J. Reuben Clark Law Society Conference at Arizona

J. REUBEN CLARK

LAW SOCIETY

2015 CONFERENCE AT

ARIZONA STATE

UNIVERSITY

TEMPE, ARIZONA 2015 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Honorable Charles E. Jones (Retired), Honorary Chair Gerald Shelley, Co-chair Don Fletcher, Co-chair Leo Beus Kent Cammack Paul Gilbert Terry Hales Andrew Hu!ord Tisha Huish Megan Nelson Coby Price John Skabelund

J. REUBEN CLARK LAW SOCIETY LEADERSHIP

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jeremiah J. Morgan, International Chair Ginny Isaacson, International Chair-Elect Mary H. Hoagland, Executive Director Douglas R. Bush, Immediate Past Chair James R. Rasband, Dean, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University William F. Atkin, Associate General Counsel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

CHAIRS COUNCIL

Stephen West, Chapter Relations Council James Moss, Service and Outreach Ginny Isaacson, Conference and Events Jay Pimentel, Finance Tom Isaacson, Media Don Fletcher, Sections Derek Jamison, Technology Karen Clemes, Women in the Law Cory Lee, Student Chapters Board Lew W. Cramer, Clark Society Advisors

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12

1:00–5:00 p.m. Optional afternoon activities 1. 18-hole golf tournament ASU Karsten Golf Course 2. 9-hole golf (various times between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.) Papago Golf Course 3. Tours of Mesa Arizona Temple grounds and visitors’ center 101 South Lesueur, Mesa, AZ 85204 4. Camelback Mountain hike Details forthcoming

Leadership meetings 2:00–3:00 p.m. Chapter leadership training Choir Room, LDS Institute 3:00–4:00 p.m. Membership drive Choir Room, LDS Institute 4:00–5:00 p.m. Committee meetings Classrooms, LDS Institute 4:00–5:00 p.m. SCB meeting Great Hall, Armstrong Hall (JRCLS leadership)

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6:00 p.m. Alumni reception Rotunda, Armstrong Hall Hosted by ASU Law

7:00 p.m. Opening program East Chapel, LDS Institute A Judge’s Perspective on Justice, Mercy, and the Atonement (.75 CLE) Honorable Judge David Campbell, U.S. District Court, Arizona

8:30–9:30 p.m. Dessert bar and networking event Cultural Hall, LDS Institute

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

7:00–8:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast Rotunda, Armstrong Hall

8:00 a.m. Welcome and opening session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall A New American University Who’s minding your client’s business Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University 9:00 a.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall Religious Liberty 2015: Where Are We? (.8 CLE) Elder Lance B. Wickman, General Counsel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

10:00 a.m. General Session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall A Watchman on the Tower: As an LDS Legal Professional, What Can I Do to Preserve and Promote Religious Freedom? (.8 CLE) William F. Atkin, Associate General Counsel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Von G. Keetch, Attorney, Kirton & McConkie FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 (CONT’D)

11:00 a.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall Dean’s panel: New Visions for Legal Education (.8 CLE) Douglas Sylvester, Dean, Arizona State University College of Law Shirley L. Mays, Dean, Arizona Summit Law School Marc L. Miller, Dean, University of Arizona College of Law James R. Rasband, Dean, Brigham Young University Law School

12:00 p.m. Lunch West Chapel, LDS Institute LDS Lawyers (om the Frontier (.75 CLE) Elder Steven E. Snow, Church Historian, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1:30 p.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall The New Law of Religious Freedom: The Hobby Lobby and Town of Greece Decisions (.8 CLE) Sarah (Sally) Barringer Gordon, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Paul Bender, Professor, Arizona State University College of Law

2:30 p.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall A New Generation of Lawyers: Practice Challenges for Women, Men, and Families (.8 CLE) Christine Burns, Managing Partner, BurnsBarton LLP Christy Smith, Operations Counsel, Clear Channel Outdoor Aubrey Stock, Associate Attorney, Norton Rose Fulbright Gordon Wright, Trial Lawyer, Cooper & Scully

3:30 p.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall The Intersection of Law, Ethics, and Religion (.8 CLE) Marianne M. Jennings, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University School of Business

