YLS Committee on Ethnic & Racial Diversity Committee Meeting

Date: 11/3/2009
Time: 12:15 P.M.
Location: The Chicago Bar Association
Presented By: YLS Committee on Ethnic & Racial Diversity
MCLE Credit: Ethics/Professionalism, subject to approval


SPEAKERS:
*Stanley J. Adelman, DLA Piper
*Bianca Chapman, Proskauer Rose LLP
*Jonathan D. King
TOPIC: Jena 6 - A Struggle For Fairness

On September 20, 2007, between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena in what has been described as the largest civil rights demonstration in years. Find out firsthand what the atmosphere in Jena was like and how it affected the criminal case against the only juvenile charged from his defense team.