The 2015 W. Lee Burge Professionalism Conference
Lawyers as Leaders
Georgia State College of Law, 85 Park Place NE, Atlanta GA 30303
Monday, November 9, 2015
10am – 4:00 pm
Co-sponsored by
The Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism
Approved for 4.5 CLE Hours including 1 Professionalism Hour
All conference registration was handled by ICLE Georgia.
10:00 WELCOME
Dean Steven Kaminshine, Georgia State University College of Law
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
John T. Marshall, Assistant Professor of Law
Georgia State University College of Law
10:05 PANEL ONE: Paths to Leadership
Moderator, Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law; Director, Center on the Legal Profession; Director, Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship, Stanford University
Linda Klein, President-Elect of the American Bar Association; Senior Managing Shareholder, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC (no segment video available)
The Hon. David E. Nahmias, Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. (Segment Video)
David Singleton, Executive Director of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center; Director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law (Segment Video)
11:30 BREAK
11:45 Luncheon Seating
12:00 Keynote Luncheon Address | Video
Professor Deborah Rhode, “Leadership for Law Schools: Why and How”
1:15 BREAK
1:30 PANEL TWO: Leadership in Large Organizations
Moderator, John Travis Marshall, Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State Unviersity College of Law
Lt. Colonel Benjamin Grimes, US Army and Deputy Staff Judge Advocate (Deputy Legal Advisor), Army Intelligence and Security Command; former Associate Professor, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School (Segment Video)
Lori Berman, Director of Professional Development, Hogan Lovells US LLP; Research Affiliate, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown Law (no segment video available)
2.30 BREAK
2:45 PANEL THREE: Leadership Education for Every Law Student? | Video
Moderator: John Travis Marshall, Assistant Professor of Law
Georgia State University College of Law
Garry Jenkins, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law; Director, Program on Law and Leadership, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (Segment Video)
Faith River James, Associate Dean for Experiential learning and Leadership & Professor of Law, Elon University School of Law (Segment Video)
Ana Maria Martinez J.D. ’09, Former President, Georgia Hispanic Bar Association; President, Georgia Latino Law Foundation (Segment Video)
Tiffany Roberts J.D. ’08, Deputy Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism; Co-founder, Lawyers United for a New Atlanta (Segment Video)
3:45 CONCLUSION
Professor Deborah Rhode
CONFERENCE MATERIALS:
Neil Hamilton, Ethical Leadership in Professional Life: Article Summary (License: "Permission is granted to download the following material and copy, distribute, and repost it on the web, as long as users credit the author and the publication and provide relevant identifying citation information (volume, page numbers, year of publication, city of publication), do not change the work in any way, and do not use it commercially.” ("Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives" Creative Commons license)
Neil Hamilton, Ethical Leadership in Professional Life, 6 UNIV. ST. THOMAS L.J. (2009) (License: "Permission is granted to download the following material and copy, distribute, and repost it on the web, as long as users credit the author and the publication and provide relevant identifying citation information (volume, page numbers, year of publication, city of publication), do not change the work in any way, and do not use it commercially.” ("Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives" Creative Commons license)
Neil W. Hamilton, Ethical Leadership in Corporate Practice Syllabus (University of St. Thomas School of Law) (License: “Permission is granted to download the following material and copy, distribute, and repost it on the web, as long as users credit the author and the publication and provide relevant identifying citation information (volume, page numbers, year of publication, city of publication), do not change the work in any way, and do not use it commercially.” ("Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives" Creative Commons license)
Faith Rivers James, Lawyering, Leadership and Professionalism – Syllabus (Elon University School of Law) (License: "Permission is granted to download the following material, as long as users do not copy, distribute, repost it on the web, or alter the work in any way without further permission of the author.”)
Spotlight on the Leadership Program (Elon University School of Law) (License: "Permission is granted to download the following material, as long as users do not copy, distribute, repost it on the web, or alter the work in any way without further permission of the author.”)
Garry Jenkins, Lawyers as Leaders Syllabus (Ohio State Moritz College of Law) (License: “Permission is granted to download the following material, as long as users do not copy, distribute, repost it on the web, or alter the work in any way without further permission of the author.”)
Program on Law and Leadership (Ohio State Moritz College of Law) (License: "Permission is granted to download the following material, as long as users do not copy, distribute, repost it on the web, or alter the work in any way without further permission of the author.”)
Download printable agenda here: Burge Agenda Final
Download printable bios here: 15F Burge Bios
All conference registration was handled by ICLE Georgia.
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