Not your typical CLE, the three plenary sessions--signature components of every Annual Meeting--offer the opportunity to gather the entire meeting community together for dynamic, interactive, and often contentious panel programs exploring issues of interest and significance to the legal community and American society. Attendees have given top ratings to plenary sessions each year since they became part of the meeting format in 2002!

Earn Up to 5.4 MCLE Credit Hours - 1.8 Professionalism/Ethics Credit in this Plenary Segment


Diversity in the Profession - Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going and Why Is It Important
Special Thanks to the Principal Sponsor for this Important, Timely Plenary Session:
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City

Thursday, September 18
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Century C
1.8 Professionalism/Ethics MCLE Hours
Listen to Soundbyte with Dean Ellen Suni - 9.4 MB; 10:17 min.

Moderator:
Ellen Yankiver Suni, Dean and Marvin Lewis Rich Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (Kansas City)

Panel:
Francisco R. Angones, Angones, McClure & Garcia, P. A. and president of The Florida Bar (Miami, FL)
Hon. Dennis W. Archer, Chairman, Dickinson Wright PLLC; former president of the American Bar Association, former mayor of Detroit; former associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (Detroit, MI)
Nancy Levit, Curators' and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (Kansas City)
Hon. Ronnie White, Holloran, White & Schwartz L.L.P., former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (St. Louis)
 

Francisco Angones	Hon. Dennis Archer	Nancy Levit	Ellen Suni	Hon. Ronnie White

Bench Battles: Partisan and Nonpartisan Paths to Fair, Impartial Courts
Special Thanks to the Participating Sponsor for this Important, Timely Plenary Session:
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC, Kansas City

Thursday, September 18
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Century C
1.8 MCLE Hours

Moderator: Dr. Richard J. (Rick) Hardy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL)

Panel:
Rep. Stanley Cox, District 118, Missouri House of Representatives (Sedalia)
Robert J. Grey, Jr., Hunton and Williams L.L.P., and former president of the American Bar Association (Richmond, VA)
Rebecca Love Kourlis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System and former justice on the Colorado Supreme Court
Edward D. "Chip" Robertson, Jr., Bartimus, Fricklton, Robertson, Gorny and former chief justice of Supreme Court of Missouri (Jefferson City)
 

Rep. Stanley Cox	Robert Grey	Rick Hardy	Rebecca Kourlis	Chip Robertson

Missouri's New Immigration Law: Using State Legislation to Address the Illegal Immigration Dilemma
Special Thanks to the Principal Sponsor for this Important, Timely Plenary Session:
Lashly & Baer, P.C., St. Louis

Friday, September 19
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon
Century C
1.8 MCLE Hours
Listen to Soundbyte with Kris Kobach and Mira Mdivani - 8.4 MB; 12:18 min.

Moderator: Hon. Michael A. Wolff, Supreme Court of Missouri (Jefferson City)

Panel:
Kris W. Kobach, Daniel L. Brenner/UMKC Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law (Kansas City)
Charles H. Kuck, Kuck, Casablanca & Odom, L.L.C. and president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (Atlanta, GA)
Mira Mdivani, The Mdivani Law Firm, L.L.C. (Overland Park, KS)
Rep. Jerry Nolte, District 33 and chair of the Immigration Law Committee, Missouri House of Representatives (Gladstone)
 

Hon. Michael Wolff	Kris Kobach	Charles Kuck	Mira Mdivani	Jerry Nolte