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NE MCLE Accreditation
NE #264753, 3.0 CLE Ethics hours. (Regular/live) **In-Person Only Registration Fees
$210.00 – Regular Registration
$165.00 – NSBA Sustaining Member
$55.00 – NSBA Sustaining Member using two free ethics benefit
$90.00 – NSBA Sustaining Member Junior Actives
FREE – NSBA Sustaining Member Junior Active using two free ethics benefit
Free – Law students NSBA Sustaining Dues Paying Members: If you have not already claimed your 2 hours of FREE Ethics for 2024, please enter the Promo Code ethics2024 when checking out in store. Be sure to click the "Apply" button to ensure the discount is applied. Please note, you will only be able to use the Two Free Ethics promo code ONCE across all registration types.
You will be sent two short stories to read in advance of the seminar. The seminar itself involves a facilitated discussion by the participants of professional practice and professional responsibility issues drawn from the stories. The discussion draws on two texts: the text of the story, and the “text” of each individual participant’s personal experience. Judge Tim Baland will pose questions which encourage participants to tap into their life experience and to share their viewpoints, perspectives and ideas on the issues that come up for discussion. The overall goal of this program is to cause participants to think about what it means to be a lawyer. The Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestly
When a young woman commits suicide after being fired from an English clothing manufacturing factory, an eminently respectable British family is subject to what seems to be a routine inquiry by an inspector who calls at the family home. But as the play unfolds, we learn that each member of the family has something to hide as each played a role in the young woman’s tragic fate. The play will allow us to discuss topics such lawyer pretense, protecting reputation, justification of decisions, dodging or accepting responsibility, and the dictates of personal and professional duty.
In the Region of Ice, by Joyce Carol Oates
Sister Irene’s satisfaction with her position teaching English at a Catholic university is challenged when Allen Weinstein convinces her to let him into her Shakespeare class. The student’s eccentric demands at first intrigue and inspire her, but she is then deeply disappointed by his cavalier behavior. When Sister Irene tries but ultimately fails to adequately respond to his pleas for help, she struggles to reconcile her failure with the expectations of her vocation. We will use the story to consider issues such as lawyer generosity, concern for others, and how well we respond to those whose needs we may not always meet.
Judge Tim Baland served as a Minnesota 7th Judicial District Court Judge from April 1984 until April 2006. Judge Baland spent 2.5 years working as an International Judge for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. From October 2008 until October 2010, he served as President of the Independent Judicial and Prosecutorial Commission. The task of the Commission was to vet, interview and evaluate the qualifications of individuals who sought judicial or and prosecutorial positions in Kosovo. Working together with his colleagues on the Commission, Judge Baland was directly involved in the selection of the new Chief Justice, the new Attorney General and approximately 340 other judges and prosecutors.
Over the past 27 years, Judge Baland has facilitated hundreds of law and literature discussion programs for judges, lawyers and other professionals, in Minnesota and in more than a dozen other states.
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