Richard Clem Continuing Legal EducationRichard Clem Continuing Legal EducationRichard Clem Continuing Legal Education
High quality, reasonably priced CLE opportunities
Up to 5 Credits including ethics and bias for only $25 per credit
June 29 Update: Space is available for the ethics conference calls on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. These programs are approved for Minnesota ethics CLE credit. The Elimination of Bias programs for Wednesday through Friday have been cancelled. If you still need Bias credit, you can get two credits with my on demand program, which is approved for ethics and bias credit. You can take that program at this link. That program can be taken online at any time.
I'm offering the following conference call CLE programs in May and June 2017. This is a convenient way to satisfy your CLE requirements, for $25 per credit. Programs on this page are offered for Minnesota credit, but credit in other states is also available. Upon registration, you will be given a telephone number and access code. At the time of the program, you simply call in, enter the access code, and listen to the program. You can submit live questions during the program.
For all programs, the phone line opens ten minutes before the times shown, and opening remarks take place about five minutes before the time shown. The ethics program begins promptly at the time shown, and runs one hour. All programs are live lectures. Please call in at least five minutes before the program start time.
Each segment of the program covers a different portion of the rules, and programs can be taken in any order. So if you missed Part 1, feel free to start with Part 2.
| DATE | START TIME | PROGRAM | CREDITS* | MINNESOTA EVENT CODE |
| Tuesday, May 23 | 3:00 PM: Tues. program will start late, approx. 4:00 PM | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved/TD> | 240256 |
| Wednesday, May 24 | 3:00 PM | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240257 |
| Thursday, May 25 | 3:00 PM | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240258 |
| Friday, May 26 | 3:00 PM | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240259 |
| Saturday, May 27 | 3:00 PM | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240260 |
| Tuesday, May 30 | 3:00 PM | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240261 |
| Wednesday, May 31 | 7:00 PM | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240262 |
| Thursday, June 1 | 3:00 PM | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240263 |
| Friday, June 2 | 4:30 PM: Note time change | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240264 |
| Saturday, June 3 | 3:00 PM | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240265 |
| Monday, June 5 | 5:00 PM: Note time change | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240301 |
| Tuesday, June 6 | 3:00 PM | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240302 |
| Wednesday, June 7 | 3:00 PM | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240303 |
| Thursday, June 8 | 3:00 PM | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240397 |
| Friday, June 9 | 4:30 PM: Note Time Change | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240398 |
| June 12-24 | - | Additional programs may be scheduled between June 12-24. | - | - |
| Sunday, June 25 | 12:00 PM | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240399 |
| Sunday, June 25 | 1:10 PM | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240400 |
| Sunday, June 25 | 2:20 PM | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240401 |
| Sunday, June 25 | 3:30 PM | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240402 |
| Sunday, June 25 | 4:40 PM | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240403 |
| Monday, June 26 | 12:30 PM | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240305 |
| Monday, June 26 | 1:40 PM | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240306 |
| Monday, June 26 | 2:50 PM | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics | 240307 |
| Monday, June 26 | 4:00 PM | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240245 |
| Monday, June 26 | 5:10 PM | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240246 |
| Tuesday, June 27 | 1:10 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240233 |
| Tuesday, June 27 | 6:00 PM: See note above | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240234 |
| Tuesday, June 27 | 7:10 PM: See note above | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240235 |
| Tuesday, June 27 | 3:30 PM: See note above | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240247 |
| Tuesday, June 27 | 4:40 PM: See note above | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240248 |
| Wednesday, June 28 | 5:00 PM | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240236 |
| Wednesday, June 28 | 6:10 PM | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240237 |
| Wednesday, June 28 | 7:20 PM | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240238 |
| Wednesday, June 28 | This hour cancelled. For bias credit, visit this link. | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240249 |
| Wednesday, June 28 | This hour cancelled. For bias credit, visit this link. | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240251 |
| Thursday, June 29 | 6:00 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240239 |
| Thursday, June 29 | 7:10 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240240 |
| Thursday, June 29 | 8:20 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240241 |
| Thursday, June 29 | This hour cancelled. For bias credit, visit this link. | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240252 |
| Thursday, June 29 | This hour cancelled. For bias credit, visit this link. | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240250 |
| Friday, June 30 | 5:00 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240242 |
| Friday, June 30 | 6:10 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240243 |
| Friday, June 30 | 7:20 PM: Note Time Change | Ethics, Part 3 | 1.0, including 1.0 ethics approved | 240244 |
| Friday, June 30 | This hour cancelled. For bias credit, visit this link. | Bias, Part 1 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240253 |
| Friday, June 30 | This hour cancelled. For bias credit, visit this link. | Bias, Part 2 | 1.0, including 1.0 bias | 240254 |
Ethics Refresher 2017 Live lecture presented by Richard Clem. This will be a comprehensive review of the Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and other states. Many lawyers review the Rules in their entirety only once, and that is before they take the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam in law school. But the rules change over the years and decades, and some of the finer points might be forgotten. Therefore, this course will serve as a useful refresher for the practitioner to avoid ethical pitfalls.
