Science Fiction and the Law
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $184
Non-Member Price: $230
Product Code: ON147324
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
CLE Credits
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.4 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 2.4). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Transitional: 2.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Substantive Credit: 2.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Faculty
Keynote
Moderator
- Hon. Ronald J. Hedges (Ret.)
- Former USMJ
Principal, Ronald J. Hedges LLCis Senior Counsel for Dentons in New York City and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He has extensive experience in e-discovery and the management of complex civil litigation matters, and has served as a special master, arbitrator and mediator. He also consults on the management and discovery of electronically stored information (ESI).
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nAdmitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Texas and the District of Columbia, and before several federal courts, Judge Hedges is a former United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1986-2007), where he was the Compliance Judge for the Court Mediation Program, a member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee, and a member of and reporter for the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee. A member of the Advisory Group of Magistrate Judges from 2001-2005, he has also been a member of the American Law Institute, the American and Federal Bar Associations, and the Historical Society and the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Judge Hedges has served on the Sedona Conference Judicial Advisory Board; the Sedona Conference Working Group on Protective Orders, Confidentiality, and Public Access; and the Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention & Protection. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Advanced E-Discovery Institute of Georgetown University Law Center. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Information Technology of Princeton University and has been a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas.
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nJudge Hedges has been an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and is a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Seton Hall University School of Law, where he has taught courses on electronic discovery and evidence and mediation skills. He is the author of “Rule 26(f): The Most Important E-Discovery Rule” (New Jersey Law Journal, 5/18/2009) and has authored, edited and co-edited a number of other publications on ESI topics including Discovery of Electronically Stored Information: Surveying the Legal Landscape (BNA, 2007). He is the principal author of the third edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Pocket Guide for Judges on Discovery of Electronic Information.
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nJudge Hedges received his B.A. from the University of Maryland and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
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Presenters
- Vincent I. Ferrer, Esq.
- A.Y. Strauss, Livingston
- Lori B. Leskin, Esq.
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, NYC
- Marissa J. Moran, J.D
- Professor, Department of Law & Paralegal Studies
NYC College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklynis a Professor of Law and Paralegal Studies at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, in Brooklyn, New York.
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nProfessor Moran received her law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
When dreams become reality, how do courts and attorneys respond?
In the modern age, we use many products or services in everyday life that first appeared in science fiction. Join us for a discussion of how imagination becomes reality and how we, as attorneys, should be prepared to incorporate new technology into our practice. Our faculty will take some examples of flights of the imagination, bring those into daily life and consider how to respond to the consequences.
Program Preview:
- Introduction to faculty and session
- “I, Robot” (by Isaac Asimov) and the rise of autonomous devices from motor vehicles to drones
- “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (by Phillip K. Dick) and life after ecological collapse.
- “The Trolley Problem” or, how ethical behavior might be programmed.
- “Venetian Court” and an “answer” to patent or copyright infringement by a computer. (by Charles L. Harness).
- “Nation Without Walls” (by David Drake) and the Fourth Amendment in a surveillance society.
- Share your thoughts and questions with the panel - A Q&A Session