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ABA Section of Litigation: Inaugural LGBT Forum in San Francisco

05/02/2017 11:00 AM | Deleted user

May 2–3 Before the Section Annual Conference

 

Hyatt Regency Embarcadero

San Francisco, CA

 

Co-Sponsored by the Section of Litigation

LGBT Law and Litigators Committee

 

 

SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE 


*Subject to change


Tuesday, May 2

 

 

Time

Title

11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

CLE Breakout: Advice To My Younger Self: Overcoming Historical Bias Against Out Litigators

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

CLE Breakout: Religion as Sword or Shield?  Tensions over LGBT Rights and Religious Exemption Claims

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

CLE Breakout: LGBT Employees 101: A Practical Guide to Creating an Inclusive Workplace

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Networking Break

3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

CLE Plenary: Views from the Corner Office:  Advice from Managing Partners and Senior In-House Counsel

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

LGBT Reception


Wednesday, May 3

 

 

Time

Title

7:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Plenary: How to Handle a Hostile Political Environment: Advice from Governmental Officials who have had to navigate difficult political climates for the LGBT Community

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Networking Break

9:45 am – 10:45 am

CLE Breakout: Post Obergefell: The New LGGBT Cases After Marriage Equality

9:45 am – 10:45 am

CLE Breakout: How “Free” is Speech?  Hate Speech and the First Amendment in Post-Orlando, Post-Election America

9:45 am – 10:45 am

CLE Breakout: Moving From Victimization to Support for LGBTQ Youth: Conditions in Foster Care, Juvenile Justice and Homeless Service Systems

10:45 am – 11:00 am

Networking Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

CLE Breakout: In Transition:  The Fast-Evolving Law on Transgender Rights in Governmental Spaces

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

CLE Breakout: Psychological Flexibility:  How to Unhook from the Chatter of Your Mind and Achieve Values-Based Success

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

CLE Breakout: The Changing and Conflicting State of Parentage - Custody, Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology for the LGBT Community

12:15 am – 1:45 pm

Keynote Luncheon: LGBT Politics and Justice (Ticketed: $100)

 

 

Speakers and Moderators for the Event:

 

 

Cristina C. Arguedas

Arguedas Cassman & Headley, LLP

Berkeley, CA

Sara Bartosz

Children's Rights, Inc.

New York, NY

Carmelite M. Bertaut

Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC

New Orleans, LA

Leonore F. Carpenter

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

Hon. Pamela Chen

US District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Brooklyn, NY

Currey Cook

Lambda Legal

New York, NY

Gov. Howard Dean

Former Governor of Vermont

Burlington, VA

Kelly M. Dermody

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP

San Francisco, CA

Jennifer A. Dukarski

Butzel Long

Ann Arbor, MI

Kyle C. Felte

Texas Tech University School of Law

Lubbock, TX

Elizabeth Gill

ACLU of Northern California

San Francisco, CA

Ricardo A. Gonzalez

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Miami, FL

David Greene

Electronic Frontier Foundation

San Francisco, CA

Jeremy J. Guinta

Navigant

Los Angeles, GA

Debra E. Guston

Guston & Guston LLP

Glen Rock, NJ

Paul Henderson

Mayor's Office, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

James J.S. Holmes

Sedgwick LLP

Los Angeles, CA

Deborah J. Israel

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP

Washington, DC

Pamela S. Karlan

Stanford Law School

Stanford, CA

Kate Kendell

National Center for Lesbian Rights

San Francisco, CA

Therese Lee

Google

San Francisco, CA

Nancy C. Marcus

Lambda Legal

Los Angeles, CA

Kelly Matayoshi

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

San Francisco, CA

Larry W. McFarland

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

San Francisco, CA

Felicia M. Medina

Sanford Heisler LLP

San Francisco, CA

Shannon Price Minter

National Center for Lesbian Rights

San Francisco, CA

Ellen Ostrow

Lawyers Life Coach

Washington, DC

Erin Palacios

Bay Area Legal Aid

Oakland, CA

Peter Renn

Lambda Legal

Los Angeles, CA

Cathy Sakimura

National Center for Lesbian Rights

San Francisco, CA



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