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• MPA December Probate and Tax Sectional

  • When
    December 08, 2021
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Remote Attendance Only

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  Topic: Ethics for Trusts & Estates Paralegals

  Join us for an intuitive presentation on how the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct govern Minnesota paralegals’ ethical conduct, focusing on issues in Trusts & Estates, as well as general ethics. Learn the rules and responsibilities regarding non-lawyer assistants, client confidentiality, unauthorized practice of law, diligence and client communication, communications with opposing parties and other Rules of Professional Conduct as they pertain to paralegals.

  Speakers: Karin Ciano and Patricia LaRue

  Karin Ciano, attorney with the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibilities: Before joining OLPR in February 2021, Karin Ciano volunteered as an investigator for the Fourth District Ethics Committee. Karin practiced law for nearly 25 years as a solo and small-firm lawyer, a big-firm associate, and a federal career clerk. She serves on the board of LegalWise, a nonprofit solo-practice incubator affiliated with Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She is also President of the Saint Paul Sunrise Rotary Club. When not thinking about legal ethics, Karin enjoys biking, gardening, and pickling vegetables. She looks forward to the day when she can sing in a choir again.

  Patricia LaRue, Paralegal with the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibilities: Patricia La Rue is a 1984 graduate from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. (Go Falcons!) While continuing her paralegal studies at Inver Hills Community College, she interned with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, and simultaneously, began working at the law firm of Rodli, Beskar and Boles, also in River Falls. In private personal injury practice, Patricia worked with Senior Partner, Keith Rodli, doing medical malpractice, product liability and insurance bad faith litigation. When attorney Rodli announced his pending retirement, and in the year 2000, Patricia found her forever job at the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibilities. Favorite projects include organizing, analyzing and coordinating large unyielding files. Currently the oldest employee (age wise) in the Office; five wonderful children call me Grandma; Chairman of the River Falls Park and Recreation Board and Commissioner of the River Falls Plan Commission. Retirement??? No time soon.

  Remote attendance only!

  Ethics CLE has been applied for.

  Member Cost: Free 
  Non-Member Cost: $15
  

  Please register no later than December 7th, 2021.

  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Shelly Doerr at shelly.doerr@lawmoss.com.

  
  

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• MPA 2021 Holiday Happy Hour

  • When
    December 09, 2021
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Remote

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  Come join us for MPA's holiday hour networking event -- all from the comfort of your own home! Wear your ugly sweaters or reindeer antlers for fun or even bring your Elf on the Shelf!

  Door prizes will be given out... must be present to win!

  Come celebrate another year of being stellar paralegals!

  This event is available for remote attendance only.

  Please RSVP by December 9th, 2021.

  Free to Attend

  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jenelle Lundgren at jlundgren@schaeferhalleen.com.

  
  

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• MPA Board Meeting

  • When
    December 15, 2021
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    N/A

  MPA Board of Directors Meeting

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