Federal Practice 2025: 2 General, 1 Dual

Courses Included

• Athletes Who Cheat, and the Mental Health Lessons for Lawyers
  
  

  Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking CLE session that draws unexpected parallels between athletes who cheat and the mental health challenges faced by lawyers. In this program, the CLE Performer, Stuart Teicher explores how the pressures of high-stakes performance, ethical dilemmas, and burnout in sports mirror the stressors attorneys encounter in the practice of law. Through real-world examples and researched insight, this session uses an interesting non-law related topic to explore law-related mental health issues. Learning objectives include:

  1. Understand the Connection Between Stress and Impairment: Analyze how the pressures driving athletes to cheat parallel the stress, burnout, and ethical challenges lawyers face, and explore their impact on mental health and substance use in the legal profession.

  2. Recognize Signs of Struggle: Learn to identify warning signs of stress, burnout, and potential mental health or substance use issues in oneself and colleagues in the law, drawing from behavioral patterns observed in high-pressure environments.

  3. Explore Prevention and Intervention: Gain practical strategies for managing stress, promoting work/life balance, and reducing the risk of impairment, including individual and firm-level preventative measures.

  4. Access Support Resources: Discover Minnesota-specific lawyer assistance programs, such as Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL), and learn steps to refer or assist an impaired attorney, including treatment options and well-being support.

  5. Foster a Culture of Wellness: Understand how law firms and legal organizations can develop policies to support attorney mental health, reduce stigma, and address impairment effectively.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Stuart Teicher, The CLE Performer,
    Stuart I. Teicher, Esq. is a professional legal educator who focuses on ethics law and writing instruction.   A practicing attorney for over two decades, Stuart’s career is now dedicated...
• Federal Practice Forum 2025: A Deluge of Change - Immigration Law Under Trump 2.0
  
  

  We will attempt to cover the flood of changes in immigration law that has occurred since the beginning of Trump's second term, with a focus on areas that may be relevant to practitioners outside of immigration law including: Limits on immigrants' access to services and public benefits, Changes in information sharing between government agencies, The new travel ban, Termination of longstanding immigration pathways including Temporary Protected Status and Refugee admissions, Termination of Biden era immigration programs, The shift in immigration enforcement and ICE detention practices, The "self-deportation" campaign, The "alien registration" requirement, Attacks on birthright citizenship, Deportation to third countries, and Implementation of a denaturalization program.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Amber Seay, The Ehrisman Law Firm,
    Amber J. Seay is a Senior Attorney with The Ehrisman Law Firm, P.C. in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She began her career in immigration law with the Department of Justice as an Attorney Advisor with the...
• Federal Practice Forum 2025: Art and Cultural Heritage Law – An Ever-Growing and Always Fascinating Area of Law
  
  

  What is the meaning of "art and cultural heritage law," and why should we, as lawyers, learn about this area of law? If we think about it, we have all likely heard of cultural heritage but not necessarily realized that cultural heritage is protected by the law, whether it be the famous Elgin Marbles, famous portraits or objects of art, or other creative objects, both ancient and modern and from times in between. Whether we represent art and cultural institutions -- or individuals who have inherited or purchased tangible creations -- our knowledge of this area of law will be crucial to our clients that are art, cultural, and educational institutions and individuals --- who have purchased or inherited or discovered artistic or cultural items, or wish to sell or transfer title to them. They will need to be able to confirm that they have or can gain legal title to these objects, and how to protect their title or ownership to them as well. During this session, we will explore legal protection of these significant types of property.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Diane Penneys Edelman, Brooklyn Law School,