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Protected: Plenary 1: When States Litigate, And How To Encourage (Or Discourage) State Involvement In Your Case
Protected: Plenary 2: How Adversary Nations Can Erode Public Trust in America’s Legal System
Protected: Plenary 3: Beyond the Gavel: Ethics and Wellness for the Legal Community
Protected: Plenary 4:Â The Collective-Action Constitution
Protected: Break-out 1: Ten Years After Ferguson – What’s Changed?
Protected: Break-out 2: Playing Chess: How Appellate Lawyers Can Shape the Record Long Before Appeal
Protected: Plenary 5: Fireside Chat with Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal
Protected: Plenary 6: Sound off the alarm! DEI is not officially dead—at least not in the legal profession!
Protected: Plenary 7: Sua sponte decision making and supplemental briefing: balancing appellate judges’ decisional discretion and parties’ interests
Protected: Break-out 3: Questions You Should Ask Before, and Must Be Able To Answer During, Appellate Oral Argument
Protected: Breakout 4: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You: Transparency, Ethics, and the Judiciary
Protected: Plenary 8 – SCOTUS Update
Protected: Break-out 5: SCOTUS Criminal Law Update
Protected: Break-out 6: It’s Past Time for Real e-briefing
Protected: Plenary 9: The Ethical Tightrope: Navigating Media Influence and Judicial Integrity
Protected: Plenary 10:Â John Adams and Thurgood Marshall: Running Against the Wind to Gain Liberty and Justice for All
Protected: Break-out 7: When Justice Fails – Threats to an Independent Judiciary
Protected: Break-out 8: Legal Writing – A Workshop in Practical Linguistics
Protected: Plenary 11:Â Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Reflection on Its Legacy
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Protected: Opening Session: Hail to the Chiefs
Protected: Managing Stress and Strengthening Resiliency: Practical Strategies for Judges and Lawyers
Protected: Page-turners: How Judges Read in an E-filing Era
Protected: The Ethics of Building and Growing an Appellate Practice
Protected: The Great Digital Accelerator
Protected: Supreme Court Preview
Protected: Clients in the Courtroom: How In-House Counsel View Appeals & Appellate Courts
Protected: Hidden Cause, Visible Effect: Understanding the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
Protected: Writing from the Reader’s Perspective: How the English Language Really Works
Protected: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do We Dismantle Our Bias After All?Â
Protected: United States Supreme Court Civil Update
Protected: Curse or Blessing: How to Thrive Online Using Social Media in Today’s Legal World
Protected: United States Supreme Court Criminal Update
Protected: Storytelling for Advocates and Judges: How and Why We Should Incorporate Storytelling Techniques and Themes into our Work
Protected: War Crimes – From the Battlefield to the Courtroom
Protected: Preventing Wrongful Convictions by Ensuring the Reliability of Forensic Evidence
Protected: What Do Courts Do When Works of Faith Cross Works of Government
Protected: Top Tips for Top-Notch Oral Argument Answers
Protected: Courage: The Seminal Virtue in Advocacy and Judging
Protected: Canons of Construction: What is Their Role, if Any, in Modern Jurisprudence?
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Protected: Legal Ethics 2.0:Â How Emerging Technologies Are Creating Novel Ethical Dilemmas
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Hon. Robert H. Edmunds, Jr. President
Supreme Court of North Carolina (Ret.)
Hon. Samuel A. Thumma Vice President, Chair of the Board
Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 1
Hon. Christopher J. McFadden Vice Chair
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Hon. George C. James, Jr. Treasurer/Budget Officer
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Hon. Christopher M. Goff Secretary
2022 Summit Chair
Indiana Supreme Court
Hon. Steven H. David Immediate Past Chair / 2021 Summit Chair
Indiana Supreme Court (Ret.)
Hon. Benes Z. Aldana (Ret.)
The National Judicial College
Hon. Luz Elena D. Chapa
Texas Fourth Court of Appeals
Hon. J. Michelle Childs
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Hon. Bernice B. Donald
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
Hon. Randall M. Howe
Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 1
Kirsten Castañeda
Chair, Council of Appellate Lawyers
Hon. James E. Lockemy
South Carolina Court of Appeals
Hon. Laurie McKinnon
Montana Supreme Court
Jess Mekeel Chair, Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys
Denver, CO
Hon. Jacqueline Nguyen
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
Hon. Peter M. Reyes, Jr.
Minnesota Court of Appeals
Hon. Margret G. Robb
Indiana Court of Appeals
Hon. David Thomson
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Hon. Ann A. Scott Timmer
Arizona Supreme Court
Hon. John M. Tyson
North Carolina Court of Appeals
Hon. Leanna K. Weissmann
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Cliffie Wesson
Chair, Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys
Fifth Court of Appeals, TX