Hot Springs Convention Center
The Annual
CLE Hours
ArkBar
The ArkBar’s Largest Annual Event
2014
June 11-14th
116th Edition cle program highlights abota masters in trial appellate cna program criminal law cyber crime family law intellectual property privacy law technology
traditional social events the most successful annual meeting in the country
The 116th ArkBar Annual Meeting Returns to Hot Springs, June 11-14, 2014
Jim Simpson, President Arkansas Bar Association
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In June, we will all have the opportunity to attend the most successful annual meeting in the country. The association joins the Judicial Council once again in Hot Springs June 1114 for our annual event. The theme this year is “Digging Deeper Into Technology and Law” and David
Fuqua has done an unsurpassed job in acting as our annual meeting chair. We have a great line-up of speakers with topics focused on how technology has affected the practice of law, including cyber-crimes, ethics in social media, privacy law, and using technology in the courtroom. One of the most publicized trials in 2013 was the George Zimmerman case. This year, Mark O’Mara, who successfully defended Zimmerman, will be the keynote speaker. Like Jose Baez’s presentation last year, we expect another standing-room-only crowd for this two-hour presentation. After lunch, Mr. O’Mara will participate in a panel discussion on race dialogue in the United States. Marie-Bernarde Miller, Chair of the Board of Governors, will lead the
panel, which includes John Walker, Ed Bethune and local broadcaster Vickie Newton who covered the Zimmerman trial. The family law track is organized for Wednesday, June 11, to kick off the meeting along with CNA on Wednesday morning. We are very fortunate that our criminal law track on Thursday will include both Arkansas U.S. attorneys and an F.B.I. agent who will discuss cybercrime. Will Jones from the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office will speak on cyberporn investigations and prosecutions. Joshua Gilliland, nationally recognized thought leader on electronic discovery, provides two hours of expert advice on social media and the law on Thursday afternoon. The popular ABOTA trial practice
demonstration takes place on Friday, June 13. Steve Quattlebaum has done a wonderful job bringing this program to us again this year. In addition to the CLE, the traditional social events are the highlight of the meeting. This is your opportunity to renew old friendships and acquaintances and make new ones. Wednesday evening we will meet for a reception at the Convention Center prior to the Arkansas Bar Foundation Fellows’ Dinner. One of the most time-honored events of the week is the Friday Firm’s annual reception in the lobby of the Arlington Hotel on Thursday afternoon. The week winds up with another reception at the Convention Center Friday afternoon followed by a half day of CLE on Saturday. I expect to see you there!
evening entertainment friday firm reception law school alumni luncheons legal runaround/5k presidents’ reception tgif reception
“Come for the celebration
leave with the
education.”
Two-Hour Plenary with Mark M. O’Mara on The Zen of Zealous Advocacy As defense attorneys, we The Zen of Zealous Advocacy know we are charged with with Mark M. O’Mara the zealous advocacy of our clients. On the Zimmerman Thursday, 8:45 - 10:45 a.m. defense team, we thought we Horner Hall, Convention Center knew what zealous advocacy meant, but the combined challenges of our unique case for a fair trial, with enormous prespushed us so hard and so far that we constantly redefined our sures working against such a result. understanding of the term. In the The term “zealous advocacy,” as Zimmerman case, we faced one we’ve come to regard it based on extraordinary circumstance after the the lessons of the Zimmerman case, next: chronic discovery violations, a is a composite of vigilance and creteam of aggressive third-party attor- ativity and of tenacity and balance. sentation is an examination of the neys, appealable decisions from the The Zen of Zealous Advocacy is most extraordinary legal issues we bench, stealth jurors, and the forced the constant awareness and exem- faced in the Zimmerman case and recusal of a judge—just to name a plification of these qualities, and an explanation of what each issue few. We realized, almost too late, the intuition required to keep these taught us about the nature of zealthat our focus had to become a fight qualities in alignment. This pre- ous advocacy.
The Dialogue of Race in America Thursday 12:45 - 1:45 p.m.
Horner Hall Convention Center Mark M. O’Mara joins a panel discussion on the current state of racial issues in this country.
Sponsored by Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, P.C., Fuqua Campbell, P.A., the James Law Firm and the Rose Law Firm.