Conference Program: Thursday, July 23, 2009

CLE Strand
7:30-8:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:20

Opening and Welcome

  • Sarah Browning, Esq., Special Asst. to the Commissioner, NH Department of Education, Concord, NH
  • Sarah Forster, Assistant Attorney General, Augusta, State of Maine
8:30-9:30

ThCLE1 New Developments in SPED Law

9:40-10:40

ThCLE2 Education Litigation

  • John R. Munich, Esq., Attorney, Stinson Morrison Heckler LLP, St. Louis, MO
10:50-11:50

ThCLE3 Free Speech Inside and Outside of Public Schools

  • Clay Calvert, Esq., Co-Director, Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, State College, PA
  • Robert D. Richards, Esq., Co-Director, Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment, State College, PA
11:50-1:20 Working Lunch
11:50-1:20

ThCLE4 Ethics

1:30-2:30

ThCLE5 Lawyers in Schools

  • Tba

2:40-3:40

ThCLE6 §1983 and Education Litigation

  • Mark Weber, Esq., Professor, Depaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL
3:50-4:50

ThCLE7 State Law Perspective and Update

  • Sarah Browning, Esq., Special Asst. to the Commissioner, NH Department of Education, Concord, NH
  • Sarah Forster, Assistant Attorney General, State of Maine