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2009 Annual Meeting - Recognition Events & Social Functions
Welcome Reception
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 @ 5:00 p.m.
Beeman-Cashin Building in Depot Square
Join your friends and colleagues for hors d’ouerves and cocktails at this historic facility in downtown Evanston. The Beeman-Cashin Building was part of a larger building that sat on the corner of Main and Tenth Streets. It was the “Handsome and Commodious” implement depot of the Beeman-Cashin firm and was used to display and repair wagons, carriages and farm implements by the early Evanston firm. Between 1907 and 1984 it was called the Broadbent Depot and sat on a side track near the main line of the Union Pacific. A storage facility, it held wool, grain, salt, etc., waiting shipment from Evanston, or to be picked up by the Broadbent’s, ranchers south of town. The building’s interior design is unusual in the fact that it encompasses about 3,000 square feet without any internal support pillars. The exterior design suggests a Scandinavian influence which is unique in Evanston. In 1984 the City of Evanston and the Urban Renewal Agency moved the building to its present location on Depot Square and restored it.
Judicial Luncheon
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 @ 12:00 p.m.
Machine Shop
All are invited to honor and recognize those on the bench for their daily contributions to the justice system and give special recognition to the recipient of this year’s Lehman Award for Judicial Excellence. We are honored to have the Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Hon. John T. Broderick, Jr., as the keynote speaker for this luncheon.
Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. began his service as an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1995. He was installed as Chief Justice on June 4, 2004. He served as president of the New Hampshire Bar Association from 1990-91. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is a past president of the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association. In 1993, President William Clinton appointed Chief Justice Broderick to the board of directors of the national Legal Services Corporation. Prior to taking a seat on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Broderick had practiced with the law firm of Devine Millimet Stahl & Branch in Manchester and later opened his own firm. He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia Law School.
Access to Justice Luncheon
Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 12:00 p.m.
Machine Shop
Much has been written and said about the failure of our justice system to meet the needs of the citizenry. Wyoming isn’t any different. There are many legal needs and lawyers are challenged by our oaths to do better. Today, Wyoming judges and lawyers are taking up the challenge to assure that justice is for everyone. This year’s Access to Justice Luncheon will feature keynote speaker, Associate Justice Jess Dickinson of the Mississippi Supreme Court. Justice Dickinson is a leader in his state’s efforts to assure that justice is for everybody, and his efforts have been recognized throughout the United States. You will also hear about Wyoming’s effort. Much has been done, but there is more to do. Join us not only to celebrate what has been done but also to be inspired and energized, so that we can take the next great steps.
Associate Justice Jess H. Dickinson was born in Charleston, Mississippi, in 1947. After graduation from East Tallahatchie High School in 1965, he attended Mississippi State University, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1978. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1982, where he served on the editorial board of the Mississippi Law Journal.
After practicing law for one year in Jackson, and 20 years in Gulfport, Justice Dickinson served as a Forrest County Circuit Court Judge, by special appointment of the Mississippi Supreme Court. His eight-year term on the Supreme Court began in January 2004. His first year on the Court, Justice Dickinson was awarded the Chief Justice Award for his work in advancing the administration of justice, and he has been a member of the Supreme Court’s Rules Committee since 2004.
Justice Dickinson has served on the adjunct faculty of William Carey College and Mississippi College School of Law where, in 2009, he was elected by the law students as Adjunct Professor of the Year. He served two terms on both the Ethics Committee and the Professionalism Committee of the Mississippi Bar. He also serves as the Supreme Court’s liaison to organizations providing legal services to the poor, and is a charter member of the Mississippi Access to Justice Commission.
Annual Banquet
Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 6:30 p.m.
Machine Shop
The Wyoming State Bar is thrilled to introduce you to the new dean of the University of Wyoming College of Law and honored to have him as the keynote speaker for this year’s Annual Banquet.
Stephen D. Easton received his B.A. from Dickinson State University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. Easton’s research, writing, and speaking focus on expert witnesses, effective trial advocacy and professional responsibility. Prior to coming to Wyoming, Easton was the C.A. Leedy Professor of Law at the University of Missouri. He is a popular continuing legal education speaker who has been invited to speak to groups of practicing trial attorneys in dozens of states, including Wyoming.
Easton has won several university and national teaching and writing awards, including the Pound Civil Justice Institute Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy, the University of Missouri’s William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, the American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Writing Prize and Mizzou’s Excellence in Education and Golden Chalk Awards.
In law school, Easton was associate managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and president of the Stanford Law Forum. Before starting his teaching career, he was a law clerk to The Honorable Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California; an associate and partner with the Pearce & Durick in Bismarck, North Dakota; and the U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota in Fargo and Bismarck, North Dakota.
Easton has tried cases in civil and criminal courts involving such diverse issues as accident reconstruction, murder, blood and DNA testing, injury causation, money laundering, polygraph testing, hypnosis, psychological injuries, product design, handwriting analysis, and even cattle hauling and rodeo.
He is the author of How to Win Jury Trials: Building Credibility with Judges and Jurors, published by the American Law Institute - American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Legal Education. He is also co-author of Professional Responsibility: Problems, Case and Materials, 3rd Ed. (with Professors James R. Devine, William B. Fisch and Robert H. Aronson, West, 2004). Easton’s articles have been published in both the legal and popular press, including The Federal Lawyer; The Practical Litigator; For the Defense: The Magazine for Defense, Insurance and Corporate Counsel; Stanford Law Review; The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Annual Business Meeting Breakfast
Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 7:00 a.m.
Machine Shop
Keep abreast of the latest in Wyoming’s legal community. Join Chief Justice Barton R. Voigt, Wyoming Supreme Court; Rick Lavery, Wyoming State Bar President; Steve Easton, Dean of the University of Wyoming College of Law; and Eric E. Jones, Secretary-Treasurer of the Wyoming State Bar as they each provide an update from their respective organization. Also learn of recent developments at the American Bar Association.
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