Bias in the Legal Profession: What Bias?

The Minnesota Lawyers Chapter

Speakers:

• Greg Pulles, Minneapolis Attorney
• Marie Failinger, Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law and Editor of Hamline’s Journal of Law and Religion
• Roger Magnuson, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, trial group and head of its National Strategic Litigation Group
• Peter A. Swanson, Attorney in Private Practice, Veteran, and Former Co-chair of Minnesota's Integration Task Force
• Lee McGrath, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Minnesota Chapter and IJ’s Legislative Counsel
• Kim Crockett (Moderator), Chairman of the Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and General Counsel at the Center of the American Experiment

 

Speakers:

• Greg Pulles, Minneapolis Attorney
• Marie Failinger, Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law and Editor of Hamline’s Journal of Law and Religion
• Roger Magnuson, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, trial group and head of its National Strategic Litigation Group
• Peter A. Swanson, Attorney in Private Practice, Veteran, and Former Co-chair of Minnesota's Integration Task Force
• Lee McGrath, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Minnesota Chapter and IJ’s Legislative Counsel
• Kim Crockett (Moderator), Chairman of the Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and General Counsel at the Center of the American Experiment

Co-sponsored by the Minnesota Lawyers Chapter and the Center of the American Experiment.

Schedule:

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 Welcome & Introduction
8:40 - 9:15 Is the Minnesota Judicial System Guilty of Racial Bias? (Bias approval sought)--with Greg Pulles
9:15 - 9:50 Bias Does Exist: Removing Bias from the Minnesota Judicial System (Bias approval sought)--with Marie Failinger
9:50 - 10:25 Mandatory Right Thinking: Bias Prevention or Belief Police?--(Bias approval sought)--with Roger Magnuson
10:25 - 10:40 Bias Panel Discussion (Bias approval sought)--with Roger Magnuson, Marie Failinger, and Greg Pulles
10:40 - 10:55 Break
10:55 - 11:20 Politics or Ethics? (Ethics approval sought)--with Peter Swanson
11:20 - 11:45 The Ethics of Occupational Regulation (Ethics approval sought)--with Lee McGrath
11:45 - 11:55 Ethics Panel Discussion (Ethics approval sought)--with Lee McGrath and Peter Swanson

Two bias credits and one ethics credit of CLE is available for $90.

Please contact Nicole Concordia at [email protected] or at 612.208.9529 for more information.