SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON / GALVESTONBENCH BAR CONFERENCENovember 3, 2017 |
THE BALLROOM AT BAYOU PLACE560 Texas AvenueHouston, Texas 77002 |
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MCLE Course # 928014682 |
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8:45am - 9:45am Plenary Session | |||
What Trial Lawyers Really Really Need to Know, NOW: Recent and Anticipated Must-Reads from the Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit |
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Erin Busby, Univ. of Texas School of Law Kathryn Kase, Fmr. Dir. of Texas Defender Services Kathleen Sullivan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Stephen Vladeck, Univ. of Texas School of Law and CNN commentator |
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10:00am - 10:45am Civil and Criminal Practice Breakout I | |||
Civil — Motions Practice in the Houston and Galveston Divisions: What’s New, and What Can Be Improved? |
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Criminal — When Technology Meets Crime: Cybercrime, E-Discovery, and Following the Money |
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Colin Fieman, Ass’t. Fed. Public Defender Nathan Judish, Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property, US DOJ |
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Moderator | Magistrate Judge Stephen W. Smith | ||
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10:45am - 11:45am Civil and Criminal Practice Breakout II | |||
Civil — You’ve Won the Battle; Don’t Lose the War: Avoiding Malpractice by Preserving Error and Protecting the Record |
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Judge Carolyn King, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
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Criminal — Under the Bus: Ethical Considerations in Corporate/White Collar Cases; Representing Corporations and Individuals: How to Avoid Malpractice and Disqualification |
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12:30pm - 1:15pm Civil and Criminal Practice Breakout III | |||
Civil — Our Thriving Remand and Transfer Dockets: Handling Related and Overlapping Cases Simultaneously Pending in State and Federal, or Different Federal, Courts. |
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Tommy Fibich, Fibich Leebron Copeland & Briggs |
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Criminal — The Notorious Criminal Case: Handling the Media, the Jury, and the Judge |
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Shaun Clarke, Smyser Kaplan & Veselka |
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Moderator | Senior District Judge David Hittner | ||
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1:30pm - 2:30pm Plenary Session | |||
It’s Not Your Parents’ Courtroom: How to Try a Case to Today’s Judge or Jury |
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Rusty Hardin, Rusty Hardin & Assoc. |
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Civil Jury Project_Innovating for Wise Juries [Law360 1-9] |
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2:30pm - 4:00pm Plenary Session / Judges’ Panel | |||
Can We Be Better? It’s a Two-Way Street |
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District Judges, Houston/Galveston Division Chief Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones Magistrate Judge Dena H. Palermo Alistair Dawson, Beck Redden, Pres., HBA |
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