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Protected: Opening Session: Hail to the Chiefs
Protected: Managing Stress and Strengthening Resiliency: Practical Strategies for Judges and Lawyers
Protected: Page-turners: How Judges Read in an E-filing Era
Protected: The Ethics of Building and Growing an Appellate Practice
Protected: The Great Digital Accelerator
Protected: Supreme Court Preview
Protected: Clients in the Courtroom: How In-House Counsel View Appeals & Appellate Courts
Protected: Hidden Cause, Visible Effect: Understanding the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
Protected: Writing from the Reader’s Perspective: How the English Language Really Works
Protected: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do We Dismantle Our Bias After All?Â
Protected: United States Supreme Court Civil Update
Protected: Curse or Blessing: How to Thrive Online Using Social Media in Today’s Legal World
Protected: United States Supreme Court Criminal Update
Protected: Storytelling for Advocates and Judges: How and Why We Should Incorporate Storytelling Techniques and Themes into our Work
Protected: War Crimes – From the Battlefield to the Courtroom
Protected: Preventing Wrongful Convictions by Ensuring the Reliability of Forensic Evidence
Protected: What Do Courts Do When Works of Faith Cross Works of Government
Protected: Top Tips for Top-Notch Oral Argument Answers
Protected: Courage: The Seminal Virtue in Advocacy and Judging
Protected: Canons of Construction: What is Their Role, if Any, in Modern Jurisprudence?
Protected: Certified Check or Erie Guess?
Protected: Legal Ethics 2.0:Â How Emerging Technologies Are Creating Novel Ethical Dilemmas
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Hon. Robert H. Edmunds, Jr. President
Supreme Court of North Carolina (Ret.)
Hon. Steven H. David Vice President, Chair of the Board
Indiana Supreme Court
Hon. Samuel A. Thumma Vice Chair
Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 1
Hon. Steve Leben Treasurer/Budget Officer
University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
Hon. Christopher J. McFadden Secretary
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Hon. Albert Diaz Immediate Past Chair / 2021 Summit Chair
U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
Hon. Benes Z. Aldana (Ret.)
The National Judicial College
Hon. Luz Elena D. Chapa
Texas Fourth Court of Appeals
Hon. Bernice B. Donald
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
Hon. George C. James, Jr.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Mark Kressel Chair, Council of Appellate Lawyers
Horvitz & Levy, Burbank, CA
Hon. James E. Lockemy
South Carolina Court of Appeals
Hon. Laurie McKinnon
Montana Supreme Court
Jess Mekeel Chair, Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys
Denver, CO
Hon. Jacqueline Nguyen
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
Hon. Colleen O’Toole
Ohio 11th Court of Appeals (Ret.)
Hon. Peter M. Reyes, Jr.
Minnesota Court of Appeals
Hon. Margret G. Robb
Indiana Court of Appeals
Hon. David Thomson
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Hon. Ann A. Scott Timmer
Arizona Supreme Court
Hon. John M. Tyson
North Carolina Court of Appeals