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ABA Litigation Section 2021 Virtual Winter Leadership Meeting January 13−15, 2021 #LitigationLeader
CHAIR’S WELCOME
Dear Leaders,
Welcome to our Virtual Winter Leadership Meeting! While I wish we could all be together at
La Quinta, I am excited to have you join us for another great lineup of virtual programs, working
meetings, wellness activities, and networking events.
I am delighted that Palm Springs Mayor Geoff Kors will provide welcome remarks during
Thursday’s program and we will have terrific and thought-provoking discussions on our RESPECT
theme throughout the meeting. Thursday’s plenary will include a TED-style talk with Jonathan
Haidt on civility and how he uses his research to help people understand and respect the moral
motives of people with whom they disagree. The Mental Health & Wellness Task Force will
kick us off on Friday morning with a discussion on “Maintaining Optimal Health and Wellness
Through This COVID Winter.” During Friday’s plenary, David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch
will discuss compromise and life lessons on respectful disagreement. Blankenhorn and Rauch
spent years arguing on opposite sides of the gay marriage debate and, over time, developed an
unlikely friendship.
As always, you will have time to meet and catch up with your Section friends at our networking
and social events. Wednesday’s Welcome Reception will feature our first Litigation Leader
Talent Show and offer interactive networking on Remo. If you missed the reception during the
Virtual Fall Leadership Meeting, be sure to review the instructions in the “Things to Know”
email about setting up your Remo account. Remo does a great job of replicating the ease and
feel of in-person networking. We know you will enjoy Thursday’s “An Evening in the Desert”
event as well. Kurt Cyr of Mod Squad Architecture & Design Tours will tell us all about Palm
Springs culture and mid-century modern architecture, and we’ll have a special a Rat Pack-
themed musical performance from Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., season six winner of America’s
Got Talent. Managing Director Marty Truss will also demonstrate how to make a perfect martini
or mocktail during the event. Significant others and children are welcome to join us for the
Wednesday and Thursday evening events.
Team Reeder is grateful for your time and efforts on behalf of the Section. I hope you have a
great meeting and enjoy our Palm Springs-themed events.
Best regards,
Jim Reeder
Chair, ABA Litigation Section
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Zoom links for core meetings are listed below. Please refer to your Outlook meeting invitations or
emails from Co-Chairs for access to invitation-only meetings.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021
Time Event
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT Managing Directors, Division Directors &
Leadership Development Coordinators Meeting
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT Welcome Reception (All are welcome) Join Meeting
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CT Section Fellows Get-Together (Invitation Only)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM CT Executive Committee Meeting
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP)
Meeting
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT Plenary (All are welcome) Join Meeting
2:15 PM – 4:45 PM CT Council Meeting Join Meeting
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT Committees Workshop Informational Session Join Meeting
(Open-Enrollment Committee Co-Chairs and
Division IV-VI Directors)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CT An Evening in the Desert (All are welcome) Join Meeting
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT Maintaining Optimal Health and Wellness Join Meeting
Through This COVID Winter (All are welcome)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT ABA Presidential Appointments Join Meeting
Information Session
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT Ankura Relationship Board Meeting
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT Plenary (All are welcome) Join Meeting
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NETWORKING AND WELLNESS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT
Welcome Reception (All are welcome)
Join Meeting
Join us on the Remo platform and check out our inaugural Litigation Leader Talent Show, catch
up with old friends, and make new ones. Significant others and children are encouraged to join
us for the event. (If you missed the reception during the Fall Leadership Meeting, be sure to
check the “Things to Know” email for details about how to use Remo and set up your profile
in advance. Remo is as close as you can get to virtually replicating a reception, allowing you to
find others as easy as looking across the room.)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CT
An Evening in the Desert (All are welcome)
Join Meeting
Learn about Palm Springs culture and mid-century modern architecture from Kurt Cyr of Mod
Squad Architecture & Design Tours, and enjoy a Rat Pack-themed musical performance from
Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., season six winner of America’s Got Talent. Significant others and
children are welcome!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
Maintaining Optimal Health and Wellness Through This COVID Winter
(All are welcome) | Join Meeting
Join the Mental Health & Wellness Task Force for a discussion on “Maintaining Optimal
Health and Wellness Through This COVID Winter.” Speakers include Erin Clifford, Certified
Holistic Health Coach, Wellness Coaching, Chicago, IL; Dr. Deborah Topol, Internal
Medicine Specialist, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Diana
Uchiyama, Executive Director, The Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program, Chicago, IL.
