Webinar: Thank You Justice Breyer

The Federal Bar Association is honored to welcome retired Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and a number of his incredibly successful former law clerks to discuss his over two decades on the Supreme Court.  Justice Breyer’s pragmatism and devotion to democratic principles, coupled with an amazing sense of humor, are irreplaceable. Please join us in honoring Justice Breyer’s incredible career.

Presented by the Professional Development Committee

Presenters

Hon. Stephen G. Breyer (Retired), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
The Honorable Stephen Breyer is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Born in San Francisco in 1938, he is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He taught law for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also worked as a Supreme Court law clerk (for Justice Arthur Goldberg), a Justice Department lawyer (antitrust division), an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980, he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Carter, becoming Chief Judge in 1990. In 1994, he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton. He has written books and articles about a range of legal topics, including administrative law, economic regulation, and the U.S. Constitution.  His books include Active Liberty (2005), Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View (2010), The Court and the World (2015), and The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (2021). His wife, Joanna, was born in Great Britain and is a retired clinical psychologist. They have three children—Chloe, Nell, and Michael—and six grandchildren.

Karen L. Dunn, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Karen L. Dunn is one of the nation’s top trial lawyers.  She has successfully tried some of the largest and most high-profile cases in recent years, including Epic v. Apple, Waymo v. Uber, Malden v. Uber, and Oracle v. Rimini Street.  Recently, she won an historic victory in Sines v. Kessler, the landmark civil rights trial against neo-Nazis and white supremacists responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.   A veteran of all three branches of government, and former debate adviser to President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Harris, Karen is also a skilled crisis manager helping companies and executives navigate reputation-threatening events.  Karen was recently named a “Litigator of the Year” by The American Lawyer for handling “high-stakes, high-profile and hard-fought” cases.  She has also been named a “Litigator of the Week” five times; one of the National Law Journal’s “Outstanding Women Lawyers”; one of Benchmark Litigation’s “Top-10 Women in Litigation” and “Top 100 Trial Lawyers”; and one of Elle Magazine’s “Most Compelling Women in Washington Now.”  Earlier in her career, Karen served as an Assistant United States Attorney, Associate Counsel to the President, and law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Judge Merrick B. Garland.

Neal Katyal, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Neal Katyal is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a Partner at Hogan Lovells. He previously served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States.  He has argued 45 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, with 45 of them in the last 15 years, and his 46th argument is expected in October 2022 and his 47th in November 2022. His cases include successfully striking down the Guantanamo military tribunals, successfully defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act, successfully defending the Peace Cross in Maryland, and a landmark personal jurisdiction win for Bristol Meyers Squibb.  At the age of 52, he has already argued more Supreme Court cases in U.S. history than has any minority attorney, recently breaking the record held by Thurgood Marshall. His numerous distinctions include: the Edmund Randolph Award (the highest civilian award given by U.S. Department of Justice), The Litigator of the Year by American Lawyer (2017 and 2018, chosen as the sole Grand Prize Winner of all the lawyers in the United States), Appellate MVP by Law360 numerous times (most recently in 2017), winner of Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Award in two different categories (both private and public law) (2017), one of GQ’s Men of the Year (2017), 40 Most Influential Lawyers of the Last Decade Nationwide by National Law Journal (2010), and 90 Greatest Washington Lawyers Over the Last 30 Years by Legal Times (2008).  Neal also won the National Law Journal’s pro bono award in 2004. He has appeared on virtually every major American news program, as well as on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. He has also performed on Netflix’s House of Cards and Showtime’s Billions (where he played himself in both series).  In 2021, Neal was named a Trustee of Dartmouth College. In 2022, he was named a Trustee of the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Alexander A. Reinert, Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy and Director, Center for Rights and Justice, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Alex Reinert is the Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy and the Director of the Center for Rights and Justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  Alex joined Cardozo’s faculty in 2007, after working as an associate at Koob & Magoolaghan for six years, where he focused on the rights of people confined in prisons and jails, employment discrimination, and disability rights. Alex teaches and conducts research in the areas of Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Federal Courts, and Law of Prisons and Jails.  His articles have appeared in the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the University of Virginia Law Review, among other journals.  He has appeared on behalf of parties and amicus curiae in many significant civil rights cases.  In 2016 he became the director of the Center for Rights and Justice, which brings together the scholarship, programs and clinics at Cardozo engaged in public service, client advocacy and academic scholarship dealing with issues of fairness, equality, access to justice and transparency.  Alex graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 1999, after which he clerked first with the Hon. Harry T. Edwards, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and then with Justice Breyer.

Pratik A. Shah, Partner, Head of Supreme Court & Appellate Practice, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Pratik Shah is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and heads the firm’s Supreme Court and appellate practice.  Pratik, who previously served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, has argued 16 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and 60 more in other federal and state appellate courts—including in every circuit.  Pratik has also taught constitutional law, and clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge William A. Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Moderator: Sara A. Solow, AUSA, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Sara Solow is a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General.  Previously, she worked as a Senior Associate at Hogan Lovells in their appellate and litigation groups, with a focus on public interest litigation and global technology legal challenges.  She also served as an adjunct faculty member at NYU Law School, co-teaching a course on supreme court litigation.  Sara served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Supreme Court, and before that, clerked for Judge Anthony Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for Judge Michael Baylson of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2011 and from Yale College, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Ethics, Politics & Economics, in 2005.  In 2012, she was listed in Forbes’ “30 under 30” in Law & Policy.

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