Orange County Lawyers Chapter
Speaker:
- Clark Neily, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
The Constitution protects the right to earn an honest living without unreasonable government interference. But you wouldn't know it from the mountains of regulations pouring forth from local, state and federal governments. Common sense dictates that these laws put obstacles in the way of Americans being able to pursue their livelihood.
Clark Neily is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm that challenges unconstitutional government actions in court, and is a director of its' Center for Judicial Engagement. He's been in the trenches for 13 years, having worked on Kelo v. City of New London (2005 landmark eminent domain case) and
District of Columbia v. Heller that resulted in the revival of the Second Amendment in 2008. Recent cases challenge local and state statutes regulating hair braiding, street vendors, interior designers and cab entrepreneurs.
Before joining the Institute for Justice, Mr. Neily spent four years as a litigator at the Dallas-based firm Thompson & Knight, where he worked on a wide variety of matters including professional malpractice, First Amendment and media law, complex commercial cases, and intellectual property litigation. Clark received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Royce Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Cost: $30/members, $35/nonmembers, $20/students, for lunch and 1 hour of MCLE credit in Elimination of Bias (The Federalist Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE).
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