National Bar meets in Chicago April 16 to 20
The Washington, D.C.-based National Bar Association will conduct its 28th annual Mid-Year Conference from Wednesday through Sunday, April 16-20, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel.
Titled “Carrying the Torch: Power Through Collaboration,” the conference agenda includes seminars, business meetings, receptions and the Gertrude E. Rush black-tie awards dinner.
Speakers include Cook County Judge Lewis Nixon, State Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins, and Chicago attorneys David R. Askew, R. Delacy Peters Jr. and Karen J. Porter.
Among others are Michelle Coleman Mayes, vice president and general counsel of Allstate Corp.; Lewis Steverson, corporate vice president of the Motorola Legal Department, and John Rogers, founder of Ariel Capital Management.
Registration begins at 1 p.m. April 16, and a student mentoring workshop follows at 5 p.m. For registration details, access www.nationalbar.org or call (202) 842-3900.
The board of governors will meet at 10 a.m. April 17, and the seminar, “Know When Not to Cross the Line,” follows at 2:30 p.m. The Heman Sweatt Awards reception will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Seminars on April 18 are “Write no Evil, Read no Evil, E-Mail no Evil” at 8:30 a.m., and “A Seat at the Table: The Effective Corp-orate Board” at 11 a.m.
A 2 p.m. Diversity Dialog, “National Bar Association Scorecard on Diversity in the Legal Profession,” will be followed at 6 p.m. by the Gertrude E. Rush reception and dinner.
After an NBA Leadership Development Institute at 8 a.m. April 19, the town hall meeting, “Sub-Prime Lending Crisis” will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Afternoon meetings include an NBA Judicial Council seminar, “Race and Gender Bias in Judicial Evaluation,” at 2 p.m. A reception and fashion show will be held from 4 to 6 p.m.