The Volunteer Lawyers Network believes that community legal education is key to helping our clients. We offer these different Community Education presentations: 

1. Landlord/Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
2. Financial Literacy, Credit, and Planning for Homeownership
3. Family Law and Teens

If you are an attorney interested in volunteering to present on one of these topics, please contact us at (612) 752-6655 to see if a presentation on your topic could be arranged.

  1) Landlord/Tenant Rights and Responsibilities 

This class gives basic information on Landlord/Tenant Rights and Responsibilities. The class includes a quiz, a discussion of common issues, discussion of common scams, and Q & A.

Length: 1 hour

Target Group: Renters or soon to be renters, primarily low income. The intent of the class is to prevent problems before they happen.

Upcoming Presentations:

  2) Financial Literacy, Credit, and Planning for Homeownership 

This class gives basic information about long range planning for financial stability and homeownership. Topics covered are checking and improving your credit score, using credit cards, planning for your homeownership goal and common scams and pitfalls to be aware of.

Length: 1 hour

Target Group: Low income renters working toward homeownership. This presentation can be combined with the Landlord/Tenant presentation

  3) Family Law and Teens 

Summary: A jeopardy style game designed to introduce teenagers to family law. Categories include Pregnancy, Dissolution, Paternity, Child Support, and Rights of Family Members. Classes are presented by attorneys and staff from the Volunteer Lawyers Network. Legal fact sheets and legal resources for youth are made available to students after the presentation.

Length: ~ 45 minutes - 1 hour

Target Group: High school classes

Contact Tom at 612-752-6675 to schedule.