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Featured CLE Speakers
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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"Crisis in the Justice System”
David Boies and Theodore B. Olson
Famed litigators David Boies and Theodore B. Olson will serve as the featured speakers on the opening day of the KBA’s 2013 Annual Convention.
The two men, once adversaries in the case of Bush v. Gore, have teamed in recent years to represent the plaintiffs in the historic civil rights litigation concerning California’s Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban. The case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, will be argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on March 26, 2013.
In 2010, Time Magazine selected Boies and Olson as two of the 100 most influential people in the world. Additionally, in 2011, the two men received the American Bar Association’s highest award, the ABA Medal, recognizing “exceptionally distinguished service by a lawyer or lawyers to the cause of American jurisprudence.”
Boies is the founder and chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, in Armonk, N.Y. In 1998-2000, Boies served as special trial counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice in its antitrust suit against Microsoft. He also served as lead counsel for former Vice President Al Gore in litigation relating to the 2000 election Florida vote count. In 2008, Boies successfully defended NASCAR against antitrust charges, and in 2010 and 2011 he represented plaintiffs suing to enjoin California’s ban on gay marriage as a violation of the federal Constitution.
Olson is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C., office, and is one of the nation’s premier appellate and U.S. Supreme Court advocates. The National Law Journal has repeatedly listed him as one of America’s Most Influential Lawyers. The American Lawyer and Legal Times have characterized Olson as one of America’s leading litigators. Olson was Solicitor General of the United States from 2001–2004, and from 1981–1984 he was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has argued dozens of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the two Bush v. Gore cases arising from the 2000 presidential election.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
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"An Afternoon with Jeffrey Toobin"
Jeffrey Toobin
The Kentucky Bar Association is pleased to welcome national legal analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin back to Kentucky. Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker, senior legal analyst at CNN, and the author of such best-sellers as The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court; Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election; A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; and The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson. After his presentation, Toobin will be signing his latest book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, which will be available at the Convention bookstore.
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Friday, June 21, 2013 |
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"The Hatfields & McCoys: From Filing Suits to Firing Shots"
Bill Richardson, Darrell Fetty, Altina Waller and Paul Salamanca
The story of the Hatfields and McCoys is the stuff of legend and has come to define the term feud. It captured the interest and imagination of the nation and stereotyped an entire region of the country, a stereotype that still lingers today. There have been countless articles, studies, books and movies about the feud, the latest being the highly acclaimed and multi-awarded History Channel miniseries, Hatfieds & McCoys, starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton. Do these tell the true story, the whole story? Join our illustrious panel members, historical consultant and local expert Bill Richardson, Hatfields & McCoys producer Darrell Fetty, author and history professor Altina Waller, and constitutional law professer Paul Salamanca, as they discuss the complex and complicated story of two families and the driving forces that led to the infamous feud that impacts West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to this day. Topics discussed will include the facts and fiction of the story, the role of the coal companies, timber and mining rights, Mahon v. Justice, the social impact, and the portrayal of the feud in the movies and media.
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For additional information contact:
Dianna Moore
Kentucky Bar Association
CLE Department
Phone: 502-564-3795, ext. 236
Email: dmoore@kybar.org
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