The Seminar
8:30am - 11:45am
3.0 CLE Hours
Topics include:

• Substantive Law on Emerging Employment Discrimination/Con Law Issue
• The necessity and benefit to diversity in government, large firm/corporate, and small firm practices

Agenda:
8:30am Employment Discrimination
Matthew Besser

9:30am Towards a More Diverse Profession
Shirley L. Mays, Associate Dean and Law Professor of Capital University Law School

10:30am Break

10:45am Panel: Utility and relevancy of diversity in public, corporate/big firm, and small/solo practices

The first hour will address emerging substantive law issues in employment discrimination. In the second hour, Shirley L. Mays, Associate Dean and Law Professor of Capital University Law School will be speaking on the topic: “Towards a More Diverse Profession.”  In the final hour, a panel will address the utility and relevancy of diversity in public, corporate/big firm, and small/solo practices. Each CLE presentation will be followed by a brief question and answer session. We can only make a significant difference in this community if everyone is committed to recognizing, encouraging, and promoting diversity of all types.

There is a tremendous amount of respect for lawyers and judges in our society, both domestically and abroad. That respect; however, is founded in the belief that our legal system is on the whole fair and provides support and protection for individuals and their rights. I submit to you that our local and specialty bar associations can do much more to improve diversity in this community…if we are committed. The 2010 Dayton Bar Association Diversity Day, while an important and necessary step, is just that…a step in achieving substantive diversity in our legal community. Ultimately, the tools to dismantling barriers to diversity are communication, consistency, and commitment to change.

The Luncheon
Noon - 1:00pm
Keynote Speaker: New US Attorney Carter M. Stewart, Esq.

About Carter Stewart:
Stewart has previously worked as a federal prosecutor, federal judicial law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Carter of the Southern District of New York as well as the Honorable Raymond L. Finch of the District of the Virgin Islands, and as an attorney with Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco and with Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease in Columbus, Ohio. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, his M.A. in education policy from Columbia University, and his B.A from Stanford University. More information about Carter Stewart is available at www.usdoj.gov/usao/ohs.
   

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