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Stanford Forum Booklet Spring Forum March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School 1 2 Roadmap to Justice Spring Forum Table of Contents Welcome...............................................................................................5 Forum Agenda....................................................................................7 Participant Roster.............................................................................9 Co­Sponsor and Participant Biographies............................... 13 March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School 3 4 Roadmap to Justice Spring Forum Welcome Equal justice under the law is one of America’s most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. It embellishes courthouse entries, ceremonial occasions, and an occasional constitutional decision. But it comes nowhere close to describing the justice system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to the system, let alone equal access. It is a shameful irony that our nation, which has the world’s greatest concentration of lawyers, also has one of the least adequate systems for legal assistance. It is more shameful still that the inadequacies attract so little concern. The Roadmap to Justice Project seeks to bring greater visibility and expertise to this issue. Its goal is to draw leaders in the field together to chart a national agenda for access to justice for those who need it most. Through a series of structured conversations with leading experts, we hope to develop a plausible plan for the reorganization of legal processes, ethical rules, court procedures, and pro bono programs. This forum, sponsored by the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and the Sokolove Charitable Fund, provides a starting point for an ongoing effort to turn the tide on this increasingly significant issue. We thank you for joining us. Deborah L. Rhode James G. Sokolove Director, Center on the Legal Profession Founder E.W. McFarland Professor of Law The Law Offices of James Sokolove LLC Stanford Law School The Sokolove Charitable Fund March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School 5 6 Roadmap to Justice Spring Forum Forum Agenda 9:00‐10:45am Welcome, overview of project and priorities Jim Sokolove Founder, Law Offices of James Sokolove Sokolove Charitable Fund Deborah L. Rhode Director, Stanford Center on the Legal Profession E.W. McFarland Professor of Law Stanford Law School 10:45‐11:00am Break 11:00am‐12:30pm Communications, political and funding strategies Meredith McBurney Project Consultant American Bar Association Resource Center for Access to Justice 12:30‐1:30pm Lunch Student Lounge / Crocker Garden 1:30‐2:45pm Breakout sessions on narrowly tailored topics 2:45‐3:00pm Break 3:00‐4:45pm Developing an action plan, strategies for evaluation and ongoing collaboration 4:45‐5:00pm Conclusion 5:30‐7:00pm Reception March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School 7 8 Roadmap to Justice Spring Forum Participant Roster Richard Abel Hon. Michele Christiansen Michael J. Connell Professor of Law, Judge, Third District Court of Utah Emeritus Member, Utah Access to Justice Council UCLA Law School Michelle Williams Court Hon. Simeon Acoba Director of Litigation Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii Bet Tzedek Legal Services Maureen Alger Scott Cummings Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Professor of Law, UCLA Law School Dmitry Bam Hon. Michael Douglas Incoming Fellow (Access to Justice) Justice, Nevada Supreme Court Stanford Center on the Legal Profession Chair, Nevada Access to Justice Commission Steve Binder Deputy Public Defender, Co‐Founder Susan Feathers Homeless Court Program at Office of the Executive Director, Levin Center for Public Defender, County of San Diego Public Service and Public Interest Law, Stanford University Gary Blasi Professor of Law, UCLA Law School Mary Lavery Flynn Director, Legal Services Outreach John Bouman State Bar of California, San Francisco President, Sargent Shriver National Center on Joan Messing Graff Poverty Law President, Legal Aid Society Kathleen Brockel Irma Herrera Executive Director Executive Director, Equal Rights Legal Services National Technology Advocates Assistance Project John R. Jones Terry Brooks Partner Director, American Bar Association Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP Division for Legal Services Immediate Past Chair Texas Commission for Access to Justice Alan Carlson CEO, Clerk of Court/ Jury Commissioner William Kennedy Orange County Superior Court Managing Attorney Legal Services of Northern California Joseph Chairez Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP Linda Kim Co‐Chair, California Commission on Associate Director Access to Justice Public Interest Clearinghouse Tiela Chalmers Andrew King‐Ries Executive Director Assistant Professor of Law Volunteer Legal Services Program of the University of Montana School of Law Bar Association of San