8:00 am - 8:30 am
REGISTRATION with continental breakfast

8:30 am - 8:40 am
WELCOME

Dean Michael Schill, UCLA School of Law
Martin Berg, Editor, Los Angeles Daily Journal

8:40 am - 9:00 am
Keynote Address: Pro Bono and Access to Justice

The Honorable Earl Johnson, Jr.
Introduction by Professor Gary Blasi, UCLA School of Law

9:00 am - 10:45 am
Private Lawyers and Public Service: What Counts as Pro Bono?

• Maureen Alger, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
  
• Anthony Barash, Director, ABA Center for Pro Bono
  
• Andrew Esbenshade, Caldwell, Leslie & Proctor,
  
• PC Luz Herrera, Attorney at Law
  
• Esther Lardent, President and CEO, Pro Bono Institute
  
• Anne Richardson, Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson & Renick LLP
  
  Moderated by Professor Scott Cummings, UCLA School of Law

10:45 am - 11:00 am
BREAK

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Systemic Tradeoffs: Synergies, Conflicts, and Alternatives

• Benjamin Fox, Morrison & Foerster LLP
  
• Daniel Hutchinson, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
  
• Melissa Lin Perrella, Natural Resources Defense Council
  
• Betty Nordwind, Executive Director, Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law
  
• Brad Seligman, Executive Director, The Impact Fund
  
  Moderated by Steve Boutcher, Department of Sociology, University of
  California, Irvine

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
sponsored by morgan lewis

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
A Case Study of Coordinated Pro Bono: The Skid Row Collaborative in Los Angeles

• Becky Dennison, Co-Director, LA Community Action Network
  
• Deborah Drooz, Special Counsel, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
  
• James Evans, Jr., Fulbright & Jaworski
  
• Tina Hess, Supervising Assistant City Attorney, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office
  
• Matthew Oster, McDermott Will & Emery
  
• Barbara Schultz, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
  
  Moderated by Professor Gary Blasi, UCLA School of Law

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Quality and Quantity: BEYOND the Bottom Line

Deborah Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Break

3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
The Future of Pro Bono

• Ahilan Arulanantham, Director of Immigrants' Rights and National
  Security, ACLU of Southern California
• Lisa Dealy, Director, Pro Bono Service Program, Harvard Law School
• Marc Galanter, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School
• Barbara Olshansky, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights, Stanford Law School
• Rebecca Sandefur, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford
  University
• Hernan Vera, President and CEO, Public Counsel
  
  Moderated by Professor Scott Cummings, UCLA School of Law

5:30 pm
Farewell

Rethinking Pro Bono: Private Lawyers and Public Service in the 21st Century is free and open to the public.

Please register online by September 26, 2008