Columbia Law School's Office of Alumni Relations, Columbia Law School's Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, and Schulte Roth & Zabel are pleased to invite you to attend a CLE Program on the evening of Wednesday, May 23rd, at the offices of Schulte Roth & Zabel.
Professor Katherine Franke will present a roundup of federal court decisions focusing on the rights and liberties of those in the United States who identify as LGBTQ. The cases highlighted will include Masterpiece Cake Shop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule upon by June 2018, and EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, a transgender rights case currently on its way to the Supreme Court.
As Faculty Advisor with the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at Columbia Law School, Professor Franke participated in writing amicus briefs in the Masterpiece Cakeshop and Harris cases that were considered by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, respectively. As an aside, a team of SRZ lawyers also filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
This event is free and open to the Columbia alumni and the Schulte Roth & Zabel legal communities - We welcome any questions you may have regarding this program. If you would like to invite outside guests from other firms or legal and advocacy groups you are a part of, please reach out to Liz Boylan at
[email protected].
Program details are as follows:
Date:
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm; Reception to follow
Location:
Schulte Roth & Zabel
919 Third Avenue, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10022
(Entrance on 55th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
CLE Credit:
1.5 NYS CLE (Continuing Legal Education) Credit is available for eligible attendees
RSVP:
RSVP is required via Eventbrite.
Speaker:
Katherine Franke
Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Columbia Law School
Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law
Faculty Director, Public Rights/Private Conscience Project
Information Regarding New York CLE Credits:
Columbia Law School has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. Under New York State CLE regulations, this live non-transitional CLE Program will provide 1.5 credit hours that can be applied toward the Areas of Professional Practice requirement. This CLE credit is awarded only to New York attorneys for full attendance of the Program in its entirety. Attorneys attending only part of the program are not eligible for partial credit for it, although they are most welcome to attend it. Attendance is determined by an attorney's sign-in and sign-out, as shown in the Conference registers. On final sign-out, attorneys should also submit their completed Evaluation Form, provided at the Conference. Please note the NYS Certificates of Attendance will be sent to the email address as it appears in the register unless otherwise noted there."
