CLE |60 Years After the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Join us for this discussion and Continuing Legal Education Class.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2023

11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM

450 Mulberry Street

Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Approved for 5.25 Hours of CLE

(3 General Hrs. and 2.25 Dual Hrs.)

Cost: $100 (Lunch included)

Discounted Tour Rate Available

(Before the CLE begins, the National Civil Rights Museum will offer a discounted tour rate for CLE participants)

Please join us on Friday, August 25, 2023, at the National Civil Rights Museum from 11:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. as we gather for a Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 60 Years After the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom:  Where are We Now? This CLE will offer 5.25 Hours of CLE (3 General Hrs. and 2:25 Dual Hrs.).

The Seminar will provide discussions of various topics relating to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law passed by Congress in response to the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. Russell Wigginton, President of the National Civil Rights Museum, will open the seminar followed by Charlotte Burrows, Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Chair Burrows will moderate a panel of local attorneys, including Greg Duckett, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation; Dan Norwood, Working Boomer Advocate; Terrence Reed, Managing Director, Employment Litigation for Federal Express; and Monica Wharton, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.

Dr. Andrew Hampton, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Christian Brothers University, and author of The Frontlines of Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Human-Centric Perspectives on Technology’s Advance, and Amalea Smirniotopoulos, Senior Policy Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, will lead a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence.

Dean Cynthia Nance, University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas will moderate the panel,  A View from the Bench: Issues Arising in the Litigation of Claims Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Panelists include U.S. District Court Judges:  Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr.;  John T. Fowlkes, Brian S. Miller, and Thomas L. R. Parker.

Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will lead a panel discussion of Development in Sex Discrimination with Angie C. Davis, Shareholder, Baker Donelson; Maureen Holland, Holland & Associates; and Delner Franklin-Thomas, Director of the Memphis District Office of EEOC and Acting Director of Office of Field Programs.

Disciplinary Counsel for the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, Beverly Sharp, will address Ethics in the Practice of Law.

Before the Seminar, participants may tour the National Civil Rights Museum at a discount rate.

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The faculty, and law students (free of charge) to attend and support the CLE.

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HT Lockard Foundation, Inc.

For questions, contact 901-545-5322