Are you a law student that is looking for ways to get involved after being part of your law school ACS Student Chapter or a progressive lawyer looking for more ways to have an impact? If so, please join the ACS New York Lawyer Chapter for our Spring General Body Meeting!

On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 7:30 PM ET we will meet to discuss ongoing programming, upcoming events, and share ideas about developments in the progressive legal movement.  

The meeting will be held via Zoom. Please register to attend. 

If you have any questions please email acsnychair@gmail.com.  

Join the ACS Florida Chapters for a discussion with U.S. Representative Ted Deutch on Judicial Nominations, Voting Rights, and the work of the House Judiciary Committee.

Introductions by:

David A. Karp, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields, P.A.; Member, ACS South Florida Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors

Featuring:

Hon. Ted Deutch, U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district 

Moderated by:

Whitney Untiedt, Trial Attorney, Freidin Brown, P.A.; Member, Advisory Council of the Southern Juvenile Defender Center; Member, ACS South Florida Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors

Please join the UChicago ACS Student Chapter as we welcome Professor Jennifer Nou for a discussion on the major events of the school year and what lies ahead for ACS, both on campus and nationally.

Please be advised that this is the final ACS event of the year!

To attend this event, please click here.

Life changed for all of us in March 2020. Jury trials came to a halt in many places because of COVID-19, and in others the composition of juries changed noticeably, becoming younger and whiter. At the same time, the risk of serious illness or complications from COVID-19 quickly became dramatically higher for incarcerated people, who are unable to minimize the risk of COVID-19 through social distancing because of their imprisonment. Unique criminal justice issues have been and will continue to be presented by the pandemic—but creative lawyers have seized opportunities created by the unprecedented circumstances and have achieved significant victories vindicating the constitutional rights of their clients. Join the At-Large, Austin, Bay Area, Chicago, DC, Los Angeles, Orange County, and Oregon Lawyer Chapters for a panel that will address successful strategies for obtaining the release of incarcerated people during the pandemic and challenges to whether pandemic-era juries represent a fair cross section of the community.

Featuring:

Ian Mance, Staff Attorney, Emancipate North Carolina

Sam Weiss, Founder and Executive Director, Rights Behind Bars

Emily Coward, Project Attorney, Racial Equity Network Project, University of North Carolina School of Government

Tim Henderson, Assistant Public Defender, Defender District 28—Buncombe County 

Moderated by: 

Phil Dixon, Jr., Defender Educator, Public Defense Education, University of North Carolina School of Government

The "de-platforming" of former President Donald Trump from prominent social media platforms following the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol raises questions about the power of private corporations to regulate public conversation, and the legal system's power to regulate them, in our wired age. Join the ACS Arizona, Austin, DC, Michigan, Orange County, and Philadelphia Lawyer Chapters as we welcome a panel of prominent experts to discuss the broader implications for free speech.

Featuring:

Katie Fallow, Senior Staff Attorney, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

Gautam Hans, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School

Colin Stretch, Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School, and former General Counsel of Facebook, Inc.

Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Law School

Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Moderated by:

Dan Kaplan, Assistant Federal Public Defender; Member, ACS Phoenix Chapter Board of Directors

Outro:

Jami Johnson, Assistant Federal Public Defender; Member, ACS Phoenix Chapter Board of Directors