This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
James Drozdowski, Esq., “Professionalism in the Practice of Law”
Art Kaufman, Esq., Mental Health / Substance Abuse]
General Public: $100 ($85 Early Discount Rate)
CMLAA Members: $90 ($75 Early Discount Rate)
Fulfills the 2.5 hours of instruction related to the professional conduct requirement
Sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. the Cleveland-Marshall Dean's Diversity Council, Case Western Reserve School of Law, Equality Ohio, the Cleveland Metropolitian Bar Association, the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Constitution Society, and the ACLU of Ohio.
• Obergefell v. Hodges
• Family Law
• Employment Law
• LGBT Rights & Religious Liberties
Camilla Taylor, Marriage Project Director in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal and member of the team of plaintiffs’ counsel in the consolidated cases Obergefell v. Hodges.
Professor Emerita Susan J. Becker, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, General Counsel of the ACLU
Professor Matthew W. Green Jr., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Alana Jochum, Equality Ohio Managing Director
Joy B. Savren, Attorney at Law
Maria L. Shinn, Esq., Shinn Lanter LLP
The Criminal Justice Forum will screen the prize-winning documentary "Seeking Truth in the Balkans." The film addresses the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and focuses on the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, one of the first modern-era international tribunals after Nuremberg (more information about the film at seekingtruthinthebalkans.com). The film screening will be followed by a brief panel discussion.
As part of the Education Law Association's 61st Annual Conference, this moderated panel of safety, legal, and advocacy experts will discuss the practical issues of safety for both K-12 and college campuses and the legal issues that arise from potential solutions.
Co-Sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Speech, with commentary by Prof. Jonathan Witmer-Rich, regarding police use of force and accountability procedures and policies.
Sponsored by the Federalist Society
Sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Chapter and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Student Chapter of the American Constitution Society, the ACLU of Ohio, the Norman S. Minor Bar Association, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association.
The fourth installment of the use of force program series will discuss the ways that new technologies are changing the nature of policing, their opportunities and potential pitfalls and how they can be utilized to promote more effective law enforcement while better protecting citizens’ rights.
Anthony Rothert, Legal Director, ACLU of Missouri
Named 2015 Lawyer of the Year by Missouri Lawyers Weekly largely for his work on Ferguson policing and protest issues.
Gary Daniels, Chief Lobbyist, ACLU of Ohio
Works on a variety of law enforcement bills with the Ohio General Assembly.
Jonathan Witmer-Rich, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1801 Euclid Ave.) will host the Friedman and Gilbert Criminal Justice Forum, “Picking Cotton,” Tuesday, October 6 at 5 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by Jennifer Thompson, co-author of the New York Times Best-Seller Picking Cotton and a prominent activist.
Thompson is an advocate for judicial reform, the need to combat sexual violence, abolition of the death penalty, the fallibility of eyewitness testimony, and the healing power of forgiveness. Her strong convictions were born of a brutal rape she suffered as a college student. Her compelling testimony sent a young man to a life term in prison for a crime he did not commit.
The convicted man, Ronald Cotton, was eventually freed thanks in large part to his persistence in maintaining his innocence and to newly developed DNA tests. Together they co-authored a joint memoir, Picking Cotton, which recounts their journeys, the tragedy that brought them together, and their mutual conviction that such errors must be recognized.
Thompson is commissioner for the North Carolina Innocence Commission and the president and founder of Healing Justice, a non-profit that works in aftercare for those harmed by wrongful convictions. She has appeared on numerous media outlets including "Oprah," "60 Minutes," "The Today Show," "Good Morning America," "20/20," "PBS Frontline," People, Newsweek and the New York Times.
The program is free and open to the public, and offers attendees one hour of free continuing legal education credit. A book signing will follow the lecture.
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1801 Euclid Ave.) will host “Corruption in the 2016 Election?,” Friday, November 6 at 12 p.m. in the school’s Faculty Conference Room. The lecture, co-sponsored by the Education Fund of the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland and the Bay Village Chapter of the LWVGC, will be presented by Zephyr Teachout, professor at Fordham University and chief executive officer and board chair for the US-based anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC.
Teachout will speak on the history of corruption in the United States from its founding to the present day and will examine the various issues surrounding corruption from their constitutional origins through the Citizens United ruling, and expose the sources of power behind it.
Teachout is the author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizen’s United (Harvard University Press 2014). In addition to serving as associate professor of law at Fordham University, she was the first national director of the Sunlight Foundation. In July 2015, she was appointed chair and CEO of Mayday PAC, a crowd-funded non-partisan Super PAC promoting campaign finance reform. Teachout is a graduate of Yale University and received her law degree and M.A. in political science from Duke University
The program is free and open to the public, and offers attendees one hour of free continuing legal education credit.
