Urgent Legal Matters

Seminar Number 6854 Early Registration Fee: $355 On-Site Registration Fee: $375 CLE Hours 12 CLE Hours including 1 Ethics Hour, 1 Professionalism Hour and 3 Trial Practice Hours	19th Annual URGENT LEGAL MATTERS
	AUGUST 29-30, 2008 The King and Prince 201 Arnold Road St. Simons Island GA (800) 342-0212
	Presiding: Cliffe Lane Gort, Program Chair, Attorney at Law, Atlanta
	FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2008
	8:30	REGISTRATION (All attendees must check in upon arrival. A removable jacket or sweater is recommended.)
	9:00	WELCOME AND PROGRAM OVERVIEW Cliffe Lane Gort
	9:10	urgent legal matters concerning divorce Nancy F. Lawler, Cohen Pollock Merlin & Small, Atlanta
	10:10	BREAK
	10:20	children’s wrongful death and damages Don Charles Keenan, The Keenan Law Firm, Atlanta
	11:20	recent developments in georgia law regarding life sustaining treatment Angela T. Burnett, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta
	12:05	LUNCHEON (Included in registration fee)
	1:05	THE personification of professionalism on professionalism Edwin Marger, Law Offices of Edwin Marger, LLC, Jasper
	2:05	urgent legal legislative matters Hon. Lawrence C. Walker, Jr., Walker Hulbert Gray & Byrd, LLP, Perry
	3:00	BREAK
	3:15	urgent matters in juvenile law Hon. H. William Sams, Jr., Judge, Juvenile Court of Augusta Judicial Circuit, Augusta
	4:15	the special litigation committee as an urgent response to the derivative lawsuit Thomas E. Cauthorn, III, Cauthorn & Nohr, P.C., Marietta
	4:55	urgent legal matters concerning and representing hispanics Thomas F. Jones, Jones & Associates, Atlanta
	5:30	CONCLUDING REMARKS Cliffe Lane Gort
	5:35	RECESS
	5:45	RECEPTION in the solarium SPONSORED by the institute of continuing legal education
	SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2008
	8:30	PANEL DISCUSSION: TRIAL TACTICS vis a vis emergencies (There will be a ten minute break during the panel discussion.) Moderator: Cliffe Lane Gort Panelists: Hon. Anthony A. Alaimo, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia, Brunswick Hon. Carol W. Hunstein, Presiding Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta Hon. James G. Bodiford, Chief Judge, Cobb Judicial Circuit, Marietta Hon. Amanda F. Williams, Judge, Brunswick Judicial Circuit, Brunswick Hon. John R. Mather, Judge, Fulton State Court, Atlanta Hon. Thomas E. Cauthorn, Former Superior Court Judge and Member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Marietta
	11:40	ethics in our trial courts Hon. James G. Bodiford
	12:40	current policies underlying federal corporate prosecutions Michael J. O’Leary, Michael J. O’Leary, P.C., Peachtree City
	1:35	ADJOURN
	7:00	dinner honoring justice carol w. hunstein and edwin marger (The cost of the dinner is included in the registration fee for seminar attendees. An additional fee is required for guests – see the registration form.)