AADC 2022 ANNUAL MEETING & FALL KICKOFF RECEPTION

AADC 2022 Annual Meeting & Fall Kickoff Reception: Celebrating Differences

The AADC held its first in-person Annual Meeting and Fall Kickoff Reception since 2019 on September 22, 2022 at ASU Law School in downtown Phoenix. With a theme of “Celebrating Differences, ” the Annual Meeting program focused on diversity, challenges facing the legal profession, and aggressiveness vs. effectiveness in litigation.

Among the many distinguished speakers was Frank Ramos, Jr., a practicing lawyer and author who focuses on mentoring lawyers, business development, and law firm leadership skills. Macie Lepine, Ph.D., an Associate Professor from ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business, Brian Rubin, Esq., and Kenny Ho, Esq. discussed the

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Navigating our Practice and Firms in a PostPandemic World Panel Workplace Diversity Panel

challenges of practicing law in today ’s postpandemic employment world, attracting and retaining talent, and building new practice areas. The Workplace Diversity panel was moderated by Tim Overton, Esq. and featured speakers Kami Hoskins, Esq., Gus Miranda and Greg Gautam, Esq. The final panel focused on civility and professionalism in litigation and featured Hon. Cynthia Bailey, Hon. Sara Agne, James Smith, Esq., Nancy Giles, Esq., and Rina Rai, Esq. Attendees earned over 4 hours of ethics CLE credit. The 2022 Fall Kickoff Reception was held immediately following the Annual Meeting. AADC honored our five female past presidents during the reception including Kaye McCarthy, Beth Fitch, Holly Davies, Alison Christian and Jill Ormond.

AADC Newsletter Committee: Eadie Rudder (Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen), Brian Rubin (Thomas, Rubin & Kelley), Steven Crocchi (Gordon Rees), Katharyn Myers (Christian, Dichter, Sluga) and Doreen Myles (AADC Executive Director)