4 Hours CLE credit approved
SHERMAN, TEXAS—The annual Austin College Kenneth W. Street Law Symposium, designed for law professionals and interested students, will be held Friday, March 2, from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Registration and panel discussions will be held in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall. A luncheon and keynote address will be held in Mabee Hall of Wright Campus Center, and a reception in Collins Alumni Center will follow the final session. The State Bar of Texas has approved CLE credit of four hours for the event.
Led by keynote speaker Judge Barbara Lynn of the U.S. District Court’s Northern District of Texas, the day’s program will explore issues of “The Law and Ethics."
The registration fee for the program is $65 for all attorneys. Austin College students and faculty are welcome at no charge, and admission for all other non-attorneys is $25 per person. All registration fees include the luncheon and reception. Visit www.austincollege.edu/lawsymposium to register online or call 1-800-467-6646 or 903-813-2383 by February 21. The symposium is sponsored by the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation, the Austin College Student Assembly, and the Austin College Pre-Law Society.
THE SCHEDULE:
The event will begin at 11 a.m. in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall with the panel discussion “Ethics and Criminal Law,” moderated by F. R. Buck Files of Tyler, president-elect of the Texas Bar Association. Panelists are Judge Kerry Fitzgerald of Dallas, Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals, and Jack Strickland of Fort Worth, Tarrant County Attorney’s Office.
At noon, Judge Barbara Lynn will present the keynote address during a luncheon in Mabee Hall of Wright Campus Center. She was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas by President Bill Clinton in 2000. Before her appointment, she was a partner in Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal. While a member of the law firm, she pursued litigation in several areas, including will contests, trusts, general commercial litigation, legal malpractice defense, labor and employment, and intellectual property. She earned her bachelor’s degree, with highest distinction, at the University of Virginia, and is a summa cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University School of Law.
At 1:45, activities return to Hoxie Thompson Auditorium in Sherman Hall with the panel “Legal Ethics and the Perception and Misperception of Lawyers.” Moderator for the session will be Jim McCormack, Law Office of James McCormack, of Austin, Texas, with panelists Chuck Herring, Herring & Irwin, of Austin, Texas; and Buck Files Texas, Bain, Files, Jarrett, Bain, & Harrison, of Tyler, Texas.
A 3 p.m. panel session on “Ethical Issues in Civil Law Practice” will be moderated by Jim Walker, WalkerSewell, of Dallas, Texas, with panelists Charla Aldous, Aldous Law Firm of Dallas, Texas; Jim Coleman, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, Dallas, Texas; and Judge Martin Hoffman of Dallas, Texas, 68th Texas District Court.
The final panel session at 4 p.m. will address “Ethical Implications of Developments in Human Memory.” Moderated by Chris Elliot, Graves, Dougherty, Herron & Moody of Austin, Texas;, panelists will include Chuck Herring, Herring & Irwin of Austin, Texas, and Judge Jim Jordan of Dallas, Texas, 160th Texas District Court.
A 5 p.m. reception for all participants will be held in Collins Alumni Center.
This annual symposium honors Austin College Professor Emeritus Kenneth Street. A professor of political science at Austin College from 1959 to 1997, Street held the John D. Moseley Chair of Government and Public Policy, and founded and directed the Social Science Laboratory, which allowed students to experience field research, observe political and social behavior, and text hypothesis about needs in the community.
Austin College is a leading national independent liberal arts college located north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Founded in 1849, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original charter and name, the college is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Recognized nationally for academic excellence in the areas of international education, pre-professional training, and leadership studies, Austin College is one of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book Colleges that Change Lives.