2000 National Lawyers Convention - "The Presidency"

Please note that due to the post-2000 election lawsuits in Florida, some of the schedules speakers below were unable to attend the convention.

Thursday, November 16
9:30 a.m.- 9:45 a.m.
State Room

Welcome & Presentation of Federalist Society/Wall Street Journal Presidential Poll

Mr. Leonard Leo, Lawyers Division Director, The Federalist Society
Prof. Steven Calabresi, Northwestern Law School & National Co-Chairman, The Federalist Society
Prof. James Lindgren, Northwestern Law School

9:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
State Room

Showcase Panel I: Is the Presidency Better Off Now Than Eight Years Ago?

Prof. Steven Calabresi, Northwestern Law School
Hon. Charles Cooper, Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal and Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General
Hon. Bernard Nussbaum, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Former White House Counsel
Prof. Nelson Polsby, University of California at Berkeley
Ms. Jennifer Newstead, Davis Polk & Wardwell (Moderator)

11:40 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
State Room

Criminal Law & Procedure Group: DNA & the Criminal Justice System

Prof. Margaret Berger, Brooklyn Law School
Mr. Ronald Eisenberg, Philadelphia County Assistant District Attorney
Dr. Lisa Forman, Deputy Director, Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division, Office of Science & Technology, National Institute of Justice
Ms. Jane Greene, Executive Director, Innocence Project
Ms. Sarah Vandenbraak Hart, Chief Counsel, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (Moderator)

11:40 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
East Room

Labor & Employment Group: Regulatory Enforcement of Labor and Employment Law: What the Future Holds

Mr. Laurence Gold, Assistant General Counsel, AFL-CIO
Hon. Reginald Jones, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart and Former Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Mr. Donald Maliniak, Vice President of Labor Relations, Federal Express Corporation
Mr. Arthur Rosenfeld, Labor Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Pensions
Mr. John Irving, Kirkland & ellis and Former General Counsel, NLRB (Moderator)

11:40 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
Cabinet Room

Telecommunications & Electronic Media Group: How Does A President Affect the FCC?

Hon. Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Hon. Henry Rivera, Shook Hardy & Bacon and Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Hon. Richard Wiley, Wiley Rein & Fielding and Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Mr. Edward Whelan, Senior Vice President & Counselor to the General Counsel, Verizon Communications (Moderator)

1:20 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Cabinet Room

Administrative Law & Regulation Group: The Rise of Government by Agency Guidance

Prof. Robert Anthony, George Mason Law School
Hon. James Byrnes, Chief Judge, Interior Board of Land Appeals
Mr. Neil Eisner, U.S. Department of Transportation, Assistant General Counsel, Regulation & Enforcement
Mr. Robert McKenna, Associate General Counsel, Qwest Communications
Hon. Stephen Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit (Moderator)

1:20 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
East Room

Criminal Law & Procedure Group: The Migration of Responsibility & Punishment from the Wrongdoer to the Politically Correct

Prof. Vivian Berger, Columbia Law School
Hon. Gale Norton, Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber and Former Colorado Attorney General
Prof. Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School
Mr. William Otis, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney (Moderator)

1:20 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
State Room

Free Speech & Election Law Group: The Future of Political Parties

Mr. Jan Baran, Wiley Rein & Fielding
Prof. Michael Malbin, Executive Director, Campaign Finance Institute and State University of New York-Albany
Mr. Steve Rosenthal, Political Director, AFL-CIO
Hon. Bradley Smith, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission
Mr. Andrew Siff, Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Rules Committee (Moderator)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
State Room

Civil Rights Group: The Use and Misuse of Statistics in Civil Rights Litigation

Mr. Edward Blum, Co-Director, Campaign for A Color-Blind America
Mrs. Linda Chavez, President, The Center for Equal Opportunity
Ms. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, American Enterprise Institute and Co-Author, Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America
Mr. Joseph Sellers, Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll
Mr. Michael Carvin, Cooper Carvin & Rosenthal (Moderator)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cabinet Room

Financial Services & E-Commerce Group: New Wine Into Old Bottles: E-Money and Other "New" Ideas

Ms. Cynthia Bonnette, FDIC Bank Technology Group
Mr. Leonard Ehanin, Morrison & Foerster
Mr. Cantwell Muckenfuss, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Hon. John Douglas, Alston & Bird and Former General Counsel, FDIC (Moderator)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
East Room

Litigation Group: Courts Awarding Money to People Who Are Not (Yet?) Hurt: The Pros & Cons of Medical Monitoring Lawsuits

Prof. Donald Elliott, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Yale Law School
Mr. Edward Madeira, Pepper Hamilton & Sheetz
Mr. Arvin Maskin, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Mr. Ronald Simon, Simon & Associates
Mr. Victor Schwartz, Crowell & Moring and General Counsel, American Tort Reform Association (Moderator)

4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
State Room

Address: "What Makes for a Good President?"

Prof. Fred Greenstein, Princeton University, Author of The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton

Friday, November 17
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
State Room

Address: Observations on the Presidential Election Contest

Mr. John Fund, The Wall Street Journal

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
State Room

Special Forum: The State of Legal Education

Hon. Charles Fried, Harvard Law School and Former U.S. Solicitor General
Dean James Huffman, Lewis & Clark Law School
Ms. Harriet Miers, Locke Liddel & Sapp
Prof. Thomas Odom, Oklahoma City University Law School
Mr. Mark Renaud, Wiley, Rein & Fielding
Dean David Van Zandt, Northwestern Law School
Prof. Lillian BeVier, University of Virginia Law School and Member, Federalist Society Board of Visitors (Moderator)

11:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon
State Room

Hon. Stephen Goldsmith, Baker & Daniels and Former Mayor, City of Indianapolis

12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Cabinet Room

Corporations Group: Regulation of High Tech Industries: Private Ordering or Government Oversight?

Mr. Paul Cappuccio, General Counsel, America Online
Mr. James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
Mrs. Joanne Medero, Managing Director & Chief Counsel, Barclays Global Investors
Mr. Sam Scott Miller, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Former General Counsel, Paine Webber Group
Prof. David Post, Temple Law School and Senior Fellow, George Mason University
Mr. Philip Lochner, Former Senior Vice President, Time Warner (Moderator)

12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
East Room

Criminal Law & Procedure Group: The Future of Federal Sentencing Policy

Prof. Frank Bowman, Indiana University Law School - Indianapolis
Hon. Avern Cohn, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Hon. Harry Litman, U.S. Attorney, Western Pennsylvania
Hon. Williams Sessions, U.S. District Court, Vermont and Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission
Hon. Deanell Tacha, U.S Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Hon. Michael O'Neill, George Mason Law School and Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission

12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
State Room

Religious Liberties Group: How Should Religious Liberty Cases Be Argued?

Prof. Gerard Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
Mr. Kevin Hasson, President & General Counsel, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Mr. Nathan Lewin, Miller Cassidy Larcoa & Lewin
Mr. Hewitt Pate, Hunton & Williams
Prof. Nicole Garnett, Notre Dame Law School (Moderator)

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
State Room

Address

Hon. William Bennett, Empower America and Former U.S. Education Secretary

2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
State Room

Showcase Panel II: Presidential Oversight and the Administrative State

Hon. Samuel Alito, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Mr. Christopher DeMuth, President, American Enterprise Institute
Mr. Alan Morrison, Director and Co-Founder, Public Citizen Litigation Group
Prof. Richard Pierce, George Washington University Law School
Prof. Peter Strauss, Columbia Law School
Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit (Moderator)

2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Cabinet Room

Intellectual Property Group: Biotechnology and Software: Ethics, Monopolies, Fears & Realities -- What Side is the Law On?