In addition to the ethics program, we will review some recent decisions from appellate courts in Iowa and around the region. Topics include: Criminal law, statements to jailhouse informants, search and seizure; election law, felons; violation of ordinance as negligence per se; and more.
One hour of the ethics program is presented each program. You can take the three parts in any order.
The course materials are available at the following link:
Elimination of Bias Live lecture presented by Richard Clem. We'll start by looking at the rules governing bias within the legal profession, which is a subject covered by both the General Rules of Practice and the Rules of Professional Conduct. We will then see how well we are collectively doing as a profession and legal system in abiding by those rules. We will do so through the eyes of participants at a series of community dialogues at which community members were asked to describe their experiences and discuss ideas for advancing racial equality and fairness in the courts. All participants are welcome to share their insights. Lecture, 120 minutes.
Then, we will look at how well we are doing in meeting these requirements, as seen by various communities, including communities of color. In particular, we'll examine the suggestions made by members of the public at community dialogues held over the past three years by the Supreme Court's Racial Fairness Committee.
Elimination of Bias Learning Goals: This program is offered for Minnesota Elimination of Bias credit, and meets the learning goals set by the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education. The program is over sixty continuous minutes, relates directly to the practice of law, and is designed to meet the first and third learning goals for elimination of bias courses:
1. To educate lawyers about the elimination of bias or prejudice in the legal profession, in the practice of law, and/or
in the administration of justice; ...
3. To educate lawyers about the problems identified in the Supreme Court's Race Bias and Gender Fairness Task Force
Reports, as well as in other studies, reports or treatises which describe bias and prejudice in the legal profession, in the
practice of law, and/or in the administration of justice.
We will begin by referencing the Supreme Court's 1993 report on the elimination of bias in the judicial system, and we will
also look at how both the Rules of Professional Conduct and the General Rules of Practice require us as lawyers to avoid
bias.
The course materials are available at the following link:
All programs will be presented live by Richard P. Clem, who has a B.A. in history from the University of Minnesota, and a J.D., cum laude, from Hamline University School of Law. He has been in private practice in the Twin Cities for 25 years. His reported cases include: Asociacion Nacional de Pescadores a Pequena Escala o Artesanales de Colombia v. Dow Quimica de Colombia, 988 F.2d 559, rehearing denied, 5 F.3d 530 (5th Cir. 1993), cert. denied, 510 U.S. 1041 (1994); LaMott v. Apple Valley Health Care Center, 465 N.W.2d 585 (Minn. Ct. App. 1991); Abo el Ela v. State, 468 N.W.2d 580 (Minn. Ct. App. 1991).
The easiest way to register is to use the "Buy Now" button below. Enter the date of the program (and start time, if you plan to call in after 12:00) and click the "Buy Now" button to make your payment online. If you have a PayPal account, you will be given an opportunity to pay with that account. If you do not have a PayPal account, or don't want to use it, you may pay by credit card. I process registrations manually. After you register, you will receive an automated e-mail confirming your payment. I will follow up, usually within a few hours, with instructions for calling in.
If you prefer to pay by check, then simply send me an e-mail to clem.law@usa.net indicating which programs you wish to attend, and then mail your check to:
Richard P. Clem Continuing Legal Education
PO Box 14957
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Upon confirmation of your registration, you will be sent instructions for calling in. You will dial a telephone number and enter an access code to be connected to the conference. There will be an opportunity for all participants to submit questions via e-mail or at the end of the program.
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