Webinar: Employment Litigation: A Discussion with Federal Magistrate Judges

A panel of experienced federal magistrate judges will discuss pretrial, motions, discovery, and settlement conferences, with a focus on employment litigation.

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About the Presenters

Hon. Candy W. Dale, Magistrate Judge, District of Idaho

Judge Candy Wagahoff Dale began her appointment as United States Magistrate Judge on March 30, 2008.  Among her other duties, she is the Chair of the Local Civil Rules Advisory Committee and serves on the planning committee for the annual Teachers Institute. Upon appointment by Chief Justice John Roberts, she served a two-year term as the Magistrate Judge Observer to the Judicial Conference of the United States from October of 2017 through September of 2019. Judge Dale also is a member of the Committee on Workplace Environment and the Fairness Committee for the Ninth Circuit, and a past Chair of the Magistrate Judges Executive Board for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to serving on the federal bench, Judge Dale was a trial attorney in private practice for over twenty-five years.

Hon. Tony N. Leung, Magistrate Judge, District of Minnesota

The Honorable Tony N. Leung is the first Asian Pacific American judge in
Minnesota. He is currently a federal Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, appointed in 2011. Before his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Leung served for nearly 17 years as a state District Court Judge in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District in Hennepin County. He was first appointed to the state bench by Governor Arne H. Carlson in 1994. Prior to his elevation to the Hennepin County bench, he was an equity partner at the law firm
now named Faegre Baker Daniels. Judge Leung received his bachelor’s degree with honors from Yale University and juris doctor from New York University School of Law. He was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to America with his family as a child.

Hon. Judith C. McCarthy, Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York

Judge McCarthy was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York on April 14, 2014. She serves on the bench at the Charles L. Brieant United States Courthouse in White Plains.

From January 2011 until her appointment, Judge McCarthy was Executive Vice President & General Counsel of the New York Power Authority, where she served as NYPA’s chief legal officer and supervised a staff of 30, including the authority’s Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer. Judge McCarthy was a member of the authority’s executive management team and advisor to the Board of Trustees.

Prior to joining the Power Authority, Judge McCarthy was Assistant Attorney General-in-Charge of the New York State Attorney General’s Westchester Regional Office, where she prosecuted complex public advocacy cases and supervised attorneys representing the state, its agencies, and officers in all phases of civil litigation affecting Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties.

From 1998 to 2002, Judge McCarthy served at the New York City Human Resources Administration, rising to be First Deputy General Counsel, and the New York City’s Corporation Counsel’s Office from 1992 to 1998, ultimately serving as a Deputy Assistant Chief in the General Litigation Division. In 1995, Judge McCarthy was honored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for outstanding achievement as an Assistant Corporation Counsel.
Judge McCarthy graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 1987 and received her law degree from CUNY Law School in 1991.

Hon. Karoline Mehalchick, Magistrate Judge, Middle District of Pennsylvania

The Honorable Karoline Mehalchick is a United States Magistrate Judge in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she was appointed to the bench of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on July 15, 2013. Prior to entering on duty with the court, she was in private practice, where she represented a broad range of clients in both state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. She is a graduate of the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University (B.S. Geosciences), and the Tulane University School of Law. After graduating from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Trish Corbett, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County. Judge Mehalchick was an adjunct professor at Marywood University from 2003 until 2012, where she taught Legal and Clinical Aspects of Health Care to graduate students studying nursing and health administration. Judge Mehalchick presides over the Scranton location of the Court-Assisted Re-Entry Program (CARE Court) and sits on the Court’s Prisoner Litigation Settlement Program Committee, a program which she helped establish in early 2015. Most recently, she was appointed to the Workplace Conduce Committee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Mehalchick is an appointed member of the Magistrate Judge Advisory Group with the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Additionally, Judge Mehalchick has been active in the Federal Bar Association for many years, is a Past President of the Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter, and remains active on the Executive Committee of the Middle District Chapter. Nationally, she serves as a Director on the Board of the Federal Bar Association, is Judicial Profiles Editor for The Federal Lawyer, chairs the Bench Bar Committee, serves as Secretary of the Judiciary Division, and chairs the Leadership Subcommittee of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Governance Task Force. Judge Mehalchick also actively participates in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, and is a member of the Executive Council of the Commission. Outside of the legal community, Judge Mehalchick is in her third term as President of the Board of Directors for the Abington Gators Swim Team and is Vice President of Production for the Ballet Theatre of Scranton.

Registration

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Cancellation Policy

No refunds will be made for cancellations received after the close of business on July 3, 2020. No-shows will be billed. Substitutions may be made at any time upon notification. Please contact Ariel White at awhite@fedbar.org with cancellation and/or substitution requests.

CLE

Please note that CLE credit is not offered for this webinar.

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