Event: The ABA’s New Speech Code for Lawyers by Andrew Oldham
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Time: Noon-1:00pm
Location: Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave., Dallas, Texas 75201 (map)

Mr. Oldham will address the new provision of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct adopted by the American Bar Association in August 2016.  Some say the rule is needed to protect the integrity of the legal profession; others say it is tantamount to a speech code that subjects lawyers to discipline for addressing controversial topics or representing unpopular clients.

Andrew Oldham is Deputy General Counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott.  He previously served as Attorney General Abbott’s Deputy Solicitor General where he argued dozens of cases in state and federal courts, including two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Before moving to Texas, Mr. Oldham clerked for Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. at the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge David B. Sentelle at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  Mr. Oldham also worked on a wide range of appellate and constitutional issues during his two-year tenure in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and while in private practice in Washington, D.C.  He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), Cambridge University (M. Phil, first class), and the University of Virginia (B.A., highest honors).

Event: Magna Carta and the Path Forward to the Rule of Law
Date: Monday, September 12, 2016
Time: Noon-1:00pm
Location: Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave., Dallas, Texas 75201 (map)

The Dallas Chapter of the Federalist Society will host Charles Eskridge on Monday, September 12, at noon at the Belo Mansion. He will offer reflections on Magna Carta’s 800th Anniversary in England, along with observations and modern lessons on what it came to mean with respect to the rule of law and the protection of rights in America.

Charles Eskridge joined the international litigation firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP as a partner in 2015 to help open their new Houston office. He was a partner for nearly twenty years with the commercial litigation firm of Susman Godfrey LLP, focusing his practice on complex, high-stakes commercial litigation in federal and state courts across the country on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants at both trial and on appeal.

Mr. Eskridge teaches Origins of the Federal Constitution as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. He served as a judicial clerk to Justice Byron White at the U.S. Supreme Court and to Chief Judge Charles Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a Sustaining Member of the American Law Institute, and is appointed to a Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee to screen candidates and assist the advice and consent of Texas’ Senators on prospective federal judges and U.S. Attorneys in Texas.

CLE credit will be available.