Asian American Bar Association of Northern
Ohio/Midwest APALSA Conference at Case Western Reserve University
The Asian American Bar Association of Northern
Ohio is celebrating our twentieth year of existence. In connection with that celebration, we are
partnering to hold the APALSA (Asian Pacific American Law Student Association)
Midwestern conference at Case Western Reserve Law School on Friday February 22,
2013 and Saturday February 23, 2013.
Although the conference is focused toward Asian American law students,
non-Asian American law students are welcome and might also profit from the
panel sessions and interacting with law students and practicing lawyers who
participate in the conference.
Conference organizers have obtained sponsorship from several leading
Ohio law firms and the Cleveland Marshall School of Law.
The conference will open on Friday evening with a
gala dinner featuring a keynote speech by Justice Goodwin Liu of the California
Supreme Court. Justice Liu's nomination
to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Obama gained much national
attention because he was viewed as a potential future nominee to the United
States Supreme Court. On Saturday
February 23, there will be a variety of panels on various law topics, including
a panel featuring Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, Judge Karen Nelson Moore
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit as well Chief Judge
Solomon Oliver of the Northern District of Ohio. They will discuss among other topics how law
students and lawyers might prepare themselves for a career in the judicial branch
and how the profession might increase the representation of minority lawyers,
including Asian American lawyers on the judicial bench.
Those interested in registering for the conference
and the gala dinner can do so at http://law.case.edu/orgs/apalsa/content.asp?id=491
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