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Diversity Continuing Legal Education

A Journey Through the Pipeline: Identifying Challenges and Improving Diversity and Inclusion In the Legal Profession

Thursday, March 15, 2012 | 1:45 - 7:00p.m. | 4 NY/NJ CLE Credits


Program Schedule

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Thursday- March 15

1:15 P.M. REGISTRATION - LAW SCHOOL Third Floor
2:00 P.m.
 

WELCOME
Patrick E. Hobbs, Dean, Seton Hall Law School

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner

2:20 P.M. The challenges Begin: Primary and Secondary School Education
 

Shavar D. Jeffries, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law
Craig Livermore, Executive Director, NJ LEEP
Teresa L. Moore, Esq., Rutgers-Newark Institute on Education Law and Policy; Center for Urban and Public Service

Moderator: Alycia M. Guichard, Director and New Jersey State Bar Fellow for the Street Law Program and Associate Director for the Minority Student Program, Rutgers University School of Law

3:20 p.m. The Challenges continue: college and law school

Rachel D. Godsil, Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law
Vielka V. Holness, Director, the Pre Law Institute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Janai S. Nelson, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development, St. John's University School of Law

Moderator: Chrishana M. White '13, Vice President, Black Law Students Association, Seton Hall Law

4:40 p.m. recruiting and retaining minority lawyers
 

Luis J. Diaz, Chief Diversity Officer and Director, Intellectual Property, Gibbons P.C.
Natalia Martin, Director of Diversity, Simpson Thacher
Karol Corbin Walker, Shareholder, LeClairRyan

Moderator: Walter F. Timpone, Hiring Partner, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP

5:40 p.m. Pathways to the judiciary for minority lawyers
 

Julie Cavanagh, Assistant Appointments Counsel, Office of the Governor of New Jersey
Judge Esther Salas, U.S. District Court, Newark
Justice James H. Coleman, Jr., Of Counsel, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman P.C.
Jeremy Farrell, Diversity Committee Chair, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP; Former Law Clerk, Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark

Moderator: Judge Sohail Mohammed, New Jersey Superior Court, Passaic County

6:40 p.m. Closing remarks

Susan A. Feeney, President, New Jersey State Bar Association

7:00 p.m. RECEPTION  - The Newark Club

Speed Mentoring breakout for students
7:30 p.m.
 

INTRODUCTION
Walter F. Timpone, Hiring Partner, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP

GUEST SPEAKER
Paula T. Dow, First Deputy General Counsel, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey