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PAST EVENTS

August 26, 2010
Presentation "Athlete Deals" (PDF announcement here)
Speakers
  • Diana Day, The Landmark Sports Agency
  • Carter Chow, Yee & Dubin Sports, LLC
  • Brian Yates, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP
Place Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP,
2029 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, CA 90067
(map available here)

May 27, 2010
Presentation "Personal Values in Decision Making and Communications"
Speaker Dee Alsop, CEO of Heart and Mind Strategies
Place Latham & Watkins LLP, 355 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA, 90071

April 14, 2010
Presentation "Ethics & Leadership: A Jewish Perspective"
Speaker

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rector, Sol & Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy
(Joint JRCLS-LA and BYU Management Society Luncheon)

Place American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Dr., Bel-Air. California 90077
 
February 24, 2010
Presentation "When Congress Acts: Challenges facing United States Attorneys Offices in the areas of Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Violence Against Women and Children, and National Security."
Speaker Hon. Brett Tolman, former U.S. Attorney, District of Utah
Place Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP, One Wilshire Blvd. (at 624 S. Grand), 20th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017
 
February 12, 2010
Presentation 2010 J. Reuben Clark Law Society Annual Fireside Satellite Broadcast from Temple Square: "Becoming Peacemakers"
Speaker Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Place Broadcast Locations:
1) South Pasadena Ward Meetinghouse, 1919 Huntington Drive, Pasadena, CA.
2) Valencia Stake Center, 24443 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA.

December 3, 2009
Presentation "A New Justice, A Potential Retirement, And Rethinking Old Rules - Two Law School Deans' Perspectives on the Roberts Court"
Speakers Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC Irvine School of Law; Kenneth Starr, Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law; and Hon. Milan D. Smith, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Place Latham & Watkins LLP, 355 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071

Special Recognition: The J. Reuben Clark Society of Los Angeles thanks the law firm of Jenner & Block LLP and Horvitz & Levy LLP for being a Gold Sponsor of this event.


November 7, 2009
Presentation

JRCLS Annual Dinner: Hugh Hewitt will be the recipient of JRCLS-LA's 2009 Distinguished Service Award. Additionally, the Chapter's Outstanding Lawyer and Outstanding Young Lawyer Awards will also be presented.

Speaker Hugh Hewitt
Place The Hilton Hotel 100 West Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale, CA 91202

November 4, 2009
Presentation "The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple"
Speaker BYU Law Professor John Welch discusses his latest book, which offers insights into the Sermon on the Mount by seeing it in the shadow of the all-pervasive Temple in Jerusalem, which dominated the religious landscape of the world of Jesus and his earliest disciples.
Place Drescher Auditorium on the graduate campus at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA

October 15, 2009
Presentation "Parallells in the Presidential Campaigns of 1800 and 2008"
Speaker Edward J. Larson, Pepperdine Law Professor and History Professor, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Place Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP One Wilshire Blvd. (at 624 S. Grand), 20th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017

September 22, 2009
Presentation "Balancing the Demands of Work, Callings, and Family: A Panel Discussion from Several Perspectives"
Speaker Steve Adams, Brian Rothschild, and Deborah Gubernick
Place Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP; 2029 Century Park East, Ste. 2400, Los Angeles, CA 90067

June 24, 2009
Presentation "Article VI of the Constitution and Religion in the 2008 Campaign and Beyond"
Speaker Lowell Brown, LA Lawyer and Blogger and Sonja Brown, Campaign Communications Director
Place Arent Fox LLP Gas Company Tower 555 West Fifth Street, 48th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90013

April 30, 2009
Presentation Boyd Black, Associate General Counsel of the Church since 1996, will address historical and current legal issues involving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including matters relating to religious liberty, as an international denomination.
Speaker About the Speaker: 1996-present - Associate General Counsel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1986-1996 - Partner, Latham & Watkins, San Diego, California. 1978-1985 Associate, Latham & Watkins, San Diego and Los Angeles, California. Juris Doctor (Magna cum laude), 1978, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University.
Place Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP One Wilshire Blvd. (at 624 S. Grand), 20th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017

March 12, 2009
Presentation

"How Americans View Mormonism: Seven Steps To Improve Our Image."

Speaker Dr. Gary C. Lawrence
Place Latham & Watkins, LLP 355 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles 90071-1560

January 22, 2009
Presentation

Overview of the J. Reuben Clark Society pro bono program

Speaker Jonathan Johnson, Michael Fehmel, Brent Riggs and Randy Muhlestein
Moderator David Wardle, Chair of the JRCLS-LA Legal Services Committee
Place Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP One Wilshire Blvd. (at 624 S. Grand), 20th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017


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