Minnesota State Law Library Continuing Legal Education Programs

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 has been approved (#533073).
  • 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.
Nine for Nine: Supreme Court Review of 2024-2025 Term (webinar only)
  • Date/Time: Thursday, November 13, 2025, noon - 1:30 pm 
  • Speakers: Professor David Shultz, Hamline University, and Marshall Tanick, Meyer Njus Tanick
  • Description: David Schultz, Distinguished University Professor at Hamline University, and Marshall Tanick of the Twin Cities law firm of MEYER NJUS TANICK will review the top cases decided by the U. S. Supreme Court during its 2024-25 Term, including their impact in Minnesota, and look ahead to key cases already on the Court’s docket for the next Term.
  • CLE Credit: 1.5 standard CLE credits 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.