2025 Daily Schedule -UALR Main Campus
Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 6 CLE Credit Hours
8 am - Registration
8:30 - 9:30 am - Chief Judge Jeffery Sutton, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, “American Constitutional Law: What Should Be National and What Should Be Local?”
9:30 - 9:45 am - Break
9:45 - 11:15 am - Federal Court of Appeals Panel Discussion
- Chief Judge Jeffery Sutton, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Judge Doris Pryor, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Judge Jonathan Kobes, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Moderator Michael Gans, Counsel, Dowd Bennett Law Firm
11:15 - 12:30 pm Lunch
12:30 - 2 pm - State Court of Appeals Panel Discussion
- Judge Robert Gladwin, Arkansas Court of Appeals
- Judge Mark Pfeiffer, Missouri Court of Appeals
- Judge Michele Christiansen Forster, Utah Court of Appeals
- Moderator Brian Brooks, Attorney at Law, PLLC
2 - 2:15 pm - Break
2:15 - 3:15 pm - Professor Kirsten Davis, Stetson University College of Law, “Beyond New Technology: A Thinking Lawyer's Approach to Writing with Generative AI.”
3:15 - 4:15 pm - Judge Doris Pryor, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, "There’s Always Next Year: Seven Tips for Surviving Appellate Madness.”
Friday, March 14 - 6 CLE credit hours
8 am - Registration
8:30 - 9:30 am - Michael Gans, Counsel, Dowd Bennett Law Firm, “Eighth Circuit Practice Pointers and Tips“
9:30 - 9:45 am - Break
9:45 - 10:45 am - Eric Olson, Olson Grimsley, “Friends with the Court: The Ethics of Personal Relationships with Judges and Court Professionals from Desha County to the U.S. Supreme Court.” ETHICS
10:45 - 11:45 am - Retired Chief Justice Howard W. Brill, Arkansas Supreme Court, Professor of Law at University of Arkansas Law School, “Ethical Considerations in Appellate Litigation.” ETHICS
11:45 - 1 pm - Lunch
1 - 2 pm - Justice Bobby Chamberlin, Mississippi Supreme Court, “”Dicta, huh, yeah….what is it good for?” or Dicta, a rose by any other name.””
2 - 2:15 pm - Break
2:15 - 3:15 pm - Retired Justice Robert L. Brown, Arkansas Supreme Court, Attorney at Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, “Effective Appellate Advocacy.”
3:15 - 4:15 pm - Brian Brooks, Attorney at Law, PLLC, “Navigating Through the Electronic Record, Briefs Without Abstracts and Addenda, and Other (Reasonably) Recent Changes in Arkansas Appellate Practice.”