Jess Bravin, the Wall Street Journal’s Supreme Court correspondent, will deliver the John Field Simms, Sr. Memorial Lecture at UNM Law School in Albuquerque on Thursday, April 2, beginning at 4:30 p.m. (The lecture is named for a founding member … Continue reading
The New Mexico State Bar’s Appellate Practice Section is sponsoring a brown bag lunch with Court of Appeals Judge Monica Zamora on Friday, September 5, 2014, beginning at noon at the State Bar Center in Albuquerque. If you would like … Continue reading
Timothy Sandefur, a Principal Attorney at the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation (which sometimes files amicus curiae briefs in New Mexico’s appellate courts), and frequent commentator on legal issues, will speak on July 31 about his new book, The Conscience of … Continue reading
The State Bar’s annual Appellate Practice Institute is scheduled to take place on Friday, December 5, 2014 at the State Bar Center in Albuquerque. Save the date, file a notice of unavailability … you don’t want to miss it! More … Continue reading
I am a big fan of Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s yearly review of the Supreme Court’s decisions. I’ve seen his live presentations at the Tenth Circuit Bench & Bar Conference, which are truly impressive because of Prof. Chemerinsky’s deep command of the facts … Continue reading
On Tuesday, July 1, the Albuquerque Bar Association held a forum for the two candidates for the New Mexico Court of Appeals, incumbent Judge Miles Hanisee, the Republican nominee, and his challenger, appellate lawyer Kerry Kiernan, the Democratic nominee. The forum … Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will speak in Santa Fe on August 15, 2014 at a conference called “Risk and Reinvention: How Women Are Changing the World.” The conference is hosted by the Women’s International Study Center, and will … Continue reading
On Tuesday, July 1, the Albuquerque Bar Association will host a Candidates Forum for the New Mexico Court of Appeals, featuring incumbent Judge J. Miles Hanisee, the Republican nominee, and appellate lawyer Kerry C. Kiernan, the Democratic nominee. Their respective campaign websites are … Continue reading