Mr. Robert Blackburn, Senior Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel, Chiron Corporation
Hon. Gerald Mossinghoff, Oblon Spivak and Former Commissioner, PTO
Mr. Edward Pool, Managing Partner, DE Technologies
Mr. Raymond Stewart, Birch, Kolash, Stewart and Birch
Hon. Randall Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (Moderator)

2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
East Room

Professional Responsibility Group: Judges & the Press

Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School
Prof. Roger Cramton, Cornell Law School
Prof. Fred McChesney, Northwestern Law School
Hon. Diarmuid O'Scannlain, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Prof. Ronald Rotunda, University of Illinois Law School
Prof. Richard Painter, University of Illinois Law School (Moderator)

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
State Room

Address

Hon. Theodore Olson, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel and Member, Federalist Society Board of Visitors

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
State Room

Religious Liberties Group: First Amendment Roundup: Freedom of Speech, Expression and Association & the Recent Rehnquist Court

Hon. Walter Dellinger, O'Melveny & Myers, Duke Law School and Former U.S. Solicitor General
Prof. William Kelley, Notre Dame Law School
Hon. Kenneth Starr, Former Independent Counsel and Former U.S. Solicitor General
Prof. Nadine Strossen, New York Law School and President, American Civil Liberties Union
Mr. Bret Kavanaugh, Kirkland & Ellis (Moderator)

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Grand Ballroom

Fourteenth Annual Lawyers Banquet & Multimedia Program: The Politics of Hollywood's Depiction of the Legal System

Mr. Robert Bork, Jr., Chairman & CEO, Bork & Associates
Ms. Ann Coulter, Media Commentator and Columnist, Human Events
Mrs. Barbara Olson, Balch & Bingham, Media Commentator, and Former Management Position in Hollywood Television and Film Production
Mr. Robert Peck, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Mr. Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America
Prof. Michael Asimow, University of California at Los Angeles Law School (Moderator)

Saturday, November 18
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
State Room

A Briefing on the Current Election Controversy

Mr. James Gauch, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Former White House Counsel
Mr. Stuart Taylor, Editor, National Journal

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Cabinet Room

Environmental Law & Property Rights Group: Biotechnology & the New Environmental Regulatory Paradigm

Mr. John Cohrssen, Executive Director, Public Health Policy Advisory Board
Mr. Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Dr. Margaret Mellon, Agriculture & Biotechnology Program Director, Union of Concernced Scientists
Hon. Roger Marzulla, Marzulla & Marzulla and Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General (Moderator)

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
State Room

Federalism & Separation of Powers Group: Federalism After the Election: Opportunities and Challenges

Mr. Lee Goodman, Deputy Counsel to the Governor and Deputy Director of Policy, Commonwealth of Virginia
Dr. Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute and Author, Real Federalism
Hon. Randolph Moss, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
Hon. William Pryor, Alabama Attorney General
Mr. Ed Haden, Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Youth Violence (Moderator)

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
East Room

Litigation Group: Bad Lawyers in the Movies

Presentation: Prof. Michael Asimow, University of California at Los Angeles Law School
Commentary: Mr. Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Ms. Kimberly Newman, Hunton & William (Moderator)

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
State Room

Showcase Roundtable III: What Should Shape A President's Perspective on Foreign Policy?

Mr. Walter Russell Mead, Senior Advisor, The Council on Foreign Relations
Prof. John Norton Moore, University of Virginia Law School
Prof. Jeremy Rabkin, Cornell University
Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Scowcroft Group and Former National Security Advisor
Mr. Eric Kadel, Sullivan & Cromwell (Moderator)

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Grand Ballroom

Convention Luncheon

Hon. Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Grand Ballroom

Address

Mr. George Will, ABC's This Week

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
East Room

Criminal Law & Procedure Group: A Debate on the Death Penalty

Mr. Samuel Jordan, Former Director, Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International-USA
Mr. Kent Scheidegger, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit (Moderator)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cabinet Room

International Law & National Security Group: Immigration in the High Tech Age

Mr. Gary Endelman, Immigration Attorney, BP Amoco
Ms. Lee Otis, Staff Director, U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee
Mr. Grover Joseph Rees, Staff Director, U.S. House of Representatives International Operations & Human Rights Subcommittee
Dr. Richard Vigilante, Gilder Technology Group
Ms. Margaret Stock, Stock & Moeller (Moderator)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
State Room

Litigation Group: Judicial Selection

Mr. R. Alexander Acosta, Director, Project on the Judiciary
Mr. Manus Cooney, Staff Director & Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Hon. Lloyd Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and Former White House Counsel
Hon. Fred Fielding, Wiley, Rein & Fielding and Former White House Counsel
Mr. Ralph Neas, President, People for the American Way
Mr. Max Boot, Op-Ed Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal (Moderator)