Speaker Biographies

 

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Presentation - Here Stood Lincoln
Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Supreme Court Update

Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States

Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Paul D. Clement, Esq., King & Spalding

 

A Conversation with The Honorable John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

Justice John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court

Jeffrey L. Fisher, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School

Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Senior Chief Counsel, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

 

Luncheon with Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States

Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States

 

Reception and Banquet Speakers

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., United States Supreme Court

E. Gordon Gee, President, The Ohio State University

 

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Effects of the Economy on the Practice of Law

Alan C. Michaels, Dean and Edwin M. Cooperman Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Stephen J. Brogan, Esq., Managing Partner, Jones Day

Patricia R. Hatler, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Governance Officer, Nationwide Insurance

James W. Jones, Esq., Hildebrandt Baker Robbins

Aric Press, The American Lawyer

William T. (Bill) Robinson III, Esq.

 

Sentencing

Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., United States District Judge, Southern District of Ohio

William K. Sessions, Chair, United States Sentencing Commission

Caryll S. Alpert, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Middle District of Tennessee

Douglas A. Berman, William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Carter Stewart, United States Attorney, Southern District of Ohio

 

Technical Issues in Litigation

Robert H. Cleland, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan

David Galbenski, Esq., Chief Executive Officer, Luman Legal, LLC

Peter M. Kellett, Esq., Dykema Gossett, PLLC

Jeffrey A. Lipps, Esq., Carpenter and Lipps, LLP

 

Immigration

Jeffrey S. Sutton, United States Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Ivan Fong, General Counsel, United States Department of Homeland Security

David W. Leopold, Esq., Leopold and Associates

Juan Osuna, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice

 

Employment Law

Dan A. Polster, United States District Judge, Northern District of Ohio

Edward L. Gilbert, Esq., Edward L. Gilbert Co., LPA

Deborah L. Gordon, Esq., Law Office of Deborah L. Gordon

Matthew W. Green, Assistant Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Lee J. Hutton, Esq., Littler Mendelson, PC

 

Objectivity on Trial: Revisiting Old Convictions in Light of New Technology

Mark A. Godsey, Professor of Law and Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project, University of Cincinnati College of Law

Jennifer L. Mnookin, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Jay A. Siegel, Professor and Department Chair, Director of Forensic and Investigative Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Anjali R. Swienton, President and CEO, SciLaw Forensics, Ltd.

 

Appellate Advocacy

Chad A. Readler, Esq., Jones Day

Raymond M. Kethledge, United States Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Helene N. White, United States Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

 

Trial Advocacy: The Anatomy of a Trial

Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Director, Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School

Lori G. Cohen, Esq., Chair, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Gorup, Greenberg Traurig

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois

Billy R. Martin, Esq., Howrey, LLP

 

Intellectual Property

Jack Zouhary, United States District Judge, Northern District of Ohio

Liam O’Grady, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Virginia

Kenneth B. Germain, Distinguished Professorial Practitioner in Residence

George P. Pappas, Esq., Covington and Burling, LLP

 

Bankruptcy Practice

Thomas H. Fulton, United States Bankruptcy Judge, Western District of Kentucky

Margaret A. Mahoney, United States Bankruptcy Judge, Southern District of Alabama

William Houston Brown, Retired United States Bankruptcy Judge, Western District of Tennessee

Courtney B. Minor, Regional Counsel, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

Mark Schweitzer, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Henry J. Sommer, Editor-in Chief, Collier on Bankruptcy