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Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
The Georgia Symposium
on Ethics and Professionalism (March 9-10, 2001)
On March 9th and 10th, 2001, the Walter F. George School of Law
of Mercer University held the first Georgia Symposium on Ethics
and Professionalism. This series of symposia is also funded by
Judge Lawson's 1999 order in the Du Pont litigation. Mercer, the
University of Georgia, Emory University, and Georgia State University
rotate the sponsorship of the symposia.
The subject of the first symposium was "Ethics
in Settlement Negotiations," and the discussions revolved
around proposed guidelines for lawyers being drafted by a special
committee of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation.
Keynote speakers were Lawrence Fox, former chair of the American
Bar Association Section of Litigation, and Patrick Higginbotham,
United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit. Panel discussions
were devoted to Limits on Misleading Conduct, Conditional Settlement
Agreements, Fairness Issues in Negotiation, and Special Issues
in Assisted Settlement. Moderators and panelists for these programs
included:
Hon. Marvin Aspen, United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois
Hon. Philip Brown, Judge of the Superior Court of Bibb County,
Georgia
Ronald Cohen, Esq., Phoenix, Arizona, Chair of the ABA Section
of Litigation
Nathan Crystal, University of South Carolina Law School
Nancy Scott Degan, Esq., New Orleans, Louisiana, Co-Division
Director, ABA Section of Litigation
Ronald Ellington, University of Georgia Law School
James Elliott, Emory University School of Law and former President
of the State Bar of Georgia
Bruce Green, Fordham Law School
Amy Mashburn, University of Florida School of Law
James Moliterno, Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College
of William and Mary
Hon. Mary Scriven, United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle
District of Florida
Evett Simmons, Esq., Port St. Lucie, Florida, President of the
National Bar Association
Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., Esq., Tampa, Florida, former President
of the American Bar Association
Edward Waller, Esq., Tampa, Florida, Chair of ABA Committee
on Ethics in Settlement Negotiations
Ellen Yaroshefsky, Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University
Hon. Thomas Zlaket, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.
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