Description

State Bar Convention and 
2025 Annual Business Meeting

June 18 - 20, 2025

Continuing Legal Education Programs

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Mandatory Sexual Harassment & Abuse Prevention Training For SD Bar Members

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Track 1 – Jurisdictional Issues Across Forums: From Small Claims to Supreme Court                                                    

2:00 PM - 4:40 PM | Track 2 – Ethics and Well-Being Potpourri 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Thursday AM

6:30 AM - 7:30 AM  | Early Bird

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Track 1 – Legal Potpourri 

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Track 2 – Navigating Modern Electronic Discovery: A lawyers Overview of the Digital Landscape                                     

Thursday PM

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Legal Year in Review (Key Updates)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | The 45th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Black Hills of the United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (Presented by the Indian Law Committee)                                                                                 

Social Events

Wednesday

11:30 AM | Honor Roll: State Bar Awards Lunch - (You must register for this event) 

4:30- 5:30 PM | Study Hall: Young Lawyers Section Speed Networking (You must register for this event)

5:30 - 6:00 PM | Young Lawyers Section "Pretrial Conference" 

6:00 PM | State Bar Social & Awards Reception - (You must register for this event)

Thursday

6:30 AM | YLS Yoga Event

8:00 AM | One Shotgun Start - Access to Justice Golf Tournament – The Golf Course at Red Rocks

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Bench/Bar Social - Sponsored by the South Dakota Bar Foundation, Community Foundation, and the USD Foundation                                                   

6:00 PM | Field Trip: Arts Beverages, and Comedy at the Dahl Arts Center - (You must register for this event)

92nd Annual Business Meeting - Friday, June 20, 2025

Proposed Legislation - Information to come.