Keeping with tradition, BYU Law students, faculty, and alumni, and J. Reuben Clark Law Society members attended a reception between the morning and afternoon sessions of General Conference at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. A light buffet was served. Nearly 200 attended. The next General Conference reception will be October 5th.
The J. Reuben Clark Law Society would like to alert our members to an exciting service opportunity available this fall through the Leavitt Institute for International Development (TLI), which is dedicated to spreading democracy, ethics, and the rule of law by training future lawyers and leaders in Eastern Europe.
The D.C. Chapter will award the annual Rex E. Lee Advocacy Award to Walter E. Dellinger III, former Solicitor General of the United States and currently professor emeritus at Duke Law School.
Society members in Brazil will host a regional conference in Fortaleza, Cear?, Brazil from August 15-17. The conference will focus on ethics, religious freedom and pro bono services.
Each year, thousands of refugees, including many women and children, are apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and held in detention centers while they await the outcome of expedited removal proceedings.
"If you endanger the children of American Samoa, you endanger the welfare of American Samoa"- that was the closing argument Lornalei Meredith Fanene hoped would resonate with the jury. And it did. The correctional officer who provided minors drugs and snuck them out of their juvenile detention center after hours was convicted of seven charges.
Please save the date for our 2019 JRCLS Leadership Conference! The conference will be held October 3-4, 2019, at BYU and Aspen Grove. Stay tuned for registration updates!
You are invited to attend the General Conference Reception between the morning and afternoon sessions of General Conference on Saturday, April 6, 2019, from noon to 1:30pm at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Wasatch Room in Salt Lake City. A light buffet will be served. This is a free event, and no RSVP will be necessary. We kindly ask that you do not bring any children under the age of 8, with the exception of infants in arms. We hope to see you there.
Please join us for the Asia Pacific JRCLS Conference--If The Law is Wrong, Do I Still Have a Duty to Obey? This event will be held in Sydney, Australia on the University of Notre Dame's Broadway Campus from May 31-June 2, 2019. Speakers include Dean Patrick Parkinson, David Meredith, Dr. Emily Kwok, and Judge Sue Purdon-Sully. We hope to see you there!
The 2018 JRCLS Leadership Conference was held on October 4-5 on BYU Campus and at Aspen Grove. This annual event was also a 30-year celebration of the anniversary of JRCLS for which Gayla Sorenson, Dean of External Relations at the Law School, delivered the celebration speech. Dinner followed with a keynote address by Bruce C. Hafen, attorney, author, and emeritus general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was also a JRCLS founding member as Dean of the Law School in 1988.
On 4 October 2018, Elder Bruce C. Hafen, Emeritus General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints reminisced about the founding of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society while addressing attendees of the Law Society's Leadership Conference about the importance of a lawyer's personal religious conviction.
It is alleged that Alexander the Great envied Achilles not because of Achilles? near invincibility but because Achilles had Homer to write his history. While the J. Reuben Clark Law Society does not have Homer to write its history, it should nevertheless make certain to mention one of its most important founding members--Kathryn D. Pullins.
Although the J. Reuben Clark Law Society was not officially launched until 1987 and not legally formed until 1988, groups of LDS lawyers had organized and were meeting in a number of cities for almost a decade prior to the Society?s organization. LDS lawyers in in Atlanta, Seattle, and New York City, and Auckland, New Zealand, among others, were organized. It is worthy to note that inspiration came to people in diverse locations who felt that attorneys of faith would be blessed by recognizing and discussing how they, their families, and their practices could be strengthen by noting the intersection of their faith and their practice of law.
JRCLS strongly endorses one of the noblest traditions of the legal profession ? the legal representation of those in society who otherwise do not have equal access to protection of the law. Armed with this mandate, JRCLS Women in Law Committee teamed up with the Dilley Pro Bono Project and CARA (Catholic Legal Immigration Network, American Immigration Council, Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services and American Immigration Lawyers Assoc.) to provide pro bono legal services to women and children currently housed in the South Texas Family Residential Facility at Dilley, Texas.
Please join us in celebrating BYU Law's first female-majority entering class! BYU Women in the Law, in conjunction with the Utah Court of Appeals, Women Lawyers of Utah, and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, invite you to attend their Women Lawyers Celebration. The event will be held on February 27th at 3:30pm in the BYU Law Sorenson Student Commons. Dean Smith's cheese company will provide the catering for the event. Please email Brittney Herman at bmherman@law.byu.edu with any questions.