The Minn. State Bar Association has an agenda.

Byline: Barbara L. Jones

The Minnesota State Bar Association doesn't wait until the ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve to get started on its work at the Legislature. When the session opens on Feb. 12, the MSBA, represented at the Capitol by Lloyd Grooms, will be ready to go, having laid the groundwork at the end of 2007.

Earlier this month, the MSBA Assembly approved a legislative agenda for next year that adopts proposals from the Business Law, Real Property, Probate and Trust, Tax and Family Law Sections, according to Minneapolis attorney Sue Holden, chair of the MSBA's Legislative Committee.

Among the legislative initiatives to be introduced this year include statutory amendments that would:

* allow nonprofits to be incorporated under the Minnesota Limited Liability Company Act;

* enable a transfer on death deed;

* clarify protection of a homestead from creditors;