Francisco Co‐Chair Equal Justice Task Force of Montana Diane Chin Director, Equal Justice Works / West March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School 9 David Lash Jayashri Srikantiah Managing Counsel, Public Interest and Associate Professor Pro Bono Services, Stanford Law School O’Melveny & Meyers, LLP Jamienne S. Studley Hon. Lora Livingston President & CEO Judge Public Advocates, Inc 261st Judicial District Court of Texas ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid Nancy Sweeney and Indigent Defendants Clerk of the District Court County of Lewis & Clark, Montana Larry Marshall Co‐Chair Professor of Law, David and Stephanie Montana Equal Justice Task Force Mills Director of Clinical Education, and Associate Dean for Public Interest and Hon. Daniel Taubman Clinical Education Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals Stanford Law School Ben Trachtenberg Meredith McBurney Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Project Consultant Brooklyn Law School American Bar Association Resource Center for Access to Justice Hernán Vera President & CEO De Miller Public Counsel President Legal Services of New Jersey Michael Wald Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Clare Pastore Emeritus Associate Professor Stanford Law School USC Gould School of Law Syd Whalley Linda E. Perle Executive Director Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services Western Center on Law & Poverty Center for Law and Social Policy Julia Wilson Hon. Mark Rindner Executive Director Judge Legal Aid Association of California Superior Court of Alaska at Anchorage Toby Rothschild General Counsel Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles Don Saunders Director, Civil Legal Services National Legal Aid Defender Association Jeff Selbin Clinical Professor of Law UC Berkeley Law School Faculty Director East Bay Community Law Center Ada Shen‐Jaffe Distinguished Public Interest Practitioner in Residence, Senior Advisor to the Dean Seattle University School of Law 10 Roadmap to Justice Spring Forum Fall Forum Participant Roster Chuck Goldner Laura K. Abel Professor of Law Deputy Director, Justice Program University of Arkansas at Little Rock Little Brennan Center for Justice at Rock School of Law NYU School of Law Chair, Arkansas Access to Justice Commission IV Ashton President & CEO Daniel Greenberg PS Technologies, Inc. Special Counsel Schulte Roth & Zabel LLC Todd Baskin Associate General Counsel Sally Greenberg Head of Global Investment Banking Legal Executive Director Banc of America Securities LLC National Consumers League Jeanne Charn Michelle Harper Senior Lecturer in Law Director of Public Interest & Pro Bono Director, Bellow‐Sacks Access to Programs, Rappaport Center for Law and Civil Legal Services Project Public Service Harvard Law School Suffolk University Law School Hon. Cynthia J. Cohen William Hornsby Associate Justice ABA Division for Legal Services Massachusetts Appeals Court Hon. Denise R. Johnson Matthew Diller Associate Justice Cooper Family Professor of Law Vermont Supreme Court Co‐Director, Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics Hon. Robert Katzmann Fordham Law School United States Circuit Judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Robert Echols Circuit State Support Consultant ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Karen Lash Initiatives Consultant Equal Justice Works Russell Engler Professor of Law Stephanie A. Nye Director of Clinical Programs Counsel to Chief Justice Jean Toal New England School of Law South Carolina Supreme Court Maria Foscarinis Mark O'Brien Executive Director Executive Director National Law Center on Homelessness & Pro Bono Net Poverty Jeffrey Pokorak Philip Genty Professor of Law Clinical Professor of Law Director of Clinical Programs Columbia Law School Suffolk University Law School March 27, 2009 – Stanford Law School 11 Lonnie Powers Jason Searns Executive Director Special Counsel, Law Office of James Massachusetts Legal Assistance Sokolove Corporation Searns & Associates Susan Prosnitz Gerry Singsen Executive Director Consultant Rappaport Center for Law and Pubic Massachusetts Access to Justice Service Commission Suffolk University Law School Hon. Cynthia D. Stephens James Rowan Judge, Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan Professor of Law Co‐Chair, Michigan Standing Committee Associate Dean for Experiential and on Justice Initiatives Community Based Education and Research Paul Tremblay Northeastern University Law School Director, Community Enterprise Legal Clinic Louis S. Rulli Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau Practice Professor of Law Clinical Professor of Law Director of Clinical Programs Boston College Law School University of Pennsylvania Law School James Turner Mary K. Ryan Executive Director Partner HALT Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP Jayne Tyrrell Robert Sable Executive Director Executive Director Massachusetts IOLTA Committee
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