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Fairmont Chicago at Millennium Park

WELCOME RECEPTION

• Remarks by Marc Racicot, former Governor of Montana and Chair of the Republican National Committee; introduction by A. Clifford Edwards, Founder, Edwards & Culver

WELCOME/OPENING REMARKS

• Roman Silberfeld, Immediate Past President, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
  
• Hon. Benes Z. Aldana (Ret.), President & CEO, The National Judicial College
  
• Andrew Bradt, Faculty Director, Civil Justice Research Initiative
  
• Reginald M. Turner, Jr., President, American Bar Association
  
• Hon. Anne M. Burke, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Illinois

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Doug Jones, former U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney from Alabama, member of the law firm ArentFox Schiff; introduction by J. Mark White, Founder and Partner, White, Arnold & Dowd P.C., past President, International Academy of Trial Lawyers

DEMOCRACY AND THE COURTS

• MODERATOR: David Corn, Bureau Chief, Mother Jones magazine, On-Air Analyst, MSNBC
  
• Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
  
• Hon. Reggie Walton, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for District of Columbia
  
• Hon. Ganna Vronska, Justice, Supreme Court of Ukraine
  
• Alicia Bannon, Judiciary Program Director, Brennan Center for Justice
  
• Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and University Center for Human Values

 SOCIAL MEDIA AND COUNTERING DISINFORMATION

• MODERATOR: Hon. Robert Torres, Justice, Supreme Court of Guam
• Hon. Robert M. Brutinel, Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
• Philippa H. Stewart, Head of Digital Communications, Clooney Foundation for Justice
  
• Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean Emerita, Pacific McGeorge School of Law
• Leslie C. Levin, Hugh Macgill Professor of Law, University of Connecticut, School of Law

FUTURE OF THE SUPREME COURT PROGRAM

• MODERATOR: Hon. Jeremy Fogel (Ret.), Executive Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute
• Marin K. Levy, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, New York University
  School of Law
• Hon. Thomas Griffith (Ret.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• David A. Kaplan, Author of The Most Dangerous Branch, former Newsweek Legal Affairs Editor, Adjunct Professor, New York University

RACIAL JUSTICE AND THE COURTS

• Moderator: Hon. George W. Draper III, Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri
• Jerry Kang, Distinguished Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies, UCLA School of Law
• Hon. Anne M. Burke, Chief Justice, Illinois Supreme Court
• Hon. Anita Josey-Herring, Chief Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Deanie Brown, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Illinois Supreme Court
• Eva Paterson, Co-founder and President, Equal Justice Society
• Victor D. Quintanilla, Professor of Law, Val Nolan Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

NEXT STEPS TO PROTECT THE JUDICIARY

• Group 1: HOW CORPORATE LEADERS CAN RESPOND Led by: Veta T. Richardson, President and CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel, and Ricky Raven, Senior Vice President – Deputy General Counsel, Allstate Insurance
• Group 2: HOW JUDGES CAN RESPOND Led by: Hon. Bernice Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Hon. Scott Bales (Ret.), former Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
• Group 3: HOW PRACTITIONERS CAN RESPOND Led by: Judy Perry Martinez, Of Counsel, Simon, Peragine, Smith and Redfearn; American Bar Association President, 2019-2020; and Laurel Halbany, Associate, Kazan Law
• Group 4: HOW NONPROFITS AND FOUNDATIONS CAN RESPOND Led by: Qudsiya Naqui, Officer, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Jocelyn D. Larkin, Executive Director, Impact Fund
• Group 5: HOW THE LEGL ACADEMY CAN RESPOND Led by: David Yellen, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

CLOSING ADDRESS

• Hon. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California

WRAP-UP AND ADJOURNMENT

• Roman Silberfeld and Hon. Benes Z. Aldana (Ret.)