Appellate Judges Education Institute

2024 Summit Agenda

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

THURSDAY
Time	Session Name	Speaker(s)
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Check-in and registration
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.	Welcome & Presentation of Colors	Hon. Jacqueline H. Nguyen
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.	Plenary 1: When States Litigate, And How To Encourage (Or Discourage) State Involvement In Your Case	Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell Dan Schweitzer, Director and Chief Counsel of the National Association of Attorneys General’s Center for Supreme Court Advocacy Former Illinois Solicitor General Michael Scodro Former North Carolina Solicitor General Chris Browning (moderator)
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.	Plenary 2: How Adversary Nations Can Erode Public Trust in America’s Legal System	Moderator: Hon. Tia Johnson, Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Hon. Jeremy D. Fogel, Executive Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; former Director of the Federal Judicial Center and former US District Judge for the North District of California Harvey Rishikof, Director of Policy and Cyber Security Research and Visiting Research Prof. at University of Maryland and Temple Law School Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Senior Adviser, Defending Democratic Institutions, Center for Strategic and International Studies
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.	Plenary 3: Beyond the Gavel: Ethics and Wellness for the Legal Community.	Moderator: Justice Christopher Goff, Indiana Court of Appeals Terry Harrell, Director of Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program, Elizabeth Pillsbury, Army Judge Advocate Resiliency Coordinator, John A. “Sean” Doyle, J.D., MAPP, General Counsel for MCNC and consulting psychologist
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.	Opening Reception at John Adams Courthouse

Friday

TIME	SESSION NAME	SPEAKER(S)
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM	Breakfast
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	Plenary 4: The Collective-Action Constitution	Hon. J. Michelle Childs Moderator: Hon. Michelle Childs Neil Siegel
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM	BREAK
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM	Break-out 1: Ten Years After Ferguson – What’s Changed?	Moderator: Justice Laurie McKinnon Chief Justice Stuart Rabner of New Jersey who was on the NCSC National Task Force on Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices, Professor Beth Colgan of UCLA, currently visiting at Harvard and is truly the nation’s leading expert on monetary sanctions in the justice system. Lisa Foster, a retired judge and co-founder and co-director of the Fines and Fees Justice Center, and formerly Director of the Office for Access to Justice at the US Dept. of Justice (Judge Foster could also be an academic)

9:15AM – 10:15 AM

Break-out 2: Playing Chess: How Appellate Lawyers Can Shape the Record Long Before Appeal

Moderator: Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves, U.S. Court of International Trade
Judge Sam Thumma
Shelley Merkin, Ford Motor Co.
Gretchen Harris Sperry, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	BREAK
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM	Plenary 5:
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM	BREAK
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM	Plenary 6: Sound off the alarm! DEI is not officially dead—at least not in the legal profession!	Moderator: Justice Luz Elena Chapa Justice Goodwin Liu, California Supreme Court
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Free Time – Optional Tours – Local Events/Hospitality

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Council of Appellate Lawyers (CAL) Meet and Greet (All AJEI attendees invited)
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM	CAL Dine-Around for Lawyers and Judges (Optional/additional charge)
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM	CASA T-Shirt Dinner – The Hub Pub 18 Province Street Boston, MA

Saturday

TIME	SESSION	SPEAKER(S)
6:00 AM	Fun Run/Walk
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM	Breakfast and Optional CAL Roundtable Discussions
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Plenary 7: Sua sponte decision making and supplemental briefing: balancing appellate judges’ decisional discretion and parties’ interests	Moderator: Prof. Sara Cravens from Washington & Lee University School of Law Justice Bivins of the Tennessee Supreme Court Justice John Few of the South Carolina Supreme Court Brian Paul of Faegre Dinker Biddle & Reath LLP.

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM	BREAK
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM	Break-out 3: Questions You Should Ask Before, and Must Be Able To Answer During, Appellate Oral Argument	Moderator – Carol Rooney, Partner Butler, Weihmuller, Katz, Craig, Tampa FL Justice Dalila Wendlandt, Massachusetts Supreme Court Josh Wolinsky, Senior Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims, Odenton MD Jill Wheaton, Senior Counsel, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Ann Arbor MI

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM	Breakout 4: Can’t Take My Eyes off of You: Transparency and the Judiciary— Views from the Bench and the Bar	Moderator: Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie (Ret.), Circuit Judge, Third Circuit Court of Appeals; Of Counsel, Stevens & Lee Robert H. Tembeckjian, Administrator & Counsel, New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct Carolyn Dubay, Deputy Judicial Integrity Officer, Office of Judicial Integrity, Administrative Office of the United States Courts
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM	Plenary 8 – SCOTUS Update	Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM	Lunch and CAL/CASA Business Meetings

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Break-out 5: Criminal Law Update	Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Break-out 6: It’s Past Time for Real e-briefing	Brian Miller, Royston Rayzor, Corpus Christi, Texas (Moderator) Peter Sacks, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court Raffi Melkonian, Wright Barger & Close, Houston, Texas Jennifer Shircliff, Staff Attorney, Indiana Supreme Court
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM	BREAK
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM	Plenary 9: Interaction Between Today’s Media and the Judiciary – Harmful or Helpful?	Moderator: Justice Robert Torres Peter Schaplen, journalist who was the media pool producer for many high profile cases such as the Michael Jackson molestation trial and the OJ Simpson trial Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School Julia Allison, founder of Reimagine Media, social media influencer Justin Elliott, ProPublica
6:00 PM – 10:30 PM	Saturday Night Reception, Dinner, Entertainment

Sunday

TIME	SESSION	SPEAKER(S)
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM	BREAKFAST
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM	Recognizing Our Veterans
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM	Plenary 10: John Adams and Thurgood Marshall: Running Against the Wind to Gain Liberty and Justice for All	Joyce Malcolm, author on John Adams Michael Meltsner; professor at Northeastern University, was the last lawyer hired by Justice Thurgood Marshall before he joined the 2nd Circuit

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM	BREAK
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Break-out 7: When Justice Fails – Threats to an Independent Judiciary	Moderator: Patricia Alvarez Hon Bernice Donald, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Hon. Reba Ann Page, U.S. Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Break-out 8: Legal Writing – A Workshop in Practical Linguistics	Prof. Jill Anderson, University of Connecticut School of Law Dr. Elizabeth Coppock, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Boston University Prof. Ann L. Nowak, Director of the Writing Center and Adjunct Professor of Law, The Touro Law Center

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM	BREAK
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM	Plenary 11: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Reflection on Its Legacy	Moderator: David Cole, National Legal Director of the ACLU and Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Johnathan Smith, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General on behalf of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM

Conclusion and Preview of 2025 Summit

Registration

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