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PLENARIES
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT | JOIN MEETING
Welcome Remarks from Palm Springs Mayor Geoff Kors
After a successful career in law, legislation, and government service,
Palm Springs Mayor Pro Tem Geoff Kors was elected to the Palm
Springs City Council in 2015. During his tenure on the City Council,
Geoff has been a leader on issues including public safety, ethics and
transparency, historic preservation, vacation rental policy, economic
development and tourism, and homelessness. He has brought his prior
experience working on the environment, equality and justice, and
government reform to bear and that resulted in his drafting numerous
ordinances on these and other issues.
Geoff is a graduate of Stanford Law School. In a successful
professional career, Geoff has worked as Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, as a civil rights attorney in private practice, and as the Executive Director of
Equality California.
Geoff serves as Palm Springs Representative to Desert Community Energy, the Greater Palm
Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau and all local tourism organizations, and the Palm
Springs Chamber of Commerce. Geoff also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mizell
Senior Center and the Palm Springs Boys and Girls Club. Geoff is married to James Williamson
and they are happily raising their adorably sweet and sometimes stubborn dog, Dash.
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PLENARIES
The Righteous Mind: Moral Psychology In and Out of the Courtroom
Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s
Stern School of Business and author of the New York Times Best Seller The Righteous
Mind, will give us his observations on the polarization of America and the increasing divide
between decent people’s honestly-held views on right and wrong. Utilizing the results of his
over 30 years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Dr. Haidt will also look at
those observations in the context of the role of litigators. Dr. Haidt has agreed to answer any
questions our leadership has related to current issues on morality, politics and religion.
Speaker: Jonathan Haidt, New York University Stern School of Business, New York, NY
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his
B.A. from Yale University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1992.
Haidt is a social psychologist whose research focuses on morality––
its emotional foundations, cultural variations, and developmental
course. He is the co-developer of Moral Foundations Theory, and of
the research site YourMorals.org. He uses his research to help people
understand and respect the moral motives of people with whom
they disagree. He won three teaching awards from the University of
Virginia and one from the governor of Virginia. His four TED talks have been viewed more than
6 million times.
Haidt was named a “top 100 global thinker” in 2012 by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the
65 “World Thinkers of 2013” by Prospect magazine. He is the author of more than 90 academic
articles and three books: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
(2006), The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012),
and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up
a Generation for Failure (2018, co-authored with Greg Lukianoff). The last two books became
New York Times best sellers.
At NYU-Stern, he is applying his research on moral psychology to business ethics, asking how
companies can structure and run themselves in ways that will be resistant to ethical failures.
Haidt is a founder of Heterodox Academy, a collaboration among nearly 2,500 professors who
are working to increase viewpoint diversity and freedom of inquiry in universities. He is also the
co-developer of OpenMindPlatform.org, an educational program that teaches people and groups
how to have productive conversations across many lines of difference. His next book will be
Three Stories About Capitalism: The Moral Psychology of Economic Life, expected in 2022.
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PLENARIES
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021 | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT | JOIN MEETING
America’s Path to Civility—and Our Own: Real Life Lessons on
Respectful Disagreement
Focusing on our theme of RESPECT, Section Chair Jim Reeder will lead a discussion on civility
and compromise with David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch. David and Jonathan spent
years arguing on opposite sides of the gay marriage debate and over time, developed an
unlikely friendship.
Moderator: James A. Reeder, Jr., ABA Litigation Section Chair, Jones Day, Houston, TX
Speakers: David Blankenhorn, President and Co-Founder, Braver Angels, New York, NY;
Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
David Blankenhorn is president and co-founder of Braver Angels,
a grassroots, cross-partisan organization dedicated to political
depolarization. He co-founded the National Fatherhood Initiative in 1995,
founded the Institute for American Values in 1988, and has authored or
co-edited 14 books.
A 2007 profile in USA Today characterizes David as making “a career
of thinking about big issues” and the Institute for American Values as
“a catalyst for analysis and debate among those with differing views.”
A 2012 profile in the Deseret News describes David as, “A soft-hearted liberal raised in
Mississippi and educated at Harvard, he started his career as a civil rights organizer and has
since carved out a unique career cutting across ideological lines. He is one of America’s most
important liberal thinkers concerned about family issues.”
Jonathan Rauch is one of the country’s most versatile and original
writers on government, society, and gay issues. A senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution in Washington, he is the author of six books and
many articles and has received the magazine industry’s two leading
prizes—the National Magazine Award and the National Headliner
Award.
Gay and lesbian rights, the struggle for marriage equality, and the
growing debate for religious liberty are among the major topics of
Jonathan’s speeches and writing. In 2013, he published Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul,
a memoir of his struggle with his sexuality, brought out as an ebook from The Atlantic Books.
His previous book, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for
America, was published in 2004 by Times Books (Henry Holt).
Jonathan has also written on topics from government and politics to introversion and animal
rights for publications including The Atlantic, The Economist, Reader’s Digest, Reason, Fortune,
Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and others. He has
appeared on countless radio and TV shows.
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