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Thursday, July 15

5:00pm              Welcome Reception

Location: Cooley Courtyard, Stanford Law School

Shuttle will be provided from Sheraton Palo Alto and Stanford Park Hotel.  Departure time TBA.

Friday, July 16

8:30am              Shuttle departs from Sheraton Palo Alto

8:30am              Shuttle departs from Stanford Park Hotel

8:30-9:00am    Continental Breakfast available

9:00-9:15am     Welcome Remarks

9:15-10:45am   Session #1

1A: Lawyers as Leaders

1B: Roundtable on Legal Ethics in Legal Education: Should it be a Required Course

11:00-12:30       Session #2

2A: Access to Justice:  Confronting the Roadblocks

2B: Comparative Studies in Lawyer Deviance and Discipline:  Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States

2C: Confidentiality and Conflicts of Interest

2D: Legal Culture and Legal Ethics

2E: Legal Ethics and Constitutional Values

2F: The Global Law Firm: Relationships of Trust and Regulation of the Legal Profession in the 21st Century

12:45-1:45         Session #3 / Lunch

2:00-3:30         Session #4

4A: Cause Lawyering

4B: Ethics Under Pressure: Changing Regulation of Global Law Practice

4C: Global Approaches to Legal Ethics in Class Actions

4D: Legal Ethics and Professionalism in Legal Education:  Global Collaboration

4E: Legal Practice and Business Imperatives:  Reintegrating Ethics into Economics and Law

3:45-5:15pm      Session #5

5A: A Modern Legal Ethics:  Author Meets Critics

5B: Regulating Legal Practice:  Global Perspectives

5C: Legal Ethics Education in Cultural Context

5D: Professional Values

5E: Social and Organizational Psychology

5F: Technology and Outsourcing

5:30pm              Reception / Dinner

Stanford Faculty Club

Shuttles will return participants to Sheraton Palo Alto / Stanford Park Hotel

Saturday, July 17

8:30am               Shuttle departs from Sheraton Palo Alto

8:30am               Shuttle departs from Stanford Park Hotel

9:00-10:30am   Session #6

6A: Conflicts of Interest and Contingency Fees

6B: Heroic Lawyering:  Should Political Liberalism Be a Collective Ethic for Lawyers Worldwide?

6C: Rural Lawyering

6D: Legal Ethics in China and Japan

6F: Professional Regulation and Development:  Cross Cultural Perspectives on the Role of Courts, Professional Bodies, and Rules Governing Ethical Conduct

6G: The Advocate’s Role in Adversarial and Non-Adversarial Contexts

10:45-12:15pm  Session #7

7A: A Model for International Choice of Law and Coordination of Attorney Regulation

7B: Judicial Ethics: Contemporary Challenges

7C: Lawyers and Clients: Case Histories

7D: Lawyers in Practice:  Ethical Decision Making in Context

7E: Pro Bono Services:  Confronting the Challenges

7F: The Duty of Loyalty and Conflicts of Interest
PART I

12:15-1:15pm     Lunch (no speaker)

1:30-3:00pm      Session #8

8A: Challenges in Representing Clients with Diminished Capacity

8B: Comparative Judicial Ethics

8C: Ethics in Practice: Contemporary Challenges

8D: The Case for Ethics in a Context of Change

8E: Restrictions on Practice and Cross-Jurisdictional Boundaries

8F: Teaching Judgement, Moral Engagement, and Habits of Ethical Practice

8G: The Duty of Loyalty and Conflicts of Interest
PART II

3:15-4:45pm    Session #9

9A: Neuroscience and Moral Cognition

9B: Jurisprudence and Legal Ethics

5:00pm              Closing Reception

Location:  New Guinea Sculpture Garden (Lomita Drive and Santa Teresa Street)