On July 1, ACS will host its annual panel discussion reviewing the current Supreme Court Term as it draws to a close. Leading experts will discuss the Court's noteworthy decisions and analyze emerging trends.

Welcome Remarks:

Russ Feingold, ACS President

Featuring:

Thomas Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein and Russell; Co-Founder and Publisher, SCOTUSblog; Moderator

Debo Adegbile, Partner, WilmerHale

Rachel Barkow, Vice Dean and Charles Seligson Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law; NYU School of Law

Sarah Harris, Partner, Williams & Connolly

Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Pratik Shah, Partner, Akin Gump

The American Constitution Society is a State Bar of California approved CLE provider. This event has been approved for 1.5 hours of California MCLE credit.

Please click here for the CLE reading materials, Evaluation Form, Record of Attendance, and Certificate of Attendance.

As the nation's leading progressive legal organization, ACS is committed to ensuring that all aspects of our events are accessible and enjoyable for all. If you require any accommodations, please contact us at info@acslaw.org. 

Join the ACS Minneapolis-St. Paul Lawyer Chapter and the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association for a conversation with the co-founder, CEO and General Counsel of Turnsignl, Jazz Hampton. Minnesota-based TurnSignl is an on-demand, real-time app and service that facilitates and records law enforcement interactions with drivers during traffic stops and accidents. In the event that they are pulled over, a driver can access a live legal representative at the touch of a button or voice command. TurnSignl vetted attorneys meet stringent criteria and are trained in de-escalating police-citizen encounters. Jazz will talk about the inspiration and hope for this technology in the pursuit of safely de-escalating police-citizen encounters to ensure that everyone gets home safe. 

Featuring:

Jazz Hampton, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & General Counsel, Turnsignl

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Speaker Bio:

Jazz Hampton as CEO and General Counsel at TurnSignl. TurnSignl is a Minnesota-based tech company that provides real-time legal guidance from an attorney to drivers, all while their camera records the interaction. Hampton is an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. He is an Emerging Leader within Twin Cities Diversity in Practice and the Co-Chair of DRI's Young Lawyer Diversity Committee. Hampton sits on the Board of Directors at the Academy of Holy Angels and serves as the liaison to their Cultural Awareness Committee. Before joining TurnSignl, Hampton was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion and a practicing attorney at Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm with 150+ attorneys. Hampton provided strategic leadership through developing firm-wide objectives, tracking progress, and planning education. He focused his legal practice in business/commercial litigation, construction defect, and product liability defense. Hampton holds a bachelor's degree from the University of St. Thomas, where he majored in Computer Science Information Systems and minored in Business Administration prior to graduating from the University of St. Thomas School of Law. 

The board will meet with Meghan Paulas, ACS’s VP of Network Advancement, to discuss ACS’s priorities and initiatives, including how to use the ACS network to secure clerkships and meet career goals. We will also discuss our chapter plans for the year ahead. 

The Equality Act (H.R. 5; S. 393) is a key piece of civil rights legislation. The bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. The bill passed the US House of Representatives in February of this year. The filibuster, however, presents a large hurdle to its passage, as it has done for many pieces of civil rights legislation in the past. Join the ACS At-Large, Austin, Chicago, DC, Georgia, Los Angeles, Madison, Northeast Ohio, Oregon, and San Diego Lawyer Chapters for a chance to hear experts and advocates discuss these current issues.  

Featuring:

Gilbert Gonzales, Ph.D., MHA, Assistant Professor, Center for Medicine, Health, & Society, The Program for Public Policy Studies, the Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nora Huppert, Renberg Fellow, Lambda Legal

Stephen Spaulding, Senior Counsel, Public Policy & Government Affairs; Senior Advisor to the President, Common Cause

Moderated by:

Steve Sanders, Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Reading materials for this event can be found pasted here below:

• “The Equality Act Is Needed to Advance Health Equity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations” American Journal of Public Health by Gilbert Gonzales & Kyle Gavulic: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305614
• Washington Post Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-lgbtq-equality-act/2021/06/19/887a4134-d038-11eb-a7f1-52b8870bef7c_story.html

Please click here for the CLE reading materials, Evaluation Form, Record of Attendance, and Certificate of Attendance.

ACS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization. It does not take positions on candidates or pending legislation, including ballot initiatives. 

Join the Florida ACS Chapters for a discussion of the current use and future reform of the federal sentencing guidelines. 

Moderated by: 

Vanessa Singh Johannes, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields

Featuring:

James "Jim" E. Felman, Partner, Kynes, Markman & Felman, P.A.

Michael Yaeger, Shareholder, Carlton Fields; Founder and C.E.O., Empirical Justice

Aimee Ferrer, Assistant Federal Public Defender

Frank Bowman, Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law

Join the ACS Sacramento Lawyer Chapter for our upcoming Social Hour!