Schedule

(Updated Sept 17, 2024)

Friday, September 20, 2024

3:00 pm   Check in begins at Stiklestad Lodge, Ft. Ransom, ND

5:00 pm   Drinks and Appetizers in Main Lodge

6:00 pm   Supper in Main Lodge

7:00 pm - The Noonday Devil: The Biggest Ethical Problem You Don’t Even Know you Have, Judge Ralph R. Erickson, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit -Main Lodge (1.0 hr. Ethics CLE – ND and MN credits approved)

Rule of Professional Conduct 1.3 imposes on lawyers a duty to zealously advocate for clients and manage their practices in a way that allows them to give best efforts to the lives and needs of their clients. Acedia is the spiritual malaise and sloth that plagues our entire society; and it often infects lawyers, who experience its symptoms of listlessness, hopelessness, despair and fear that leave us feeling like nothing we do matters, nothing we do can make a difference, nothing that we do is free from the risk of utter catastrophe . . . and that the best thing for us to do is either nothing or compromise in a way that avoids most risks. In this ethics program, Judge Erickson will examine acedia as a spiritual condition and explore how, by “treating” this condition within themselves, lawyers can improve their ability to practice effectively and better serve their clients.

8:00 pm   Break

8:15 pm    Night Prayer from Liturgy of the Hours (Chapel)   

8:30 pm    Social Time

Saturday, September 21, 2024

7:30 am   Breakfast available until 8:30 am

8:45 am   Morning Prayer from Liturgy of the Hours (Chapel)

9:00 am - Pride and Its Perils in the Legal Profession, Michael S. McGinniss, Professor of Law and J. Philip Johnson Faculty Fellow, University of North Dakota School of Law – Main Lodge (1.5 hrs. Ethics CLE for ND and MN credits approved)

Rule of Professional Conduct 2.1 requires lawyers representing clients to “exercise independent professional judgment and render candid advice.” This decide-and-communicate pattern in law practice repeats itself many times daily in the lives of most lawyers, including not just with client relationships but in advocacy before tribunals, negotiations with opposing counsel, and other professional activities. And in each of these situations, pride is a spiritual condition to which lawyers are susceptible and, by their role, even especially vulnerable. As the Book of Proverbs teaches, “When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but wisdom is with the humble.” In this ethics program, Professor McGinniss will examine pride as a spiritual condition and, through a series of guided discussions, illuminate how lawyers, judges, and law students can cultivate the virtue of humility as its spiritual antidote and thereby better decide and communicate in their professional lives.

10:30 am  Break

10:45 am Talk 3 — “After Christendom: Catholicism & Courage of the Day” by Msgr. James Shea, President, University of Mary

11:45 am  Q & A, Break

12:15 pm   Lunch

1:00 pm   Free Time

3:30 pm  Talk 4 - “Living a Eucharistic Life” by Most Rev. Andrew Cozzens, Bishop of Crookston

4:40 pm   Break

5:00 pm   Confessions and Adoration (Chapel)

6:00 pm   Mass with Bishop Cozzens (Chapel)

7:00 pm   Supper

8:30 pm   Night Prayer from Liturgy of the Hours (Chapel)

8:45 pm   Social Time

Sunday, September 22, 2024

7:30 am   Brunch Available until 8:30 am

8:30 am – Concluding Reflection – Main Lodge

9:00 am   Departures

Total CLE:  2.5 Ethics Credits - ND and MN