| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration
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8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
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Excellence in Diversity
Reception honoring Diversity Signatories
Armstrong
Ballroom, 8th Floor
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8:45 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.
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Acknowledgments
Sponsor and
Co-host Recognition/Sponsor and Co-host Representative
Photos
Armstrong Ballroom, 8th
Floor
Denia S. Aiyegbusi, Deutsch Kerrigan LLP, New Orleans,
LA
J. Dalton Courson, Stone Pigman Walther Wittman, New Orleans, LA
John A. Womble, Frederick A. Miller & Associates, Metairie, LA
Co-chairs, LSBA Diversity Committee
Chair and Co-chairs, Conclave
Subcommittee |
| 9:05 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. |
Welcoming Remarks
H. Minor Pipes, III, Pipes Miles
Beckman, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, 2021- 22 LSBA President |
9:15 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
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Introduction of Interactive Workshop
Speaker
Denia S. Aiyegbusi, Deutsch Kerrigan LLP, New
Orleans, LA
Chair, Conclave Subcommittee |
9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
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Interactive Workshop
(Professionalism)
1.00 CLE credit hour,
Armstrong Ballroom, 8th Floor
Why Are We Still Talking About
Moving the Diversity "Ball" After 40+ Years
Exploration of
Diversity Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow--What We All Need to Consider as
we Push the Ball Up the Diversity Mountain
Hon. Dana T.
Cutler and Hon. Keith A. Cutler, James W. Tippin & Associates, Kansas
City, MO |
10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Transition Break
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10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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Breakout Sessions (PLEASE
SELECT ONE) 1.00 CLE credit hour
each
Breakout Session One - Criminal Justice
(Ethics)
Armstrong
Ballroom, 8th Floor
Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System
Through Prosecutors and Juries
There are many
different actors in our criminal legal system--some elected and some
not. This panel discusses the role of the prosecutor, what it has
been and what it should be in the 21st century, in advancing or
regressing the state of civil rights in the criminal legal system
through their multiple discretion points. Additionally, we review
some of the complexities of civil rights litigation regarding
prosecutorial misconduct.
James J. Carter,
Partner/Managing Partner Trials & Mass Torts, The Cochran Firm,
New Orleans, LA, Moderator
Alanah E. Odoms,
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union, New Orleans,
LA
L. Chris Stewart, Managing Partner and CEO, Stewart Miller
Simmons Trial Attorneys, Atlanta, GA
Daryl K. Washington,
Washington Law Firm, P.C., Dallas, TX |
Breakout Session Two - Voting Rights
(General Credit)
Grand
Ballroom, 5th Floor
Voting Rights Across the Nation: The
Challenges Ahead
Ensuring access to the vote for every
eligible American is fundamental for a well-functioning democracy.
And yet, challenges to a free and fair vote abound, and sometimes
feel like they are getting worse. What are current challenges to
voting rights in the South and across the nation? What is being done
to fight back and how can attorneys get involved? Where have
progressive voting laws been passed that expand access to vote, and
has an accessible and representative democracy resulted? And how is
the census connected to voting rights and the empowerment for
disenfranchised communities?
Nancy G. Abudu, Deputy Legal
Director, Voting Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, Atlanta,
GA
Gilda R. Daniels, Professor of Law, John and Frances Angelos
Law Center, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Jonathan M.
Stein, California Common Cause, San Francisco,
CA | |
11:30 a.m. - 11:45
a.m.
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Transition Break |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Luncheon, Presentations, Committee on
Diversity in the Legal Profession Award
Grand
Ballroom C, 5th Floor
Introduction
of Mayor Latoya Cantrell, New Orleans, LA
H. Minor Pipes,
III, Pipes Miles Beckman, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, 2021-22 LSBA
President
Recognition of Chief Justice Bernette Joshua
Johnson (Retired), Louisiana Supreme Court
Mayor Latoya
Cantrell, New Orleans, LA |
Welcome
of Chief Justice John L. Weimer, Louisiana Supreme Court
Recognition of Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson (Retired),
Louisiana Supreme Court
H. Minor Pipes, III, Pipes Miles
Beckman, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, 2021-22 LSBA
President |
Recognition
of Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson (Retired), Louisiana
Supreme Court - Commemoration of Retirement
Denia S.
Aiyegbusi, Deutsch Kerrigan, LLP, New Orleans,
LA |
Introduction
of recipient of Commitee on Diversity in the Legal Profession Award
(Sharonda R. Williams, General Counsel and Director of Government
Affairs, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA)
Denia S. Aiyegbusi, Deutsch Kerrigan, LLP, New Orleans,
LA | |
12:30 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.
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Networking Break |
| 12:40 p.m. - 12:45
p.m. |
Introduction of Plenary Session Speaker
Chief
Justice John L. Weimer, Louisiana Supreme Court, New Orleans, LA |
12:45 p.m. – 2:15
p.m.
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Civil Rights Session I (General
Credit)
1.50 CLE credit hours, Armstrong Ballroom,
8th Floor
Civil Rights: Then, Now and in the Future
This
session will, in part, trace the historical relationship between
individuals, organizations, and lawyers in the civil rights
movement. For example, during the Civil Rights Movement, these
individuals and organizations retained lawyers to file civil rights
lawsuits. Also, tactics such as assemblies, marches, sit-ins, and boycotts
proved integral to the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality to the
movement in instances where white individuals and government officials
attempted to block civil rights lawyers from representing civil rights
activists.
This session will also examine a landmark decision by
the United States Supreme Court in a case entitled, “In
Re Primus, 436 U.S.
412 (1978). The Primus
case held that a non-profit organization and its members enjoy the
freedoms of association and expression, including litigation in courts,
guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Supreme
Court.
Charles A. Person, Freedom Rider, Atlanta,
GA
Chancellor John K. Pierre, Southern University Law Center, Baton
Rouge, LA |
| 2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Networking
Break
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| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Civil Rights Session II
(Professionalism Credit)
1.00 CLE credit hour, Armstrong
Ballroom, 8th Floor
Women of Color in the Federal
Judiciary
In addition to the Supreme Court of the United
States, there are 13 appellate circuits and 94 districts. The judges
assigned to those courts are "Article III” judges who exercise the
judicial power vested in the judicial branch of the federal government by
Article III of the U.S. Constitution; their appointments are for life.
There are currently 870 authorized Article III judgeships: nine on the
Supreme Court, 179 on the courts of appeals, 673 for the district courts
and nine on the Court of International Trade. This CLE seminar will review
the diversity of those Courts and specifically examine the inclusion, or
lack thereof, of Women of Color on our nation’s highest courts.
Sally J.
Kenney, Newcomb College Endowed Chair, Executive Director, Newcomb
Institute Professor of Political Science, New Orleans, LA, Moderator
Erinn D. Martin, Policy Counsel, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law, Washington, D.C.
April Reign, Vice President of Content Strategy
at Overture Global, Washington, D.C. |