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"Bench & Bar 2014"

 December 5-7, 2014

Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza

Mobile, AL

 

 5 hrs. MCLE Credits

including 1.0 hr. Ethics

 

Young Lawyers Mixer

1 Hour MCLE Credit

 

Registration Fees
General Registration Fee $200.00
Young Lawyers Registration Fee
$100.00

Young Lawyers are those under 36 years of age OR practicing less then five years 
Co-Chairs
Edward G. Bowron, Esquire 
Burr & Forman, LLP
Steven P. Savarese, Jr., Esquire
Holtsford Gilliland Higgins Hitson & Howard, P.C.
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The Mobile and Baldwin County Bar Associations'

26th Annual Bench and Bar Conference

"BENCH & BAR 2014"

 

In order to qualify for B & B special room rates, reservations must be made directly with the Riverview Plaza, 251.415.3083

 

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5

 

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

 Registration

 

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Young Lawyers - Federal/State Trial Judges

Luncheon Mixer - Mobile Bay Ballroom (2nd floor)

For qualifying Young Lawyers Only

(Attendees will receive an additional 1.0 MCLE credit)

MUST be registered for Bench & Bar Conference to attend

Deli-Style Lunch - no charge in addition to Conference registration fee

 

HANDOUT MATERIALS WILL BE EMAILED TO ALL REGISTERED ATTENDEES PRIOR TO THE CONFERENCE 

 

Conference - 5 Hours MCLE Credits

Including 1.0 Hour Ethics

 Bon Secour Bay Ballroom (2nd floor)

  

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

"THE ECONOMY, THE PRACTICE OF LAW AND LIFE: IS IT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?"

Judge John L. Carroll, Dean, Cumberland School of Law

Former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama

 

2:00 - 2:15 p.m.

 "HOWELL T. HEFLIN HONOR AND INTEGRITY AWARD"

Michael C. Niemeyer, Esquire - President, Baldwin County Bar Association

J. Michael Druhan, Esquire - President, Mobile Bar Association

 

2:15 - 3:15 p.m. 

"JUDICIAL PANEL DISCUSSION"

Moderators: Judges B.H. "Ben" Brooks, III and Jody W. Bishop

Judge William H. Steele, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama

Judge Michelle M. Thomason, Presiding District Court Judge

28th Judicial Circuit

Judge Shelbonnie Coleman-Hall, Municipal Court, 13th Judicial Circuit

Judge Gaines C. McCorquodale, 1st Judicial Circuit

Judge Jack Booker Weaver, 35th Judicial Circuit

 

3:15 - 4:45 p.m. 

"THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE LAWYER'S ROLE"

Michele Hurdle, Director Economic and Community Development, Airbus, USA

Roger Wehner, Executive Director, Mobile Airport Authority

R. Preston Bolt, Jr., Hand Arendall, LLC

William Lee Thuston, Burr & Forman, LLP

 
4:45 - 5:00 p.m. 

SOUTH ALABAMA VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM PRO BONO AWARD

SPONSOR DOOR PRIZE DRAWINGS

 

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. 

"ETHICS AND CIVILITY"

J. Anthony McLain, General Counsel, Alabama State Bar

 

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

COCKTAIL PARTY - Jubilee Suite (2nd floor)

 

Thoughts and comments of any speaker are not to be construed as approved or disapproved by the Mobile or Baldwin County Bar Associations. 
For reservations to "Bench & Bar 2014" please complete tear-off and mail, along with check or credit card information, to Mobile Bar Association, P.O. Drawer 2005, Mobile, AL 36652, Telephone 251.433.9790 or email TAnderson@MobileBarAssociation.com

 

 

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