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Plenary 1: The Death of the Chevron Doctrine: The Future of Regulatory Power and Litigation

Plenary 5: Life of an Appeal in the Age of AI: From Trial Court to Appellate Decision

Plenary 3: R.E.S.P.E.C.T – LGBTQ Inclusion in the Courtroom and Workplace

Plenary 4: Writing Like the Greats in the 21st Century: An Advanced Appellate Writing Workshop

Plenary 2: Suter on Souter: A Justice Remembered

Plenary 6: Restoring Public Confidence in the Courts in a Highly Politicized Environment

Breakout 1: Originalism, Separation of Powers, and the Roberts Court

Breakout 2: Embracing Neurodiversity: Understanding, Accommodating, and Thriving in the Legal Profession

Plenary 7: Do Something! Ethical Responses to Judicial and Lawyer Misconduct

Break-out 3: To Defer or Not to Defer: Evolving Standards of Review in the Digital Age

Breakout 4: The Ethical and Practical Challenges of Amicus Participation

Plenary 8: A Legacy of Leadership: From Football to the Law and Social Justice

Breakout 5: Concur and Dissent: When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Breakout 6: Advanced Legal Writing and Linguistics: Understanding “Any”

Plenary 9: Supreme Court Review: Civil and Criminal

Breakout 7: Standing: Who can Sue These Days? (And are State Courts More – or Less – Receptive?)

Breakout 8: Cutting Edge Scientific Knowledge or Junk Science?

Plenary 10: Military Criminal Justice: What You Should Know

Plenary 11: What about US? The Role of State Constitutional Rights Following Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

Plenary 12: Stories in Courage: Fredrick McGhee and Civil Rights Advocacy in Minnesota

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Protected: Managing Stress and Strengthening Resiliency: Practical Strategies for Judges and Lawyers

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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? 

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

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Protected: Plenary 1: When States Litigate, And How To Encourage (Or Discourage) State Involvement In Your Case

Protected: Plenary 2: How Adversary Nations Can Erode Public Trust in America’s Legal System

Protected: Plenary 3: Beyond the Gavel: Ethics and Wellness for the Legal Community

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Protected: Break-out 1: Ten Years After Ferguson – What’s Changed?

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

Protected: Plenary 5: Fireside Chat with Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal

Protected: Plenary 6: Sound off the alarm! DEI is not officially dead—at least not in the legal profession!

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Protected: Break-out 3: Questions You Should Ask Before, and Must Be Able To Answer During, Appellate Oral Argument

Protected: Breakout 4: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You: Transparency, Ethics, and the Judiciary

Protected: Plenary 8 – SCOTUS Update

Protected: Break-out 5: SCOTUS Criminal Law Update

Protected: Break-out 6: It’s Past Time for Real e-briefing

Protected: Plenary 9: The Ethical Tightrope: Navigating Media Influence and Judicial Integrity

Protected: Plenary 10:  John Adams and Thurgood Marshall: Running Against the Wind to Gain Liberty and Justice for All

Protected: Break-out 7: When Justice Fails – Threats to an Independent Judiciary

Protected: Break-out 8: Legal Writing – A Workshop in Practical Linguistics

Protected: Plenary 11: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Reflection on Its Legacy

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