Upcoming CLEs

Beat the Drum for Justice: How the 19th Century Supreme Court shaped racial issues in the 21st Century

A historical examination of racial injustice in America and the hope created by emancipation, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and Reconstruction. Our speaker will explore the demise of Reconstruction, with an emphasis on the Supreme Court cases that failed to protect the rights embodied in the War Amendments, leading to Jim Crow, segregation, and the racial issues we have today.

Juvenile Law: Back to Basics: What you need to know!

Learn all the basics in the practice area of juvenile law at this program. 

Our presenter is Susan E. Block, Esq. Block is an attorney at Paule Camazine & Blumenthal. She has been a lawyer for over 45 years. She practices in the areas of family, probate and juvenile law. Formerly, she served as a judge in the State of Missouri for 25 years.

Block has been involved in the Caring for Kids, the St. Louis County Children’s Service Fund Coalition and Missouri Foundation for Health.

The Second Confiscation Act and Archer Alexander

Learn more about the issue of Confiscation and Contraband during the Civil War, as demonstrated by the case of Archer Alexander, a freedom seeker buried in St. Louis. His heroic actions earned him freedom on September 24, 1863 by Lincoln’s Second Confiscation Act, for "important services to the United States Military Forces”. He is the enslaved figure seen rising with President Lincoln in Washington, D.C. and is listed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.