2005 Legal Ethics Conference
The 2005 Legal Ethics Conference -
"Lawyers' Ethics in an Adversary System"
October 30 - November 1, 2005
Click Here for Ethics Conference Brochure (Includes Conference Registration Form)
Please return completed registration form on or before October 14, 2005, to:
Joanne Ramirez
Administrative Assistant to the Dean
Hofstra Law School
121 Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549
Phone: (516) 463-6889
E-mail: lawethics@hofstra.edu
Conference Schedule
Sunday, October 30, 2005| 8 a.m.-4 p.m. | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Hofstra Cultural Center Foyer Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus |
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| 9-11 a.m | BRUNCH | |
| 11-11:15 a.m | WELCOMING REMARKS Herman A. Berliner Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Hofstra University Aaron D. Twerski Dean and Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Roy D. Simon Professor of Law Director of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics Hofstra University School of Law |
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| 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m | OPENING ADDRESS Deborah L. Rhode Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law Stanford Law School "Legal Ethics in an Adversary System: The Persistent Questions" |
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| 12:15-1:15 p.m. | AFTERNOON SESSION I Steven Lubet Professor of Law Northwestern University School of Law "The Loyalty Trilemma" Barbara S. Gillers, Esq. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP "The Duty of Zealous Representation and the Corporate Lawyer: Some Hard Issues" |
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2:15-2:30 p.m. |
COFFEE BREAK | |
| 2:30-4:45 p.m. | AFTERNOON SESSION II Charles W. Wolfram Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law, Emeritus Cornell Law School "Cautionary Thoughts about Lawyer Liability as Fiduciaries" KEYNOTE ADDRESS Alan M. Dershowitz Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Harvard Law School "Lawyers' Ethics in a Constitutionalized Adversary System" |
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| 6 p.m. | Banquet in Honor of Monroe H. Freedman Garden City Hotel BANQUET ADDRESS: Monroe H. Freedman Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law " In Praise of Overzealous Representation: Lying to Judges, Deceiving Third Parties, and Other Ethical Conduct" |
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Monday, October 31, 2005
| 8 a.m.-3 p.m. | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Hofstra Cultural Center Foyer Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus |
| 8-8:55 a.m. | BREAKFAST |
| 9 a.m.-Noon | Stephen Saltzburg Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor George Washington University School of Law "A Grand Slam of Professional Irresponsibility and Judicial Disregard" Stephen Gillers Emily Kempin Professor of Law New York University School of Law "The Perjurious Criminal Defendant: A Critique of Freedman's Critique and All Other Solutions (or Why Do We Keep Talking About This?)" Lisa Lerman Professor Columbus School of Law The Catholic University of America "Dishonesty" |
| Noon-1:30 p.m. | LUNCHEON Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, 10th floor LUNCHEON ADDRESS Charles J. Ogletree Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Harvard Law School "Charles Hamilton Houston and the Ethics of Civil Rights Advocacy" |
| 1:30-4:30 p.m. | AFTERNOON SESSION Thomas D. Morgan Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law The George Washington University Law School "The Corporate Lawyer and the 'Three Hardest Questions'" Anita Bernstein Sam Nunn Professor of Law Emory University School of Law and Wallace Stevens Professor of Law New York Law School "Zeal" Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. Associate Professor University of Georgia School of Law "Reconsidering the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege - A Response to the Compelled-Voluntary Waiver Paradox?" |
| 4:30-5:30 p.m. | INFORMAL GET-TOGETHER AND REFRESHMENTS |
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
| 8 a.m.-3 p.m. | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Barbara and Maurice A. Deane Law Library Foyer Hofstra University School of Law |
| 8-9 a.m. | BREAKFAST Leeds, Morelli & Brown Atrium Hofstra University School of Law |
| 9 a.m.-Noon | MORNING SESSION Roger C. Cramton Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law Emeritus Cornell Law School "Counseling Non-Litigation Clients in an Adversary System" Ellen Yaroshefsky Executive Director Jacob Burns Ethics Center Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law "How Secret Evidence is Eroding the Adversary System" Burnele V. Powell Dean and Miles and Ann Loadholt Professor of Law School of Law, University of South Carolina "Creating Space to Be Ethical and Professional" |
| Noon-1:30 p.m. | LUNCHEON LUNCHEON SPEAKER Hon. David G. Trager Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York "Do Ethics Rules Protect Lawyers or Clients? Secret Taping and Some Other Illustrations" |
| 1:30-3:30 p.m. | AFTERNOON SESSION W. Bradley Wendel Associate Professor of Law Cornell Law School "Institutional and Individual Justification in Legal Ethics: The Problem of Client Selection" Roy D. Simon Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics Hofstra University School of Law "The Nuclear Option: Threatening a Grievance Against Opposing Counsel" |
| 3:30-5 p.m. | ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION |
| Commentators: | Laura Appleman Visiting Assistant Professor Hofstra University School of Law |
| Linda Galler Professor Hofstra University School of Law |
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| Jeanne P. Gray Esq., Director, Center for Professional Responsibility American Bar Association |
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| Carol A. Needham Professor St. Louis University School of Law |
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| Steven Wechsler Professor, College of Law Syracuse University |
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| Carol Ziegler Adjunct Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School |