Convocation: Larry Buxbaum

Larry Buxbaum is the Executive Director of the Hennepin County Bar Association, the largest of Minnesota’s twenty-one district bar associations, representing approximately one-half of all Minnesota attorneys. The mission of the HCBA is to advance professionalism, ethical conduct, diversity, competence, practice development, and collegiality in the legal profession. The association also strives to ensure the fairness and accessibility of the legal system by promoting public understanding and confidence in our system of justice and by working along with the courts to improve the administration of justice. Buxbaum has worked closely with the legislature to support the court’s concerns, particularly focusing on the court budget crisis. Within the association he has introduced several new initiatives and leads the association’s Law and Literature series, continuing legal education seminars focusing on issues of ethics and elimination of bias. Buxbaum is regarded as an authority in the use of literature as a tool to teach values and ethics to professionals in a variety of fields (legal, medical, engineering). The title of his presentation was "Literature and Professional Value Systems."