Moderator

Chris Carlson, Esq., President of NarrativePros

Panelists

Martin Cole, Esq., Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility

Rabbi Barry D. Cytron, Director of the Jay Phillps Center and associate professor of Theology

Andrew Wade, Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990-2003

Actors

Matthew Amendt
Raye Birk
Michelle O’Neill

This course has been previously accredited in multiple jurisdictions.  We are adding more jurisdictions every day. If you are interested in us accrediting in your state let us know and we will get on it.

The moderated webcast of this course has been accredited multiple times–jurisdictions such as Minnesota require resubmission of paperwork for all moderated webcasts each time they are held, so these credits are considered “applied for credits”.

If you are from the state of Minnesota please be reminded of the reporting policies:

The Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education approves courses for credit and is the office to which you must report your credits. You may obtain an Affidavit of Compliance form by contacting them at 651-297-7100 or visiting the Minnesota State Board of CLE website.

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Remember, you must report your credits to the Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education.

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This 2.0 credit, law and literature styled CLE employs live performance, lecture and discussion to explore the ethical issues facing attorneys when faith is central to litigation.

Guthrie actors read selected scenes from The Merchant of Venice, in which Shakespeare pitted Christian and Jewish faith as central to the litigants’ contract claim.  The play is a popular adaptation of the actual 1594 trial of Dr. Roderigo Lopez who stood accused of a treasonous plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I in exchange for 50,000 crowns.

In addition, the course will feature a brief dramatization of selections from the more contemporary Yan v. Gonzales in which an immigration judge and government counsel quiz a Chinese asylum applicant on tenets and trivia of Christianity.

Using each scene as a springboard for discussion and moderated by Chris Carlson, an immigration attorney, this course explores the attorney’s obligation to refrain from discriminating against or harassing a person on the basis of religion.

I really enjoyed this different format and way of educating folks about bias; I too believe art can be more effective in ‘changing our hearts’ regarding our biases than can any court case.