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May 4 2023

Thursday 6:00 p.m. EDT

Free Markets, Free Speech, and Federalism: Are States Best Positioned to Regulate Big Tech

DC Young Lawyers Chapter

Washington, DC

Speakers:

Benjamin M. Flowers • Jonathan D. Urick • Lauren S. Willard

Sponsors:

DC Young Lawyer Chapter

In-Person Event

May 4 2023

Thursday 12:00 p.m. CDT

The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World

Birmingham Lawyers Chapter

Homewood, AL

Sponsors:

Birmingham Lawyer Chapter

In-Person Event

May 3 2023

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Religious Liberties

Blog Post

News

Religious Liberty in American Higher Education

Jennie Bradley Lichter

I'm happy to share a piece on Religious Liberty in American Higher Education that I've...

Apr 24 2023

Monday 5:30 p.m. EDT

Debate Night: Should Civil Juries be Abolished?

DC Young Lawyers Chapter

Washington, DC

Speakers:

Keith J. Harrison • Renée Lettow Lerner • Shanin Specter

Sponsors:

DC Young Lawyer Chapter

In-Person Event

Apr 24 2023

Monday 12:00 p.m. EDT

Remarks from Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr

Atlanta Lawyers Chapter

Atlanta, GA

Speakers:

Christopher M. Carr

Sponsors:

Atlanta Lawyer Chapter

In-Person Event

Apr 21 2023

Friday 10:10 a.m. EDT

Welcome

2023 Ohio Chapters Conference

Columbus, OH

In-Person Event

Apr 20 2023

Thursday 12:15 p.m. CDT

The Presentation of the Second Annual Eaton Award at The University of Chicago

Chicago Student Chapter

Chicago, IL

Speakers:

William Baude • Samuel L. Bray

Topics:

First Amendment

Sponsors:

Chicago Student Chapter

In-Person Event

Apr 19 2023 Video

Cocktails & Crypto

Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Patrick Daugherty, Daniel J. Davis, Alexander Hughes, Julius L. Loeser, Dane Lund, John O. McGinnis

**Registration for this event is now closed. If you still wish to attend in-person, please...

Sponsors: Chicago Lawyer Chapter · In-House Counsel Network

Apr 19 2023

Wednesday 5:00 p.m. CDT

Cocktails & Crypto

Chicago Lawyers Chapter & In-House Counsel Network

Chicago, IL

Speakers:

Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos • Patrick Daugherty • Daniel J. Davis • Alexander Hughes • Julius L. Loeser • Dane Lund • John O. McGinnis

Sponsors:

Chicago Lawyer Chapter • In-House Counsel Network

In-Person Event

Apr 19 2023 Video

Courthouse Steps Preview: Tyler v. Hennepin County

John J. Bursch, Tony Francois, Nancie G. Marzulla

Geraldine Tyler, a ninety-three-year-old homeowner, owed Hennepin County, Minnesota, nearly $12,700 in delinquent property taxes,...

Topics: Supreme Court · Property Rights

Sponsors: Energy & Environment Practice Group

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Benjamin M. Flowers

Partner, Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC

Biography

Ben Flowers, a partner at Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC, is an accomplished litigator with experience briefing, arguing, and winning high-stakes cases in courts throughout the country.

Before joining the law firm, Ben served as Ohio's 10th Solicitor General. In that role he regularly represented the State of Ohio before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of Ohio. Most prominently, in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Ben led a multi-state challenge to OSHA's vaccine mandate, ultimately prevailing before the Supreme Court.

Ben is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the University of Chicago Law School. Following law school, Ben clerked for Judge Sandra Ikuta of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of this United States. Ben lives in Upper Arlington, Ohio with his wife Denise and their three very active children.

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Jonathan D. Urick

Senior Associate Chief Counsel, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center

Biography

Jonathan Urick is senior associate chief counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Urick handles a variety of litigation matters for the Chamber.

Urick rejoined the Chamber after helping launch the national litigation boutique Lehotsky Keller LLP, where he represented large corporations and trade associations as one of the firm’s early partners. He previously served as senior counsel for the Chamber Litigation Center, primarily covering arbitration and class-action issues.

Before his first stint at the Chamber, Urick practiced law at McGuireWoods LLP on the firm’s appeals and issues team. With a diverse commercial-litigation practice focused on appeals and dispositive motions, Urick represented a variety of businesses across federal and state courts.

Urick served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal judiciary: For Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Judge Amul Thapar, then a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Urick graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Delaware.

