The Just The Beginning Foundation, ISBA's Law and Leadership partner, is offering free CLE credits at its 20th Anniversary Conference "Reaching Back, Lifting Up." Each panel (list below) awards between .50 and .75 Illinois Professional Responsibility credits. The conference will be held Sept. 21-22 at the Chicago Marriott, 540 N. Michigan Ave. Click here to register.

Conference Panels

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

10:30a – 11:30a Adult Panel 1 – Mentoring: What Really Works?
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile (Salon E, 5th Floor): 540 N. Michigan Avenue
Moderator: Ronald S. Safer, Managing Partner, Schiff Hardin, Conference Co-Chair
(Panelists: Brett J. Hart; Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, United Airlines; Conference Co-Chair, Peter Harvey, Partner, Patterson Belknap, Juliette Pryor, General Counsel, US Foods, and Jesse H. Ruiz, Partner, Drinker & Biddle)

11:30a – 12:30p Adult Panel 2 – Building a Book: Moving Lawyers of Color Along the Pipeline
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile (Salon E, 5th Floor): 540 N. Michigan Avenue
Moderator: Roderick A. Palmore, General Counsel, General Mills
(Panelists: Michael P. Chu, Partner, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Sharon E. Jones, President, Jones Diversity Group, Christopher P. Reynolds, Group Vice President and General Counsel, Toyota, and Heather Smedstad, Vice President, US General Counsel, McDonald’s Corporation)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

9:30a – 10:15a Adult Panel 3 – Crisis in the Pipeline: Challenges for Law Schools
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile (Salon D, 5th Floor): 540 N. Michigan Avenue
Moderator: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law
(Panelists: John E. Corkery, Dean, The John Marshall Law School, Harold J. Krent, Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Gregory Mark, Dean, DePaul University College of Law, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Dean, Northwestern University School of Law, Michael H. Schill, Dean, The University of Chicago School of Law, and David N. Yellen, Dean, Loyola University Chicago School of Law)

10:15a – 11:00a Adult Panel 4 – The Global Economic Crisis: What Is the Impact on the Practice of Law
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile (Salon D, 5th Floor): 540 N. Michigan Avenue
Moderator: Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Professor, Harvard Law School
(Panelists: Mark Filip, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, James Clarence Johnson, General Counsel, Loop Capital Markets, David E. Mendelsohn, Partner, DLA Piper, and David B. Wilkins, Professor, Harvard Law School)

11:15a – 12:00p Adult Panel 5 – The Supreme Court Weighs In: What’s Happened and What’s Next
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile (Salon D, 5th Floor): 540 N. Michigan Avenue
Moderator: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law
(Panelists: Gail Hasbrouck, General Counsel, Advocate Health Care, James C. Ho, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center, and Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF)

12:00p – 12:45p Adult Panel 6 – Maintaining the Pipeline: Retaining Attorneys of Color and Female Attorneys
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile (Salon D, 5th Floor): 540 N. Michigan Avenue
Moderator: Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Professor, Harvard Law School
(Panelists: Alfreda Bradley-Coar, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, GE Healthcare – Americas, Conference Co-Chair, Maria Green, General Counsel and Secretary, Illinois Tool Works, Conference Co-Chair, William Von Hoene, Jr., Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Exelon Corporation, and Sandra S. Yamate, Chief Executive Officer, The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession)