Southern District of New York Chapter: Life or Death: The Difference and Ethics of Race and Gender in the Effective Representation of Death Penalty Cases

Life or Death: The Difference and Ethics of Race and Gender in the Effective Representation of Death Penalty Cases

Thursday, May 13 | 5:30 pm – 7pm  ET

Please join the Federal Bar Association’s SDNY Chapter and the Civil Rights Law Section of the FBA for a CLE program on the death penalty. Renowned death penalty advocates will speak on the role ethics, race, and gender play in effectively representing individuals sentenced to death row.

About the Presenters

• Sheri L. Johnson, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  Sheri Lynn Johnson is an expert on the interface of race and issues in criminal procedure, and the Assistant Director of the Cornell Death Penalty project, an initiative to foster empirical scholarship on the death penalty, offer students an opportunity to work with practitioners on death penalty cases, and to provide information and assistance for death penalty lawyers. She argued Curtis Flowers v. Mississippi at the United States Supreme Court.
• Robert C. Owen, Managing Partner, Robert C. Owen LLC
  ROB OWEN is a criminal defense attorney in Chicago. His practice focuses on representing death-sentenced clients on appeal and in post-conviction proceedings and providing advice and support to other attorneys handling capital cases. Educated at the University of Georgia and Harvard Law School, Mr. Owen has been practicing law since 1989 and has defended clients facing the death penalty at every level of the state and federal court system. His background includes six years at a non-profit law office representing Texas death row prisoners in post-conviction litigation, three years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender representing indigent clients in federal court on charges ranging from traffic offenses to homicide, and more than two decades combining private criminal defense practice with clinical law teaching at the University of Texas and Northwestern University. He has successfully argued four capital cases at the United States Supreme Court and appears regularly as a faculty member at capital defense trainings around the country.
• Meaghan VerGow, Partner, O’Melveny &. Myers LLP
  Meaghan VerGow is a litigator who assists clients with complex commercial litigation and class actions at the trial and appellate levels. She also counsels clients on legal, policy, and regulatory matters. She was part of the team that argued the Lisa M. Montgomery v. United States case at the United States Supreme Court).
• Geoffrey G. Young, Partner, Reed Smith LLP
  Geoff is a partner in the Global Commercial Disputes Group. His practice comprises counseling and litigating in the areas of complex commercial disputes, products liability, financial services matters, energy and natural resources matters, advertising/trademark matters, and international arbitration. Geoff also represents high net-worth individuals and public figures, including in the entertainment field, related to in-court and out-of-court disputes. He handles several death penalty matters pro bono.

Registration

Registration for this event will close Wednesday, May 12 

• FBA Members & Nonmembers: Complimentary Registration 

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CLE

1.5 CLE Credits in Professional Practice, Ethics and Diversity pending approval in accordance with the requirements of the NYS Continuing Legal Education Board.

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If you have any questions regarding this program, please contact sdny.fba@gmail.com.