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    Minnesota State Law Library Continuing Legal Education Programs

    The Black Lawyer in Minnesota 1973-2023: A Story of Firsts and Those Who Made a Difference (webinar only)
    • Date/Time: Tuesday, June 24, 2025, noon - 1:00 pm 
    • Speaker: Jeffrey A. Hassan, Esq.
    • Description: Mr. Hassan, author of the book The Black Lawyer in Minnesota: 1973 to 2023, will present about the groundbreaking achievements of Minnesota's Black legal community over the last five decades. He will cover these pivotal legal milestones: founding of MABL, the Derek Chauvin prosecution, landmark appointments to the bench, and stories of resilience and principle-driven leadership.
    • CLE Credit: One elimination of bias CLE credit has been applied for (#531731).
    • Registration: Please register using this webinar registration form. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 
    A Year in Review: Update on Attorney Discipline Matters in 2024 (webinar only)
    • Date/Time: Tuesday, July 29, 2025, noon - 1:00 pm 
    • Speakers: Binh T. Tuong, Deputy Director, Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, and Aaron D. Sampsel, Attorney, Christensen Sampsel PLLC
    • Description: TBA.
    • CLE Credit: One ethics CLE credit will be applied for.
    • Registration: Please register using this webinar registration form. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 
    Shielding the Carer: Understanding and Managing Secondary Trauma in the Legal Profession (webinar only)
    • Date/Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2025, noon - 1:00 pm 
    • Speaker: Sarah MacGillis, Outreach Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
    • Description: This course is designed to educate attorneys about secondary traumatic stress and how it can adversely affect the attorney. It is based upon the understanding that working with traumatized individuals is part of many attorney’s professional practices. Indeed, many of us spend considerable time with victims of trauma, either learning their stories in person or through secondary sources like reports, photographs, recordings, interviews with others and through pretrial and trial testimony. These interactions can take a significant emotional toll of the professional, particularly with repeated exposure over time. This presentation will explain what secondary trauma is, explain other conditions including burnout, compassion fatigue, depression, anxiety and substance use disorder that can be the result of the stress we experience in repeatedly working with people's traumatic experiences. The purpose of this program is to assist attorneys in recognizing their exposure to other’s trauma and how that exposure can harm their ability to fulfill their obligations as attorneys. Finally, the presentation will give strategies for the individual and the institution to better equip themselves to handle the effects of working with this vulnerable population, in other words, how to employ strategies to “shield the carer” from the occupational hazard of working with other individual’s trauma. This includes consultation with LCL, EAPs and other resources that assist attorneys and their staff with these complicated issues.
    • CLE Credit: One mental health/substance use CLE credit will be applied for.
    • Registration: Please register using this webinar registration form. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 
    AI and the Practice of Law (webinar only)
    • Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2025, noon - 1:00 pm 
    • Speaker: John J. Carney, Esq., Chief Technology Officer, Carney Forensics
    • Description: TBA.
    • CLE Credit: One standard CLE credit will be applied for.
    • Registration: Please register using this webinar registration form. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

    Recordings of past CLEs are available in our CLE Archive 

    Please note: The views, opinions, and statements made at the CLE sessions are solely those of the speakers and do not reflect the views of the State Law Library or the Minnesota Judicial Branch. In order to provide these courses free of charge, the CLE speakers volunteer their time to prepare and present. They are not compensated by the State Law Library or Minnesota Judicial Branch.
    Contact: Liz Reppe, State Law Librarian, 651-297-2089, liz.reppe@courts.state.mn.us. 

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