Please join the Michigan Chapter and University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Student Chapter of the American Constitution Society for an expungement training with Anne Yantus and Judge Michelle Rick. Join us for the virtual training and commit to making a change and helping Michiganders get a clean slate.
Featuring:
Hon. Michelle Rick, Judge, Michigan 4th District of Appeals
Anne Yantus, Pro Bono Counsel, Bodman Law
On Tuesday, May 25 at 1:30PM Pacific (4:30PM Eastern), please join the ACS Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Bay Area, Colorado, DC, and Orange County Lawyer Chapters for a conversation with California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maria Lucy Armendariz, and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria about their careers and their journeys to the bench from diverse personal and professional backgrounds.
This event is part of ACS's broader Path to the Bench Initiative, which is aimed at developing a highly qualified pool of legal professionals dedicated to long-term, positive change and a fair judiciary, with a special emphasis on creating opportunities to join the bench from individuals from diverse racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and practice areas.
Introductions by:
Samuel Siegel, Deputy Solicitor General, California Department of Justice; President, ACS Sacramento Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors
Featuring:
Hon. Maria Lucy Armendariz, Superior Court Judge for Los Angeles, California
Hon. Vince Chhabria, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California
Hon. Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Moderated by:
Tanya Pellegrini, Civil and Voting Rights Staff Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Member, ACS Sacramento Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors
Please join ACS as we celebrate the graduation of our incredible ACS Student Leaders. ACS is truly honored that these graduating students have chosen to make ACS a part of their law school experience. To show our graduating ACS leaders our love and appreciation, to provide them with some inspiration as they enter the legal profession, and to celebrate their incredible accomplishments, ACS will be hosting a Virtual Graduation Ceremony on May 21 at 1 PM PT / 3 PM CT / 4 PM ET.
Please invite your friends and family as we honor our graduates’ brilliance and passion, and present our annual student chapter awards!
Featuring:
All attendees will be sent dial-in information prior to the event.
Program:
Welcome Remarks by Russ Feingold, ACS President (Introduced by Meghan Paulas)
Remarks by Jarrett Adams (Introduced by Vjolca Saliu - Chicago-Kent '21)
Remarks by Cecile Richards (Introduced by Francesco Arreaga - UC Berkeley '21)
Remarks by Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo (Introduced by Kevin Witenoff - Vanderbilt '21)
Announcement of 2021 Graduates
Remarks by Kristine Cruz, Co-Chair of the Dallas Ft. Worth Lawyer Chapter
Presentation of ACS 2021 Student Chapter Awards by Zinelle October, ACS Executive Vice President
Remarks by David Adeleye, ACS Student Board Member
Closing Remarks by Peter Karanjia, ACS Chair of Board of Directors
Join the Asian American Bar Association of Houston and the ACS Houston Lawyer Chapter for a workshop discussing the recent surge of anti-Asian violence in a socio-historical and legal context. The workshop will highlight several landmark cases where Asian Americans have navigated their racial status in the courts and resisted discrimination.
Featuring:
Bianca Mabute-Louie, researcher, educator, and consultant; PHD Graduate Student at Rice University
1.0 hour of CLE Credit will be provided for this event.
Please Register for this event here.
Take the eve of 5/15 to kick back, laugh a lot, and enjoy some great food before finals kick in with the Stanford Law ACS Student Chapter for a celebration of the origins of democracy! Although Socrates will be our trivia host, you won’t need to prep for any Socratic dialogue—you’ll just need a decent lie detector to figure out what separates truth from fake news about ancient Greece, the birthplace of classical democracy. BUT…was it also the birthplace of cheesecake? Or of the middle finger gesture? For the answer to those questions and many more, you will have to come see for yourself.
Information on how to register for this event, to follow soon.
With the Senate so closely divided and a legislative agenda on democracy reform, labor rights, and the environment hanging in the balance, the debate over whether to eliminate the filibuster has intensified. Advocates point to the concerning history of the Senate rule which in the past has been used to protect slavery, block civil rights legislation, and prevent labor law reform as reason to dispense with the super-majoritarian requirement. Others argue restraint, suggesting either keeping the filibuster as is or reforming it, perhaps by returning it to its original roots as a "talking filibuster" made famous by the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Is the filibuster "a relic of the Jim Crow era" that disproportionately blocks civil rights and labor rights legislation? Or is it a necessary tool to protect minority rights in the Senate?
ACS is pleased to co-sponsor this event with the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University.
Speakers:
Richard Arenberg, Interim Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Brown University
Keisha Blain, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Russ Feingold, President, ACS
Tefere Gebre, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
Debra Perlin, Director of Policy and Program, ACS, Moderator
This event has been approved for 1 hour of California CLE credit.
For CLE reading materials click here, and find the Evaluation Form, Record of Attendance, and Certificate of Attendance here.
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.