A DAY WITH SEAN CARTER WEBCAST SERIES
Live Webcast Package
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$205.00
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A Day with Sean Carter Webcast Series

In this day-long series, popular presenter Sean Carter, Humorist at Law, returns to Minnesota CLE with his signature wit and humor to educate with four entertaining programs. Throughout the day, Sean will address mixing business with pleasure, keeping your hands off the money, and developing a fighting mentality (more specifically, how to avoid doing these things). Sean will then conclude with a look at how we have acquired, and how we can overcome, our implicit biases in the practice of law. Sean is a can’t miss CLE presenter – register for the Sean Carter package or the August Extravaganza today to reserve your spot!

Times listed are Central Time.

Friday, August 4, 2023
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Don’t Be a Stupid Cupid: The Ethical Imperative to Not Mix Business and Pleasure
To be an effective advocate, a lawyer must maintain a fair degree of dispassionate objectivity. The lawyer who becomes personally involved in the representation does the client a disservice. This is even more true for the lawyer who becomes personally involved with the client. In this presentation, legal humorist Sean Carter will explain the importance of avoiding this most basic conflict of interest and will relay the tragic (but sometimes fascinating) tales of lawyers who learned this lesson too late.
– Sean Carter; Humorist at Law


Friday, August 4, 2023
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Keep Your Hands Out of the Client's Cookie Jar: Avoiding Trust Accounting Violations
One of the fundamental principles of legal ethics can be summed up as "Keep your hands off the money." And while this is a gross oversimplification of the legal ethics rules, it is true that this breach of fiduciary trust is among the gravest transgressions that a lawyer can make. Moreover, as it is one of the most heavily punished violations, it often starts a cascading effect of rule-breaking as lawyers desperately attempt to avoid detection. As a result, it never hurts to review this all-important ethical limitation on lawyer conduct.
– Sean Carter; Humorist at Law


Friday, August 4, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
You’re a Lawyer Not a Fighter: The Ethical Imperative to Remain Peaceful at All Times
Lawyers serve a vital role in society -- to help others resolve their disputes peacefully. And while lawyers do so through use of the adversarial process, we must not ever lose sight of the fact that we are not "fighting" for our clients. We are striving to help them reach a peaceful solution to their problem. Sadly, quite often, lawyers get so hung up in the confrontational manner of depositions, cross-examinations, contract negotiations, and the like, that we develop a "fighting" mentality. This mentality does not serve the best of interest of our clients and nor does it serve our personal or professional interests.
– Sean Carter; Humorist at Law


Friday, August 4, 2023
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
I Think, Therefore, I am…Biased: How the Natural Tendency to Form Biases Manifests Itself in the Legal Profession
The human brain is wired to recognize patterns and make generalizations, even those based on faulty or incomplete information. And contrary to popular opinion, lawyers are human as well, and are just as susceptible to forming biases and acting upon them. And it does not require that we harbor ill will or animus toward other people. In fact, most often, our biases are not even our own, but rather those that have been taught to us. In this eye-opening presentation, Sean Carter will use videos to show just how easy it is to form biases, how they manifest themselves in the way we treat clients, colleagues and opposing parties, and most importantly, how we can reduce the effect of these biases by recognizing and compensating for them.
– Sean Carter; Humorist at Law

$205

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Scholarships available!
Need-based scholarships are available for in-person and online seminars. For further information or to obtain a scholarship application, contact us at 800-759-8840 or customerservice@minncle.org.

This package provides 4.0 total CLE credits. Credits should be reported individually for each webcast attended, not the package as a whole.

Minnesota CLE has applied to the Minnesota State Board of CLE for the standard, ethics, and elimination of bias CLE credits as listed below. Application has been made to the Minnesota State Bar Association for any "specialist" credits and to the Supreme Court ADR Program for any continuing education in ADR credits.

Click titles for credit status and individual event codes.

Don’t Be a Stupid Cupid: The Ethical Imperative to Not Mix Business and Pleasure
1.0 ethics credit

Keep Your Hands Out of the Client's Cookie Jar: Avoiding Trust Accounting Violations
1.0 ethics credit

You’re a Lawyer Not a Fighter: The Ethical Imperative to Remain Peaceful at All Times
1.0 ethics credit

I Think, Therefore, I am…Biased: How the Natural Tendency to Form Biases Manifests Itself in the Legal Profession
1.0 elimination of bias credit

STANDARD PRICE
$205.00
MSBA MEMBER, NEW LAWYER, AND OTHER DISCOUNTS, IF APPLICABLE, WILL BE APPLIED DURING CHECKOUT.
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