4:30 p.m. Breakout sessions Sustainability: The New Developmental Model for Businesses Room 105, Armstrong Hall and the Environment (.8 CLE) Michael Wood, Assistant General Counsel (Environmental), Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Troy A. Rule, Professor, Arizona State University College of Law Rhett Larson, Professor, Arizona State University College of Law

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5:30 p.m. Women in the Law reception Rotunda, Armstrong Hall (Women in the Law)

7:15 p.m. Dinner and speakers Tempe Mission Palms Hotel Sheri L. Dew, Chief Executive O)cer, Deseret Book 60 East 5th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281 Je6 Flake, U.S. Senator (invited)

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14

7:30–9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast Rotunda, Armstrong Hall

8:00 a.m. Section meetings Full schedule available at the registration table

9:00 a.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall Are Judges Too Independent to Be Restrained? Balancing Judicial Independence with Judicial Accountability (.8 CLE) Honorable Judge Jay S. Bybee, Ninth Circuit Court Honorable Justice Rebecca White Berch, Arizona Supreme Court Honorable Judge G. Murray Snow, U.S. District Court for Arizona

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11:00 a.m. General session Great Hall, Armstrong Hall Unionization, Academic Standards, Long Term Injuries—Legal Challenges Facing Universities and Athletes (.8 CLE) Ray Anderson, Vice President of Athletics and Athletics Director, Arizona State University Rodney Smith, Professor, Arizona State University College of Law Danny White, Dallas Cowboys Quarterback and College Hall of Fame ASU Quarterback

