DATE

TIME

PANEL

PRESENTERS

Jan 28

12:00pm ET

Enhancing Justice: Ethically Reducing Bias in Policing and the Courts

Hon. Bernice Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Col. Heston Silbert, Director, Arizona Department of Public Safety MODERATOR: Wylie Stecklow, FBA Civil Rights Section

1:15pm ET

When Exceptions Become the Rule: LGBTQ Rights and Religious Exemptions

Camilla Taylor, Director of Constitutional Litigation, Lambda Legal Chris Lund, Professor of Law, Wayne State University
MODERATOR: Robin Wagner, FBA Civil Rights Section

2:45pm ET

Back to the Future: Artificial Intelligence & Civil Rights

Phil Mayor, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU of Michigan
Vincent Southerland, Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality and the Law, NYU School of Law
Jennifer Lord, Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers

4:00pm ET

KEYNOTE: How to Ethically Navigate Social Media When Your Case is in the Headlines

Joseph Bondy, The Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy, Counsel for Lev Parnas, Creator of #LetLevSpeak

Jan 29

12:00pm ET

Making It Right: Vulnerable Kids, Education and COVID-19

Margie Wakelin, Staff Attorney, Education Law Center
Carl P. Beard, Beard Legal Group
MODERATOR: Caryl Andrea Oberman, Law Offices of Caryl Andrea Oberman

1:15pm ET

Title IX in the Era of #metoo

Mica McKinney, General Counsel, Utah State University Ann Olivarius, McAllister Olivarius
MODERATOR: Kyle Kaiser, FBA Civil Rights Section

2:45pm ET

What is Environmental Justice?

Rebecca Bratspies, Founding Director, Center for Urban Environmental Reform and Professor of Law, CUNY
Emily Posner, Emily Posner Law
Marianne Cufone, Director, Center for Environmental Law and Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola University

4:00pm ET

KEYNOTE: Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Obfuscation:
War Stories from the Front Lines of Voting Rights Litigation & the Post Office

Shankar Duraiswamy, Covington & Burling
J. Remy Green, Cohen&Green, Counsel in SDNY USPS Litigation Samuel Spital, Director of Litigation, NAACP LDF