2010 Annual Meeting - Bench and Bar Conference

2010 Exhibitors

Relax, have fun and learn—all for a great cause.  Retired Executive Chef and Culinary Instructor Susan Dougherty is teaching a fun and interactive culinary class benefitting Equal Access to Justice, which raises money for legal aid in New Mexico.  Chef Dougherty guarantees two hours of interactive culinary fun with demos, tastes, fabulous recipes and tips that only the pros know.  The cost is only $50 and space is limited.  Please sign up at the EAJ auction table or at the SBNM registration desk.  YUM!

Special Guest Speaker

Charles P. Rose,

General Counsel

U.S. Dept. of Education

CHARLES P. ROSE is the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education. He was nominated by President Obama on March 18, 2009, and confirmed by the United States Senate on May 1, 2009. In this position, Rose serves as the chief legal officer for the department and as the legal adviser to the secretary of education on all matters affecting the department’s programs and activities.

Prior to his appointment, Rose was engaged in the private practice of law. He was a founding partner and corporate secretary of Franczek Radelet PC (formerly Franczek Radelet & Rose PC), established in 1994. There he represented school districts, municipalities, and other public employers across Illinois with respect to labor relations and collective bargaining matters, general matters of labor and employment law, and education law. Rose served as the lead negotiator on hundreds of collective bargaining agreements for a wide variety of public employers, including the Chicago Public Schools and the City of Chicago.

To view Rose's full biography, visit the following link:

http://ed.gov/news/staff/bios/rose.html

Keynote Speaker

Stuart A. Forsyth,

The Legal Futurist

Presenting Practicing Law: The Future Isn't What it Used to Be

STUART A. FORSYTH is owner and principal of The Legal Futurist, an independent consulting practice providing long-range strategic planning and visioning services to all components of the justice system including courts, bar associations, law firms, CLE providers, lawyers, judges and educators. His presentations on the future of the legal profession, courts and continuing education have received nationwide acclaim.

Forsyth served as consultant to the American Bar Association’s Committee on Research About the Future of the Legal Profession and was a founding member of the Association of Professional Futurists.

A visionary bar executive, he served five years as executive director of the Los Angeles County Bar Association—the largest metropolitan bar in the nation—where he focused on creating products and services to meet the professional needs of lawyers in the 21st century. Under his leadership, the bar held its first community-wide Diversity Summit, dramatically improved relationships with its sections and introduced technology for distance learning.

DAVID GROSS is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. Named as one of the “Top Ten Winning Litigators in the U.S.” by the National Law Journal in 2009, Gross has previously been listed as one of the nation’s 50 “Rising Litigation Stars” by The American Lawyer (2008) based on his track record of high profile IP litigation victories as well as his prominence as a national speaker on trial practice and patent litigation. The 2007 recipient of the Center for Legal Education’s National Speaker of the Year Award, Gross is a former clerk to the Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, and a former trial attorney for the Civil Division of the U. S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He is the co-author of the NITA publication The Power Trial Method and has served as lead attorney for a nationwide pro bono investigation resulting in a national report on the status of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.