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Law—the first time such a course was o6ered vice provost of Columbia University, where Lew Cramer serves as the president and Atkin received an LLM from Columbia in the country by a full-time law faculty he was also a professor of science and CEO of Coldwell Banker Commercial Law School in 1979, with an emphasis on member. Dean Sylvester was appointed technology policy. He is a fellow of the Intermountain. He directed World Trade international and comparative law. He Special Consultant to a National Academy American Association for the Advancement Center Utah from 2006 to 2013, and prior graduated magna cum laude with a JD from of Sciences panel charged with reforming of Science and the National Academy of to that he spent many years in Washington, Arizona State University College of Law in the U.S. Census. He was the founding faculty Public Administration and a member of DC, working with U.S. West International 1975, where he served as editor-in-chief of the director of the innovative Technology the Council on Foreign Relations and the developing major telecommunications He received his BA Ventures Clinic, which introduces students U.S. Department of Commerce National Arizona State Law Journal. projects in more than 30 countries. During from Brigham Young University in 1972. to transactional legal practice in high- Advisory Council on Innovation and the Reagan administration he served as a Atkin has been a member of the technology sectors. Prior to joining the ASU Entrepreneurship. President Crow received White House Fellow, a Deputy Assistant International Board of the J. Reuben Clark college of law faculty, Dean Sylvester was a his PhD in public administration from Secretary of Commerce, and the Assistant Law Society since 2000, serving as the Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer-in-Law at the Syracuse University and has authored several Secretary of Commerce for International international chair from 2001 to 2003. University of Chicago and an attorney in the books and articles. He and his wife, Dr. Sybil Trade. In the first Bush administration he He was the recipient of the Franklin S. Global e-Commerce Practice Group at Baker Francis, have three children. was Director General of the U.S. Commercial Richards Pro Bono Community Service & McKenzie in Chicago. Service. Cramer is an honors graduate of the Elder Lance B. Wickman Award in 2010. He now serves as a member charter class of Brigham Young University of the Executive Advisory Board of the Shirley L. Mays General Counsel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Law School and former international chair of BYU Law School’s International Center Latter-day Saints Dean, Arizona Summit Law School the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. for Law and Religion Studies and was Elder Lance B. Wickman is the General Shirley Mays was named dean of Arizona presented the center’s Distinguished Summit Law School in August 2010. She Eileen Doyle Crane Counsel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Service Award in 2008. commenced her career in legal education at University Prelaw Advisor, Latter-day Saints and an Emeritus General Authority of the Church. He served as a Capital University Law School in Columbus, Utah Valley University Von G. Keetch member of the First Quorum of the Seventy Ohio, and then joined the faculty there in Eileen Crane has advised thousands of from April 1, 2000, until October 2, 2010. He Attorney, Kirton & McConkie 1991 as an assistant professor of law. She was prelaw students from the United States and had previously been a member of the Second Von Keetch is an attorney in the law firm responsible for creating and directing the Canada during the past 24 years. A graduate Quorum of the Seventy since April 2, 1994. Kirton & McConkie in Salt Lake City, where school’s Governmental A6airs Program, of J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Elder Wickman attended the University he serves as Chief Outside Counsel to The which entailed developing and bundling Young University, she advises and teaches of California at Berkeley, receiving a BA Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. courses, writing requirements, and finding at Utah Valley University. She served as the in political science in 1964. Then, as a U.S. His practice focuses on representing and externship opportunities for students with president of the Western Association of Army Ranger, he served as a captain in the advising the Church on issues of religious an interest in governmental agency–related Prelaw Advisors for six years and as chair army from 1964 to 1969. He served twice liberty, complex litigation, and First legal issues. In 2005 she assumed the role as of the Pre-Law Advisors National Council in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader Amendment law. In one context or another Associate Dean for Academic A6airs. for two years. She has presented at national and as a military advisor to the Army of he has represented virtually every mainline In private practice Dean Mays focused conferences on financial aid, career planning, the Republic of Vietnam, receiving the religion in America, as well as numerous on municipal finance at the international law and networking. Crane serves as the Vice- Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, the small churches and other nonprofit firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. She left the Chair of Leadership Training on the Chapter Valorous Unit Citation, and the Combat organizations. firm to clerk for the Honorable Thomas J. Relations Council in the J. Reuben Clark Infantryman’s Badge. Keetch graduated first in his class from Moyer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Law Society, along with six other dedicated After the army, Elder Wickman attended J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham of the State of Ohio. She earned a JD from team members. law school at Stanford University, receiving Young University in 1987. Thereafter he Harvard in 1987. his JD in 1972. He practiced as a trial lawyer practiced with the law firm Sidley Austin in Actively engaged in the community, Honorable Judge David Campbell and a partner in the international law firm Washington, DC. He served as a law clerk to Dean Mays serves as a member of the U.S. District Court, Arizona Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and San Judge George C. Pratt on the U.S. Court of Historic Tanner Chapel AME Church in David Campbell is a United States District Diego until his call as a General Authority. Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York Phoenix, where she is a member of the Court Judge for the District of Arizona. Elder Wickman has been awarded the City and then as a law clerk to Chief Justice Christian Education Commission and Following his graduation from the University Silver Bu6alo and Silver Beaver by the Warren E. Burger and Justice Antonin Scalia teaches adult Sunday School. She serves of Utah Law School, he served as a law clerk Boy Scouts of America. He received the on the United States Supreme Court. on the boards of governors of the State for Judge J. Cli6ord Wallace of the Ninth Alexander W. Doniphan Award from the Von has served as chair of the Utah Bar of Arizona, the Downtown Phoenix Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice William Alexander W. Doniphan Community Service Appellate Nominating Commission—the Partnership, the Greater Phoenix Urban H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court. and Leadership Foundation of Kansas City, statutory body that evaluates and sends League, and the Tanner Community Judge Campbell worked as a commercial Missouri. He is also a member of the board names to the governor for appointment Development Corporation. She was litigator for 20 years with the Phoenix law of directors of the Becket Fund for Religious to the appellate bench. He has served as inducted in the Alumni Hall of Fame at her firm Osborn Maledon before joining the Liberty and a fellow of the American Bar a delegate to the Coalition on the Free alma mater, Central State University. Dean bench. He serves as the current chair of Foundation. He and his wife, Patricia, are Exercise of Religion and has testified before Mays also received the Positively Powerful the Advisory Committee on the Federal parents of five children (four sons and one Congress on several occasions on matters Woman Award, the 50 Most Influential Rules of Civil Procedure; he has worked daughter), one of whom is deceased, and respecting religious liberty. He is a member Women in Arizona Business Award, and the with the courts of Botswana, South Africa, have four grandchildren. of the American Law Institute, in which 25 Most Admired Women Leaders in the and Namibia on judicial case management; he is actively involved in the development City of Phoenix Award. She is a member of and he has taught civil procedure and William F. Atkin of Restatements of the Law touching upon Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Links Inc., constitutional law at the Arizona State and Associate General Counsel, The Church of Jesus First Amendment issues. For several years and Jack and Jill of America Inc. Dean Mays Brigham Young University law schools. Judge Christ of Latter-day Saints he has been selected by his peers as one of is most proud and honored to be raising her Campbell and his wife, Stacey, have five As an Associate General Counsel of The the Best Lawyers in America. In 2013 he was eight-year-old grandson, Jordan. children and eight grandchildren. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, honored by Best Lawyers as the Best First Bill Atkin is responsible for the international Amendment Lawyer in Utah. Marc L. Miller Michael M. Crow legal a6airs of the Church, working closely In April 2009 Keetch was called as a Dean, University of Arizona College of Law member of the Seventy of The Church of President, Arizona State University with four regional legal counsel and 13 area Marc Miller is the dean and Ralph W. Bilby Michael Crow became president of legal counsel. Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his Professor of Law at University of Arizona Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. Atkin was formerly an international wife live in Highland, Utah. They have six College of Law. He previously taught at In this role he is developing ASU into a partner in the law firm Baker & McKenzie children and five grandchildren. Emory University School of Law, where he new model of higher education he calls for almost 18 years. He was the managing served as Associate Dean for Faculty and “the new American university.” Under his partner of the firm’s o7ces in Taipei, San Douglas Sylvester Scholarship. Dean Miller writes and teaches leadership ASU has established more than Francisco, Palo Alto, and Moscow, and he Dean, Arizona State University College of Law about environmental law and policy and a dozen new transdisciplinary schools and worked in the firm’s Chicago and Caracas, Douglas Sylvester was named dean of the criminal law and policy. 