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Heritage Committee Member Mike Lamb interviews Cliff Edwards of Billings, Montana.

Heritage Committee member Ron McLean interviews Judicial Fellow Karen Townsend of Missoula, Montana.

Professor Kenneth Townsend, JD presents: Forming Good Lawyers, at the 2024 Spring Meeting in Phoenix. Professor Townsend is the Executive Director of Leadership and Character in the Professional Schools, Teaching Professor in the Wake Forest School of Law, and a Presidential Higher Education Fellow. He teaches “Professional Responsibility” and “Leadership and Character in the Law” at the Wake Forest School of Law. His research focuses on the relationship between law and morality, leadership in the law, and the ethical formation of professionals.

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Texas Fellow David Gonzalez provides the inductee response on behalf of the fall inductees at the 2023 Annual Meeting in San Diego.

A leading responsibility of the American College of Trial Lawyers is to educate the public on the judiciary’s role in protecting the rule of law. The Fellows of the Judicial Independence Committee have concluded that a significant element in this education is to restore confidence in the confirmation of Justices for the Supreme Court. Having evaluated reforms needed to restore confidence in this process, the committee recommends eleven measures to guide the Senate in securing needed reform.

A companion proposal is for the Senate to create a Special Committee on Judicial Nominations, a committee to effectuate the reform measures.  

Fellows who are registered for the 2023 Annual Meeting (or who were registered but canceled): log in using your regular actl.com credentials to view recordings of the presentations in San Diego. Videos will be available within two weeks after the meeting concludes.

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