Conference Schedule

Tentative schedule - subject to change
Unless otherwise noted, all events at LDS Institute adjacent to U of U campus

Thursday, February 11, 2010

4:00 pm Registration
6:30 pm Keynote Address: Elder Lance B. Wickman, General Counsel, LDS Church — East Chapel at LDS Institute
7:20 pm — 8:30 pm Reception with Hors D'oeuvres — Utah Museum of Fine Arts at U of U
8:15 pm — 9:30 pm Mormon Tabernacle Choir Rehearsal — Tabernacle on Temple Square

Friday, February 12, 2010

7:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am JRCLS Leadership and Constituent Group Meetings
Judges Section - Room E115
Women in Law - Room E205
9:00 am Shared Keynote Address & Discussion - East Chapel
Elder Cecil O. Samuelson, President, Brigham Young University
Michael K. Young, President, University of Utah
10:00 am
(2 options)
First Breakout Session  

Civility and Professionalism Enriches Law Practice - East Chapel
Nate D. Alder, President, Utah State Bar
David G. Campbell, Judge, U.S. District Court, Arizona
John Kesler, Community Advocate
Jill N. Parrish, Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Setting the Record Straight: The Joseph Smith Legal Papers - East Multipurpose
John W. ("Jack") Welch, BYU Law Professor, Acad. Editor, Joseph Smith Papers
Jeffrey N. Walker, Associate Managing Editor, Joseph Smith Papers
Kelly Schaeffer-Bullock, Attorney; Assistant, Joseph Smith Papers

11:00 am
(2 options)
Second Breakout Session

The Ten Commandments on the Public Square: Free Speech vs. the Establishment of Religion - East Multipurpose
Steven D. Smith, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Edward L. White III, Attorney, American Center for Law & Justice

"The Legitimate Lawyer": Mediation, Negotiation and Other Peacemaking Skills for the Greater Good - East Chapel
Hiram Chodosh, Dean, University of Utah Law School
Lew W. Cramer, CEO, World Trade Center Utah
Brian Farr, Assistant Attorney General, State of Utah
Travis R. Marker, Attorney, Marker Law and Mediation

12:00pm Lunch Buffet and Informal Socializing
12:30 pm Plenary Keynote Panel: Fulfilling the Law Society's Mission for Good - East Chapel
Scott Cameron, Associate Dean, BYU Law
H. Reese Hansen, BYU Law Prof. & Former Dean; Pres-Elect AALS
Ralph W. Hardy, Jr., Dow Lohnes; Past JRCLS Chair; Area Authority 70
Charles E. (“Bud”) Jones, Former Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Nancy Van Slooten, Chair, J. Reuben Clark Law Society
Kevin J. Worthen, BYU Advancement Vice President; Former Dean
1:45 pm
(4 options)
Practicioners Speak About Service for Good in Specific Practice Areas
Law Society Section Breakout Sessions:

Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice, Criminal, Employment, Personal Injury, Mediation - East Chapel
Sterling A. Brennan, Workman Nydegger
Rick N. Bryson, Sanders & Parks
Jonathan O. Hafen, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless
R. Willis Orton, Kirton & McConkie
Jonathan H. Wardle, Neal Harwell
John N. Zarian, Zarian Midgley & Johnson

Family Law, Elder Law, Social Security - East Cultural Hall
Donna R. Bashaw, Elder Law Center
Don Petersen, Howard Lewis & Petersen
E. Gary Smith, Smith and Smith

Immigration, Government Practice, Education, Indian Law - Room E205
Sharon Garn, Office of Senator Orrin Hatch
Charles H. Kuck, Kuck Immigration Partners
Barbara Melendez, Kirton McConkie
Dustin Pead, Judge, U.S. Immigration Court, Utah
Patrick Shen, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy

Real Estate, Construction, Energy/Mining/Land Use - East Multipurpose
Braiden Chadwick, Downey Brand
David Cook, Nixon Peabody
Rob Hyde, Kirton McConkie
Robert Phillips, Hawkins Companies, LLC
Steven R. Sumsion, Sumsion MacDonald

3:00 pm
(4 options)
Practicioners Speak About Service for Good in Specific Practice Areas
Law Society Section Breakout Sessions:

