We will discuss how to network to grow that book and avoid ethical lapses.

In 2012, the American Bar Association implemented “technical amendments” to a number of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in order to address the evolution of technology in legal practice and the obligation to secure client data. We will discuss the amendments, subsequent ABA Formal Opinions clarifying the Rules’ application in practice, and basic steps needed to comply with the Rules. We will cover measures to secure the confidential client data on your firm network, individual computers, and mobile devices.

This course is designed for attorneys who already practice in state court. It will emphasize how litigating personal injury cases in federal court is different than in most state courts. Legal issues will be discussed as well as custom and practice, including examples from the presenter’s own experience.

From very experienced former federal prosecutors, participants will learn how and why corporate criminal enforcement is investigated, prosecuted, and resolved by the U.S. Department of Justice and federal law enforcement agencies. Participants will also learn the latest “carrots and sticks” approach to corporate criminal enforcement, future enforcement areas, and potential outcomes, along with practical suggestions about when and why to associate with outside counsel and proactive measures to consider taking to lessen the risk profile of businesses in today’s enforcement environment.

Welcome to NFL Contract Advisors – “So You Want To Be An Agent…” A big part of sports law is getting agents ready for the obligations of managing high-profile clients. And that’s where lawyers come in. NFL Contract Advisors covers NFLPA certification requirements, agent eligibility, standards of conduct and prohibited actions, key points of agent-player contracts and player-team contracts, and the NFL’s personal conduct policy. And most importantly, we’ll look at some recent episodes of “bad client behavior” in the NFL (aka – The 3 AM Phone Call). Stories include a mercurial QB skipping a game to party (in disguise) in Las Vegas, a star wide receiver allegedly throwing furniture off a 14th floor Florida condo balcony, the league’s highest-paid player bankrolling a dog fighting operation, and of course…“DeflateGate.”

This one hour program will provide an overview of workplace retaliation claims, including how employers can avoid and defend them. We will discuss why employers should be concerned about workplace retaliation claims, including the adverse effects they can have on both employers and employees. This course will also cover the standards of proof and remedies for such claims while taking a look at the defense available to employers.

For more than 30 years, the win-loss record for tribal interests at the United State Supreme Court was dismal. Since 2018, however, tribal interests have been on a remarkable winning streak. Can this new direction continue? The outcome of the four Indian law cases in which the Supreme Court has granted certiorari this term will be telling. This program will summarize recent Indian law decisions at the Supreme Court and analyze the four pending cases. The program will benefit tribal attorneys, practitioners of federal Indian law, and other attorneys who wish to learn more about federal Indian law.

In this program, Quimbee faculty member Alyssa Johnson and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) consultant Dr. Erika Powell will explore the dimensions of DEI work and race literacy work. You will learn how race trauma is held in the body and how generational trauma affects current behaviors. Workplace race dynamics are examined including how confirmation bias and racism affect the legal profession. Allyship is also discussed with a focus on how White women have been loyal to White supremacy. We will also explore methods for dismantling White supremacy in the legal profession and beyond.

One of the biggest challenges facing clients and counsel today is navigating the settlement process during high-stakes, complex litigation and/or class actions. This course, presented by Wyatt Partners (a corporation that focuses exclusively on evaluating both legal spend and litigation settlements), addresses today’s hot topics on this timely issue – both from an in-house and outside counsel perspective. The program will provide a step-by-step journey through the entire settlement process, beginning with the evaluation of risks to be considered when settling, the drafting and negotiating of the actual settlement documents, and the corporate, insurance, and judicial impacts on getting a settlement finalized and approved. The program will also specifically focus on applicable Rules of Professional Conduct and case law as they apply to all stages of the settlement process. Both law firms and corporations will benefit greatly from such insights on a timely and evolving topic that affects everyone in today’s legal and business market.

Discrimination law is top of mind for most attorneys and businesses throughout the country. We all like to discuss the latest news headlines and debate our culture wars to determine who is right and wrong, but in reality, that discussion misses the point. The real question is what is the cost of being wrong. For example, while pecuniary damages (such as back pay and front pay) are known and tangible, have you considered non-pecuniary damages in your case evaluation? In discrimination law, the largest category of damages is emotional distress, which can vary depending on the proof you have and your ability to prove it in court. In this course, Andrew Lieb will teach you how to gather and prove these intangible damages, which will make or break your discrimination case.