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Lauren S. Willard

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Biography

Lauren Willard is a partner in Covington’s Antitrust/Competition and Appellate practices. Drawing on her deep substantive antitrust experience in both the government and private practice, Lauren represents and advises clients on a variety of antitrust matters. She defends clients in complex civil litigation and class actions, counsels on mergers and acquisitions, and represents clients before federal regulators. She also represents clients in appellate matters before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals.

Lauren rejoined Covington after spending four years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) working on antitrust and appellate matters, with a particular focus on competition in the digital economy. She served as a Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, where she worked on a range of merger and conduct matters and served as the Front Office liaison to the International and Appellate sections. She also drafted several amicus briefs and statements of interest and coordinated with the Office of the Solicitor General and Civil Division on appellate matters involving antitrust issues. Lauren accepted a career detail to the Office of the Attorney General to lead the DOJ’s review of market-leading online platforms. In that role, she advised the Attorney General on the application of antitrust to technology platforms, managed antitrust investigations related to technology platforms, and coordinated with the States Attorneys General. Lauren also chaired the DOJ’s working group on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and drafted legislation that was cleared through the interagency process and presented to Congress. Following her detail, Lauren returned to the Antitrust Division, where she worked directly on the DOJ’s trial team in US v. Google, one of the biggest government antitrust monopolization litigations in the past 20 years.

After graduating from the University Virginia School of Law, she served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Keith J. Harrison

Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP

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Keith J. Harrison is a partner and co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s Litigation Group and a member of the Management Board in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. A former New York City prosecutor and seasoned trial litigator, Keith has tried dozens of cases in eight states and the District of Columbia, and argued 14 cases as an appellate advocate in both state and federal courts. He has also successfully obtained numerous Temporary Restraining Orders for clients seeking emergency action by a court. Keith maintains a diverse trial, arbitration, and investigations practice, focused representing companies in highly-regulated industries, including health care, pharmaceutical, defense contracting, and aviation.

Keith currently devotes a considerable portion of his practice to identifying and developing affirmative recovery opportunities for health plans. Like the federal government, health plans are often the victims of health care fraud. Using his decades of experience in defending fraud and abuse, pharmaceutical pricing, and False Claims Act cases, Keith litigates, on a contingency basis, cases seeking to recover significant funds wrongfully obtained from health plans. Keith litigates False Claims Act (FCA), antitrust, anti-kickback, fraud and abuse, breach of contract, Lanham Act, and other complex cases. He also represents clients in grand jury investigations and other proceedings before the DOJ. In addition, Keith has extensive experience representing clients in Congressional investigations and hearings.

This year, Keith was selected to receive the Washington Business Journal’s Minority Business Leader Award. The award recognizes the region’s top 25 minority business owners and leaders and for their "entrepreneurial drive, creativity, and success." Keith has been repeatedly selected as a Washington, D.C. "Super Lawyer" in the field of civil litigation by Super Lawyers, from 2007 through 2020. Keith is also the co-chair of the firm's Public Service Practice Group and a member of the firm's Diversity Council. Prior to joining Crowell, Keith was a founding partner of King Pagano and Harrison, a 30-lawyer litigation boutique that merged with Crowell in 2006. For over a decade, Keith has been a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and was one of the founders of Crowell's in-house Trial Excellence Academy, two institutions teaching lawyers the art of trial advocacy.

As co-chair of Crowell & Moring's Public Service Practice, Keith oversees the firm's pro bono program. Keith is also currently the Chairman of the Board of BEST Kids, Inc. a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and supports mentors for D.C.'s foster care youth. He has also been a volunteer youth soccer, basketball, and softball coach.

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Renée Lettow Lerner

Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor, George Washington University Law School

Biography

Renée Lettow Lerner is Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

Professor Lerner works in the fields of U.S. and English legal history, civil and criminal procedure, and comparative law. She advises judges, lawyers, and government officials from the United States and countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia about the differences between adversarial and nonadversarial legal systems.

She writes extensively about the history of American juries. Her work includes not only scholarly articles, but also online publications intended for a broader audience of legal professionals and the public. In many different settings, she has debated the role of juries with other academics and with lawyers. She has a book forthcoming with Oxford University Press in the Very Short Introduction Series entitled “The Jury.” She is also working on a book about the American civil jury, from the colonial period to the present.

She is the author, with John Langbein and Bruce Smith, of the book History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (2009).

Her recent writings include a book review of Amalia D. Kessler’s Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877, 67 J. Legal Ed. 888 (2018); “How the Creation of Appellate Courts in England and the United States Limited Judicial Comment on Evidence to the Jury,” 40 Journal of the Legal Profession 215 (2016); “The Troublesome Inheritance of Americans in Magna Carta and Trial by Jury,” in Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy 77-98 (Robert Hazell and James Melton eds., Cambridge University Press 2015); and “The Failure of Originalism in Preserving Constitutional Rights to Civil Jury Trial,” 22 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 811 (2014).

