Continuing Legal Education

Attorneys can fulfill Continuing Legal Education requirements through the Guthrie's creative CLE programs. There are countless predictable CLEs out there, but why not experience education that is thought-provoking, creative and memorable?

Join us on March 23, 2010 for our next live CLE in the Wurtele Thrust Stage.   Registration for our March 23 CLE will be begin April 2010.  For more information please contact Lily Shaw, Education Manager, at 612.225.6172 or email

For more information on our other programs with West LegalEd center please see below, visit or call 1.800.308.1700.  

 

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Previous Guthrie CLE's

Con Men, Charlatans, and Conspirators
Love, Law and Litigation

Challenging Gender Bias
Corruption Junction
Merchants of Faith

All previous Guthrie CLEs listed below can be viewed for credit at West LegalEdcenter. To access the library of available CLEs for download, please visit West LegalEdcenter, search by program name and continue through the
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CON MEN, CHARLATANS AND CONSPIRATOR
Will Attorneys soon see their own 'Madoff"?
2.0 Minnesota Ethics CLE Credits
Please visit West LegalEdcenter to download

This course explores the circumstances and motivation of the full range of unethical and uncivil conduct. Specifically, the impact external forces have on professional behavior and whether the existing system will sufficiently deter the scale of unethical behavior shaking our society.  Chris Carlson Esq. moderators a stellar panel -  Egil "Bud" Krogh (former Deputy Council under President Nixon), Dr. Kelly Wilson (Founder of the Minneapolis Center for Forensic Psychology) and Professor Carol Swanson (Hamlin University).  The panel tackels this difficult and controversial topic by focusing on readings from the play FAITH HEALER as well as actual transcripts from trials, depositions, and other real life events. 

This course provides 2.0 credits toward the Ethics requirements in Minnesota.

LOVE, LAW AND LITIGATON:
A dialog of bias in American Sexual & Gender Identity
2.0 Minnesota credits for Elimination of Bias
Please visit West LegalEdcenter to download 

What is it about how we live, who we love, and how we see ourselves that creates such deep social, political, and legal divides?  Through the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, firsthand accounts, and thought-provoking discussion from expert panelists, the CLE will explore polarized social attitudes related to sexual orientation and gender identity and their effect on law throughout the country.

This course provides 2.0 credits toward the Elimination of Bias requirements in Minnesota, California and Oregon. It provides 2.0 or greater CLE credits toward the Ethics requirements of most other jurisdictions.


CHALLENGING GENDER BIAS
with positive role models in theater, society, and law 
2.0 Minnesota Elimination of Bias CLE Credits
Please visit West LegalEdcenter to download


In this course, Guthrie actors read selected excerpts from various transcripts and works of theater literature including the provocative play THIRD by Wendy Wasserstein. A panel of prominent leaders and artists discussed the impact of female role models on gender bias.

This course provides 2.0 credits toward the Elimination of Bias requirements in Minnesota, California and Oregon. It provides 2.0 or greater CLE credits toward the Ethics requirements of most other jurisdictions.


CORRUPTION JUNCTION:
the ethical intersection of law, politics, and human nature
2.0 Minnesota Ethics CLE Credits
Please visit West LegalEdcenter to download

Professional Guthrie actors read selected excerpts from various transcripts and works of theater literature including The Government Inspector, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original by Nikolai Gogol. John B. Gordon, Esq., moderates a panel of prominent leaders and artists including playwright Jeffrey Hatcher as they discussed the ethical issues raised by these readings in relation to Rules 3.3 and 3.5 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.


This course provides 2.0 credits toward the Elimination of Bias requirements in Minnesota, California and Oregon. It provides 2.0 or greater CLE credits toward the Ethics requirements of most other jurisdictions.


MERCHANTS OF FAITH:
Bias in the Litigation of Religious Belief
2.0 Minnesota Ethics CLE Credit 
Please visit West LegalEdcenter to download

Professional Guthrie actors play selected scenes from The Merchant of Venice, in which Shakespeare pitted Christian and Jewish faiths as central to the litigants' contract claim.  Using scenes from the play as a springboard for discussion, Chris Carlson, an immigration attorney, moderates a panel of experts and explores the attorney's obligation under Rule 8.4 of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct to refrain from discriminating against or harassing a person on the basis of religion.

This course provides 2.0 credits toward the Ethics requirements in Minnesota.
 

 

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