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www.becketfund.org/canterburymedaldinner Results. Relationships. Reputation. Larson graduated from the University of Keith Hendricks Valley Forge, and has spoken at international of Law. During her years at the law school she earned a master’s in English. She has Chicago Law School and received his master Trial Attorney, Moyes Sellers & Hendricks conclaves, such as the World Congress authored more than a dozen law review of science in water science, policy, and Keith Hendricks is a trial attorney of Families. In March 2003 the White articles, two books, two chapters for books, management from Oxford University, where with more than 25 years of experience House appointed her a member of the U.S. many newspaper and magazine articles, and, he was a Weidenfeld Scholar. representing business and individuals in Delegation to the Commission on the Status of course, many opinions. Larson’s recent research focuses on the commercial disputes. His practice focuses of Women at the United Nations. An active participant in the legal and impact of technological innovation on the on real estate and business litigation. He also social communities, Justice Berch has law governing transboundary waters as well as has significant experience in bankruptcy Je! Flake served on the board of governors of the on the sustainability implications of a human litigation, water law disputes, collections, U.S. Senator United States Conference of Chief Justices, right to water. His past research has dealt with governmental procurement, administrative Je6 Flake is a fifth-generation Arizonan who the board of trustees of the National corporate governance reform to facilitate law disputes, construction litigation, and was raised on a cattle ranch in Snowflake, Conference of Bar Examiners, the council remediation of contaminated rivers and the restrictive covenant litigation. Hendricks is a Arizona. He served in the U.S. House of of the ABA Section of Legal Education water rights of indigenous people based on former partner with the law firm Fennemore Representatives from 2001 to 2013. Now, and Admissions to the Bar, and the board religious water uses. Prior to joining the ASU Craig PC, where he practiced for 22 years. as a member of the U.S. Senate, he sits of advisors for College of Law faculty, Larson taught at the He is currently a named partner with Moyes on the Judiciary Committee, the Energy The Green Bag Almanac and among other boards, committees, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Sellers & Hendricks Ltd. and chairs its and Natural Resources Committee, and Reader, and commissions. She is currently chair- before that he practiced environmental and litigation practice. He is a former Maricopa the Foreign Relations Committee, where elect of the ABA Council of the Section of natural resource law at Gallagher & Kennedy County Superior Court Judge Pro Tem and he also serves as ranking member of the Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. and Perkins Coie Brown & Bain. is currently a member of the Arizona State Subcommittee on African A6airs. She maintains several other public-service Bar Ethics Committee. Hendricks has made After serving a mission in southern positions and speaks regularly on law-related Robert J. Miller numerous presentations to a variety of Africa, Senator Flake graduated from topics to students, civic groups, and legal Professor, Arizona State University College lawyer, real estate, and business groups. He Brigham Young University, receiving a organizations. Justice Berch participates in of Law graduated from J. Reuben Clark Law School BA in international relations and an MA and strongly encourages all lawyers to engage Robert Miller is a professor of law at ASU’s at Brigham Young University in 1989. in political science. In 1987 he started his in pro bono work. The Pro Bono Suite at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. His career at a Washington, DC, public a6airs ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law published works include articles, books, Maren Tobler Hanson firm but soon returned to Africa as executive is named in her honor. and book chapters on an array of federal Lead Litigation Attorney and Co-owner, director of the Foundation for Democracy Indian law issues and civil procedure. He in Namibia. In this role he helped monitor Tobler L aw PC Honorable Judge G. Murray Snow speaks regularly across the United States Maren Tobler Hanson is lead litigation Namibia’s independence process and saw the U.S. District Court for Arizona and in other countries on Indian law issues. attorney and co-owner of Tobler Law PC, nation usher in freedom and democracy. Judge Murray Snow is a District Judge for Miller is the author of Native America, a boutique law firm located in Mesa and In 1992 Senator Flake and his family the United States District Court for the Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Je*erson, specializing in all areas of personal injury moved back to Arizona, where he was District of Arizona. He began his legal career Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny (2006), and medical malpractice law. She graduated named executive director of the Goldwater as a law clerk for Judge Stephen H. Anderson and Reservation “Capitalism:” Economic from Stanford University with a degree in Institute. He worked to promote a of the United States Court of Appeals for Development in Indian Country (2012). He economics and subsequently received her JD conservative philosophy of less government, the Tenth Circuit from 1987 to 1988. He was coauthored Discovering Indigenous Lands: The and MBA from Brigham Young University. more freedom, and individual responsibility. then in private practice in Phoenix from Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies Hanson previously served as chair of He and his wife, Cheryl, live in Mesa and 1988 to 2002 and was a judge on the Arizona (2010). His blog on Indian a6airs was noted the Personal Injury and Negligence Section have five children. Court of Appeals from 2002 to 2008. Judge by the Wall Street Journal online and a poll of of the Maricopa County Bar Association Snow was nominated by President George leading Indian blogs and will be archived by and is currently on the board