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Lunch Lecture with Famous Trial Lawyer
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James Brosnahan Lecture- Save the Date!
Noted criminal defense attorney James Brosnahan will speak on
May 30th, 2003 during lunch at the
First Annual Witkin Lecture at the U.S. Grant Hotel, located
at 326 Broadway, San Diego, 92101. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m.
and the lecture commences at noon. The topic will be "Hot Off the
Press: Cases This Term at the United States Supreme Court." He will
specifically discuss new eleventh amendment jurisprudence and
developments in criminal and first amendment law.
Tickets are $25 and include a lunch of a chicken caesar salad.
You can make reservations by calling Amy Conrad at (619) 531-4449 or
e-mailing
her. This lecture is approved for 1.0 hours of general participatory
MCLE credit.*
Brosnahan is a partner at
Morrison and Foerster
in San Fransisco. He recently defended
John Walker Lindh,
the American accused of fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Brosnahan has argued many civil and criminal appeals in state and
federal court, including two cases in the United States Supreme
Court:
United States v. Caceres,
440 U.S. 741 (1979), and Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic
Central Committee, 489 U.S. 214 (1989).
Brosnahan is one of fourteen attorneys featured in the book
America's Top Trial Lawyers: Who They Are & Why They Win
by Dr. Donald E. Vinson. In April 1994, the National Law Journal
listed Mr. Brosnahan in "Profiles in Power: The 100 Most Influential
Lawyers". Since 1987, he has been annually named in both the
Criminal Defense and Business Litigation sections of The Best Lawyers
in America. In 1990, he was named by the National Law Journal as one
of the 10 best trial lawyers in the country and in 1980 by the San
Francisco Examiner as one of the five best attorneys in San
Francisco. He was inducted into The State Bar of California's "Trial
Lawyers Hall of Fame" in April 1996; was awarded the "
Samuel E. Gates Award"
by the American College of Trial Lawyers in October 2000; was named
the "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the American Board of Trial
Advocates in October 2001; was named "Legend of the Law" by the
Lawyer's Club of San Francisco, November 2002; and was awarded the
William J. Brennan Jr. Award from the University of Virginia Trial
Advocacy Program, January 2003. His lecture series, "Great Trials
and Great Lawyers," was featured with The Teaching Company's
America's SuperStar Teachers.
This lecture is being presented by the
Witkin Legal Institute
in cooperation with the
Law Library Justice Foundation.
The Witkin Legal Institute sponsors Witkin Lecture speakers at
several California cities as part of its distribution of proceeds
from the sale of the several law treatises originally authored by the
late Bernard E. Witkin. This is the first lecture in San Diego. The
Witkin Legal Institute is owned by Thomson West. The Law Library
Justice Foundation is a charitable trust, affiliated with the San
Diego County Public Law Library. Additional sponsorship costs will
be covered by its Fred Lindley Lecture Series Fund.
*Thomson West has been approved as a continuing legal education
provider of Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State
Bar of California. This program will qualify for Participatory
Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of
California in the amount of 1.0 hours.
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