Saturday, September 22, 2018

Threats to judicial independence, impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession, among topics for next week's World City Bar Leaders Conference

Protecting the independence of the judiciary and the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession will be among the topics of discussion by officials from many of the world’s largest bar associations at the annual conference of World City Bar Leaders, hosted by the Chicago Bar Association from September 26 to 29.

The conference will be attended by bar leaders from major global cities including Barcelona, Beijing, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Warsaw. It is held annually at different international locations to bring bar leaders together to address major issues and trends that impact the legal profession around the world.

The conference will begin at the Chicago Bar Association at 5:00p.m. on Wednesday, September 26, featuring a special welcome reception for the CBA’s 2018-2019 incoming President Steven M. Elrod and Young Lawyers Section Chair Brandon Peck. (Click here to register for this reception.)

Conference programming begins Thursday with a morning panel discussion on Protecting the Independence of the Judiciary, moderated by CBA Immediate Past President Judge Thomas R. Mulroy. Panelists will include U.S. District Court Chief Judge Rubén Castillo, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas L. Kilbride, and Mikolaj Piertrzak of the Warsaw Bar Association.

Thursday afternoon features a session on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the legal profession featuring representatives of the Barcelona and Tokyo Bar Associations as well as legal counsel representatives from Microsoft and IBM. The panel will be moderated by CBA Past President Dan Cotter.

The conference continues Friday with a forum on Global Access to Justice Issues featuring representatives from the Warsaw Bar Association, the Frankfurt Bar Association, the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts and LexisNexis Legal & Professional. Chicago Bar Foundation President Carrie Di Santo will moderate the discussion.

Friday afternoon’s session, Resolving International Disputes, will feature the President of the Paris Bar Association and the Chair of the International Department of the Beijing Lawyers Association. The discussion will be moderated by retired U.S. District Court Judge Wayne Anderson.

Contact the CBA at (312) 554-2012 for a more detailed schedule of events for the conference.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

BRETT KAVANAUGH IS A RAPIST. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE SUPREME COURT. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE APPELLATE COURT. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE CIRCUIT COURT. #dumpthepatriarchy!

Jack Leyhane said...

Well... some of you said you wanted comments. So, here we go. Welcome to "civil discourse" in 2018. God, help us.

Anonymous said...

What is this? Themyscira?

Anonymous said...

Jack:

Please don’t remove the comments. We are adults. We can tell the difference between sincere opinion and dribble likely to be read in crayon-written pro se pleadings. Your blog without the comments was just too dry. But lord knows we all needed that break after the last crazy election cycle. Anon!

Jack Leyhane said...

Anon, I will continue to flush comments as necessary -- but, bowing to popular demand, I will make an effort to pass through some of the more, er, robust comments. For as long as I can stomach them.

What is it about the Internet that turns otherwise rational, well-educated men and women into drooling, hateful monsters? I'm not just talking about my poor blog -- where anonymity, certainly, is part of the attraction -- I'm talking about Facebook, where, despite having to post under a name, often the same, clearly-identifiable name on their law licenses, people casually spew the most vile things. And then there's that sewer called Twitter. Why? Don't people realize that they may be damaging themselves by giving unfiltered vent to their most visceral reactions?

Oh, sure, this is the 'culture' to which we have descended. Everyone is doing it. So it must be OK.

But it's not OK. Why do people think it is?

Anonymous said...

Jack:

Your blog is like a voting booth. It is here where we can allow our IDs to run free and unleash on the egos of our oppressors. Come on, Jack, you know it’s true. #dumpthemall2018

Anonymous said...

I voted today! I retained Coghlan and voted to dump all the rest. Thanks for that advice JAPAC!

Anonymous said...

I did what JAPAC said and dumped Santiago.