of governors Honorable Judge Jay S. Bybee W. Bush on December 11, 2007, to a seat the Library of Congress. Since 2006 he has for the American Association for Justice. A Ninth Circuit Court vacated by Stephen M. McNamee. He was worked as a consultant on tribal language self-described gadget geek, she has spoken Judge Jay Bybee sits on the United States confirmed by the United States Senate on and archival issues with the American on “techy” subjects, such as leveraging the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He June 26, 2008, and received his commission Philosophical Society. He was elected to iPad for note taking in a law practice. Her graduated magna cum laude from Brigham on July 23, 2008. the American Institute in 2012 and to the most rewarding digital accomplishment Young University and earned his JD, cum Judge Snow was born in Boulder City, American Philosophical Society in 2014. has been taking her law firm paperless, laude, from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law Nevada. He received a BA from Brigham Before joining the ASU College of Law gaining productivity through document School, where he was on the editorial board Young University in 1984 and a JD from in 2013, Miller was on the faculty of Lewis management software and a clean desk. of the From 1991 to 1999 BYU Law Review. BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1987. & Clark Law School. Prior to his career Judge Bybee served on the faculty of the Paul in academia, he practiced Indian law with Sheri L. Dew M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State Leo Beus Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker and worked Chief Executive O)cer, Deseret Book University. In 1999 he joined the founding for the Stoel Rives law firm. Following Founding Partner, Beus Gilbert A native of Ulysses, Kansas, and a graduate faculty of the William S. Boyd School of graduation from law school, he clerked for of Brigham Young University, Sheri Dew is Law. At both LSU and UNLV he taught Leo Beus is a founding partner of the Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. a 30-year veteran of the publishing industry. constitutional law, administrative law, and Phoenix law firm Beus Gilbert, where he Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. An She has authored a number of best-selling civil procedure. Judge Bybee was appointed practices complex litigation and has been enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe books, including the biographies of two by President George W. Bush as Assistant involved in several high-profile lawsuits. of Oklahoma, he is a justice on the Court of presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ Attorney General for the O7ce of Legal Beus recently represented Brigham Young Appeals for the Grand Ronde Community of Latter-day Saints—Gordon B. Hinckley Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, a University against pharmaceutical company and sits as a judge for other tribes. and Ezra Taft Benson—and other notable position he held from 2001 to 2003. In 2002 Pfizer Inc. The suit resulted in a $450 million President Bush nominated him to be a judge settlement over whether the school had been titles, such as No Doubt About It; God Wants a Jennifer Gi! on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth shorted on royalties for helping develop the Powerful People; If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn’t Circuit. Judge Bybee was confirmed by the drug Celebrex. Beus’s representation has General Senior Counsel, Salt River Pima- Be Hard; and Women and the Priesthood: What Senate and appointed by the president in 2003. resulted in settlements and verdicts in excess Maricopa Indian Community One Mormon Woman Believes. Jennifer Gi6 is a member of the Gila River Dew served as second counselor in the of $3 billion. His articles have been published Indian Community. In 2011 she joined the general presidency of the Relief Society, Honorable Justice Rebecca White by the ABA, the Business Journal, and the in-house legal sta6 for the Salt River Pima- the largest women’s organization in the Berch New York Law Journal. Beus graduated with a Maricopa Indian Community, providing world, from 1997 to 2002, and since March Arizona Supreme Court BA, magna cum laude, from Brigham Young legal counsel and advice for the community’s 2002 she has served as the Chief Executive Justice Rebecca Berch was appointed to the University and a JD, cum laude, from the enterprises. Gi6 earned a BS from the School O7cer of Deseret Book, a publishing Arizona Supreme Court in 2002 and remains University of Michigan. of Foreign Service at Georgetown University company and retail bookstore chain owned on the Court as Associate Justice. She served in 1989 and a JD from Arizona State by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- as the Court’s 23rd Chief Justice from Honorable Justice Thomas A. Zlaket University in 1995. She served the Gila River day Saints. She is serving concurrently 2009 to 2014. Before her appointment she Arizona Supreme Court (retired) Indian Community as in-house legal counsel as an executive vice president of Deseret served as a Court of Appeals Judge, Solicitor Justice Thomas Zlaket is a private from 1996 to 2010. From 2000 to 2003 she Management Corporation and as president General of the State of Arizona, First practitioner in Tucson, Arizona. He was licensed as a Special Assistant United of Chapters of Hope. Assistant (Chief Deputy) Attorney General, completed his undergraduate work at the States Attorney to prosecute individuals Dew serves on the National Advisory ASU College of Law faculty member, and University of Notre Dame in 1962 and committing crimes within the community Council of Brigham Young University’s attorney in private practice. graduated from the University of Arizona in the U.S. District Court of Arizona. Gi6 Marriott School of Management. She is Following graduation from law school, College of Law in 1965. He holds an LLM has lectured at the ASU American Indian also a member of BYU–Hawaii’s Genuine Justice Berch practiced law in Phoenix from from the University of Virginia. Justice Policy Institute’s Tribal Financial Manager Gold Society, is a recipient of a medal of 1979 to 1986 and then joined the faculty Zlaket is admitted to practice law in Arizona Certificate Program since 2009. honor from the Freedoms Foundation at at the Arizona State University College and California. A former president of the State Bar of operations for the National Football League and has served on the international board went to the playo6s five times and won the Arizona, Justice Zlaket was sworn in as a since August 2006 and as the executive vice of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Smith NFC East title three times in White’s six justice of the Arizona Supreme Court in president and chief administrative o7cer previously served as dean of the law schools years as a starter. He ended his career as the 1992. He served as the court’s chief justice of the Atlanta Falcons for four years. He at Capital University, the University of Cowboys’ most accurate passer, setting single- from 1997 to 2002. Among the awards began his professional career as an attorney Montana, and the University of Arkansas at season team records for completions (334) and conferred upon him during his time on at Kilpatrick & Cody in Atlanta, where he Little Rock. He is the author of three law touchdown passes (29). He still holds eight the bench were the American Judges worked primarily in labor-law litigation. textbooks and more than 25 scholarly articles Cowboys records and the record for the most Association’s 2000 Chief Justice Richard A Los Angeles native, Anderson earned a and is recognized for his scholarship in the touchdown passes thrown in Texas Stadium. W. Holmes Award of Merit, the State Bar of BA in political science from Stanford in freedom of religion and sports law areas. After retiring as a player, White served Arizona’s 2001 James A. Walsh Outstanding 1976 and a JD from Harvard in 1979. He as the first head coach and general manager Jurist Award, and the National Center for was an all-league high school quarterback Danny White of the Arizona Rattlers until 2004. In 13 State Courts 2001 Paul C. Reardon Award. and shortstop and a three-year football Dallas Cowboys Quarterback and College seasons he led the Rattlers to Arena Bowl Justice Zlaket is a founding fellow of the letterman and two-year baseball letterman Football Hall of Fame ASU Quarterback berths in 1994, 1997, 2002, 2003, and 2004, Arizona Bar Foundation and a Life Fellow at Stanford. He is a professor of practice Danny White, a graduate of Mesa’s emerging as ArenaBowl Champions in 1994 of the American Bar Foundation. He was on in ASU’s new Sports Law and Business Westwood High School, was a quarterback and 1997. White finished his career with the the faculty of the Arizona College of Trial Program—a collaboration of the highly and a punter at Arizona State University, Rattlers with an overall record of 141–65 and Advocacy for many years. He has also taught ranked Sandra Day O’Connor College of where he was an All-American in 1973. became an inductee into the Arena Football at the Hastings College of Trial Advocacy Law and W. P. Carey School of Business. Throughout his career at ASU, he set seven Hall of Fame in 2002. and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. NCAA passing records. In 1973 his passing In addition, White was inducted into He presently serves as an adjunct associate Rodney Smith and running placed him second in the nation the City of Mesa Sports Hall of Fame, the professor at the University of Arizona James Professor, Arizona State University College in total o6ense. Sports Illustrated named Arizona Sports Hall of Fame, and the ASU E. Rogers College of Law. Justice Zlaket has of Law him the second-highest-rated quarterback Sun Devils Athletics Hall of Fame, where his been a fellow of the American College of Rodney Smith is the director of the Sports of all time, behind only Steve Young. The no. 11 jersey was retired. He was also named Trial Lawyers for more than 32 years. Law and Business Program at the Sandra National Football Foundation and College the Arizona Athlete of the Century by the Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona Football Hall of Fame honored White in Arizona Republic in 2000. Ray Anderson State University. He received his BA from 1997 as the first player inductee from ASU After retiring from the game, White Vice President of Athletics and Athletics Western State College of Colorado, his JD, and the state of Arizona. provided analyst commentary for the Fox Director, Arizona State University with honors, from Brigham Young University, After two years with the Memphis Sports Pac-10 game of the week, and he Ray Anderson was named Arizona State and his LLM and SJD from the University Southmen of the World Football League, currently is the analyst for Compass Media, University’s Vice President for University of Pennsylvania. He received an honorary White joined the NFL and the Dallas which broadcasts all Dallas Cowboys games Athletics and Athletics Director on January doctorate from Capital University. He is Cowboys. He broke the Cowboys’ single- over their national syndicated network. 9, 2014. Prior to ASU, he had served a member of the board of trustees of the season passing record (29 touchdowns) in his White and his wife, JoLynn, have four as executive vice president of football American Academy for Liberal Education first year as a starter (1980). The Cowboys children and 12 grandchildren.