For the uninitiated, oil and gas law concepts can be daunting and confusing at first.In many ways, learning the law of oil and gas requires learning a whole new language. This course will go over lexicon of the oil and gas industry, along with the basics of oil and gas law. We will also dig into common litigation topics, including royalty, leasing, and mineral trespass disputes.

In this course, attorney and forensic expert Mark Silver delves into criminal mitigation strategies for the client suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is among the least understood, and yet perhaps the most important mental health issues for criminal defense lawyers. As many as 6% of the population carry the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and the criteria for this mental health issue provide profound understanding regarding the criminal defendant's decision-making, behaviors and conduct, emotional instability, erratic conduct, impulsivity, depression and low self-esteem, and related matters. It is crucial for the criminal defense lawyer to be able to recognize borderline personality disorder in clients and know when to refer the case for an evaluation and/or how to use aspects of this disorder for mitigation purposes.Borderline Personality Disorder: Pre-plea and Pre-sentence Criminal Mitigation Strategies

Voting is the cornerstone of democracy. Yet many states engage in ongoing efforts to suppress exercise of the franchise and have faced a series of responsive lawsuits seeking to protect the right to vote. This program will provide an overview of voting rights, beginning with a brief historical overview of the origins of voter suppression in the U.S. It will consider how election laws impact voters’ ability to register, vote, and have their vote counted, then focus on the primary constitutional and statutory bases for protecting the right to vote. The course will focus on courts’ recent application of constitutional and statutory protections for the right to vote in recent election cycles. It will review recent significant voting rights legal challenges and developments in voting and election law, compare past discriminatory voting restrictions to modern day second-generation barriers to voting, and consider examples of racial discrimination through vote dilution, undue burdens on the right to vote, gerrymandering and felony disenfranchisement. We will end by summarizing strategies to challenge voter suppression through advocacy and litigation.

The changing reproductive health landscape has created confusion and fear among individuals identifying as female as to the privacy and security of their sensitive health data. Following the Dobbs decision, many women have abandoned their period tracking and female health technology (femtech) apps out of fear that their health data could be used to prosecute them for an abortion-related crime. This presentation (i) provides an overview of the shifting reproductive health landscape and privacy laws applicable to healthcare providers and femtech companies, (ii) describes how reproductive health data may be accessed and used by law enforcement officers, and (iii) provides suggestions for practical steps that femtech companies and healthcare providers can take now to help the women’s health industry regain consumer trust.

This course is designed to review the two primary methods for shifting risk between the parties to a construction contract. Those methods are indemnification provisions and insurance. This course will discuss the various forms of indemnification and the scope. Insurance will be addressed as it relates to indemnification and as a stand-alone protection. This course will include suggestions to be included in both the substantive and procedural aspects of an indemnification. For example, whether the indemnification applies to the fault of one party or all parties related to the project. There will also be a discussion on how to avoid conflicts with the enforcement of the indemnification provision. The effects of various statutory provisions that relate to permitted indemnifications will be reviewed. The program also covers the duty to defend, and scope of that duty. The course is designed to alert an attendee of the various contractual issues that arise with indemnification provisions and various insurance products, and the relationship between indemnification and insurance in order to draft construction contracts that better protects the client. Pertinent case law will also be reviewed.

Have you ever been the target of bullying or bias or observed others being bullied in the practice of law? According to a 2019 study by the International Bar Association, a significant number of legal professionals worldwide have been subjected to bullying at work or observed others being bullied, bias based on gender, race, age, LGBTQ+ status, disability and other characteristics impact who is most likely to be targeted. Despite employer policies on diversity, inclusion, anti-harassment and anti-bullying, the problem persists. This program will equip individual attorneys with ethical strategies to deal with bullies effectively and increase civility within the profession.

You have landed in the court of appeals – now what? Many practitioners approach appeals much in the same way that they do trial court matters but learning the nuances of appellate practice can give you a leg up on your opponent. This course will provide you with a roadmap to guide you on your journey to the court of appeals and beyond. You will learn practical tips that will increase your confidence levels along with your overall chances of success.