Bench and Bar Conference Scheduled for September

• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will deliver our Annual Stevens Lecture

• Evolving Challenges in the Legal Profession: Diversity and Inclusiveness, Training, and Leveraging Technology, featuring Brad Smith, Executive General Counsel and General Counsel of Microsoft, and Mark Roellig, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of MassMutual. 

• A discussion of the Implications of the Legal Challenges to Health Care Reform, featuring former White House top health care advisors, Zeke Emanuel and Bob Kocher.    

• A discussion on Defining, Defending, and Advancing the Rule of Law     

• Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California-Irvine law school, will report on the key cases from the Supreme Court's current term.

• Declining Trust in Our Institutions: A Comparative Assessment of the Jury, Judiciary, and Our Political Leaders

• The Media Panel-The "Press" of Judicial Business-will feature Robert Henry, President at Oklahoma City University, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's award-winning legal affairs correspondent; Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor and Legal Correspondent of Slate.com, and contributing editor at Newsweek; and Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as author of the Volokh Conspiracy law blog.

• Specialty Breakout Sessions will cover a wide variety of topics, including: 
• Generational Dynamics
• Privacy and Electronic Commerce
• E-Discovery 
• Effective Advocacy: Judicial Perspective
• Effective Advocacy: Practitioner Perspective
• Future of Energy Law and Policy
• Access to Justice
• A Tenth Circuit Review
• Insight on the United States Attorney's Office
  

   

More information is available here.

Questions:

Therese Kerfoot or Cheryl Franchi