THE J. REUBEN CLARK LAW SOCIETY: A SHORT HISTORY

FOUNDING man of San Francisco; Evrett Benton Zealand, and island nations such as the ence Center in Salt Lake City and is The J. Reuben Clark Law Society was of Houston; Joseph Cannon of Provo; Philippines and American Samoa. broadcast over the LDS Church satel- conceived in 1987 by Bruce C. Hafen, Val Christensen, Dale Kimball, and lite network; and organized an annual dean of J. Reuben Clark Law School, Michele Mitchell of Salt Lake City; INTERNATIONAL CHAIRS conference since 2006. The attorney and Ralph J. Hardy, a prominent law- Paul Gilbert of Phoenix; Ralph Hardy, The society owes a great debt of grati- and student chapters of the Law Soci- yer in Washington, DC. Dean Hafen William Ingersoll, and Brent Israelsen tude to the inspired vision of Ralph ety conduct their own activities for was seeking ideas from distinguished of Washington, DC; Douglas Higham Hardy, who served as the first chair the benefit of their members. These LDS attorneys for how to strengthen of Newport Beach, California; Nancy of the board. He has been followed include CLE presentations, sponsor- the Law School. Hardy opined that all Stevenson (Van Slooten) of Downey, in that capacity by Gary Anderson, ing and promoting pro bono and other LDS lawyers, regardless of where they California; Monte Stewart of Las Charles E. “Bud” Jones, Ralph R. service activities, institute and similar had graduated, would be a6ected by Vegas; Judith Thomas of Schaum - Mabey, Marshall Tanner, William F. classes for student chapter members, the quality of a law school sponsored burg, Illinois; and John Welch of Los Atkin, Lew W. Cramer, Joseph Bent- mentoring and employment-related by BYU. The two men discussed the Angeles. ley, Brent J. Belnap, Nancy S. Van Sloo- events, as well as a host of events and creation of an association that would ten, Douglas R. Bush, and Jeremiah awards that promote the mission state- benefit LDS attorneys throughout the CHAPTER FORMATION J. Morgan. The society has been sup- ment of the Law Society, which states: country, envisioning an organization Individual chapters were soon orga- ported from its inception by an execu- “We a7rm the strength brought to that would provide many advantages nized in Washington, DC; Phoenix; tive director and later by an assistant the law by a lawyer’s personal religious to its members, including mentoring San Francisco; and Los Angeles. By executive director, both appointed by conviction. We strive through public opportunities, a referral network, 1995 there were 16 chapters in cities the dean of the Law School and fund- service and professional excellence to and moral support for the challenges around the United States and Canada ed by the Law School. Scott Cameron promote fairness and virtue founded unique to being an active LDS law and over 4,000 members. By 2001 and Mary Hoagland have served for upon the rule of law.” student or attorney. there were 28 chapters, with the many years in these leadership roles. Ralph Hardy, a former Area Sev- Hardy proceeded to organize number of member attorneys who had The General Counsel’s O7ce of The enty for the LDS Church, has stated a major dinner in Washington, DC, not graduated from BYU Law School Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day that the society fulfilled the vision under the name of the J. Reuben increasing in percentage. The biggest Saints has been a constant supporter he had in the 1980s, but its inspired Clark Law Society. At the dinner, held increase in membership occurred after of the society from the beginning. purposes were much larger than he November 16, 1987, Elder Je6rey R. 2006, when student chapters were could then see. Today the Law Society Holland, who was then serving as presi- formally added to the society. WORK OF THE SOCIETY strives to strengthen its members in dent of BYU, o6ered some remarks. There are now approximately In cooperation with BYU Law School, many ways. As Hardy has said, “All of Bruce Hafen also spoke, as did Rex E. 200 chapters of the Law Society, with the society has published the Clark these events and associations through Lee. The next year the J. Reuben Clark student chapters at approximately 100 Memorandum since 1988. The society the Law Society have helped refine Law Society was o7cially formed. The law schools. These vibrant chapters are has also held a leadership conference valuable insight, tailored for my cho- initial national board members were found throughout the United States at BYU each fall since 1990; spon- sen profession, so that I know better Wilford Andersen of Mesa, Arizona; and in Africa, South and Central Amer- sored an annual fireside since 2003, what is expected of me and how I can Gary Anderson and William Muss- ica, Europe, Canada, Australia, New which originates at the LDS Confer- meet the challenge.”

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