Bankruptcy Room E115
Annette W. Jarvis, Dorsey & Whitney
Ralph R. Mabey, Professor, U of U Law
Adelaide Maudsley, Chapman and Cutler

Business & Corporate, Commercial Finance/Banking, Tax, In-House Counsel - East Chapel
John Douglas, Davis Polk
Richard W. Sheffield, Fillmore Spencer
D. Gordon Smith, Associate Dean, BYU Law

Estate Planning & Probate - East Cultural Hall
Gregory N. Barrick, Durham, Jones & Pinegar
David J. Bonner, LDS Philanthropies
Fred D. Essig, Dixon and Essig
M. Wesley Mashburn, LDS Philanthropies

Intellectual Property - Room E205
Berne S. Broadbent, LDS Church
A. John Pate, Pate, Pierce & Baird
Charles L. Roberts, Workman Nydegger

4:15 pm
(2 options)
Law Student General Meeting - East Chapel
Conducted by Jason Croft, Student Chapters Board Chair

So You Want to be a Law Professor? Avenues into Academia - East Multipurpose
Paul Callister, Professor, Dtr. of Law Library, Univ. of Mo. at Kansas City
Joi Gardner Pearson, Professor, BYU Law
Richard Peterson, Professor, Pepperdine Law School
David Pimentel, Professor, Florida Coastal School of Law
D. Gordon Smith, Associate Dean, BYU Law

6:00 pm JRCLS Fireside Broadcast - "Becoming Peacemakers": Featuring Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Best-Selling Author and International Leadership Authority; Tabernacle on Temple Square
7:15 pm Dinner & Reception: The Conference Center at Temple Square

Saturday, February 13, 2010

8:00 am Breakfast
8:45 am Plenary Session: Breakthrough Giving: Changing Your Life and Others’ Lives
for Good - East Chapel

Todd Manwaring, Professor, Director, BYU Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance
Aaron Miller, JD, Professor, BYU Romney Institute of Public Management
9:45 am First Breakout Session

Strengthening Religious Liberty Around the World - East Chapel
W. Cole Durham, Jr., Professor & Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies; 2009 Recipient of Int’l First Freedom Award
Robert T. Smith, Professor & Managing Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies
Gayla L. Sorenson, JD, Fellows Program Manager, International Center For Law and Religion Studies

Pro Bono Publico = Service for the Public Good: Why and How Everyone
Can Do Pro Bono Work - East Multipurpose Room

Adam Ford, Ford & Huff, Alpine, Utah
Craig D. Galli, Holland & Hart, Salt Lake City, Utah
Stephen L. West, Udall Shumway & Lyons, Mesa, Arizona

Beyond Private Practice: If I don't want to work in a law
firm, what else is there?   - East Cultural Hall

Lisa Watts Baskin, Legislative & Initiative Consulting, Civil Litigation, Public Law
Mary Hoagland, Assistant Dean, BYU Law
Charlotte L. Miller, Of Counsel and Administrative Director, Kirton & McConkie
Elizabeth Shaw Smith, Smith, Smith, Blonska & Strunk, LLP
Angelina Tsu, Legal Counsel, Zions Bancorporation

11:00 am
(3 options)
Second Breakout Session

The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Reconciliation and the Quest for National
Historic Landmark Status - East Cultural Hall

Richard E. Turley, Jr., Assistant Historian, LDS Church; Co-Author of Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Barbara Jones Brown, Editor of Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Press and the Law: Friends or Foes? - East Multipurpose Room
R. John Hughes, Former Editor, Christian Science Monitor, Deseret News & BYU Communications Professor
Jeffrey J. Hunt, Parr Brown
RonNell Andersen Jones, BYU Law Professor

Balancing Good in the Use and Preservation of Natural Resources - East Chapel
Lincoln L. Davies, U of U Law Professor
James A. Holtkamp, Holland & Hart, Salt Lake City
Sanne Knudsen, U of U Visiting Law Professor
James R. Rasband, Dean, BYU Law

12:00 pm Lunch - Addressing Issues Around the World for the Church - East Chapel
William Atkin, Associate General Counsel, LDS Church, and Selected
Area Legal Counsel
4:00 pm Basketball Game: BYU v. Air Force
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7:00 pm Basketball Game: Utah vs. New Mexico
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