Dan Emerson

1 week ago | minnlawyer.com | Dan Emerson

Growing attention to behavioral health problems in the legal profession has prompted law firms to focus more closely on protecting and promoting their members’ mental health and overall well-being. Increasingly, firms are adding well-being programs or taking steps to improve them. Two Twin Cities law offices with well-established wellness programs are Kansas City-based Stinson and Minneapolis-based Faegre Drinker.

1 month ago | finance-commerce.com | Dan Emerson

Listen to this article Two years ago, Minnesota became the first state to propose a major change in licensing requirements for certified public accountants. The bill was intended to create additional pathways to CPA licensure, to help remedy a developing shortage of CPAs.After the previous legislation “ran out of time” at the end of session, this year proponents have introduced a modified bill they say would accomplish the same objectives.

1 month ago | finance-commerce.com | Dan Emerson

Listen to this article It’s been well-documented that Minnesota — and many other states — lacks enough housing, especially housing classified as “affordable.”“There are a number of challenges with affordable housing development,” said Ryan Baumtrog, assistant commissioner for policy and community development at Minnesota Housing. “Securing financing and other resources, finding land and everything that goes along with construction.

2 months ago | wislawjournal.com | Dan Emerson

By Dan EmersonBridgeTower Media NewswiresLawyers: You could be nicer to yourselves. That is the intriguing title of a recent CLE presentation by Miriam Itzkowitz, who is director of trauma-informed care for the Institute for Children, Families and Communities at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota.

2 months ago | minnlawyer.com | Dan Emerson

Lawyers: You could be nicer to yourselves. That is the intriguing title of a recent CLE presentation by Miriam Itzkowitz, who is director of trauma-informed care for the Institute for Children, Families and Communities at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. A social worker who has worked in a legal setting for the past decade, Itzkowitz gave her perspective on the ways in which legal education and the legal profession “frame” work-related stress, burnout and mental health and substance use.