Conference Speakers:


Michelle Anderson, Dean of Law, City University of New York, New York, NY


Michelle Anderson
Michelle J. Anderson became Dean of CUNY School of Law in 2006. Since that time, the School has earned membership in the Association of American Law Schools; continued its national, top ten ranking for "Best Clinical Training;" earned national, top ten ranking for "Best Law Professors".   The School is poised to move from Flushing to Long Island City in the summer of 2011. At CUNY, Dean Anderson teaches Criminal Law.

Dean Anderson is an honours graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she earned a B.A. in Community Studies in 1989 and the Chancellor's Award for outstanding academic achievement. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1994, where she was Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, and Research Fellow in the Program in Civil Liability.

Following law school, Dean Anderson clerked on the United States Court of Appeals. She then worked at Georgetown University Law Center in the Appellate Litigation Program and the Institute for Public Representation. There she earned an LL.M. in Advocacy, representing clients pursuing a range of civil rights claims and criminal appeals.   Dean Anderson was a member of the faculty of Villanova University School of Law from 1998 to 2006.

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John Campion

John Campion, President of the Federation of Canadian Law Societies
John Campion is a senior partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Toronto, Ontario. John is an experienced litigator recognized nationally and internationally as a leading trial, appellate and arbitration advocate. He is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation.
In 2009 he became President of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, representing all the governing bodies for the legal profession in Canada.
John obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1967 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto in 1972. He was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1974, and since 2000 has served three terms as a Bencher.
He has appeared as a barrister in courts throughout Canada on legal issues including class actions, administrative, corporate, commercial and competition law, and has acted in arbitrations here and in Europe. He has also appeared as counsel before the Gomery Inquiry, and before the United Nations Oil-For-Food commission of inquiry.
John has also been an adjunct professor of law for over 20 years at Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto, and has lectured broadly in Canada, Europe and the United States. He has published a book and numerous articles as well. John has also been a member of the Board of the CBC and is a former President of The Empire Club of Canada.

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Thomas CromwellThe Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas Cromwell
The Honourable Thomas Cromwell was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on December 22, 2008. He had previously been appointed to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal on August 27, 1997. Justice Cromwell went to school in Kingston. He then attended Queen’s University, where he obtained a B. Mus. in 1973 and an LL.B. in 1976. He also obtained an A.R.C.T. diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in 1974 and attended Oxford University, where he earned a B.C.L. in 1977. He married Dr. Della M. M. Stanley of Sackville, New Brunswick on June 7, 1980. They have one child, Thomas.

Justice Cromwell practised law in Toronto and taught in the Faculty of Law of Dalhousie University. He worked as Executive Legal Officer to     Chief Justice Antonio Lamer for three years, 1992-95. He has also held
many other offices including: Secretary, Board of Governors, National Judicial Institute, 1992-95; Vice-chair, Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board and Construction Industry Panel, 1991-92; President, Canadian Association of Law Teachers, 1988-89; President, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, 1999-2001; Chair of the Board, Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, 2007-8; Research Director, C.B.A. Court Reform Task Force, 1989-91; and Commissioner, Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia, 2002-7.

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Kenneth Margolis

Kenneth Margolis, Director of the CaseArc Integrated Lawyering Skills Program, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Kenneth Margolis obtained a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972 and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1976. He is Professor of Law, Director of the CaseArc Integrated Lawyering Skills Program and Co-Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been on the clinical faculty at CWRU since 1984 teaching in a variety of civil and criminal clinics, and creating and supervising externship courses. He currently teaches in the law school’s Community Development Clinic, Focused Problem Solving in the CaseArc program, and supervises various externships.

Kenneth has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the CaseArc program, the law school’s innovative skills curriculum. He is a member of the Ohio and California bars. He was formerly Director of Continuing Legal Education, and participated in the law school's Project on the Delivery of Legal Services. He has been a NITA Program Director and is a member of the Advisory Group to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He has published articles and materials and delivered presentations on the ethics of marketing, client satisfaction, the creation of value in legal services and the CaseArc program.

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James Moliterno

James Moliterno, Professor at Washington and Lee School of Law
James Moliterno has been a Professor of Law at Vincent Bradford since 2009. One of the nation's leading educators in experiential learning and legal professionalism, Moliterno was the architect of William and Mary law school's award winning ethics, skills, and professionalism program, which won the 1991 American Bar Association Gambrell Professionalism Award, as the best law school or bar association program for the teaching of ethics and professionalism.

Professor Moliterno is the author of numerous works examining legal education and professional responsibility, including The Law of Professional Responsibility, Cases and Materials on the Law Governing Lawyers and Ethics of the Lawyers Work. Among his recent projects, Professor Moliterno has worked with USAID Rule of Law project in Serbia to establish legal skills training programs. At W&L, Professor Moliterno will teach all sections of Professional Responsibility and a third-year practicum course.

Admitted to practice in West Virginia; Staff Attorney and Prison Project Coordinator, West Virginia Legal Services Plan, Inc., 1980-1982; Instructor, Seattle University School of Law (formerly University of Puget Sound), 1982-1985; Clinical Instructor and Lecturer, West Virginia University College of Law, 1985-1986; Faculty Supervisor, Federal Inmate Assistance Program, 1986-87; Director of Legal Writing and Clinical Instructor, 1986-1987; Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Tech University, 1987-88; Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills, College of William and Mary, 1988-91; Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills, 1991-1993; Director of Center for Teaching Legal Ethics, 1995-1998; Vice Dean, 1997-2000; Director of Clinical Programs, 2002-2007; Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills, 1993-2009; Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law, 2003-2009; Vincent Bradford Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 2009—.

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