Webcasts of Equal Justice Conference Plenary Addresses Now Available
The American Bar Association has posted video webcasts of two of the plenary speeches given at the Equal Justice Conference--those by Sonia Nazario, the conference keynote speaker, on Thursday and of ABA President Carolyn Lamm who spoke at the Thursday awards luncheon.
Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, immigration.
She has won numerous national journalism and book awards. In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled “Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.
Expanded into a book, Enrique’s Journey became a national bestseller and won two book awards. It is now required reading for incoming freshmen at dozens of colleges and high schools across the U.S.
Carolyn Lamm, an international arbitration, litigation, and trade lawyer from Washington, D.C., is president of the American Bar Association.
A partner with White and Case, Lamm is past president of the District of Columbia Bar. She was named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in America by the National Law Journal in 2007, and one of Washington's Top 30 Lawyers by Washingtonian magazine in 2009.
In addition to Lamm's priority to build association membership, she has established commissions on diversity and on the impact of the economic crisis on the profession and legal needs. She also has appointed the ABA's Ethics 20/20 Commission, which will consider possible changes to lawyer ethics rules in light of globalization of the profession and changes in technology use by lawyers.
The video webcasts of the speeches are available at the link below.