Topic: Unlocking Opportunities: The Modern Movement for Criminal Record Reform

Sharpen your client-centered approach with a session focused on demystifying criminal records and expanding access to second chances. Learn the critical differences between arrests, charges, and convictions, and how criminal records impact employment, housing, and education. The session provides a practical overview of Minnesota record relief options. Grounded in a trauma informed lens, this presentation also explores how poverty, systemic pressure, and lived experience shape client outcomes and advocacy strategies.

This is part three of a 3-part Criminal Law CLE series.

Speaker: Corrin Swintosky

Corrin Swintosky, a freelance criminal paralegal and owner of Lucid Legal Support, provides freelance paralegal services to solo and small criminal defense firms nationwide. With over 5 years of versatile criminal legal experience in probation, court operations, and public defense, she consults law firms on the best defense theories, trial strategies, and training for criminal defense teams.