The Art and Practice of the Meet and Confer
An informal brown bag lunch session with District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam and Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Corley. This informal session is an opportunity, especially for younger attorneys, to improve their practical skills for meeting and conferring with opposing counsel prior to the initial Case Management Conference. Learn what a judge wants and does not want to hear from attorneys during the CMC.
Pre-registration is required as space is limited.
Speakers:
Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley comes to the court from the law firm of Kerr & Wagstaffe, where she was a partner from 2009 to 2011. Ms. Corley graduated from UC Berkeley (1988) and from Harvard Law School (1991), where she earned magna cum laude honors and edited the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Corley served as law clerk to United States District Judge Robert Keeton of the United States District Court for Massachusetts before entering civil litigation practice, first with the firm now known as Goodwin Procter (in Boston), then Coblenz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP (in San Francisco). From 1998 to 2009, Ms. Corley served as Permanent Law Clerk to United States District Judge Charles R. Breyer of this court. Ms. Corley has also served as a court-appointed mediator and early neutral evaluator in this court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program since 2007.
The Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. is an Article III district judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Judge Gilliam received a B.A. from Yale University in 1991 and matriculated from Stanford Law School in 1994. After law school, Judge Gilliam clerked for the Hon. Thelton E. Henderson in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He then went into private practice from 1995 to 1998, before leaving to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, where he served from 1999 to 2006. In his last three years at the USAO, Judge Gilliam was the Chief of the Securities Fraud Section. He then returned to private practice, where he remained until becoming a judge.
The Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. is an Article III district judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Judge Gilliam received a B.A. from Yale University in 1991 and matriculated from Stanford Law School in 1994. After law school, Judge Gilliam clerked for the Hon. Thelton E. Henderson in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He then went into private practice from 1995 to 1998, before leaving to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, where he served from 1999 to 2006. In his last three years at the USAO, Judge Gilliam was the Chief of the Securities Fraud Section. He then returned to private practice, where he remained until becoming a judge.
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Total CLE Credits: 1.00 unit
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http://northerndistrictpracticeprogram.org/events/the-art-and-practice-of-the-meet-and-confer-sf/
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