ABA joins national groups to find answers to reduce gun violence
ABA President Paulette Brown will join with public health, medical and legal experts, and faith leaders for a Dec. 4 conference, “Moving from Crisis to Action: A Public Health Approach to Reducing Gun Violence,” cosponsored by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Gun Violence. The daylong program will be held at the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine persons were shot to death during a prayer meeting on June 17.
Brown will provide opening remarks at the conference at 9 a.m. about strategies for reducing gun violence that do not conflict with the Second Amendment right to own and bear arms.
“For nearly 50 years, the American Bar Association has acknowledged the devastation caused by gun violence and expressed strong support for enacting meaningful reforms that do not infringe on Second Amendment rights as interpreted by the Supreme Court and lower courts,” Brown said.
The 9:40 a.m. keynote address will be presented by Daniel Webster, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the topic of “Facing the Facts: How Gun Violence is Shaping Life in America.
Panel discussions will focus on how gun violence is shaping life in America; race and guns; a risk-based approach to reducing gun violence; ways to increase understanding of gun dangers; the Second Amendment and legal strategies to reduce gun violence; the role of the faith community; and the role of legislators and other public officials in reducing gun violence.
The conference will conclude with a closing service at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
“The Charleston community wants to reduce gun violence utilizing a public health approach in analyzing and dealing with gun violence, which has yielded significant results,” said David Clark, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Gun Violence.
Annual ‘Nuts and Bolts’ seminar for new lawyers set for Dec. 8
New attorneys are invited to the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 8-9, for the annual Seminar for New Lawyers, a “nuts and bolts” how-to-do-it approach to practice in federal and state courts which is co-sponsored by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the Eastern District of Michigan Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. The seminar begins at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 with registration and presentations on federal courts. The program continues on Dec. 9 with state court practice.
The cost for the seminar is $100 for both days with participants’ first year of chapter membership as a complimentary bonus.
Admission also includes a luncheon on Dec. 9. Reservation checks should be made payable to the FBA E.D. Mich., and mailed to New Lawyers Seminar c/o FBA Executive Director, PO Box 20759, Ferndale, 48220.
For additional information, email the FBA at fbamich@fbamich.org, visit https://fbamich.org and click on “events,” or call Brian Figot at 248-594-5950.
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