Purposes
The MSBA states the following goals:
- To aid the courts in the administration of justice.
- To apply the knowledge and experience of the profession to the public good.
- To maintain in the profession high standards of learning, competence, ethics, and public service.
- To conduct a program of continuing legal education.
- To organize into the MSBA the entire Bench and Bar of Minnesota and correlate the activities of affiliated associations.
- To provide a forum for the discussion of subjects pertaining to the practice of law, the science of jurisprudence and law reform, and to publish information relating thereof.
- To cooperate with other bar associations and organizations to further MSBA objectives.
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