Featuring
The Civil Rights Étouffée is the signature CLE event produced by the FBA’s Civil Rights Law section. Typically we host this event in New Orleans, but this year will gather on the ‘net and do our best to preserve a NOLA “state of mind” as we explore eight panels on cutting-edge areas of civil rights law and ethics issues of the moment.
This extraordinary national event is proudly co-sponsored by FBA-NOVA and FREE to our members. Learn more at www.etouffeelaw.com and sign up today!
6 hours CLE credit
Agenda
Thursday, January 28
[12:00 – 1:00 pm] Enhancing Justice: Ethically Reducing Bias in Policing and the Courts
Hon. Bernice B. Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Heston Silbert, Director, Arizona Department of Public Safety
MODERATOR: Wylie Stecklow, Wylie Stecklow Law; Past-Chair, FBA Civil Rights Section
[1:15 – 2:15 pm] When Exceptions Become the Rule: LGBTQ Rights and Religious Exemptions
Camilla Taylor, Director of Constitutional Litigation, Lambda Legal
Taylor Lund, Professor, Wayne State University College of Law
MODERATOR: Robin Wagner, Associate, Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers; Chair, FBA Civil Rights Section
[2:45 – 3:45 pm] Back to the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Civil Rights
Phil Mayor, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU of Michigan
Vincent Southerland, Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality and the Law, NYU School of Law
Jennifer Lord, Partner, Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers
MODERATOR: Robin Wagner, Associate, Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers; Chair, FBA Civil Rights Section
[4:00 – 5:00 pm] KEYNOTE: How to Ethically Navigate Social Media When Your Case is in the Headlines
Joseph A. Bondy, The Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy, Counsel for Lev Parnas, Creator of #LetLevSpeak
Friday, January 29
[12:00 – 1:00 pm] Making it Right: Vulnerable Kids, Education, and COVID-19
Margie Wakelin, Staff Attorney, Education Law Center
Carl P. Beard, Beard Legal Group
MODERATOR: Caryl Andrea Oberman, Law Offices of Caryl Andrea Oberman
[1:15 – 2:15 pm] Title IX in the Era of #metoo
Mica McKinney, General Counsel, Utah State University
Ann Olivarius, McAllister Olivarius
MODERATOR: Kyle Kaiser, FBA Civil Rights Section
[2:45 – 3:45 pm] What is Environmental Justice?
Rebecca Bratspies, Founding Director, Center for Urban Environmental Reform and Professor of Law, CUNY
Emily Posner, Emily Posner Law
Marianne Cufone, Director, Center for Environmental Law and Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola University
[4:00 – 5:00 pm] KEYNOTE: Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Obfuscation: War Stories from the Front Lines of Voting Rights Litigation & the Post Office
Remy Green, Partner, Cohen & Green
Samuel Spital, Director of Litigation, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund
Shankar Duraiswamy, Parnter, Covington