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Schedule
1995
Sunday, September 17th
9:00 AM

Conference Program

9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Registration

Law Library foyer

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM

Brunch and Welcoming Remarks

Roy D. Simon, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM

Brunch Address - Introduction

Monroe Freedman, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

Brunch Address - "Is Legal Ethics Asking the Right Questions?"

Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Plenary Session - What's Wrong with the Adversary system?

Marvin Frankel, Esq., Kramer Naftalis Nessen Kamin & Frankel, New York, New York
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., University of Pennsylvania Law School
Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, University of California at Los Angeles Law School
Monroe Freedman, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

1:15 PM

Plenary Session - "Clients' Perjury and Lawyers' Options"

Marvin Frankel, Esq., Kramer Naftalis Nessen Kamin & Frankel, New York, New York

1:15 PM

2:00 PM

Plenary Session - "Whistleblowing and Related Conundrums"

Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., University of Pennsylvania Law School

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

Plenary Session - "Reforming the Adversary System"

Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, University of California at Los Angeles Law School

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

Keynote Address

John Cranford Adams Playhouse

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

4:00 PM

Keynote Address - Introduction

Stuart Rabinowitz, Hofstra University

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

Keynote Address

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court

4:15 PM

7:00 PM

Banquet in Honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Garden City Hotel, Long Island, New York

7:00 PM

Monday, September 18th
8:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Law Library foyer

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Plenary Session - "The Concept of the 'Client' as an Engine of Change in Legal Ethics"

Theodore Schneyer, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law

9:10 AM

9:10 AM

Plenary Session - Clients, Conflicts, and Confidentiality

Theodore Schneyer, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Thomas Morgan, George Washington University Law School
Charles Wolfram, Cornell Law School
Sheila Birnbaum, Esq., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York, New York

9:10 AM - 12:15 PM

10:15 AM

Plenary Session - "Suing Your Own Client"

Thomas Morgan, George Washington University Law School

10:15 AM

11:15 AM

Plenary Session - "The Vaporous and the Real in Former-Client Conflicts"

Charles Wolfram, Cornell Law School

11:15 AM

12:30 PM

Luncheon Address

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

1:15 PM

Luncheon Address - "Legal Education"

Anthony Kronman, Yale Law School

1:15 PM

2:00 PM

Concurrent Panels I - Working With Families (choose one)

Karen Burstein, Esq.

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

2:00 PM

Panel I A - "What About the Children? Are Family Lawyers the Same (Ethically) as Criminal Lawyers?"

Robert H. Aronson, University of Washington School of Law

2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Panel I B - "On Lying to Oppressors"

Thomas L. Shaffer, University of Notre Dame Law School

2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Panel I C - "Life-and-Death Lawyering"

Teresa Stanton Collett, South Texas College of Law

2:00 PM

2:01 PM

Concurrent Panels II - The Process and Purpose of Lawyer Regulation

Robert Cummins, Esq.

2:01 PM - 5:00 PM

2:01 PM

Panel II A - "The Shadowy and Shady Law of Lawyering"

Susan Koniak, Brown University School of Law

2:01 PM

2:01 PM

Panel II B - "Sister Act: Conflicts of Interest With Sister Corporations"

Robert H. Rotunda, University of Illinois College of Law

2:01 PM

2:01 PM

Panel II C - "The Evolution From Lawyer Discipline to Lawyer Regulation"

Burnele Powell, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

2:01 PM

Tuesday, September 19th
8:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Law Library foyer

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Plenary Session - The Future of the Legal Profession

Stephen Brill, Esq., American Lawyer Media, Inc.

9:10 AM - 9:15 AM

9:15 AM

"Professionalism In Perspective"

Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School

9:15 AM

10:15 AM

"Change Will Come: Transforming the Law Marketplace"

Stephen Gillers, New York University School of Law

10:15 AM

11:15 AM

"Thinking Globally: Will National Borders Matter to Lawyers a Century From Now?"

Mary Daly, Fordham University School of Law

11:15 AM