Gathering of the Bench and Bar Conference 2014

Student/Faculty/Judiciary Registration General Registration Hotel Reservation

The University of Colorado Law School is pleased to present the Bench and Bar Conference, a three-day conference bringing together lawyers and jurists from across the country. The conference will be held October 1-3, 2014 in Boulder. The conference brings together members of the judiciary, industry leaders, top practicing lawyers, and academics to discuss some of the most important issues facing the legal profession today. 

18 CLE credits | 4 ethics CLE credits 

SCHEDULE
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
University of Colorado Law School, Wittemyer Courtroom

Registration

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

• The Honorable Maria Berkenkotter, Chief Judge, 20th Judicial District, Colorado
• The Honorable Marcia S. Krieger, Chief Judge, United States District Court, Colorado
• Phil Weiser, Dean, Colorado Law

The State of the Economy

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

• Jason Furman, Chair, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, United States

Break

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Legal Professionalism: How to Adapt to and Prepare Lawyers for a Changing World

2:45 - 4:00 p.m.

Moderator: Caren Ulrich Stacy, Founder, OnRamp Fellowship & Legal Talent Lab

Panelists:

• Fiona E. Arnold, Former General Counsel, Vail Resorts
• Deborah Cantrell, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs, Colorado Law
• Michael Dillon, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Adobe Systems Incorporated
• Brian L. Duffy, Shareholder and Co-President, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Break

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The Byron R. White Center's 2014 Stevens Lecture

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

University of Colorado, Macky Auditorium

The Honorable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Thursday, October 2, 2014
St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, CO

Welcome

8:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Entrepreneurial Leadership in Government

9:15 – 10:15 a.m.

Moderator: Phil Weiser, Dean

Panelists:

• Raymond L. Gifford, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
• Cary Kennedy, Deputy Mayor & CFO, City and County of Denver
• D. Scott Martinez, Denver City Attorney, City and County of Denver
• Meg Porfido, Former Chief of Staff and GC, Office of the Governor, Roy Romer

Break

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

Whither the Jury?: Confronting the Pressures and Opportunities for Jury Trials in the Modern Age

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Moderator: The Honorable Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System; Former Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Panelists:

• Virginia L. Grady, Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Colorado
• The Honorable David B. Sentelle, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
• Stephen D. Susman, Partner, Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
• Scott Moss, Professor of Law, Colorado Law

Lunch on your own

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Session 1: The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Jess Bravin, Author; Supreme Court Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Session 2: Medical Legal Partnerships

Dayna Matthew, Professor of Law, Colorado

Session 3: Law Tenth Circuit Update

Kevin T. Traskos, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Civil Division, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado

Break

2:00 – 2:10 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

2:10 – 3:10 p.m.

Session 1: The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Jess Bravin, Author; Supreme Court Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Session 2: Medical Legal Partnerships

Dayna Matthew, Professor of Law, Colorado

Session 3: Law Tenth Circuit Update

Kevin T. Traskos, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Civil Division, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado

Break

3:10 – 3:20 p.m.

The Fourth Estate and the Least Dangerous Branch: Covering the Courts in the Internet Era

3:20 – 4:30 p.m.

Moderator: Rachel Estabrook, Reporter/Producer, Colorado Public Radio

Panelists:

• Jess Bravin, Supreme Court Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
• Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor and Supreme Court Correspondent, Slate; Contributing Editor, Newsweek
• Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• John F. Walsh, U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado

Faculty of Federal Advocates Reception

4:30 – 7:00 p.m.

St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, CO

Friday, October 3, 2014
St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, CO

Welcome

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Supreme Court Update

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Break

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Law and Politics: The Role of Judges in Regulating Elections

10:15 – 11:15 a.m.

Moderator: The Honorable Timothy M. Tymkovich, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit

Panelists:

• John D. Griffin, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder; Director, LeRoy Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment
• The Honorable Gale A. Norton, President, Norton Regulatory Strategies; Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
• Adam Winkler, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• Dave Freudenthal, Senior Counsel, Crowell & Moring LLP; Former Governor, Wyoming 

Break

11:15 – 11:30 a.m.

Best in Class Approaches for E-Discovery & Lunch at the St. Julien

11:30 – 12:45 PM

Moderator: Jonathan M. Redgrave, Partner, Redgrave LLP

Panelists:

• R. Stanton Dodge, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, DISH Network L.L.C.
• Allison Stanton, Director of E-Discovery, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division
• The Honorable Craig B. Shaffer, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Colorado
• Sean R. Gallagher, Shareholder, Polsinelli PC

Break

12:45 – 1:00 p.m.

Professionalism and A Growth Mindset

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Moderator: Amy Griffin, Student Legal Writing Coordinator, Colorado Law

Panelists:

• The Honorable Monica M. Marquez, Justice, Colorado Supreme Court
• A. Tyrone Glover, Deputy State Public Defender, Colorado
• Sarah M. Clark, Attorney and Policy Advisor, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Break

2:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Technological Change, Ethics, and the Law

2:15 – 3:15 p.m.

Moderator: Mary V. Sooter, Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

Panelists:

• The Honorable David M. Ebel, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
• Kristelia García, Associate Professor of Law, Colorado Law
• Neal K. Katyal, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Solicitor General, United States

Break

3:15 – 3:30 p.m.

The Future of Privacy Law and Policy in the Era of Sensors and Big Data

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Moderator: Paul Ohm, Associate Professor of Law, Colorado Law

Panelists:

• David Campbell, Chief Security officer, SendGrid
• Terrell McSweeny, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• Harry Surden, Associate Professor of Law, Colorado Law
• Ashlie Beringer, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Facebook

Student/Faculty/Judiciary Registration   General Registration   Hotel Reservation

For registration questions, conference content, or CLE questions, please contact John Delva (John-Scott.Delva@colorado.edu)

Conference Reading Material

www.mindsetonline.org

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/07/22/the-talent-myth

http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=cslp_papers

http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2716&context=lawreview

http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=law_feinstein_sp

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1263148

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/government-entrepreneur-is-not-an-oxymoron/

http://web.missouri.edu/~kleinp/papers/Klein_emr2010.pdf

http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/1111_aau9fyvc.pdf

http://law.emory.edu/elj/_documents/volumes/63/1/articles/moss.pdf

http://www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume%2053/Issue%203/McAninch.pdf

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1392&context=dlj

http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Courts-Rough-Justice-Guantanamo/dp/0300205597/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1411747030&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=jess+bravin

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526401/laws-and-ethics-cant-keep-pace-with-technology/

http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=mttlr

http://wadhwa.com/2013/04/23/washington-post-wearable-tech-and-the-futurists-conundrum/

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/23/240163063/government-changes-policy-on-warrantless-wiretap-defendants

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/supreme-court-rules-human-genes-may-not-be-patented.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/29/how-vermont-plans-to-defend-the-nations-first-gmo-law/