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  <date-created type="datetime">2010-02-04T09:09:27-08:00</date-created>
  <date-updated type="datetime">2010-02-04T09:09:27-08:00</date-updated>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="../contents/file/179"&gt;Empowering Your Practice With Ethics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this economy, how can you protect your practice, your business, and your competitive edge? The demands of today&amp;#39;s market often border on the unethical:  Unlicensed parties trying to cut corners, hungry professionals feeling pressed to bend the rules to land a job, etc. This course will bolster engineers&amp;#39; understanding of their rights, as well as their obligations, under the MN Rules on professionalism and ethics that apply to every design professional. It will also help attendees understand the link between an ethical professional practice and the protection of the public, and give attendees tools for evaluating and handling ethical dilemmas on their projects and in their practices/firms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learner Outcomes:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;sect;	MN Rules of Professionalism and Ethics&lt;br /&gt;&amp;sect;	How Rules on professionalism and ethical practice protect the public, health, safety, welfare&lt;br /&gt;&amp;sect;	How to identify ethical dilemmas in practice - both in the office and in the field&lt;br /&gt;&amp;sect;	How to empower your practice - doing the right thing; using the Licensure Board&amp;#39;s Complaint Process as a method for protecting the practice of engineering&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <location>Marriott Minneapolis West</location>
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  <presenter>Speaker:&lt;br /&gt;Attorney Kristine A. Kubes is principal of Kubes Law Office, PLLC, serving design and construction professionals, and Chair of the MN Board of AELSLAGID. Kristine helps clients strengthen their businesses.  She concentrates her work on design defense/ litigation and proactive construction counseling.  Services include defending clients against professional liability and general liability claims, addressing and cooperatively resolving project-management, risk-management, and payment issues, mechanic&amp;#39;s liens, and entity set-up.  Integrated with her construction practice, Kristine is a qualified neutral who mediates construction and design disputes during and after the project.&lt;br /&gt;</presenter>
  <startdate type="date">2010-02-25</startdate>
  <time-info>8am Registration &amp;amp; Continental Breakfast &lt;br /&gt;8:30-12pm Program</time-info>
  <title>Empowering Your Practice With Ethics</title>
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