| Multi-Track
CLE
The Wednesday CLE track format, used
at the last five annual meetings, is going to be used again this
year at the Oklahoma City meeting. Five tracks of simultaneous CLE
programming will be offered at the 2004 meeting: Litigation,
Transactional Law, Bridge the Gap, Criminal Law and Family Law.
The five tracks will be going on simultaneously
in three rooms at the Sheraton Hotel (formerly Westin) and in two
rooms at the Cox Business Services Convention Center. Each track is
divided into 50-minute blocks, and breaks will coincide. Attendees
can mix and match programs they attend and put together the CLE that
best suits their needs. Ethics and technology sessions are scattered
throughout the day. Registrants receive materials for all sessions,
not just the sessions attended.
Plenary Session
The plenary session will feature a
full-length theatrical production, "Thurgood Marshall's
Coming!" The play focuses on the major issues with which
Thurgood Marshall was involved during his working life as a lawyer
and his time as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following the play, panelists are asked to explore questions they
see raised by the play relating to the issues of diversity and equal
justice under the law, human and civil rights and other social
issues and general concerns in the legal profession and community.
Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, United
States District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma will lead
the plenary panel discussion after the play, and the panel will
include Fred Gray, noted civil rights lawyer.
The OBA/CLE at the 2004 Annual
Meeting is a nine-hour total format and is being offered on
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and for three
hours on Thursday, form 9 a.m. until 11:50.
Start the OBA's second century off
right - if you have participated in the Annual Meeting multi-track
CLE, we know you'll be there again! If you have not participated,
try it - you'll like it.
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