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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm – Keynote Address

The Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson, III
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

USC School of Law Auditorium

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

8:00 – 8:30 - Welcome

Dean Walter F. Pratt, Jr., USC School of Law

8:30 – 9:45: The Practice of the Fourth Circuit

The Honorable William B. Traxler, Jr., Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Honorable Robert B. King, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Honorable Dennis W. Shedd, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Moderated by S. Alan Medlin, USC School of Law

10:00 – 11:00 Practicing Before the Fourth Circuit

Dick A. Harpootlian, Richard A. Harpootlian P.A.

Amy E. Ray, Appellate Chief and Assistant United States Attorney

Matthew W. Gissendanner, former clerk to retired Chief Judge Karen J. Williams

Moderated by Robert T. Bockman, USC School of Law

11:15 – 12:15 The Recent History of the Fourth Circuit and its Future Under the Obama Administration

David R. Stras, University of Minnesota Law

Carl W. Tobias, University of Richmond School of Law

Moderated by Danielle R. Holley-Walker, USC School of Law

1:30 – 2:30 The Fourth Circuit’s Criminal Law Jurisprudence

John H. Blume, Cornell University Law School

William J. Watkins, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney

Moderated by Susan S. Kuo, USC School of Law

2:45 – 3:45 The Fourth Circuit’s Government Speech Jurisprudence

Helen Norton, University of Colorado Law School

Kevin Hall, Hall & Bowers, LLC

Moderated by Josie F. Brown, USC School of Law

4:00 – 4:45 The Fourth Circuit’s Employment Discrimination Jurisprudence

Henry L. Chambers, University of Richmond School of Law

W. Allen Nickles III, Gergel, Nickles & Solomon, P.A.

Moderated by Joseph A. Seiner, USC School of Law

4:45 – 5:00 Concluding comments