Professor Lerner received an A.B. summa cum laude in history from Princeton University. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where she studied English legal history. At Yale Law School, she was Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 2003 to 2005, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Shanin Specter

Irving Segal Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Biography

Shanin Specter is a preeminent American trial lawyer. He is a founding partner of Kline & Specter, one of the leading catastrophic injury firms in the United States.

Specter has obtained more than 200 jury verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million and more than 50 case resolutions greater than $10 million, including jury verdicts of $153 million against a major automaker and $109 million against a Pennsylvania power company. In all, he has achieved 16 eight- or nine-figure verdicts, among them news-making cases involving medical malpractice, defective products, medical devices, premises liability, auto accidents and general negligence.

Beyond winning substantial monetary compensation for his clients, many of Specter's cases have prompted changes that provide a societal benefit, including improvements to vehicle safety, nursing and hospital procedures, the safe operation of police cars, training for the use of CPR at public institutions, and inspections, installation and maintenance of utility power lines. One case spurred the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to create a new Electric Safety Division to investigate reported electrical injuries. Most recently, Specter’s lawsuit on behalf of the victims of a fire escape collapse helped move the City of Philadelphia in 2016 to enact an ordinance requiring all fire escapes to be regularly inspected.

Specter earned his undergraduate degree with honors from Haverford College, his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an LL.M. with First Honors from Cambridge University.

Since 2000, Specter has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Since 2015, Specter has also taught at UC Hastings College of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law and Stanford Law School.

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Christopher M. Carr

Attorney General, State of Georgia

Biography

Christopher M. Carr was appointed by Governor Nathan Deal and sworn into office as Georgia's 54th Attorney General on November 1, 2016. On November 6, 2018, Carr was elected by the people of Georgia to serve a full four-year term.

As Attorney General, Carr believes he has no more solemn duty than to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia and the interests of the people of the State of Georgia. He also believes that his office must play a significant role in protecting Georgians. Since taking office in 2016, Carr has made it a priority to combat opioid misuse, gang violence, human trafficking, elder abuse and consumer fraud. He established and leads the Statewide Opioid Task Force – which now has more than 400 members – and the Georgia Anti-Gang Network – which is focused on strengthening multi-jurisdictional investigations and prosecutions. To help prevent our older, at-risk adults from falling victim to scams, Carr created the Georgia Consumer Protection Guide for Older Adults, and he works every day to make sure older, at-risk adults and all consumers are protected from exploitation in any form. Carr is also a champion for the state’s Sunshine Laws, working each day to ensure that government operates openly and transparently. In 2019, he announced the creation of the state's first-ever Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit at the Department of Law. Under his leadership, the unit will work with statewide partners to aggressively combat buyers and traffickers.

Carr appoints all members of the Georgia Consumer Advisory Board and is a member of the Georgia Board of Homeland Security. He served on Georgia’s Judicial Nominating Commission, the body charged with recommending candidates to the Governor to fill judicial vacancies, from 2011 through 2018, and the Executive Committee for the Georgia Older Adults Cabinet from 2016 - 2018. A dedicated member of the National Association of Attorneys General, Carr currently serves on the Human Trafficking, Substance Abuse and Presidential Initiative Committees (focused on elder abuse in 2017-18 and natural disasters in 2018-19) where he collaborates with his colleagues to shape the association's policies in these respective areas.

Carr previously served as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) under Governor Deal from November 2013 to November 2016. As Commissioner, Carr led the state agency responsible for creating jobs and investment in Georgia through business recruitment, retention and expansion, international trade and tourism, as well as the arts, film and music industries. During Carr's three-year tenure at GDEcD, the state of Georgia was recognized as the top state in the nation in which to do business for three consecutive years. In addition, GDEcD helped facilitate 1,069 projects across the state that represent approximately $14.4 billion in investment and the creation of more than 84,000 jobs. In 2015, GDEcD was recognized as the top economic development agency in the country.

Prior to joining GDEcD, Carr was Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson for six years. During his time in Washington, Carr advised the Senator on federal legislation, numerous judicial nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts in Georgia and across the country.

Carr began his career with Georgia Pacific, then practiced law with Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta and later served as Vice President and General Counsel for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.

A graduate from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and Lumpkin School of Law, Carr is admitted to practice law in Georgia.

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William Baude

Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law & Faculty Director, Constitutional Law Institute, University of Chicago Law School

Biography

Biography

Patrick Daugherty is a senior corporate and securities law partner of Foley & Lardner LLP, based in Chicago. He also is an adjunct professor of Cornell Law School, where he teaches in residence each Fall Term.

Mr. Daugherty is a member of the Bar in New York, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, Michigan and Illinois. Credentialing organizations have named him “Lawyer of the Year” in both Michigan (2007) and Illinois (2022). A graduate of Northwestern University and of Cornell Law School (Class of 1981), he clerked for SDNY Chief Judge Lloyd F. MacMahon for a year before entering private practice. Mr. Daugherty also served as Counsel to SEC Commissioner Edward H. Fleischman in Washington, D.C., from 1986 to 1989. An Emeritus Member of the American Law Institute, he is the author, co-author or editor of several books and many articles on securities regulation and new financial products.

Mr. Daugherty believes that he was the first lawyer inside the SEC to join the Federalist Society when he became a member in the late 1980s. A mainstay of the Chicago Lawyers Chapter, at the national level of the Society he serves on the Executive Committee for the Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group.

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Daniel J. Davis

Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Biography

Clients trust Dan’s experience to help mitigate risks in the face of investigations and enforcement actions and to assess rules issued by financial agencies. From futures commission merchants to swap dealers to derivatives clearing organizations, he is well-positioned to advise on potential enforcement priorities, staff relief and exemptive orders, and submit comments on proposed financial agency rules. Dan has particular experience in handling fraud-related allegations under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and can help clients develop compliance practices for meeting regulatory requirements. He also has successfully challenged rulemakings by financial agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) first rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act regarding proxy access and the SEC’s attempt to regulate fixed indexed annuities.

In Dan’s role at the CFTC, he assisted with the creation and development of LabCFTC, the agency’s hub for engagement with the fintech community to promote innovation and fair competition. He is highly experienced with helping crypto exchanges, bank and other fintech entities in working with distributed ledger technologies. He also provides counsel on meeting regulatory requirements when bringing new products to market. Dan had a distinguished career at the CFTC, receiving the Chairman’s Award for Excellence in 2019. This award is the CFTC’s highest honor, given to one employee annually in recognition of extraordinary accomplishments and superior service dedicated to realizing the vision, mission and values of the CFTC.

Dan has the full range of litigation experience, having practiced in federal and state court, defending clients in arbitration and jury trial, and arguing ten cases before the federal courts of appeals. He excels at crisis litigation, having successfully obtained a rarely granted writ of mandamus on behalf of the CFTC. Dan uses his extensive litigation experience to advise clients on both litigation and regulatory matters.

Previously, Dan served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division for the US Department of Justice. He also clerked for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. While in law school, Dan served as Executive Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review.

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Alexander Hughes

Chief Legal Officer, Lindy Labs

Biography

Alex is the Chief Legal Officer for Lindy Labs, a fintech startup focused on empowering investors by allowing them to harness the power of decentralized finance to grow their wealth responsibly and support charity. Prior to joining Lindy Labs, Alex worked for several major international law firms, clerked for a federal judge, and deployed to Mosul, Iraq as an officer in the US Army. He's a fierce advocate for human liberty and free, fair markets at home and abroad.

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Julius L. Loeser

Retired, Winston & Strawn LLP

Biography

Jerry Loeser is of counsel in the Chicago office of Winston & Strawn, and his practice focuses on banking regulation. He has extensive experience in counseling financial services clients on, among other things, bank acquisitions, privacy, financial modernization, the USA PATRIOT Act, Basel II and III, lending limits, capital, trust, affiliate transactions, and Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, and CFPB regulations.

Prior to working at large corporate law firms, Jerry was chief regulatory and compliance counsel for Comerica Bank, where he also served as senior vice president and deputy general counsel and as general counsel of its retail bank division. Before that, he served as chief regulatory in-house counsel at Wells Fargo & Co. Jerry began his legal career advising the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.

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Dane Lund

Core Contributor & DAO Architect, Alliance DAO

Biography

Dane Lund is a Core Contributor and DAO architect for the Web3 Accelerator Alliance DAO.

After graduating Harvard Law School, Dane became a litigator for Wilkie Farr focused on corporate governance and shareholder rights - looking at the inner workings of board rooms. And then became an investment banker where he financed private equity transactions before becoming a DAO architect for Alliance.

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John O. McGinnis

George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Biography

John O. McGinnis is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He also has an MA degree from Balliol College, Oxford, in philosophy and theology. Professor McGinnis clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. From 1987 to 1991, he was deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. He is the author of Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Government Through Technology (Princeton 2013) and Originalism and the Good Constitution (Harvard 2013) (with M. Rappaport). He is a past winner of the Paul Bator award given by the Federalist Society to an outstanding academic under 40. He has been listed by the United States on the roster of panelists who may be called upon to decide World Trade Organization Disputes.

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Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos

Chief Legal Officer, Cboe Digital

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