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In addition to extensive writing and scholarship, Stacy regularly serves as faculty at law schools, conferences and CLEs and provides trainings for attorneys, organizations, businesses, trade groups and nonprofits.

  • Momentum builds for changes to Predatory Offender Registry, Bench & Bar of Minnesota (Apr. 2021)
  • Child Sex Abuse and the Sixth Amendment: Minnesota courts are eroding confrontation clause protections in cases involving child witnesses, Bench & Bar of Minnesota (Oct. 2020)
  • The New Scarlet Letter: Is Minnesota’s Predatory Offender Registry helping or hurting? Bench & Bar of Minnesota (Dec. 2019)
  • Faculty: Dispute Resolution for In-House Counsel: “Managing High Profile Disputes and Litigation — Tips & Strategies,” Minnesota CLE, December 6, 2017.
  • Featured Speaker: “The 5 Most Critical Steps to Protect Reputations During Litigation,” Shepherd Data Services, April 19, 2017.
  • Faculty: In-House Counsel: What Matters Most 2017, “Crisis Communications — What In-House Counsel Need to Know,” Minnesota CLE, February 16, 2017.
  • Speaker: Minnesota Trucking Association – Safety Conference, “Crisis Communications — Planning, Response and Rehabilitation,” January 26, 2017.
  • Faculty: “Crisis Communications & Social Media,” Minnesota CLE, December 1, 2016.
  • Faculty: Health Law Institute “The Grand Collaboration: Cybersecurity Preparedness and Response,” Minnesota CLE, MSBA Food, Drug and Device Law Section and MSBA Health Law Section, June 9, 2016.
  • Faculty: “Tools, Tips and Trends: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity,” Presented by Robins Kaplan and National Ass’n of Women Lawyers, September 30, 2015.
  • Contributor Huffington Post.
  • Guest Faculty: Hamline University, School of Law, Health Care Compliance Skills,  “Crisis Communications & Management — Critical Strategies,”  April 20, 2015.
  • Faculty: “Data Breach Crisis Management: Investigate, Assess & Notify,” 2014 Computer & Technology Institute, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, November 18, 2014.
  • Facilitator & Lecturer: Managing your Brand and Reputation, American Bar Association, Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy, June 27, 2014.
  • Faculty: CLE “Tips, Tricks and Dangers of Social Media,” for Minnesota Women Lawyers, April 8, 2014.
  • Guest Faculty: Hamline University, School of Law, Health Care Compliance Skills, Critical Strategies — Health Care Crisis Communications & Management,  April 7, 2014.
  • Faculty: “Media Relations: Pitfalls and Opportunities,” University of Minnesota, Extension, March 8, 2014.
  • University of Minnesota Law School, Corporate Law Institute, Speaker Series, November 12, 2013.
  • Faculty: Every Employer is Vulnerable — A Guide to Preventing Workplace Violence, May 20, 2013, Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education.
  • Faculty: PR Disasters: Lessons for the Business Lawyer, May 8, 2013, Business Law Institute, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education (1.0 CLE credit) (presented with John Welbes, Pioneer Press).
  • Guest Faculty: Hamline University, School of Law, Health Care Compliance Skills,  Critical Strategies — Health Care Crisis Communications & Management,  March 11, 2013.
  • Faculty: Business Law Series, PR Disasters: Lessons for the Business Lawyer, February 28, 2013, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education (1.0 CLE credit) (presented John Welbes, Pioneer Press).
  • Faculty: Crisis Management Strategies for Schools, March 8, 2013, Metro Education Cooperative Services Unit (together with Institute for Environmental Assessment).
  • Faculty: PR Disasters: Lessons for the Business Lawyer, February 28, 2013, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education (1.0 CLE credit).
  • Faculty: Crisis Communications & Issues Management for SchoolsMinnesota Education Facility Management Professionals, State Meeting, January 8, 2013.
  • Faculty: Every Employer is Vulnerable: Assessing and Preventing Workplace ViolenceOccupational Health and Safety, December 6, 2012.
  • Faculty: 10 Smart Strategies for Reputation Management after an Occupational Crisis,Occupational Health and Safety Conference, Sept. 6, 2012.
  • Faculty: Crisis Communications & Issues Management for Schools and Parishes, Minnesota Catholic Education Ass’n, Aug. 20, 2012.
  • When Crisis Strikes Law Firms: What to Do, What to Say, Bench & Bar of Minnesota (Nov. 2011).
  • Faculty: Disaster Planning and Crisis Management: You are in the Hot Seat, October 2010 (Hennepin County Bar Ass’n).
  • Faculty: Minnesota Environmental Institute, Strategic Communications in the Environmental & Regulatory World, April 2010 (MinnCLE).
  • Faculty: Taking Charge of a Business Crisis, October 2007; October 2009 (MinnCLE).
  • Representing Your Client in the Court of Public Opinion, The Hennepin Lawyer (Jan. 2008).
  • Co-editor with J. Greenhouse, EENR Pursuits, Newsletter of the Federal Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, 2004-2006.
  • Faculty: Minnesota Institute for Legal Education, Construction Law CLE:  Whistleblowers in the Construction Industry: What to do (and not to do) when the whistle blows, March 2003.
  • Environmental Justice May be Stuck in Theory Stage, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (February 12, 2002).
  • Court Rejects Cost-Benefit Attack on Clean Air Act, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (March 9, 2001).
  • EPA Issues Guidance on CERCLA Federally Permitted Release Definition for Certain Air Emissions, 40 Air & Waste Management Association – Lake Michigan States Section 5 (2001).
  • Co-author with E. Lynn Grayson, Christine A. Picker, Steven M. Siros, The Business Dilemma: 21st Century Natural Resource Damage Liabilities for 20th Century Industrial Progress, Environmental Law Reporter, 2001.
  • Co-author with James A. Vroman, Environmental Law for Transactional Attorneys, Chapter SixStructuring the Deal, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (2001).
  • The Silencing of the Minnesota Environmental Policy Act: The Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Need for Meaningful Judicial Review, 26 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 967 (2000).