Conference Program

8:00 AM

Brunch

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

Herman A. Berliner, Hofstra University
Aaron D. Twerski, Hofstra Law School
Roy D. Simon, Hofstra Law School

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Opening Address - Legal Ethics in an Adversary System: The Persistent Questions

Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Afternoon Session I: The Loyalty Trilemma

Steven Lubet, Northwestern University School of Law

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Afternoon Session I: The Duty of Zealous Representation and the Corporate Lawyer: Some Hard Issues

Barbara S. Gillers Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Coffee Break

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Afternoon Session II: Cautionary Thoughts About Lawyer Liability As Fiduciaries

Charles W. Wolfram, Cornell Law School

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Keynote Address: Lawyers' Ethics in a Constitutionalized Adversary System

Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard Law School

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Banquet in Honor of Monroe H. Freedman

The Garden City Hotel

6:00 PM

Banquet Address: In Praise of Overzealous Representation: Lying to Judges, Deceiving Third Parties, and Other Ethical Conduct

Monroe H. Freedman, Hofstra University School of Law

6:30 PM

Conference Registration

Hofstra Cultural Center Foyer, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Breakfast

8:15 AM - 8:55 AM

Morning Session: A Grand Slam of Professional Irresponsibility and Judicial Disregard

Stephen A. Saltzburg, George Washington University Law School

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Morning Session: The Perjurious Criminal Defendant: A Critique of Freedman's Critique and All Other Solutions (or Why Do We Keep Talking About This?)

Stephen Gillers, New York University School of Law

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Morning Session: Dishonesty

Lisa Lerman, Catholic University of America School of Law

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Luncheon

Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th floor South Campus

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Luncheon Address: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Ethics of Civil Rights Advocacy

Charles J. Ogletree, Harvard Law School

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Afternoon Session: Reconsidering the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - A Response to the Compelled-Voluntary Waiver Paradox?

Lonnie T. Brown Jr., University of Georgia School of Law

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Afternoon Session: The Corporate Lawyer and the 'Three Hardest Questions'

Thomas D. Morgan, George Washington University Law School

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Afternoon Session: Zeal

Anita Bernstein, New York Law School

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Informal Get-Together and Refreshments

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Breakfast

Leeds Morelli & Brown Atrium, Hofstra University School of Law

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Morning Session: Counseling Non-Litigation Clients in an Adversary System

Roger C. Cramton, Cornell Law School

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Morning Session: How Secret Evidence is Eroding the Adversary System

Ellen Yaroshefsky, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Morning Session: Creating Space to Be Ethical and Professional

Burnele V. Powell, School of Law, University of South Carolina

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Luncheon

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Luncheon Address: Do Ethics Rules Protect Lawyers or Clients? Secret Taping and Some Other Illustrations

David G. Trager, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

12:30 PM - 1:30 AM

Afternoon Session: Institutional and Individual Justification in Legal Ethics: The Problem of Client Selection

W. Bradley Wendel, Cornell Law School

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Afternoon Session: The Nuclear Option: Threatening a Grievance Against Opposing Counsel

Roy D. Simon, Hofstra University School of Law

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Roundtable Discussion

Laura Appleman, Hofstra University School of Law
Linda Galler, Hofstra University School of Law
Carol A. Needham, St. Louis University School of Law
Charlotte (Becky) Stretch Esq., American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility
Steven Wechsler, College of Law, Syracuse University
Carol Ziegler, Brooklyn Law School

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM