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Welcome to today's episode of 'AI Lawyer Talking Tech,' where we delve into the latest advancements revolutionizing the legal industry. In this episode, we explore how legal spend management is reshaping in-house teams' financial strategies, the role of AI in mitigating contract risks, and the innovative journey of Bird & Bird's partnership with genAI startup Leya. We'll also discuss the legal implications of AI in contract management, highlight key trends from the "Charting Change in Legal" podcast, and examine recent regulatory developments impacting data privacy and deepfake legislation. Join us as we uncover how these cutting-edge technologies and strategies are driving efficiency, compliance, and innovation across the legal landscape. Legal Spend Management: A Complete Guide for In-House Teams19 Jul 2024MatterSuite By CaseFoxHélder Santos, Bird & Bird: ‘This Is A Journey'19 Jul 2024Artificial LawyerCompanies turn to AI contract tools to reduce external risks18 Jul 2024Legal Dive - Latest NewsCharting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 27 – Listen Here!18 Jul 2024Legal IT Insider12th Annual European Data Protection Conference September 30, 2024 EMEA Register now19 Jul 2024Norton Rose FulbrightBipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Address AI Deepfakes and Protect Intellectual Property – AI: The Washington Report18 Jul 2024Mintz LevinCalifornia's Attorney General Announces $ 500,000 Settlement for CCPA and COPPA Violations Regarding Children's Data18 Jul 2024White & CaseWhy this lecturer has been named Law Teacher of the Year19 Jul 2024FEnews.co.ukThe Daily Record presents the 2024 Power 50 Law List19 Jul 2024The Daily Record of RochesterThorntons data protection lawyer comments on UK Government technology proposals19 Jul 2024Edinburgh Chamber of CommerceEmbracing AI, Episode 3 | Courts grapple with AI litigation as regulation strives to catch up19 Jul 2024Clyde & CoAI to boost lawyers' productivity: Swedish startup Leya picks up $25M funding19 Jul 2024Tech Funding NewsPondering ways to use AI to improve legal aid19 Jul 2024LegalNews.comThe Ultimate Guide to Law Firm Website Design Inspiration18 Jul 2024Michigan Technology NewsDAOs in English law: another (but not final) step forward18 Jul 2024JD SupraDocument Retention for U.S. Litigation Beyond Borders: Considerations for Foreign Companies18 Jul 2024National Law ReviewDemocracy Summit tops ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago July 31-Aug. 618 Jul 2024LegalNews.comSupervisory AI Agents for Legal Professional Rules of Conduct18 Jul 2024Stanford Law SchoolBlog Series: Navigating the Impending Global Sanctions Enforcement Storm – Trends and Considerations in Documenting Sanctions Investigation Results17 Jul 2024Sanctions & Export Controls Update

We're kicking off season 4 of Girls with Grafts during National Burn Awareness Week! National Burn Awareness Week is hosted by the American Burn Association and this year's theme is spreading awareness about preventing flammable liquid burn injuries.  And who better to join us than the American Burn Association's president, Dr. Rob Cartotto! In this episode, Dr. Cartotto and Rachel discuss what it's like being a burn surgeon, common questions from burn survivors, and a behind-the-scenes look at burn care and research. Dr. Cartotto also shares his experience attending Phoenix World Burn Congress 2023 and what's ahead for the American Burn Association in 2024.  Enjoyed the show? Tell us by leaving a 5-star review and sharing on social media using hashtag #GirlsWithGrafts and tagging Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors! Meet Our Guest Dr. Rob Cartotto is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and burn intensivist at the Ross Tilley Burn Centre in Toronto, Canada. He is a Professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the President of the American Burn Association. His research interests span the continuum of burn care and he has been particularly interested in burn shock resuscitation, lung injury and mechanical ventilation after burns, surgical techniques and outcomes for burns of the hands and face, and the development of clinical practice guidelines for burn care. Outside of work he prefers being at his cabin rather than the city, and he is an amateur artist and avid backcountry camper.  Links Learn more about the American Burn Association and National Burn Awareness Week. Register for the ABA Annual Meeting. Take our State of the Survivor Report survey (survey closes February 29, 2024). Review our 2022 State of the Survivor Report. Explore our Tools for Social Empowerment Whitepaper to learn how to handle questions, comments, and staring after a burn injury.  Explore other research opportunities.  Podcast Sponsor Today's podcast is powered by AlloSource! AlloSource is one of the largest human tissue providers, honoring tissue donors by creating innovative skin allografts to help burn surgeons heal patients. Learn more about AlloSource and their continuing education hours by visiting their Resource Marketplace Listing directly on Phoenix Society's website: https://resources.phoenix-society.org/resource-marketplace/allosource.  Sponsor Girls with Grafts  Interested in becoming a sponsor of the show? Email us at info@phoenix-society.org.  

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Transcript: CHRIS NEWBOLD: Hello, well-being friends and welcome to the Path to Well-Being in Law podcast, an initiative of the Institute for Well-Being in Law. I'm your co-host, Chris Newbold, Executive Vice President of ALPS Malpractice Insurance. Most of you are listeners. For those of you who are new to the podcast, our goal is pretty simple. It's to introduce you to thought leaders doing meaningful work in the well-being space within the legal profession and in the process to build and nurture a national network of well-being advocates intent on creating a culture shift within the profession. I want to introduce my co-host, Bree Buchanan. Bree, how have you been doing? BREE BUCHANAN: Wonderful, Chris. Great to be here. How are you? CHRIS: Bree, I think I heard that you had just come off some vacation doing some bicycling in my neck of the woods. Tell us a little bit more about where you went and why. BREE: Yeah. So I got to go with a group of friends out over to your neck of the woods in Montana, the Trail of the Hiawatha and the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes and got to get some cycling in, which was just really wonderful. CHRIS: Awesome, awesome. Glad to hear you get off the grid and that's such an important part. My vacation is next week where I'll be with my family on a lake, just relaxing, and we all know that, that's an important part of recharging and being our best selves. BREE: Absolutely. CHRIS: Yeah, so we are again, super excited for today's podcast. We are wrapping up a three-part series looking at the interconnection of well-being in law schools. We have had Linda Sugin from Fordham Law School, we have had Jennifer Leonard from Penn Law, and today we are so excited to welcome Janet Stearns from the Miami School of Law. Bree, I know that you have a personal relationship with Janet, a friendship. I would love it if you could introduce Janet to our listeners. BREE: Absolutely. I'm delighted that we've got Janet here today. I'll give you the official introduction to Janet, but from a personal standpoint, Janet and I have been sort of on the front lines of working in this area, gosh, Janet, I don't know, six, seven years starting back with the ABA's Commission on Lawyer's Assistance Programs. Janet has been a true leader in that space. So let me give you the full introduction, and then we'll go ahead and hear more from Janet. BREE: Janet Stearns is the Dean of Students and a lecturer in law at the University of Miami Law School. Has been there since October 1999. In 2007, she was appointed Dean of Students. Since 2011, she's regularly taught professional responsibility. Last year, she received NALSAP's CORE Four Annual Award recognizing the competencies, values and ethics of the very best law student affairs professionals, and I absolutely agree with that. She is the immediate past chair for the AALS Student Services Section, and as I know her, a member of ABA CoLAP, and not only an advocate for wellness programming in the law schools, but has also been the Chair of the Law School Committee and has led all of those efforts for, I'd say at least five years. Since she became the Dean of Students, she has been passionate about wellness initiatives there at Miami, including the Fall Wellness Week, Spring Mental Health Day, and a weekly Dean of Students constitutional walk around the campus. Finally, I'm proud to say that she won the CoLAP Meritorious Service Award in November 2020. So Janet, so glad to have you here. How are you doing today? JANET STEARNS: Well, Bree, that's such a generous introduction. So I'm blushing a little now, but I am delighted to be here with you and Chris and looking forward to chatting. BREE: Great. So Janet, because I know you, and I know how dedicated you are to this, I think that you've probably got a really good answer to this question that we ask all of our guests because we know that people that are committed to the well-being movement often have a real passion for the work. So what experiences in your life are the drivers behind your passion for being such a leader in the well-being movement in law? JANET: Well, Bree, I think I've often, for a long time been really interested in my own personal well-being. As I think back on my own experience in law school, a classmate of mine, we decided to decaffeinate together in law school. Not many people do that, but we did. We went off coffee cold turkey and really just recognized it made us less jittery and that we could actually feel better and be more present for what was happening around us. I tell students that's just one example of how we can actually use the law school experience to think about our own well-being. JANET: But I think that certainly my work here at the University of Miami has brought me into a space where I have had to work and counsel way too many students who have been struggling. Struggling with drugs and alcohol and suicide. JANET: I have spoken many times about a student of ours, Katie Corlett, who died just shortly after her graduation, really, I think about the week before the bar results came out. In a time, many of us can remember and relate to of incredible and stress, and she died of a drug overdose, and it had a huge impact on me because I had worked so hard with her to get her through law school. I had gotten to know her parents so well, and the time that we spent shortly after the overdose visiting her in the hospital and just thinking of the huge opportunity that was lost for her and for us. That has stayed with me. I often do say, as I talk to other law schools about our programming and our more institutional initiatives, we do not want to have any more Katies. BREE: Right. JANET: We want to do everything possible so that we can see our students graduate and be happy and not have any more Katies. BREE: Yeah, absolutely. Wow. That's powerful. CHRIS: Yeah. I mean, as the Dean of Students, you certainly get a window into some of those challenges. Janet, tell us a little bit about ... We're all creatures of our own experience and we all recall our own law school days ... Give us a little flavor of Miami Law. The location and the size, the focus, anything that you find particularly unique about the culture that you've worked to build at Miami Law. JANET: Okay, Chris. Well, Miami Law, we are actually in Coral Gables. We are not in Miami. But Coral Gables is a suburb of Miami, and the University of Miami Law School has typically been on the larger side of law schools. This year we're probably going to be welcoming just under 400 students, 1L new students to our law school, but we have about 1,300 students. So we have JD students, and we also have a very large population of LLM students in many different programs, but our international LLM is bringing students from all over the world with a particularly large focus on Latin America. So it is a school where we have a lot of international diversity. Miami is just a very, at its nature, multilingual community, but there is a lot of Spanish that is spoken and Portuguese and other languages. JANET: We have a lot of first-generation students, Chris, and working families, first-generation students from our community. As we know, Miami has been all over the news for various reasons. But it is certainly a very dynamic community with a lot of temptations, cultural temptations, drug, alcohol, late-night partying. Miami Beach goes around the clock. It's against that backdrop that we are trying to encourage people to really both focus on their studies and focus on their well-being. BREE: Yeah. So over the time ... You've been at Miami Law a little bit over 20 years ... What are some of the mental health and well-being issues you've seen your students face? I mean, certainly Katie that you talked about is the worst case scenario, but just from my experience, I imagine you've seen a lot of other things that don't lead up to such a tragic end. JANET: Right. Well, Bree, I do think that Miami is a community where there is a lot of opportunity to focus on well-being, the good and the bad, as I said. There are, I think a lot of stresses and temptations, but I think there also are a lot of an incredible amount of natural beauty here. Beaches and opportunities to get into the outdoors and enjoy the tropical climate, the Everglades when people take advantage of that. We really work hard to model that for our students. JANET: I think that we have gone through certainly over time, our students face a lot of challenges. I do think that being in such an active and vibrant place and such a, from my perspective, a city that never sleeps, we have to work really, really, really hard from the beginning of orientation to try to model limits. Limits on your time, learning how to say no, learning the value of sleeping, learning the value of focus. The fact is that you're not going to be at every single event or movie or social or networking opportunity. There's just too much. So I think learning how to set limits from the very beginning is actually one of the things I talk about in our orientation message. JANET: I do think another well-being issue and one we were just discussing some, it is an expensive city. There is a lot of opportunities to go out and spend a lot of money. There's a lot of variation in housing that's expensive. So we have to work very early to try to help people to understand their financial budget and how to plan for their law school years in a way that will make sense and leave them where they still can feel in control as they graduate and move into the legal profession. So financial literacy is another important aspect of well-being and one that we try to also talk to our students about from the very beginning. BREE: Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up because that's not something that we really talked about. There's the six dimensions of well-being, but that financial piece of it, that financial dimension, can be such a heavy burden for the students. Sure. JANET: Right. Right. Then of course, I mean, Miami Law and the whole world has had the opportunity, I would say through this pandemic, to even talk more about well-being. Right, Bree. I know that when I was sent home in March 2020, the first thing that I brought home from my office with me was I have a framed copy of The Serenity Prayer next to my desk. BREE: Right. Wonderful. JANET: In March, there were many, many calls with deans and faculty and students, "What about this? And what about this?" I just said, "We're going to say our Serenity Prayer. We are going to try to figure out what we can control here and what we cannot and how to distinguish those things." I think actually as we model that, because our students and people around us see our own process of trying to figure those things out and yet trying to stay calm and make decisions through the pandemic, I think we've really taught some valuable lessons. BREE: I think The Serenity Prayer should be standard issue with your law school diploma. JANET: Absolutely. BREE: That would be helpful. JANET: It always does the trick for me. CHRIS: Janet, I'm curious, as you think about kind of the state of well-being in your law school, has it become more challenging? Has it improved? I mean, you have the context of kind of stability and seeing it over a longer period of time, but just curious on your reflections on at least within your school what kind of trends that you're seeing as it relates to well-being. JANET: That's such a great question, Chris. I think what's interesting if we go back, I don't know ... I think when I started to work with Bree with the CoLAP but I would say we've been involved in planning ... I probably have done a Fall Wellness Week since I first became Dean of Students in 2007. I had been working with the ABA CoLAP and the ABA Law Student Division on the Mental Health Day Initiative now for, I don't know, five, six, seven years. JANET: There was a point I think when we would announce Mental Health Day and everybody would be like, "What is that? Why?" I would say in the last few years, what I'm noticing is I have a lot of people around the country, deans of students at other schools, they're like, "When are you going to announce the Mental Health Day plans? When is it coming? What's the theme this year because we're putting it on our calendars." I think people are very, very eager to talk about this right now, Chris, at some level. Of course, then we just have to reflect on the events of the last week of the Olympics. I mean, it just feels like we are truly having a national conversation, thanks to the courage of Michael Phelps and Simone Biles and others. BREE: Absolutely. JANET: We are having a national conversation, and people are eager to have this conversation with us. So there is a level of attention and focus that can only be a good thing right now for the work that we're doing. CHRIS: Yeah, for sure. Talk to us about some of the well-being initiatives at Miami Law that you're most proud of. I mean, you talked about Fall Wellness Week. Talk to our listeners about some of the things that you have initiated and instituted there that you think are actually driving results. JANET: So I do think that the Fall Wellness Week has become a great catalyst, and we try to have a very intentional conversation ... I was actually talking with some CoLAP colleagues yesterday about this, about when. When is the most effective time to raise these issues? My view has been orientation is not always the best time. I think your students are a little bit deer in headlights and it's a little bit too early, but we have been doing ... Recently we moved the National Mental Health Day to October. Now we try to program around October 10th. So for many of us, that's about six weeks into the school year, give or take. I think people are really receptive. They're starting to feel the stress. They're starting to feel some of the anxiety and self-doubt as they're trying to work their way through, and it's a really good time to come in and try to do some positive programming. JANET: We try to both do some national programming, but many schools are also using that to do school-based programming, often in partnership with the LAP in the state, everything from healthy smoothie happy hours, constitutional walks, yoga, physical fitness, and sometimes some actual conversations with thought leaders around the value of sleep as something that actually promotes your learning or the worries of study steroids. So we have used the Fall Wellness Week, I think, to maximum effect for a lot of programming. CHRIS: Do you keep that programming broader in terms of different areas of focus or do you actually look at kind of a 1L track, a 2L track, a 3L track? I'm just kind of curious on the structure of how you do that. JANET: Well, that's a great question. I would say right now the Fall Wellness Week has been broader for everybody. CHRIS: Okay. JANET: I think that we are actually starting to have some more conversations. We have been doing some 3L specific sort of pathway to the bar exam kinds of programming. I actually think there's a lot more that we can be doing in that regard. I think the ABA Law Student Division is also interested as we think about bar success and wellness. I think that there is some 3L targeted work that we have been doing, but I think that we could be doing more around that Chris, from my own perspective. JANET: But I think that point is well taken. I do think that we find by and large that if we were to hold a program either around suicide or around study steroids, or pick your topic, depression, and we just said, "Show up for a program," law students by and large are not going to show up for that program. They don't want to walk into a room and be identified and tagged as the person who's thinking about suicide. But if you can market your program, and I think we've thought hard about this, whether it has to do more broadly with mindfulness, well-being, success in law school, happiness in the profession, I think if you can market that program, you can deliver the same content, but you can get people in the room and then get the buy-in and really get much broader participation. So I feel very strongly about that. JANET: I just also wanted to highlight that I think over this last year, we have also tried to be a lot more intentional ... I'm not sure we weren't doing it before ... But about the crossover between the struggles over racial injustice that we are all experiencing, and certainly that some of our students in various affinity groups are experiencing with well-being. Last year's Mental Health Day highlighted my colleague, Rhonda Magee, who spoke about her fabulous book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice. We then had several follow-up programs that students found really, really impactful, where we were really focusing on the impact of well-being on targeted communities of color. JANET: We've had a lot of, I think, requests for some more programming targeted with our first-generation students around well-being. I think there is a huge outcry for doing more programming of this sort as we move forward. BREE: What advice do you have for others who may be working at a law school and are listening to this? Maybe they're faculty or administration and who want to enact some of their own initiatives. Do you have some advice for them? How to get it started and how to make sure it's successful? JANET: Well, Bree, I think, as you know, because you and I have talked about this a lot, I do feel that right now the vast majority of law schools in the country are doing positive things around well-being. Many want to do more. Some of us are doing it differently. Some have more resources than others to do this kind of programming. But I think there's a huge interest, and in fact, I think a demand to have well-being programming in law schools right now and to really connect this for our law students. This is one of the things I say to students all the time, "You're coming to us not only to learn about contracts and torts, you're coming to learn how to become a future professional. Some of the skills that we can teach and model for you about your personal well-being and learning to set limits and finding balance between yourself and your work, these are some of the most important skills and probably the most important skills we can teach you in law school." BREE: I think of sort of the fancy word for that, professional identity formation. Is that? JANET: We are all talking about professional identity formation. Exactly. Exactly. And this is a critical element of this. I think that the well-being community and the professional identity community have found a great partnership and shared interest. These are things that we are working together to message, and we're messaging them in all parts of the law school. We're messaging them in clinics and in externship programs. We are messaging this in all kinds of core courses, including professional responsibility. This is all a part of our shared mission right now. CHRIS: Janet, it's great to hear that. I mean, again, with your perspective. When I think of law schools and well-being, I think of you because I think that you've been kind of at the epicenter of kind of looking at what's been going on in the law school environment. It's encouraging to hear that your sense is that the vast majority of law schools have kind of leaned in on this particular subject. I'm just curious about maybe the why. Why we find ourselves in a significantly better position today than say we did 10 years ago? JANET: Well, I think first of all, I do believe as I both talk to people at Miami Law but people around the country, in fact, Chris many of us are experiencing issues or challenges around mental health and substances with our own families, with our friends. We have faculty ... In fact, I was on the phone the other day with a faculty member and she said, "My child is in the process of being hospitalized." So I think we are actually at a point where ... I have another faculty colleague ... Fabulous, very, very smart person who lost his wife to suicide. I'm coming to the world at this point. I think this it's not a Democratic issue, it's not a Republican issue. This is an issue that affects all of our families and things that we hold near and dear to us. I think people are being a little more open about that. JANET: I think as all of the work and certainly, Bree, all of the anti-stigma work that you and others have been doing for so long, I think this is seeping in, and I think people are coming forward and saying, "This affected my family. This affected my child. This affected my brother." I think faculty are also a little more willing, and I'm not saying everybody, but to be a little more vulnerable themselves with their students. I think some of this happened during the pandemic. I think there was something very equalizing about all of us being on Zoom. BREE: That's a great point. JANET: Struggling with Zoom, and I saw some faculty members, and then I heard about it from students who said, "I'm really struggling here. I haven't been able to see my parents. I'm divorced and I haven't been able to visit my child. And this really sucks right now. So I appreciate that this is really a confusing time for all of you as students and the faculty. Where it's like, "Oh my gosh, that torts professor's a real person." JANET: I view this as some of the, I like to call it the gifts of the pandemic, but I think that there were people who became a lot more real with each other. And that includes faculty members becoming a little more real with students as well. CHRIS: That's such a great observation. I've always been prone to say that we are obviously human beings before we are a law student, a lawyer, a professor, a judge. It feels like we're kind of getting more back to some of those kinds of basic levels of empathy and kind of all on the same trajectory of just kind of trying to live our best life. JANET: Right. Absolutely. CHRIS: Let's take a quick break here. We'll hear from one of our sponsors, and we'll be right back. — Advertisement: Meet Vera, your firm's virtual ethics risk assessment guide. 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I want to hear, and this is particularly in your spot as Chair of CoLAP's Law School Committee, could you tell us about some of the initiatives that you all are working on? In particular, I'm thinking about the whole character and fitness process, which has had such a detrimental impact on students' willingness to ask for help. And then also to dig into some of the changes you guys are seeking for the ABA standards. JANET: Well, thank you, Bree. I have to say, I think it has been a tremendous honor for me to be able to be involved with the American Bar Association CoLAP because you really feel the capacity to make change, to be in a room with people who are not only passionate about these issues, but who actually have some policy vision and the power to then act upon that vision. JANET: So we have been working through the CoLAP on several national projects that we think can really shift the conversation on health and well-being for students. As you mentioned, the first has to do with character and fitness. Why is this so important? Because in surveys that have been done and the preeminent survey by Jerry Organ, David Jaffe and Kate bender, looking at law student well-being, we learned the very scary high numbers of students who are experiencing depression, suicidality, substance use/abuse. We also learned that a very small percentage of those students were willing to come forward and ask for help from deans of students like myself. And the primary number one reason they told us they would not come ask for help is because they were afraid that they would have to disclose it on their bar application. JANET: So this became a huge cultural issue for us. How can we shift that culture so that people understand that when they need help, they actually indeed must ask for help, that we are here to help them, and that the bar character fitness doesn't become a barrier to that. So we have been working on trying to both evaluate what states are doing around the country and advocating for change, and specifically trying to either eliminate questions in the character and fitness process asking about mental health history or history of substance use disorders or narrowing those questions in time and scope so that people understand that their first duty is to take care of themselves and get help, and it will not stand in their way of ultimately being able to become a lawyer. JANET: We have had, I think we both, there has been, I think some policy conversations, we've been able to do some writing in this field, but as we know, in 2020, one of the great gifts of the pandemic was that early on the State of New York removed their questions relating to substance use mental health. Anything outside of conduct is no longer asked by New York. BREE: That was huge. JANET: That was huge. It was huge. So many people came together including great advocates in Massachusetts, which had been doing this for a long time that made possible the change in New York. Shortly after New York, I think in March, literally as we were moving into the pandemic, Michigan removed its questions. Again, thanks to a lot of great advocacy by Tish Vincent and others involved with the LAP in Michigan, the law schools in Michigan, and a month later, Indiana followed Michigan's suit just after the pandemic had started. JANET: The Chief Justice in Indiana, who I just think is one of ... My Ruth Bader Ginsburg I tell her ... Justice Rush, who really was so eloquent in recognizing the importance of this issue. The Supreme Court took very quick action under her leadership to remove the problematic character and fitness questions in Indiana. Then by the summer, New Hampshire also followed suit. So those were four states all in 2020. I feel like there's a great momentum there, Bree, and I continue to remain hopeful that we can continue to make progress in other states, particularly where we have some matching of an active law school community, an active bar well-being community, a judiciary, and we know that there are other State Supreme Court justices that are very, very enlightened on these issues, that we can work together to have more states implement reform in the character and fitness process. JANET: I feel strongly also where we can, if we can get either frequently asked questions or preambles, things that we can use as educational materials with students as they enter law school, as we talk about bar admission, so that they are very clearly told that this should not in any way keep you from accessing mental health or other counseling resources when you need it. BREE: Right. I mean, that's one of the things also is to include very explicit language in the introduction to the questions of the application process or somewhere, we want you to get help. That can be helpful too. I know that the Institute for Well-Being in Law is going to be joining in the policy efforts there too around trying to bring about state by state change on those character and fitness questions. So we're going to have a good group of advocates working on this around the country. BREE: I know another thing that CoLAP has been doing, and you've been a leader on really, and I can't imagine how many, maybe hundreds of hours that you've spent writing and working on this, Janet, but that is around the ABA standards for law schools. Can you talk a little bit about that? What you've been working on and the progress that's been made? JANET: Well, thank you, Bree, and this truly has been a labor of love. So the CoLAP Law School Committee, hand-in-hand with the ABA Law Student Division, has been seeking changes in the ABA accreditation rules to recognize the integral role of well-being in law schools, student services, and law school curriculum. As you know, all accredited schools are subject to the ABA accreditation standard. These standards are voted through the Council on Legal Education, through the ABA, and then ultimately approved by the House of Delegates. JANET: And so we have asked for several years for some language on well-being. We didn't get very far the first two years, but this year, I think again, another gift of the pandemic has been the incredible focus and importance of well-being. The Council in fact, did put out some draft language. It was not all that we wanted, but it did include a recognition that every law school needed to provide some well-being resources to its students, either directly or in collaboration with university resources, LAP resources, looking as well at financial well-being, emergency funds, and other essential resources that every law school must do. So the ABA Council recommended this language. We then had a large comment period. We are currently in the middle of a second comment period on proposed language. We hope to hear more in this month of August as to whether or not the package of proposals will be pushing forward by February to the House of Delegates. JANET: I will note that the package right now also has some other very significant changes on professional identity education in law schools, and it also has a large package of proposals that have to do with diversity and inclusion and core curricula requirements in law schools around diversity inclusion initiatives. There is a very rich package of proposed revisions to the standards. We are going to remain hopeful that these can get to the House of Delegates this year. But I think the fact that we finally have well-being in a draft proposal as an essential part of every accredited law school, that is institutional change, and I'm very proud of how far we've come with this so far. BREE: Absolutely. And Janet, if our listeners, if somebody wanted to dig in further and learn more about that, can they go to the ABA website or how could they learn more or track what's going on in that area? JANET: All of the proposed changes and indeed all of the comments that have been received are all on the website for the ABA Section on Legal Education, as well as the notices of ... There will be a meeting as we're recording this, we are in the week of the ABA Annual Meeting ... But my understanding is August 19th and 20th, the Section on Legal Education will meet again, we understand, to discuss next steps on these standards. Of course, if that is a problem, anybody is free to email me at the University of Miami. We have a large community of friends across the country who are in a very close conversation about continuing to advocate for these changes to the standards. Please join us. CHRIS: Let's talk a little bit about the future as we kind of look ahead. Obviously we've made a lot of progress through the efforts of you and other folks who are keeping a close eye on this. You talked about the fact that there's more awareness, more eagerness, more focus, but we also know that culture shifts in our profession, they don't happen overnight. I'm just kind of curious on your perspective of what's on the horizon. What things do you see in the future being done by law schools to continue to move the needle on improving the well-being of law students? Because we obviously know that you're preparing the next generation in some respects. There are general generational aspects to the improvement of the profession. So I'd love for you to break out the crystal ball, so to speak, and kind of talk about what you see kind of coming down the road as we continue to maintain an emphasis on this issue in the law school environment. JANET: Well, thank you, Chris. I'm not very good with a crystal ball, but let me try here. So I do believe, and I think at the CoLAP level, first of all, I believe that we need to work hard to make sure that not just student services folks, but faculty and administration do need to be trained on mental health first aid, which is a course, i an eight-hour course, to make sure that they have basic skills to be prepared to have conversations with people. This course, this mental health first aid course is not only for law schools, this is being done in law firms, it's being done with police, it's being done all over the country right now so that people are more equipped when they come in contact with a client or a patient or a student or a colleague or a child that they have some more basic skills to be able to triage the situation and feel prepared to understand what somebody is going through. So I do think we need to continue to push that course out, number one. JANET: I think number two, that we need to have some more institutional structure for keeping these conversations going, as you've said, Chris. I would say at the University of Miami, I have formed some great partnerships with other people at our university. I would include the people, my friends at the medical school. I think that our medical education and legal education in our student populations, there're strengths and there're weaknesses. There's a lot of overlap. So I've tried to partner closely with the medical school, our counseling center, other people at the university so we have some institutional structure for continuing a conversation. I think that's incredibly important because me, one person, I get busy and distracted by other things. But when you know that people are coming together at regular intervals to have a conversation that is empowering. That creates accountability, JANET: I think we also get a lot of accountability by working with the LAPs in our state. We just, this summer, just last month, the Florida LAP got all of the law schools in Florida together for a program. I know that these regional meetings are taking place right now in other states. That also creates a catalyst for change. Also when you're working with the State Supreme Court on the character and fitness topic. I think there is a strength in numbers when we can bring people together, whether it's under the auspices of a well-being committee or whether it's just again, a time of coming together to support one another, share, and then try to again, begin to imagine ways that we can work together to create change. BREE: Absolutely. I've always felt that in regards to these policy initiatives and the work around the well-being movement, get passionate people together sitting around a table, you have a bunch of lawyers, they're brilliant, they're creative, they're solution-focused. We can figure this out. And so Janet, thank you for being there at the head of the table in these discussions, in this work around law school. BREE: I want to thank our listeners for joining us. This is the third and the final of our miniseries on initiatives and innovations in law school space. Please join us for our research miniseries, where we'll have three episodes digging in and talking with some of the lead researchers and thought leaders in the lawyer and well-being space movement. So want to thank everybody for joining us again today. We will be back with you in the next couple of weeks with more episodes. In the meantime, be well. Take care. Thank you all.  

When COVID-19 closed ABA offices in March, staff sprang into work figuring out how the association could convert its meetings and events to virtual environments. In this bonus episode of Asked and Answered, we're giving you a sneak peek at how the 2020 ABA Annual Meeting came together, some of the exciting guests and speakers who have been lined up, and what exactly it will be like to attend an all-virtual meeting. ABA President Judy Perry Martinez and Marty Balogh of the Meetings and Travel Group spoke with the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles to share behind-the-scenes information about the annual meeting, which is free to all ABA members. Register before July 27, then attend sessions and events at your leisure from July 29-Aug. 4.

When COVID-19 closed ABA offices in March, staff sprang into work figuring out how the association could convert its meetings and events to virtual environments. In this bonus episode of Asked and Answered, we're giving you a sneak peek at how the 2020 ABA Annual Meeting came together, some of the exciting guests and speakers who have been lined up, and what exactly it will be like to attend an all-virtual meeting. ABA President Judy Perry Martinez and Marty Balogh of the Meetings and Travel Group spoke with the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles to share behind-the-scenes information about the annual meeting, which is free to all ABA members. Register before July 27, then attend sessions and events at your leisure from July 29-Aug. 4.

When COVID-19 closed ABA offices in March, staff sprang into work figuring out how the association could convert its meetings and events to virtual environments. In this bonus episode of Asked and Answered, we're giving you a sneak peek at how the 2020 ABA Annual Meeting came together, some of the exciting guests and speakers who have been lined up, and what exactly it will be like to attend an all-virtual meeting. ABA President Judy Perry Martinez and Marty Balogh of the Meetings and Travel Group spoke with the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles to share behind-the-scenes information about the annual meeting, which is free to all ABA members. Register before July 27, then attend sessions and events at your leisure from July 29-Aug. 4.

This podcast references: Full Audio: Law Firm Cybersecurity Requirements You Never Dreamed Of: Emerging Threats, Ethical Obligations to Clients, and Survival Tactics https://bcove.video/30hd9c7 29th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference Registration https://www.americanbar.org/events-cle/mtg/inperson/379294007/ Breakfast with Thomas Monheim, Sept 17 https://www.americanbar.org/events-cle/mtg/inperson/381239204/

Danny Cook, Shawn Cheadle, Kelli Hooke, Skip Smith, and Sumara Thompson-King join host Laurence Colletti to discuss their CLE at the ABA Annual Meeting on the significant distinctions in government contracts for work in the space industry. They discuss the various ways the government works with contractors and outline some of the risks these contractors face when operating in space. Danny Cook is a government contracts attorney at the law firm of DLA Piper in Washington, D.C. Shawn Cheadle is general counsel of operations at Lockheed Martin Space. Kelli Hooke is senior corporate counsel in legal compliance at T-Mobile. Milton “Skip” Smith is head of the space law practice group at Sherman & Howard. Sumara Thompson-King is general counsel at NASA and has worked in the area of government contracts for over 30 years

At the 2019 ABA Annual Meeting, host Michele Wong Krause welcomes ABA Medal winner Dale Minami to discuss his legal career and passion for using the law to empower the Asian Pacific American community. They talk about Dale’s most exceptional professional accomplishments, including his work to overturn the conviction in a 1942 case, Korematsu v. United States. They also discuss current issues of immigration, racism, and inequality, and Dale cautions lawmakers against repeating egregious mistakes of the past. Dale Minami is senior counsel with the law firm Minami Tamaki LLP in San Francisco, CA.

From the ABA Annual Meeting 2019, Laurence Colletti hosts a panel of esteemed judges, Hon. Margaret M. Sweeney, Hon. Thomas C. Wheeler, and Hon. Mary Ellen Coster Williams, along with panel moderator Kathryn Muldoon Griffin. They discuss their CLE on best practices in the area of construction litigation and each guest offers their top tips for lawyers. They also give insights into how to obtain persuasive and credible experts for construction cases and discuss the benefits of alternative dispute resolution. Judge Margaret Sweeney, Judge Thomas Wheeler and Judge Mary Ellen Coster Williams are judges of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Kathryn Muldoon Griffin is a member of the law firm Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC.

Recent reports indicate as many as 85% of Americans don’t have access to justice. While many factors contribute to this problem, the one thing that shouldn’t be standing in the way is the legal industry itself. The Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services (ATILS) is reviewing existing regulatory frameworks, such as ethics rules regarding the unauthorized practice of law and the sharing of legal fees, as well as exploring the opportunities afforded by new technologies to see what changes could be made to provide higher quality and more accessible legal services to millions of underserved Americans. Tara Burd is a probate litigation attorney in San Diego, CA and the founder of the T.Burd Law Group. She is part of the California Lawyers Association leadership. Kevin Mohr is a professor at Western State College of Law in Irvine, CA. He recently retired from his role as reporter and consultant to the California Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Andrew Arruda is the chief executive officer and co-founder of the artificial intelligence company ROSS Intelligence, a leader in the legal technology industry. Joanna Mendoza is a solo practitioner and is on the board of trustees of the California State Bar. Daniel W. Linna Jr. is a visiting professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Allen Rodriguez, co-founder of the One400 digital agency, has 15 years experience marketing for lawyers and legal tech startups. Ralph Baxter advises legal technology companies, law firms, corporate legal departments, and law schools, to help modernize the way legal services are delivered.

Registration and information for the 29th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law CLE Conference https://www.americanbar.org/events-cle/mtg/inperson/379294007/ Gilman Louie is a Partner at Alsop Louie Partners https://www.alsop-louie.com/team/gilman-louie/

For the third year in a row, the Legal Services Corporation held a fundraiser concert at the ABA Annual Meeting. Before the performance, co-hosts Laurence Colletti and Marty Balogh sat down with John Levi, Joey Jackson, Nancy Hays, and Robert Sims to discuss the purpose and goals of the fundraiser and their personal involvement in the event. They also highlight impactful stories of how life-changing legal help can be to those in need and encourage listeners to partner with Legal Services Corporation. John Levi is a longtime partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago and chairman of the board of directors for the Legal Services Corporation. Joey Jackson is a criminal defense lawyer and legal analyst for CNN and HLN. Robert Sims is a professional baritone who performed for the LSC fundraiser concert. Nancy Hays is president of Nancy Hays Entertainment & Speakers, Inc.

Post-industrial cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, and New Orleans are each plagued by tens of thousands of blighted properties, but remedying the problem is rarely straightforward. At the ABA’s Annual Meeting, host Laurence Colletti is joined by Lin Chin, Amber Knee, and Jessica Bacher to discuss the multitude of causes for these blighted properties, the scale of the problem, and some of the ways cities and private organizations are addressing the issue. Find out how you can get involved in the solution through the resources they share, including the book Vacant and Problem Properties: A Guide to Legal Strategies and Remedies, available through the ABA and Amazon. Amber Knee is an urban planner with the Division of Traffic Planning and Management at the New York City Department of Transportation Jessica Bacher is the Executive Direct at the Land Use Law Center. Lin Chin is the Special Projects Manager at Hello Housing

With limited resources and difficult systemic restrictions for both immigrants and judges, those inside the immigration court system don’t think those brought before their courts are receiving real due process. At the ABA Annual Meeting, host Laurence Colletti is joined by Judge Joan V. Churchill, Judge Dana Leigh Marks and Karen Grisez to hear about the pervasive issues causing serious difficulties for all parties involved, some ways in which the system could be improved, and ways lawyers can get involved to make a meaningful difference for those facing the potentially severe consequences of a ruling against them. Judge Dana Marks is an immigration judge in San Francisco California who has been on the bench since 1987. She is also the President Emerita of the National Association of Immigration Judges. Judge Joan Churchill is a retired immigration judge, having served from 1980 to 2005. She is a past president of the National Association of Women Judges and she currently works with the ABA section on National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary. Karen T. Grisez is a member of the Litigation Department and is resident in Fried Frank's Washington, DC office. She joined the Firm in 1990 and became Public Service Counsel in 1996. She serves on the ABA Commission on Immigration and is a past chair of the commission.

Co-hosts Ralph Baxter and Laurence Colletti sit down with new ABA President-elect Patricia Lee Refo to hear about her many years of involvement in the association. They talk about the current state of the ABA and emphasize its work toward increasing diversity and inclusion in the profession. Patricia also talks about how she plans to support current efforts for innovation that will provide greater efficiency in the practice of law. Patricia Lee Refo, a partner with Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, is the president-elect of the American Bar Association.

At the ABA Annual Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, California, host Laurence Colletti chats with Protima Pandey and Jennifer Reisch about workplace laws and how to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence. They discuss how employers can better serve their affected and vulnerable workforce by providing guidance on improving responsiveness, identifying proper handling of sensitive problems, and highlighting ways companies frequently fail their employees through improper practices. They also encourage lawyers to evaluate these workplace issues through the lenses of equality, respect, and safety and to encourage learning through healthy engagement. Protima Pandey has been an advocate for gender justice and is the newly appointed director for the Office of Women’s Policy at Santa Clara County. Jennifer Reisch is the legal director of Equal Rights Advocates where she’s responsible for directing ERA’s efforts to seek equality and justice for women and girls in schools and workplaces across the country.

At the ABA Annual Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, California, host Laurence Colletti gets an overview of Justin Miller’s presentation about cash flow mistakes that people need to understand when going through a divorce. He breaks down the five mistakes people need to pay attention to: liquidity and volatility, long term needs, inflation, taxes, and spending. Justin also suggests clients should know who they’re working with because not all family lawyers have the right answers Justin Miller is a national wealth strategist at BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

At the ABA Annual Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, California, host Laurence Colletti welcomes Mark Chinn to the table to talk about ways to avoid malpractice for family law attorneys. Mark takes an unorthodox approach to family law by contacting insurance carriers who handle malpractice claims and discovers most malpractices are filed as claims versus lawsuits. He also explains that divorce is broken into three components -- legal, psychological, and financial -- and although lawyers understand those parts, they should never handle a case without the help of a CPA or certified financial planner. Lastly, he breaks down his top 10 ways to avoid malpractice. Mark Chinn is founder and principal at Chinn & Associates, PC, practicing family law.

The US has been grappling with disparities in pay for longer than anyone can remember. Yet for all the talk and all the efforts made to date, the problem still exists and those fighting for change continue on undeterred. Host Laurence Colletti is at the ABA Annual Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, California with Fred Alvarez, Jessica James, and Lori Andrus to talk about the state of equal pay as to the law and the gender pay gap. They discuss the issue arising out of employers asking about prior salary at the time of hiring, rather than evaluating people's skills and experience levels to calculate more appropriate compensation. They also argue employers should conduct an annual self audit to minimize any possible pay gaps that develop within their company. To finish off, they each give their practical advice and any resources they believe can help others understand the true meaning of equal pay. Fred Alvarez is a partner with Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP. Jessica James is an employment litigation attorney with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Lori Andrus runs her own law firm called Andrus Anderson, LLP and she specializes in fighting for equal pay.

Kyle Fry, Kyle McEntee, and Benjamin Barros join host Laurence Colletti to discuss the big issue of legal education student debt, what’s causing it, and how lawyers can help address the student debt crisis. They explain how high rankings for law schools have become an obsession for deans, and, with rankings often correlating with expenditures, those deans are being driven to increase tuition rates to compete. In response to their frustration with the existing ranking systems, they also talk about how their respective groups are exploring new models that better reflect the quality of legal education as opposed to rewarding bigger budgets. For instance, the models they are developing seek to reward schools that secure employment for their graduates while spending less money. Tune in with us at the ABA Annual Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, California, and hear how we can all address the uncomfortable subject of rising student debt. Kyle Fry is in-house counsel for a large manufacturer in Iowa, and is the chair of the student debt task force at the Iowa State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. Kyle McEntee has served as Law School Transparency's executive director since 2009, when he co-founded the organization with Patrick Lynch. D. Benjamin Barros joined the University of Toledo, College of Law as dean in July 2015.

Host Laurence Colletti sits down with ABA President-elect Judy Perry Martinez at the ABA Annual Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, California to talk about her involvement with the ABA and legal issues that the ABA plans to resolve. She also discusses how the ABA is involved with innovation and education, gun violence as well as immigration, and what she plans to do when she becomes the next president. To close it out, ABA President-elect Martinez touches on the subject of wellness with lawyers and encourages those who need help to not be afraid because the ABA will be there to support them every step of the way.

Missed ABA’s annual meeting this year? Don’t fret, On The Road has you covered. Host Laurence Colletti catches up with ABA President Bob Carlson about what’s new at this year’s ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. ABA President Carlson gives an overview of the four primary topics talked about during the meeting: lawyer/law student wellness, immigration, pro bono, and membership benefits. He also discusses whether this will be the last annual meeting in SF.

The black letter law and articles on this topic are: DNI report on Russian threats: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/155494946443/odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence The Justice Department Indictment of thirteen Russian individuals for political interference https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-russian-individuals-and-three-russian-companies-scheme-interfere The Hamilton 68 bot tracking site https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ Heartbleed bug http://heartbleed.com/ Ransomware infected MedStar Health Center https://healthitsecurity.com/news/medstar-ransomware-attack-caused-by-known-security-flaw Listen to Suzanne Spaulding and Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker on National Security Law Today episodes 39 and 40 https://soundcloud.com/nsltoday/protecting-democratic-institutions-part-1-with-suzanne-spaulding-and-elizabeth-rindksopf-parker Panel information for Attacks on our Institutions of Democracy: The Role of the Judicial System https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/Institutions_of_Democracy_2018.pdf Watch the full panel https://bcove.video/2MmQGay

For lawyers who are military spouses, the inevitable move from state to state can be a nightmare for licensing reasons. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Linda Klein, Michelle Suskauer, Nan DeRenzi, Karen Scanlan, and Katherine Lee Goyette about the jurisdiction issues faced by lawyer military spouses and the work that’s being done in both Florida and Georgia to provide temporary law licenses. They also discuss the Veterans Legal Service Initiative and the law service clinics that are partnering legal help along with medical help for veterans. Linda Klein is managing shareholder for the Georgia offices of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, LLP. Michelle R. Suskauer is a West Palm Beach Criminal Lawyer and an AV Preeminent rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell. Nan DeRenzi is the chief operating officer of Jefferson Consulting Group and is a former United States Navy officer. Karen Scanlan is an attorney licensed in Illinois and is a native of Chicago. Katherine Lee Goyette is an associate attorney for Fendley & Etson, Attorneys at Law, in Clarksville, Tennessee, focusing on personal injury, criminal defense, and family law matters.

The faces of children being separated from their families at the border have been plastered on the news. What you don’t see are the lawyers on the ground are doing everything they can to help these families. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Lee Rawles talks to Kimi Jackson, Maria Woltjen, and Anne Chandler about the common legal issues that are facing immigrants at the border such as family separation. They discuss what makes this such a hot topic in the media, less commonly addressed problems like working with non-biological families, and what the ABA is doing to help. Kimi Jackson is the director of Probar, a south Texas pro bono asylum representation project. Maria Woltjen is the founder and executive director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights at the University of Chicago Law School. Anne Chandler is the executive director of Tahirih Justice Center’s Houston office.

Headlines about family separation and border walls have dominated the media and beg the question of where the current administration stands on international human rights. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Elisa Massimino about international human rights and how these rights have fared under the Trump Administration. They discuss how this administration differs from other administrations in regards to refugees and the treatment of immigrants and what it could potentially do differently to encourage better international relations. Elisa Massimino is president and chief executive officer of Human Rights First.

As of this ABA Annual Meeting, Bob Carlson became president of the ABA. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to new ABA President Bob Carlson about the projects he will be working on during his presidency. He plans to make a toolkit for firms and bar organizations that combats lawyer depression, addiction, and suicide. As president, he will also be working on content for solo, small, and medium sized firms that will help them run their businesses more effectively. Robert M. Carlson is a shareholder with the Butte, Montana, law firm of Corette Black Carlson & Mickelson, P.C., and is president of the American Bar Association.

The courtroom can be intimidating for young lawyers, but with the right preparation and organization, they can overcome nervousness and be primed for success.. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Rocky Dhir talks to Latanishia Watters, Sarah Rogers, and Judge Terry Ruckriegle about the importance of properly preparing for a trial. They discuss the best tactics for litigators like maintaining a solid relationship with the opposing counsel, building credibility with both judge and jury, and setting realistic expectations for your client. They also share the best and worst things they’ve seen litigators do during trials. Latanishia Watters is an attorney at Hand Arendall where she has developed a commercial litigation practice across a spectrum of focused practice areas. Sarah Rogers brings 13 years of litigation experience to Crain Lewis Brogdon. Honorable W. Terry Ruckriegle was appointed to the District Court in August 1984 and presided as Chief Judge of the Fifth Judicial District from 1994-2010.

Miranda Rights are a vital part of our criminal justice system but not everyone facing arrest fully understands what these rights entail due to language barriers. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Lee Rawles talks to Melba Pearson, Richard Pena, Moire Corcoran, Matt Redle, and Jeremy Alexis about the Miranda Rights Warnings Project, a project that seeks to use technology to translate Miranda Warnings for people who don't speak English. They discuss the origins of the project, design challenges, and how they to create an efficient and beneficial product. Melba Pearson is the deputy director for the ACLU of Florida and is also on the Governing Council of the ABA Center for Innovation. Richard Pena is president and CEO of the Law Offices of Richard Pena and served as President of the American Bar Foundation. Moire Corcoran is a master of design student at IIT Institute of Design and the design team leader on the Miranda Rights Warnings Project. Matt Redle is the county and prosecuting attorney for Sheridan County, Wyoming and is first vice-chair and member of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Council. Jeremy Alexis is a senior lecturer at IIT Institute of Design, director of IPRO, and the director of the Idea Shop.

Hilarie Bass's time as ABA president may be coming to an end, but her work to improve the legal profession will continue through her initiatives. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Hilarie Bass about some of the initiatives that defined her presidency. Her biggest focus was on increasing the number of women lawyers who pursue long-term careers in the law. She also dedicated her time as president to Legal Fact Check, homeless youth, and diversity inclusion. Learn about how these initiatives will continue in the coming years. Hilarie Bass is co-president of international law firm Greenberg Traurig and a prolific trial attorney with a highly successful 30-plus year career.

The National Conference of Bar Presidents (NCBP)provides information and training to state and local bar association leaders. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Patrick Palace talks to Jennifer Parent about the NCBP and their focus on leadership, innovation, and collaboration. They discuss the diverse perspectives of the conference’s attendees, how NABE prepares leaders for trends and changes, and what they are doing to help with the access to justice issue. Patrick and Jennifer also share how the NCBP supports those who are interested in pursuing bar leadership in order to make a difference. Jennifer Parent is a director and chair of the McLane Middleton's litigation department and the president of the NCBP.

With a membership of 47,000 litigators, associates, and law students, the ABA Section of Litigation has a diverse range of opportunities for its members. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Koji Fukumura and Barb Dawson about the ABA Section of Litigation and the benefits it provides to its members. They discuss the value of their content, from their publications to their podcast, and current and future programs that address issues from helping children at the border to mentoring law students. Koji Fukumura is chair of Cooley’s securities litigation practice and serves on the firm’s management committee. Barb Dawson serves on Snell & Wilmer’s elected Executive Committee and co-chairs the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group and its International Practice Group.

In an effort to bring more awareness to funding legal services for the underrepresented, Legal Services Corporation hosted their second annual concert. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Marty Balogh, John G. Levi, E. Faye Butler, Zachary Stevenson, and Judge Lora J. Livingston about the importance of properly funding legal services. They discuss the kinds of issues the Legal Services Corporation addresses and opportunities to volunteer legal representation to those who can't afford it. Marty Balogh is the associate executive director of Meetings and Travel Group at the American Bar Association. John G. Levi is a partner in Sidley’s Chicago office and was confirmed by the Senate and elected as chairman of the Legal Services Board of Directors on April 7, 2010. E. Faye Butler is an accomplished and decorated theater actress and singer who is proud to call Chicago her home. Best known for his acclaimed tribute to Buddy Holly, Vancouver Island native, Zachary Stevenson, channels the spirit and sounds of the past in dynamic performance that is uniquely his own. Honorable Lora J. Livingston is the judge of the 261st District Court in Travis County, Texas.

In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Victor Li talks to Dan Rodriguez, Ellen Rosenblum, William Hurd, and Misha Tseytlin about the actions and prerogatives of the state attorneys general in the current political climate. They discuss some of the lawsuits brought against the current administration, how they compare to lawsuits in the past, and whether judges with different political affiliations will deter attorneys general from filing these suits. Daniel B. Rodriguez was appointed Dean and Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in January 2012. A former federal prosecutor and state trial and appellate judge, Ellen Rosenblum was first elected to a four-year term as Oregon’s 17th Attorney General in November, 2012. Bill Hurd is a partner in the Richmond office of Troutman Sanders and focused on his firm’s Appellate practice. Misha Tseytlin became Wisconsin Solicitor General in December 2015.

If you want to know more about the opioid crisis, who better to ask then those who prescribe the drugs in the first place. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Liane Jackson talks to Dave Preble, a dentist who seeks to improve the way medical professionals handle the prescription of opioids for pain. He discusses how to identify drug-seeking behavior, methods of solving the issue that aren’t incarceration, and avoiding the complete demonization of using opioids. Dr. Dave Preble is the senior vice president of the Practice Institute where he provides strategic vision and leadership for developing ADA policy.

A solid education is a vital part of being a lawyer, but student loan debt can leave young lawyers crippled long after their education ends and their career begins. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Jason Tashea talks to Bruce Brotine, Lyssa Thaden, and Zach Weber about how young lawyers can manage student loan debt during and after law school. They also discuss why students should look at refinancing as an option, the responsibility of schools to their students, and the realities of Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Bruce Brotine is the director of business development at SoFi, a finance company taking a radical approach to lending and wealth management. Lyssa L. Thaden is the managing director of the Center for Education and Financial Capability at AccessLex Institute. Zach Weber is the assistant director of financial aid at Northwestern University.

In Epic Systems v. Lewis, the Supreme Court ruled that employment contracts can legally bar employees from collective arbitration. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Adam Fuller, Heidi Roll, Maya Ewing, and Daniel Hemel about how the Epic Systems v. Lewis case has changed the use of arbitration clauses in employment agreements. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this decision and how employees, employers, and even law students have reacted to the use of arbitration clauses. Maya Ewing is the senior corporate counsel at Allstate. Adam Fuller is a Principal and Co-founder at Bregal Sagemount. Heidi Roll is a Financial and Professional Lines Claims Manager for Starr Companies with eight years of claims handling experience. Daniel Hemel is an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.

What is the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE) and why should bar leaders be interested in joining? In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Karen Hutchins and Julie Armstrong about the NABE and the resources they provide for bar executives, like networking and collaboration. They also discuss the NABE’s focus on change and innovation and the programs they offer to help with regular shifts in leadership. Karen Hutchins currently serves as the executive director of the Arkansas Bar Association and the immediate past president of the National Association of Bar Executives. Julie Armstrong is the executive director at the Indianapolis Bar Association & Foundation and the current president of the National Association of Bar Executives.

As technology is quickly advancing, laws are needed to address problems created by new tech. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Jason Tashea talks to Andrew Grosso, Judge Bernice Donald, Alan Butler, and Lorraine Kisselburgh about how technology is gradually changing aspects of the law. They discuss how the Fourth Amendment applies to new technologies, the Carpenter case, and the use of algorithms in law. Judge Bernice Donald is currently serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Andrew Grosso is a former assistant U.S. attorney who started his law practice in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Lorraine Kisselburgh joins the Department of Communication at Purdue University as an assistant professor after receiving her Ph.D. in 2008. Alan Butler is senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC.

Thanks to the #MeToo Movement, sexual harassment in the legal sphere is being addressed more openly. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Stephanie Francis Ward talks to Nicole VanderDoes about the #MeToo movement and workplace sexual harassment in the legal industry. She shares advice for attorneys whose superiors make them feel uncomfortable and how men of integrity shouldn’t fear hiring or being in the same room with women attorneys. Nicole VanderDoes is Chief Counsel for the ABA Standing Committee on the American Judicial System.

Did you know that the Solo, Small Firm, and General Practice Division of the ABA (GPSolo) includes military and government lawyers, and offers portals, platforms, programs, and collaborations that support the personal and professional lives of all their lawyers? In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Melanie Bragg about the assistance programs and upcoming events in GPSolo and why lawyers should be interested. Throughout their discussion, they dive regularly into the theme of where tradition meets innovation. Melanie Bragg practices mediation, arbitration, probate, guardianships, small business work including business entity formation, real estate, employment law, and securities arbitration at Bragg Law.

Changes in the environment also herald changes in the laws that protect the environment. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Tina Campbell Hebert, Brian Daly, David Silverman, Hari Osofsky, and Dan Rees about climate change and the law. They discuss how courts are playing an important role in framing adaptation and mitigation policy, how communities are adapting to changes in their environment, and whether laws are keeping up with the changes. Tina Campbell Hebert assists clients with corporate, business, and commercial real estate matters. Brian Daly is an associate planner at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. David Silverman is co-chair of Ancel Glink’s Zoning and Land Use Group and co-editor of the group’s e-newsletter, In the Zone. Hari M. Osofsky is dean of Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Law, professor of international affairs, and professor of geography. Dan Rees has served as legal counsel for the State of Louisiana’s Office of Community Development – Disaster Recovery Unit for more than nine years, since hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005.

Pleadings can often be overlooked but are an essential part of the trial process. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Rocky Dhir talks to Michael Panter, Matthew Moeller, David Pardue, and Michael Weber about the purpose of pleadings and how to craft them successfully. They discuss how pleadings reflects a lawyer’s competency and professionality and why attorneys should aim for clean-cut pleadings. Hon. Michael R. Panter (Ret.) is a highly regarded senior mediator and arbitrator with nearly 40 years of legal experience. Matthew Moeller is the owner of the Moeller Firm LLC. His experience and practice primarily includes the representation of shipyards, vessel owners and operators and contractors. David Pardue has practiced for 23 years focusing on intellectual property and business litigation, especially trade secrets and trademark litigation. Michael Weber focuses his practice on fidelity and surety bond claims/litigation, complex litigation, commercial law, transactional matters, general business matters/litigation, and construction law.

In this time of division within the U.S., the decisions of the government seem to carry more weight than ever. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti along with guests Kevin Davis and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky take a look at the state of the Supreme Court during this time of intense polarization. To cover such a complex topic they discuss the long term effects of this session’s blockbuster cases, the cases they anticipate will carry importance during the next term, and the role a justice’s ideology plays in their decision making. Kevin Davis is an award-winning journalist, author and magazine writer based in Chicago. Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean, distinguished professor of law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

What’s up with the young lawyers of the American Bar Association? In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Young Lawyers Division (YLD) outgoing Chair Dana Hrelic about membership opportunities and the advantages of joining the YLD. She also shares about both current and future programs that address issues from disaster relief to lawyer wellness. Attorney Dana Hrelic is a principal of Horton, Dowd, Bartschi & Levesque and is the immediate past chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division.

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat is Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling. https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/e/stuart-eizenstat His book President Carter: The White House Years is available online https://www.amazon.com/President-Carter-White-House-Years/dp/1250104556 For readings from the panel Attacks on the Institutions of Democracy at the ABA Annual Meeting, visit ambar.org/democraticattacks

This August, lawyers from around the country will come to Chicago for the ABA Annual Meeting. Wondering whether to make the trip yourself? In this special bonus episode of Asked and Answered, we’re joined by ABA President Hilarie Bass and Marty Balogh of the Meetings and Travel Department to discuss the new offerings, event highlights and local attractions attendees should be sure to check out in the ABA’s hometown from Aug. 2-7.

This August, lawyers from around the country will come to Chicago for the ABA Annual Meeting. Wondering whether to make the trip yourself? In this special bonus episode of Asked and Answered, we’re joined by ABA President Hilarie Bass and Marty Balogh of the Meetings and Travel Department to discuss the new offerings, event highlights and local attractions attendees should be sure to check out in the ABA’s hometown from Aug. 2-7.

A CEO’s Virtual Mentor Episode 12 Shareholder Activism – The Vulnerability Framework; Board Governance & Effectiveness; and a Conversation with WEC Energy Group CEO Allen Leverett Guests include: Chris Young, Managing Director and Head of the Contested Situations Group, Credit Suisse Allen Leverett, President and CEO of WEC Energy Tanuja Dehne, Corporate governance expert and independent director of publicly-traded companies.  If you haven’t joined us in a while, you may have missed the announcement that we formed two companies under Leadership Lyceum’s brand: Lyceum Leadership Consulting which provides executive and board of director’s search, board effectiveness review, and an array of services for successor development and board-readiness.  And Lyceum Leadership Productions which brings you this podcast. Segment I - a continuation of our discussion on Shareholder Activism with Chris Young from Credit Suisse. We will cover what Chris describes as The Vulnerability Framework. We will discuss the conditions that make a company particularly vulnerable to activism. Segment II - a conversation with Allen Leverett, President CEO of WEC Energy Group in Milwaukee. We will discuss how WEC has reshaped itself through M&A over the last 10 years into a vastly different company that serves 4.4 million customers across 4 states in the upper Midwest.  Segment III - a continuation of our discussion with Tanuja Dehne on impediments to boardroom effectiveness. Famous Last Words - In our last episode, Episode 11, we introduced a spot called Famous Last Words. We intersperse excerpts from MGM’s 1954 movie Executive Suite starring William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, and Fredric March. For you utility enthusiasts, it also stars the PPL Building (Pennsylvania Power & Light) in Allentown, Pennsylvania as the exterior of the Tredway Corporation.  The plot backdrop -- Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named a clear successor, so the Board members must choose. The most likely candidate is Loren Shaw, a skilled businessman with a high degree of financial acumen.  Their intense and consequential boardroom discussion will weave through our episode. Thanks for joining us.  We can’t improve without your feedback – write us through our website www.LeadershipLyceum.com and subscribe on iTunes.  See you next time.    Informative and Helpful Links  The Lyceum’s Well-Tuned Governance Model  https://www.leadershiplyceum.com/lyceum-board-effectiveness    Program Guide Episode 12 Shareholder Activism – The Vulnerability Framework; Board Governance & Effectiveness; and Conversation with Wisconsin Energy CEO Allen Leverett 0:30     Introduction to Lyceum’s brands and the podcast Episode 12  1:44     Introduction of Famous Last Words spot – MGM’s Executive Suite 3:47     Famous Last Words spot – MGM’s Executive Suite plot summary 2:35     Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 1/5 3:22     Break 1 3:36     Introduction to Segment I – Shareholder Activism with guest Chris Young, Managing Director of Credit Suisse on The Vulnerability Framework 7:20     Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 2/5 8:28     Break 2 8:41     Segment I (cont.): Chris Young of Credit Suisse 15:26   Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 3/5 17:17   Break 3 17:32   Wrap up of Segment I on Shareholder Activism and preview of next month’s Episode 13 with the final chapter in the series with Chris Young. 17:48   Introduction of Segment II: Interview with Allen Leverett, CEO of WEC Energy Group 27:28   Break 4 27:51   Segment II (cont.): Interview with Allen Leverett 41:30   End of Interview with Paul Bonavia 33:45   Break 5 34:06   Segment II (cont.): Interview with Allen Leverett 37:03   End of Interview with Allen Leverett 37:08   Famous Last Words – Executive Suite 4/5 38:22   Break 6 38:35   Introduction to Segment III – Corporate Governance and Board Effectiveness, a continuation of our discussion with Tanuja Dehne on impediments to boardroom effectiveness. 45:34   End of Segment III and preview of next month’s Episode 13 with Tanuja Dehne 45:45   Conclusion of Famous Last Words with Executive Suite 5/5   Biographies of Guests Mr. Chris Young  Chris Young has been Managing Director and Head of the Takeover Defense Practice at Credit Suisse AG and Credit Suisse Group since June 1, 2010. Until May 2010, Mr. Young served as the Director of M&A and Proxy Fight at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). While at ISS, Mr. Young was responsible for analyzing contentious M&A transactions, proxy fights and corporate governance issues and providing proxy voting and tender offer recommendations for ISS institutional investor clients. Mr. Young also helped to facilitate a constructive dialogue between ISS institutional investor clients and senior executives and directors of public companies in the US and Europe. Mr. Young is regarded as a leading authority on contested M&A transactions and shareholder activism. Prior to ISS, Mr. Young was a member of the investment banking group at Bear Stearns and the M&A group at Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Young is a CFA charter holder, received his JD, magna cum laude, from Boston University and his BS from Georgetown University.   Mr. Allen Leverett Allen Leverett was named president of WEC Energy Group in June 2015 and chief executive officer in May 2016. He was appointed to the board of directors in January 2016. Leverett had served as president of Wisconsin Energy Corporation since August 2013, as well as president – Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, with responsibility for business operations of the company’s utilities in those states. Previously, Leverett served as president and chief executive officer of We Generation, the company’s power generation group, since March 2011, with overall responsibility for the company’s electric generation portfolio, fuel procurement, environmental compliance and renewable energy development strategy. He joined Wisconsin Energy in 2003 as chief financial officer. In May 2004, he was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Wisconsin Energy and We Energies. Prior to joining the company, Leverett served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of Georgia Power in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that, he was vice president and treasurer of Southern Company Services, with overall responsibility for financial planning and analysis, capital markets and leasing, treasury and investor relations. Previously, he held a variety of positions in transmission planning, integrated resource planning, strategic planning, wholesale marketing and finance. Leverett earned his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in electrical engineering and mathematics from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He also earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and a Master of Business Administration degree with a finance concentration from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Leverett is a director of American Transmission Co., non-executive chairman of Church Mutual Insurance Co., and a member of the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI).   Ms. Tanuja Dehne Tanuja Dehne is a public company director and former C-level executive of NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 250 power company. Tanuja brings perspective and experience from her cross-disciplinary roles to the C-suite and board room. She is a purpose-driven leader, cultivator of talent and proven strategist. She is an award winning corporate attorney, human resources professional and community volunteer who thrives when making a positive difference in the lives of others. During her tenure at NRG Energy, Inc., Tanuja had increasingly expansive roles: initially the company’s securities and finance lawyer, then Corporate Secretary and lead M&A attorney, before becoming the head of Human Resources. Ultimately, in her role as EVP, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief of Staff, she oversaw the company’s Human Resources, Information Technology, Communications, Marketing and Sustainability departments, the company’s charitable giving program, M&A integrations, as well as the construction of NRG’s sustainable corporate headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Tanuja also served as a sponsor, coach and “internal angel investor” of interdisciplinary innovation teams, including the team that created the “Path to Luma,” an environmentally conscious puzzle game launched in August 2015 with record breaking downloads in the Apple and Google stores. Tanuja is a director of Advanced Disposal Services (NYSE: ADSW) and Granite Point Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE: GPMT), and Board Trustee of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, HomeFront of New Jersey and Young Audiences New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. She is a frequent speaker on topics including leadership, corporate governance, and the intersection of the law and human resources. She received a B.A. from Lafayette College, Master’s in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. Ms. Dehne’s Upcoming Speaking Engagements: September 14, 2017: ABA Annual Meeting of Business Law Section in Chicago: Driving Boardroom Diversity:  An Inside Look at What’s Important and What’s Next October 2, 2017: NACD Annual Global Summit, National Harbor, MD:  Compensation Board Committee Forum October 25, 2017: BSR Annual Conference 2017 - How Businesses Lead in Los Angeles: “Engaging Boards: Making a Case” - engaging boards on sustainability issues   Host Mr. Thomas B. Linquist Your host Thomas B. Linquist is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Leadership Consulting and Lyceum Leadership Productions. Over his 15 years in management and leadership consulting he has served a wide array of industrial clients.  This includes leadership assessment and search for chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers and boards of directors.  He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and over his 25-year career has served in a variety of roles: as an engineer with Shell Oil Company, a banker with ABN AMRO Bank, and as treasurer was the youngest corporate officer in the 150+ year history at Peoples Energy Company in Chicago.  He is an expert on hiring and promotion decisions and leadership development.  Over the course of his search career, he has interviewed thousands of leaders.  Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum in the podcast section at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically. Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.   Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes: https://t.co/a70rtSiQnW or SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomas-linquist Follow Leadership Lyceum on:          Our website: www.LeadershipLyceum.com          LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-linquist-682997          Twitter: @LeaderLyceum https://twitter.com/LeaderLyceum          Email us: info@LeadershipLyceum.com Please subscribe to the Leadership Lyceum at iTunes which will enable future content to come to you automatically.  Rate us and spread the word among your fellow executives and board colleagues.    Program Disclaimer The only purpose of the podcasts is to educate, inform and entertain. The information shared is based on the collection of experiences of each of the guests interviewed and should not be considered or substituted for professional advice. 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It’s a culinary competition that has raged for millenia. Well, maybe not millenia, but at least since the invention of the pizza. And now, New York’s thin, crispy slices are challenging Chicago’s deep dish, sauce-smothered pies in a whole new way. In this report from On The Road, honorable host Laurence Colletti acts as supreme pizza judge while Deborah Enix Ross and Fred Dixon represent New York, and Michael Bergman and David Whitaker represent Chicago. And, of course, what is a trial without a crusty bailiff, in this case Jerry Cito. Who will win the title of best pizza? Grab a slice and tune in to find out. Jerry Cito is the senior vice president of convention development at NYC & Company. Deborah Enix-Ross is Senior Adviser to the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City. She has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates since 2010 Fred Dixon is the president and CEO of NYC & Company. Michael Bergman is a partner in the firm of Bergman & Song LLP. He practices intellectual property law with a focus on patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, and related transactional matters. David Whitaker is the president and CEO of Choose Chicago where he leads sales and marketing efforts.

Some people go to law school and find a passion for law. Others go to law school and find a passion for writing. In this On The Road report, host Laurence Colletti talks to Steph Cha, author of ‘Follow Her Home,’ about discovering her passion for writing in law school and how her brief legal experience shaped her talent. They also discuss what both the publishing and writing process look like and Steph shares advice for aspiring writers. Steph Cha splits her time between writing and working as a temp attorney. Her second book, ‘Beware Beware’ comes out August 12, 2014.

A lawyer’s career is filled with conflict which creates plenty of material for lawyers who are also writers. In this On The Road report, host Laurence Colletti talks to Evan Thomas, Jim Conroy, and Talmage Boston about what drives a lawyer to become a writer and the characteristics of the legal profession that make for good storytelling. They also discuss their own writing, including Jim’s book which won the 2017 Lincoln Prize. Evan Thomas is the author of nine books: ‘The Wise Men’ (with Walter Isaacson), ‘The Man to See’, ‘The Very Best Men’, ‘Robert Kennedy’, ‘John Paul Jones’, ‘Sea of Thunder’, ‘The War Lovers’, ‘Ike’s Bluff’, and ‘Being Nixon’. A co-founder of Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, Jim Conroy has argued countless cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts. He is also author of ‘Lincoln’s Whitehouse: The People’s House in Wartime’. Talmage Boston has practiced law as a commercial trial and appellate litigator in Dallas, Texas, since 1978. Talmage has also written two critically acclaimed baseball history books, ‘1939: Baseball’s Tipping Point’ and ‘Baseball and the Baby Boomer’.

Another ABA Annual Meeting means another president stepping up to head projects and programs for the next year. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to new ABA President Hilarie Bass about handling criticism and the initiatives she’s taking on during her time as president. A couple of these initiatives include women in the legal profession, homeless youth, and Bar Exam passage rates. Hilarie Bass is the co-president of Greenberg Traurig and is currently the president of the American Bar Association for the 2017-18 year.

Since its invention less than a year ago, the ABA Center for Innovation has not slowed down its mission to improve access to justice. In this report from On The Road, host Chad Burton talks to Andrew Perlman about the Center for Innovation’s events, initiatives, and programs including its fellows program. Andrew Perlman is the dean of Suffolk University Law School and was appointed by the president of the American Bar Association to serve as the chair of the governing council of the ABA’s new Center for Innovation.

South Carolina has been the poster-child for criminal justice reform, successfully enacting evidence-based practices, cost-saving sentencing options, and improving public safety among other things. In this On The Road report, host Laurence Colletti talks to Senator Gerald Malloy and William Hubbard about what made South Carolina’s actions successful. Senator Gerald Malloy is a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 29th District since 2002. He is also currently an attorney at Malloy Law Firm. William Hubbard is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and was president of the American Bar Association from 2014-2015.

Since the Trump administration took office, immigration has been one of the most highly debated topics, but it’s often more complicated than people realize. In this report from On The Road, host Reid Trautz talks to Greg Siskind and Mary Meg McCarthy about the different aspects of immigration and what they mean for the US society and economy. They also discuss opportunities for lawyers who wish to help underrepresented immigrants. Reid Trautz is a management advisor to attorneys and law firms in the areas of business processes, technology, marketing, and legal ethics. Greg Siskind is an immigration lawyer who launched one of the very first law-firm websites and the first law blog, and the author of the ‘Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet.’ Mary Meg McCarthy is the executive director of Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), one of the nation’s leading immigrant and human rights advocacy organizations.

The battle between President Trump and the media has raged since the very beginning of his administration. It’s not unique for the president to have a rough relationship with the media, but the energy Trump has dedicated to criticizing the media is more than any president before him. In this report from On The Road, host Lee Rawles talks to Floyd Abrams, Tom Clare, and George Freeman about the potential impact of Trump’s interaction with the media and his war on “fake news.” Their discussion includes slap laws, leaks, and a plaintiff lawyers perspective on the cost of defamatory accusations. Floyd Abrams is the author of “The Soul of the First Amendment” and a senior partner in the Cahill Gordon & Reindel law firm. Tom Clare is a partner at Clare Locke. His practice is devoted to litigating complex business disputes and vindicating clients against high-profile reputational attacks in media. George Freeman is executive director of the Media Law Resource Center. He was most recently of counsel to the law firm of Jenner & Block.

Adopted by world leaders in September 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development address issues like extreme poverty, gender inequality, and climate change. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Elizabeth Andersen, Renee Dopplick, Lee DeHihns, and Richard Field about the details of these goals and how the UN is helping other countries achieve them. Elizabeth Andersen joined as director of the the ABA Rule of Law Initiative in September 2014. She has more than 20 years of experience in international law, international human rights and rule of law development. Renee Dopplick is an international lawyer and the global policy director for ACM, an international nonprofit. She serves as vice chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Special Committee on Section, Division, and Forum Coordination. Lee DeHihns is a member of Alston & Bird’s Environmental and Land Use Group. He has practiced environmental law since 1974. Richard Field is the past chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law, and is past chair of its Electronic Commerce Payment Committee and its Coordinating Committee on International Policy.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing in popularity both in and outside of the legal industry and this should excite you, not scare you. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to James Sherer, Shan Thever, Andrew Arruda, Kerri Bent, Emily Fedeles, Kyla Maloney, and Amie Taal about the different aspects of AI - like augmented learning - and how AI can help the legal profession as it grows and matures. They also discuss the ethics behind AI and the responsibilities lawyers maintain when working with this technology. James Sherer is a litigator with a focus on e-discovery, data privacy, data security, and information governance matters. Shan Thever is an attorney at Shan Thever Law Firm and the director of the New York City Bar Association’s small law firm center. Andrew Arruda is a Canadian entrepreneur and lawyer. He is chief executive officer and co-founder of the artificial intelligence company ROSS Intelligence, a leader in the legal technology industry. Kerri Bent is a New York licensed attorney currently working at Barclays.  She works in the Financial Crime department focusing on sanctions, anti-money laundering, and anti-bribery and corruption. Emily Fedeles maintains a general litigation practice with a focus on the areas of electronic discovery, privacy and data protection, and complex commercial litigation. Kyla Maloney is the offering manager at IBM Watson. She has worked as a technology and strategy consultant in industries ranging from professional service to entertainment to industrial manufacturing. Amie Taal is the vice president of Deutsche Bank. She is an internationally regarded expert in forensic investigations, cyber security, eDiscovery, data analytics and artificial intelligence.

In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Patrick Murck about the effects of blockchain and regulatory technology (RegTech) on the long standing framework for financial regulation. They also discuss the tension of regulation between industries and start-ups. They also talk about how the advancement of both blockchain and RegTech will affect the legal industry at large. Patrick Murck is special counsel at Cooley LLP and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard practice. He focuses on the legal and regulatory issues facing fintech and emerging payment systems.

As technology is becoming more and more ingrained in the legal practice, security has become more important and challenging. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Roy Zur about cybersecurity and cyber intelligence, including why cyber is relevant to attorneys and scams to look out for. They also discuss how cyber includes more than security; it can also be used to collect and organize data. Roy Zur is a cyber and intelligence expert, the CEO of Cybint, an Israeli cyber company. Roy has over 10 years of experience in cyber and intelligence operations from the Israeli security forces

The ABA has consultative status as an observer at the United Nations (UN) and was actually active in the creation of the UN. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Mark Alcott about this relationship between the ABA and the UN. They also discuss the definition of the rule of law and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Mark Alcott has spent his professional career at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, focusing on litigation, arbitration and mediation.

You may have heard of the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE) and seen their workshops at ABA Annual, but who are they and why should you consider becoming a member? In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Elizabeth Derrico about who the NABE is and how they serve and provide support to their members. They also discuss the New York State Bar Association and its relationship with the NABE. Elizabeth Derrico is an executive at the American Bar Association (ABA) and an associate executive director of the New York State Bar Association.

David Axelrod session may have been canceled but not to worry! We’ve got you covered. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to David Axelrod about managing student debt, mortgage payments, and other important financial responsibilities. Their discussion includes the importance of interacting with professionals early on and realizing that there are other options, including payment programs at Bank of America. David Axelrod is the retail sales manager and vice president of Bank of America.

This is the first Legal Talk Network podcast featuring a guest who directly influenced the United States Constitution. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Matthew Diller, current dean of Fordham University School of Law, and John Feerick, past dean and recipient of the ABA Medal, about John’s influence in the creation of the 25th Amendment and his professional experience. John Feerick is a law professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York City. He served as the school’s eighth dean from 1982-2002. Matthew Diller is the current dean and Paul Fuller professor of law at Fordham University School of Law.

Filing for divorce is hard enough as it is, but for some couples taxes can sneak up on them and make the experience worse. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Justin Miller about the taxes that trip up clients during the divorce process. Their discussion includes the typical traps that people fall into and a list of professionals to contact early on in the process. As a national wealth strategist at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Justin Miller works collaboratively with other advisors to provide comprehensive wealth planning advice to clients and their families.

The mission of the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE) is to build up the confidence and careers of bar association professionals. In this report from On The Road, host Liz McCausland talks to Robert Craghead about the NABE, including transitions and challenges they are facing, as he enters into his presidency. They also discuss technology issues and how they are working to address them for their members. Robert Craghead is the executive director of the Illinois State Bar Association and the president of the National Association of Bar Executives.

There’s no denying that the practice of law is changing, the question is why and how does this shift affect your practice specifically? In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Sherry Cushman about the Cushman & Wakefield survey that looked at how the business, financial, and operational sides of law affect real estate decision making. They discuss topics such as the key influencers of change in the legal realm and the top business competition factors that firms are talking about. Sherry Cushman’s focus is on implementing real estate solutions that closely integrate her client’s business, financial, and operational goals for single and multi-office tenants.

Financial technologies (FinTech) are gradually disrupting traditional financial services more and more, but what are they and why should you pay attention to them? In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to Kevin Petrasic about financial technology, including what it is and the challenges that FinTech firms face. They also discuss cryptocurrency and the role of FinTech in a regulatory environment. Kevin Petrasic is a banking partner in the Washington, DC office of White & Case LLP, and head of the firm’s Global Financial Institutions Advisory practice.

Before she steps down as ABA President, Linda Klein talks to host Laurence Colletti about the things she has achieved in the past year in this On The Road report. Together, they discuss CLE in the City, increasing access to justice for veterans, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness, just a few initiatives she addressed during her time as president.

For trial lawyers, judges and experienced attorneys can offer significant advice, especially when interacting with juries. In this report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti talks to panelists Brad Brian, Ted Wells, James Quinn, and Judge Barbara Lynn about their session on winning commercial litigation cases. Some of the topics they discuss are jury selection, opening statements, and other practical tips for trial lawyers. Brad Brian is a national trial lawyer and co-managing partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson. Barbara M. G. Lynn is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, with chambers in Dallas, Texas. Ted Wells is a partner and co-chair of the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Jim Quinn is an accomplished trial lawyer who served for many years as head of the Litigation Department of the international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

Have you considered attending the 2017 ABA Annual Meeting in New York City this August? In this special episode of Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles and Molly McDonough hear about what special events and venues await attendees from ABA President Linda Klein and the associate executive director of Meetings and Travel, Marty Balogh. From a CLE lecture given by IBM Watson to a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Lincoln Center, Klein and Balogh share how this year’s meeting will offer entirely new educational and networking opportunities.

Have you considered attending the 2017 ABA Annual Meeting in New York City this August? In this special episode of Asked and Answered, the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles and Molly McDonough hear about what special events and venues await attendees from ABA President Linda Klein and the associate executive director of Meetings and Travel, Marty Balogh. From a CLE lecture given by IBM Watson to a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Lincoln Center, Klein and Balogh share how this year’s meeting will offer entirely new educational and networking opportunities.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice speaks with North Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tempore Paul Stam about the Post-Shelby Voter and Election Laws panel. Paul states that the panel talked mostly about the North Carolina voter reform resulting from the Shelby County v. Holder case. He explains that the North Carolina voter ID law is virtually identical to one that was approved in Texas a few days ago and wonders why the Department of Justice is taking two different positions in two different circuits. Paul recalls that when they attempted redistricting for Congress, while Section V was still in effect, a U.S. Supreme Court decision said that they had to do majority minority districts if they could. He juxtaposes this decision with the Department of Justice’s later disapproval of their redistricting as a result of a subsequent case to illustrate how difficult redistricting can be with laws changing every 2-3 years. Paul reveals that one of the most disappointing parts of the ruling for him was its reform of their early voting and that under this Fourth Circuit ruling they are going to have to go back to more voting days, but with shorter operating hours (thus making voting less convenient for all voters). He closes the interview with reflections on his decade of service in leadership and a brief discussion of what he has planned for the future. Representative Paul Stam is currently serving his eighth (and last) term in the North Carolina House of Representatives. He was first elected to that position in 1989 and again in 2003. He has served as the House Republican Leader (2007-2010), the House Majority Leader (2011-2012), and is the Speaker Pro Tem (2013-present).

What do the in-house legal departments of Uber, Salesforce, and Oculus look for when hiring outside counsel? And, what advice do such high-profile attorneys have for advancing careers? The answers might surprise you. In this report from On The Road, host Joe Patrice interviews the chair and former chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law, Cynthia Cwik and Heather Rafter, at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting. The duo recaps the group’s ABA Annual Meeting session, titled “What's Next? Tech's Top Counsel Reveal All!” which featured speakers Uber GC Salle Yoo, Salesforce GC Amy Weaver, and Oculus Associate GC Amy Fox. In it, they reveal how today’s tech general counsels are working with outside counsel as well as what they expect from these external advisors. In today’s world, it’s not enough to notify your client of a problem, you must also provide possible solutions with that initial message. Tech GCs aren't required to have a science background; attorneys with interpersonal skills and ability to communicate coupled with an adequate understanding of technology will also be considered. Stay tuned as our guests talk about their (serendipitously) all-women panel and discuss diversity, work-life balance, the need to take risks for advancement, and the importance of exercise and mindfulness. Cynthia Cwik is chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. In her practice life, she works at the San Diego Office of Jones Day as a litigator who has handled a variety of complex matters, including class actions, mass tort matters, consumer fraud actions, and product liability actions. She has extensive experience in cases involving issues of science and technology. Heather Rafter is the former chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. In her practice life, she works at RafterMarsh US, a law firm that she started where she works as a part time GC to a variety of companies. Prior to that, she was a litigator for Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP.

Andrea Jarmon has faced domestic abuse from multiple people throughout her life, experienced homelessness and being turned down by shelters, and had an unplanned teenage pregnancy. Despite the incredibly unfavorable circumstances she has dealt with, Andrea excelled in high school, worked her way through undergrad, and went to law school. Now she represents other victims of domestic abuse who feel like the legal system is working against them, just like she did. In the final On the Road report at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Laurence Colletti asks Andrea to share her story with our listeners. She talks about overcoming adversity, multiple generous people she encountered who helped and encouraged her, and an American Bar Association scholarship that gave her the confidence to pursue a law degree (not to mention helping to pay for it). Tune in to hear her harrowing and inspirational story firsthand. Andrea Jarmon has been practicing law for nearly 10 years, primarily providing legal representation in criminal and family law cases. Prior to establishing her private practice, Andrea was with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office where she practiced as an Assistant Attorney General in various divisions, among them the Criminal Litigation and Medicaid Fraud Control Units. Andrea is on the board of governors for the Washington State Bar Association.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice speaks with Alsop Louie Partners “partner” Gilman Louie, Electronic Privacy Information Center President and Executive Director Marc Rotenberg, and Advisory Committee for the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security Chair Harvey Rishikof about emergent technology’s effect on law enforcement and national security. Mark shares that listening to the FBI director talk about the problems he’s encountering with encryption and how these issues make it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to gain access to evidence was a very interesting portion of the “Emerging Issues in Law Enforcement and National Security” panel. He states that It’s better to have stronger encryption because we’re no longer simply talking about privacy and surveillance, but rather the internet of things and you want that to be secure because it's a matter of public safety. Gilman emphasizes that law enforcement agencies have many more tools today than they did 10 or 15 years ago simply because of digital exhaust and that, despite challenges to reading encrypted messages, it’s very hard to operate without leaving a digital footprint. Harvey explains that cyber threats fall into four categories: criminals, “hacktavists”, espionage, and war, and that delineating those statutory regimes is incredibly complicated. The group discusses why tracking, attributing, and classifying cyber attacks requires such caution, and they close the interview with an analysis of machine learning and online algorithmic transparency. Gilman Louie is a partner at Alsop Louie Partners and the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. He completed the Advanced Management Program/International Seniors Management Program at Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Francisco State University. Marc Rotenberg is president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy and open government at Georgetown Law and frequently testifies before Congress on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has served on several national and international advisory panels, and currently serves on expert panels for the National Academies of Science and the OECD. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and received an LLM in International and Comparative Law. Harvey Rishikof is currently chair of the Advisory Committee for the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security and serves on the Board of Visitors for the National Intelligence University (NIU). He was a Professor of Law and National Security Studies at the National War College (NWC) in Washington, DC. and is the former chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the NWC. He specializes in the areas of national security, civil and military courts, terrorism, international law, civil liberties, and the U.S. Constitution.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Kareem Aref speaks with founder and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute Karen Korematsu about her father’s landmark case, Korematsu v. United States. Karen explains that the case challenged the military orders and the constitutionality of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and that In 1983 evidence was found that proved there was no military necessity for the internment. She recalls growing up in Oakland, California, being blamed for the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the bullying and discrimination she and her brother suffered because they were Asian American. It was not until she studied U.S. history as a junior in high school that she was made aware of the Korematsu v. United States case and her father’s 1944 Supreme Court hearing. Karen compares the societal attitude of her youth to the political climate of today and discusses the recent evocation by a Virginia mayor of Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066 during his call for area governments and nongovernmental agencies to suspend and delay any further assistance to Syrian refugees. She closes the interview with examples of how her organization fights bigotry through education and her thoughts on what we can do today to avoid the mistakes of the past. Karen Korematsu is the founder and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute and the daughter of the late Fred T. Korematsu. In 2009, on the 25th anniversary of the reversal of Fred’s WWII U.S. Supreme Court conviction, Karen established the Fred T. Korematsu Institute.  In May 2013, Karen became executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute and led its transition in July 2014 to become an independent organization fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Sandy Gallant-Jones speaks with former federal prosecutor, producer, and author Jonathan Shapiro about his work writing legal dramas for television. Jonathan gives a brief synopsis of his legal background as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office and talks about the path that led him to become of counsel at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. He reminisces about his early career, meeting his wife, Betsy Borns, and selling his first script to writer and producer David E. Kelley. The work of writers, he says, is to use their experience to create new material, and he discusses how this relates to his new book, “Deadly Force,” and his current show, “Goliath.” Jonathan closes the interview with an analysis of the high numbers of alcohol abuse among attorneys and his suggestions on how law schools can better teach students to form cogent persuasive arguments and revitalize the nobility and idealism of the legal profession. Jonathan Shapiro has spent the last 16 years writing and producing some of television's most iconic shows, including “The Blacklist,” “The Practice,” “Life” and “Boston Legal.” He has won an Emmy, Peabody, and Humanitas Award and also authored "Liars, Lawyers, and the Art of Storytelling" (ABA Publishing) and the novel "Deadly Force" (Ankerwycke Press). Prior to writing for television, Jonathan spent a decade as a federal prosecutor and as an adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School and the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. He is a member and the former chairman of the California Commission on Government Economy and Efficiency, as well as the founder and director of the Public Counsel Emergency for Torture Victims. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Oxford University, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, and received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice speaks with Immigration Law Clinic Associate Director Holly Cooper and Human Rights First President and Chief Executive Elisa Massimino about their panel covering legal issues surrounding the world immigration crisis. Elisa shares that the panel was framed around the concept of a global refugee crisis, which is the largest the world has faced since World War II. She states that the current situation puts huge demands on countries like the United States to provide leadership and that it’s important for us to remember that the crisis itself is less about refugees and more about the failure of governments to live up to their obligations under international law and provide refugees the protection to which they're entitled. Holly focuses on some of the overlooked issues of our domestic policy and mentions that many Americans are unaware that we’ve seen one of the largest surges of refugees on our borders as well, but from a mostly Central American demographic. She talks about how Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala currently have some of the highest homicide rates of anywhere in the world that isn’t a war zone and emphasizes that our lack of domestic response, stigmatization, and privatization of the detention arena has incentivized the economics of a refugee crisis here in our own country. Both guests discuss how xenophobia can cultivate a climate that promotes radicalization and they close the interview with their thoughts on the importance of facilitating trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities. Elisa Massimino is president and chief executive officer of Human Rights First. She joined as a staff attorney in 1991 and served as the organization’s Washington Director from 1997 to 2008. Previously, Massimino was a litigator in private practice at the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where she was pro bono counsel in many human rights cases. She holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. Holly Cooper is the associate director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. and is a nationally-recognized expert on immigration detention issues and on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Cooper is a graduate of UC Davis School of Law, where she was on the Board of the King Hall Legal Foundation and an active member of the National Lawyers Guild. She received her B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. As an undergraduate, she also studied Political Science and Economics at the University of Padua in Italy. She speaks, reads, and writes in both Spanish and Italian.

“I went to law school because I wanted to help people” ~ Linda Klein The ABA Annual Meeting marks both the end and beginning of leadership as the organization marches into the future. This time On The Road, hosts Lynae Tucker and Chris Morgan, the student editor and the 12th Circuit Governor for the ABA Law Student Division sit down with incoming ABA President Linda Klein, who is the 140th person to head the American Bar Association, at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting. They discuss Linda’s early pro bono work for the elderly and her upcoming programs designed help our nation's veterans. In addition, Linda tells us about her decades long involvement with the American Bar Association and how forging early relationships helped guide her career. She encourages lawyers to volunteer and citizens to vote. In addition, she believes that lawyers need to play a part to ensure the next generation receives a good primary education. Linda Klein is the current President of the American Bar Association. In her practice life, she is managing shareholder for the Georgia offices of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, LLP. She has practiced law for over 30 years in Atlanta focusing on dispute resolution practice, in the areas of construction, pharmaceutical, and education law. Over the years, she has held many leadership positions at the American Bar Association including Special Advisor to the Standing Committee on Membership, Special Advisor on the ABA Program, Evaluation, and Planning Committee, Member of the Women Rainmakers Committee, and many more.

After the last year, many if not all Americans are focused on the relationship between law enforcement officials and the public, particularly in communities of color. A panel at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting addressed the increasing militarization of law enforcement and considered forward-thinking proposals to address the problem. This time On The Road, Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti and ABA Law Student Division Chair Kareem Aref sit down with the panelists to further dive into this controversial issue. Rashidah Grinage from the Coalition of Police Accountability, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, former sheriff Dub Lawrence, and ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Vice Chair Cathleen Yonahara discuss congressional involvement in local police departments’ access to military equipment and why they must legally use it (or lose it). They question police force training and suggest a bigger focus on de-escalation of life-threatening situations. Dub Lawrence then goes on to talk about changes in his 50 years of experience with law enforcement and the documentary made about the death of his son-in-law. The guests finish the interview by discussing the importance of discourse and Congress’ reform in reducing the problem of increased police militarization and public mistrust. Rashidah Grinage lives in Oakland, California, and is coordinator for the Coalition of Police Accountability. Previously, she was the director of PUEBLO: People United for a Better Life in Oakland. Rashidah has worked on police accountability since the mid 1990s. Dub Lawrence is the former sheriff for Davis County, Utah. He founded the first SWAT team in Davis County in 1975 and has observed the things that have occurred in law enforcement since then from a civilian perspective, an elected official perspective, as a county sheriff, and as a law enforcement officer. In 2015, a documentary was released about the death of his son-in-law and other shootings related to an increase in violent SWAT team raids. Jeff Adachi is the elected public defender of San Francisco, a pension reform advocate, and a former candidate for Mayor of San Francisco. As the only elected public defender in the state of California, Mr. Adachi oversees an office of 93 lawyers and 60 support staff who represent over 23,000 people each year charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses. Cathleen Yonahara is an employment partner at Freeland Cooper & Foreman. She is also vice chair of the Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, the civil rights and equal opportunity committee of the ABA which sponsored this panel.

The life of an American Bar Association President is very busy. This is particularly true for one who travels to all 50 states, is dedicated to the well-being of young people, and leads by example. In this On the Road report, hosts Sandy Gallant-Jones and Kareem Aref, the 7th Circuit Governor and the chair for the ABA Law Student Division sit down with outgoing ABA President Paulette Brown at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting. Together, they discuss her programs for diversity and inclusion, her work with the Boys and Girls Club of America, and special moments that meant a great deal. As the first woman of color to head the ABA, Paulette had much to say about the importance of being involved from the inside rather than merely looking in. She believes it’s crucial for both young lawyers and law students to be personally involved in helping the next generation. Being present and engaged shows young people what is possible and helps them aspire to more. In closing, President Brown implores busy law students to manage stress by getting plenty of exercise, making time for personal reflection, and even allowing for the occasional indulgence. Paulette Brown is the outgoing President of the American Bar Association. She has been a lawyer for 38 years, worked for Fortune 500 companies, owned a firm for 15 years, and is now a partner at the Boston law firm Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. She has been involved with the American Bar Association since she graduated from law school.

As this is an election year, many people (including lawyers) are paying closer attention to election and voting rights. So what’s trending in election law and what could these developments mean for the upcoming American election? In this On the Road report recorded at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, Joe Patrice interviews C. Robert Heath and Ben Griffith, contributing authors to the book “America Votes! A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights.” They begin by talking about Evenwel vs. Abbott, a case in which the Supreme Court allowed states to use total population, not those who can vote, when drawing legislative districts. They then address the state of voter identification cases and whether rigid voter ID laws have a significant impact on certain classes of people. Robert, Ben, and Joe finish by discussing political and racial gerrymandering, which is likely the root cause of the U.S. Congressional gridlock. C. Robert Heath is an attorney with Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta where he practices complex governmental litigation and counseling, election law and voting rights, open government and ethics, and many other areas of law. Robert has written and presented extensively about the topic of electoral law. Ben Griffith is the principal of Griffith Law Firm in Oxford, Missouri. He focuses his practice on federal and state civil litigation, with emphasis on voting rights and election law, civil rights, public sector insurance coverage, and environmental law.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice talks with Rachel Moran, Dean Emerita and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law, and Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel of The Brennan Center’s Washington, D.C. office, about the current state of the Supreme Court. Rachel reviews the gap left by Justice Scalia’s passing and states that she’s not sure if there is a clear heir to his seat but there are several justices who are aligned with him philosophically and jurisprudentially. Nicole notes that there seems to be a “lightness” to the current court without Scalia and that the justices appear to now share more of the decision making and influence in terms of the cases. The persistence of this climate, Nicole continues, really depends on who fills the vacant seat since the justices’ personalities have a huge bearing on the Court’s tenor and operation. Both guests contemplate Chief Judge Merrick Garland’s presumptive confirmation to the Supreme Court and the potential larger implications of Justice Sotomayor’s written dissent in the Utah v. Strieff case. They close the interview with a discussion of Justice Kennedy’s recent, uncharacteristic vote on affirmative action and upcoming court cases that attorneys should be on the lookout for. Rachel F. Moran is Dean Emerita and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She received her A.B. in psychology with honors and with distinction from Stanford University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked for the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Prior to her appointment at UCLA, Professor Moran was the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Nicole Austin-Hillery is the first director and counsel of The Brennan Center’s Washington, D.C. office and serves as the organization’s chief liaison to Congress and the Administration. She practiced with the law firm of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC as part of the firm's civil rights employment class action practice and as the George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Law Fellow at the national office of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. Nicole is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law and Carnegie Mellon University.

The transition from cars with drivers to driverless cars is upon us, and it will be potentially as disruptive as horse and buggies to cars. As this switch-over occurs, lawyers and lawmakers will face issues of compliance, liability, and information governance, among others. In this On the Road report from the ABA Annual Meeting 2016, Joe Patrice interviews Bryant Walker Smith, Laura Ruettgers, and Stephen Wu about their conference presentation on driverless cars. Together, they discuss the compliance issues that arise from different levels of vehicle automation, who is liable for an accident, how the insurance carriers will adapt to the changes, and the moral questions that arise on a programming level. The presenters close by discussing how taxi and trucker employment will change and driverless cars as a supplement to public transportation. Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor of law and (by courtesy) engineering at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His research focuses on risk (particularly tort law and product liability), technology (automation and connectivity), and mobility (safety and regulation). Laura Ruettgers is with the law firm of Severson & Werson where she specializes in providing coverage and policy drafting advice for environmental and toxic tort claims and policies. Laura also has extensive experience addressing issues arising under commercial general and excess liability, professional liability, and directors and officers liability policies. Stephen Wu is of counsel with Silicon Valley Law Group. He advises clients on information governance matters, focusing on information security, privacy, mobile computing, ediscovery preparedness, records management, and computer-related investigations.

There are many legal and cultural issues that need to be addressed in an employee handbook, including accommodation for certain classes of people, wages and overtime, confidentiality issues, and many more. Unfortunately, lawyers can often overlook the importance of catering their firm’s handbook to their employees. In this On the Road report from the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti interviews Kate Bally, Matthew Schiff, Michael Lotito, and Sierra Spitzer, speakers from the conference’s panel “Minefield in the Modern Employee Handbook.” Together, they create awareness about the most important and often ignored laws and best practices for creating an effective employee handbook. Matthew explains the mistakes many lawyers make when taking their handbook from a previous firm. He also discusses exempt and non-exempt employees with regards to overtime laws. Michael goes into the National Labor Relations Act and why it actually does apply to lawyers, despite a belief to the contrary. Kate talks about LGBT and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, accommodation for disability, religion, and pregnancy, wage and hour rules, and state specific issues. Sierra Spitzer concludes the interview with thoughts on how to balance the law and culture in a law firm employee handbook. Kate Bally is the director of Labor and Employment Service, Practical Law at Thomson Reuters. Kate has her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Matthew Schiff is a labor and employment partner at Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP where he counsels clients in all aspects of employment and labor relations. He has his J.D. from Boston University. Michael Lotito is the co-chair of Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute which provides advocacy services for clients, associations, and policy leaders on all workplace concerns. He has his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. Sierra Spitzer is a partner at the law firm of Schwartz Semerdjian. Sierra has been practicing law in San Diego since 2004 with a focus on labor and employment issues, personal injury, and business litigation on behalf of both individuals and business entities. She has her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law.

We’ve all been hearing a lot about the Zika virus in the news. Miami recently reported over 10 cases, and the virus could potentially spread throughout the United States. But why are we so intimidated by a disease that isn’t life threatening? In this report from On the Road, Thinking Like A Lawyer’s Joe Patrice interviews two Zika experts, Medical Epidemiologist Captain Ken Dominguez and Professor of Public Health Law and Ethics James Hodge. Together, they discuss why funding is the major hangup in American preparation for dealing with this virus. Captain Kenneth L. Dominguez MD, MPH (USPHS) is an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service. He completed a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, both a Medical degree and Masters in Public Health degree at Columbia University. He completed residency training in both Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California and at the CDC in Atlanta and trained as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer through CDC at the Puerto Rico Department of Health. James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, is professor of Public Health Law and Ethics and director of the nationally-ranked Public Health Law and Policy Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Through scholarship, teaching, and applied projects, Professor Hodge delves into multiple areas of health law, public health law, global health law, ethics, and human rights. Professor Hodge has a B.S. from College of Charleston, a J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law, and a LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek speak with Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Federal Judge James Jones, and Chairman and Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School Mohammed Hafez about the ongoing quest to prevent terrorism. Mohammad mentions that the increased visibility of global terrorist attacks has given rise to a discourse about how we should best deal with this issue, by understanding the nature of terrorism and how it has evolved over the years. Judge Jones gives a brief background on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court), which was established in 1978. Each judge serves as a duty judge in the court’s secure location in Washington D.C. for a week at a time to receive applications from the Department of Justice for surveillance of individuals suspected of terrorists activities. Cindy provides her thoughts on the concept of using the mechanisms of big data to predict who is going to engage in terrorist activity and the extent to which the FISA Court has approved mass surveillance procedures and programs that involve collection and/or analysis of large swathes of information. They close the interview by further investigating the versatility of terrorist organizations and how terrorism has transformed over time.e. Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s legal director as well as its general counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when the EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. James Parker Jones is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He is a 1962 graduate of Duke University and a 1965 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. Mohammed M. Hafez earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000. He is now an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Previously, he served as a counterterrorism consultant to the U.S. government and visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.