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CONFERENCE Speaker Lineup
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We are thrilled to announce the preliminary lineup of distinguished speakers joining us at this year's NAALJ Annual Conference bringing together leaders from the bench, academia, and practice who will share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on today’s most pressing issues in administrative justice. We look forward to the thought-provoking discussions and expertise these speakers will bring to our conference.
As speakers are confirmed their full bio will be published below.
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Senior Judge Ivan Lemelle began federal judicial service in 1984 as a United States Magistrate Judge, followed by a 1998 appointment by President Clinton to become a United States District Judge. He is ofteninvited to sit on federal district and circuit courts throughout the nation that have extraordinary caseload issues. He describes the lifetime appointment as the best job in the world because it also opened doors to serve beyond the bench, e.g. in classrooms at home and abroad, assistance programs for students, lawyers, judges, and more… Notable publications include Before becoming a federal judge, he served as judge ad hoc at various state court levels. As an active practitioner in private and public service positions, he was lead counsel in over 200 jury trials within the federal and state court systems along with countless non-jury trials, hearings, numerous settlement proceedings. Senior Judge Lemelle was recently selected by the American Inns of Court to receive the A. Sherman Christensen Award. It will be presented during the Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the U. S. A non-exhaustive sampling of other notable honors as well as boardships include induction into the National Bar Association's Hall of Fame; Alumni of year awards from and board member of Loyola College of Law (New Orleans) and Xavier University of La.; Lifetime Achievement Awards from Greater New Orleans Martinet Legal Society; Class A Trustee (nonalcoholic) of General Service Board of A. A., Inc.; Reconcile New Orleans, Inc. Board training and mentoring "at risk" young persons on certain business ventures.
Justice Jay McCallum began his tenure as an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court on November 13, 2020. He was elected from District 4, the largest Supreme Court District in terms of geographical size and number of parishes. He serves on a number of committees including the Louisiana Sheriff's Executive Management Institute, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice, the Executive Committee of the Supreme Court of Louisiana and was appointed by his fellow justices to serve on the Louisiana State Law Institute. Prior to becoming a member of the Supreme Court, Justice McCallum was elected and served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for 11 years, as a trial judge at the Third Judicial District Court for 15 years and in 2018 was elected without opposition to serve on the Second Circuit Court of Appeal. In addition to an undergraduate degree from Northeast Louisiana University (now ULM), and a Juris Doctorate from L.S.U., Jay holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Justice Jay, as he is known to many of his constituents, is a motivational and inspirational speaker for various national and local religious, civic, business, and trade groups. He and his wife, Deanna, are members of First Baptist Church, Farmerville, Louisiana, and have two children and three grandchildren.
Brian Chase is a consultant, expert witness, adjunct professor of law, and attorney. He currently serves as ArcherHall’s Managing Director of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery, where he provides expert testimony, teaches 100+ CLEs a year, and manages their team of over a dozen experts. Mr. Chase has a diverse education and work background. While working as a network administrator for the University of Arizona, he earned a Management and Information Systems degree from the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. Mr. Chase went on to earn a law degree, also from the University of Arizona, and is licensed to practice law in both Arizona and New York. Brian has taught the Barry Davis National Trial Team at UofA for over ten years and considers it one of the most rewarding things he does. Before pivoting to digital forensics, he worked as a trial attorney handling criminal defense (including indigent defense work) and personal injury cases. He is licensed in both Arizona and New York. Mr. Chase has worked as a digital forensics expert for over a decade and has testified more than 50 times across the country as an expert in criminal and civil matters. Mr. Chase has published and spoken on numerous technology-related issues impacting the law in the civil and criminal justice systems. He travels all over the country teaching law and technology, digital forensics, and evidence at a variety of legal and technical conferences.
Judge Scott Schlegel, an inductee into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame, was elected to the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal in 2023 after a decade of service on the trial court. During his tenure as a district court judge, he designed and led a nationally recognized court‑modernization initiative that has been described as “one of the most advanced in the country” for delivering justice online. Judge Schlegel serves on the American Bar Association and Louisiana State Bar Association Task Forces on the Law and Artificial Intelligence, as well as the National Center for State Courts Joint Technology Committee. He previously chaired the Louisiana Supreme Court Technology Commission and served as President of the Louisiana District Judges Association. His leadership has been recognized with numerous honors, including the National Center for State Courts’ William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. He has also been featured on the cover of the ABA Journal and is widely regarded as a national voice on legal technology and the modernization of the justice system. In Jefferson Parish, Judge Schlegel established the Reentry Court and Swift & Certain Probation programs to help reduce recidivism and improve community safety. He currently chairs the Integrated Criminal Justice Information System Policy Board, a statewide initiative to modernize criminal justice data and information‑sharing. Before taking the bench, Judge Schlegel served as a felony prosecutor in the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office and previously practiced civil law with an emphasis on products liability. He graduated with honors from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where he was President of the Student Bar Association. Judge Schlegel has been married to Representative Laurie Schlegel for more than 25 years, and they have one son in college. |
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Keith B. Hall holds the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law at Louisiana State University, where he serves as Director of the Mineral Law Institute and as Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center. Professor Hall is the co-author of three books on oil and gas law and is the author of a book on Louisiana real property law, Louisiana Real Property Law and Practice. His shorter publications have focused on such topics as legal issues relating to carbon capture and storage, oil and gas pooling and unitization, induced seismicity, and hydraulic fracturing. Professor Hall also has worked on issues relating to the right to extract lithium from produced water or other brine. He practiced law in New Orleans for sixteen years before joining the LSU faculty, and before becoming a lawyer, he worked for eight years as a chemical engineer in the petrochemical industry.
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COL Winston Williams is a professor and head of the Department of Law & Philosophy at the United States Military Academy.
Upon graduating from Florida A&M University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, COL Williams was commissioned as an Engineer officer and served as a platoon leader with the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea. He also served as an executive officer for D Company, 35th Engineer Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
After attending law school, COL Williams transitioned into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in 2004. Since becoming a judge advocate, he has served in a number of legal positions including: chief of administrative law, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg North Carolina; trial counsel, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Tikrit, Iraq; senior trial counsel, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg; senior operational law observer/controller, Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana; professor of international and operational law, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and chief of administrative and civil law, 18th Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg.
COL Williams holds a LL.M in military law from the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School and a juris doctorate from the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Dane S. Ciolino serves as the Alvin R. Christovich Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. His current scholarly and teaching interests at Loyola include Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Advocacy, and Criminal Law.
Professor Ciolino graduated cum laude from Rhodes College in 1985, and magna cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1988, where he was inducted into Order of the Coif and selected as Editor in Chief of the Tulane Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, and practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City, and Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC, in New Orleans. He has served as reporter to the Louisiana State Bar Association Ethics 2000 Committee, as chairperson of a Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee, as Chair of the Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and as a member of various Louisiana State Bar Association committees including the Professionalism Committee, the Lawyer & Judicial Codes of Conduct Committee, and the Ethics Advisory Service Committee. He also serves as the Executive Administrator and General Counsel to the City of New Orleans Ethics Review Board. His weblog, Louisiana Legal Ethics, is located at https://lalegalethics.org/.
Professor Ciolino engages in a limited law practice and in law-related consulting, principally in the areas of legal ethics, lawyer discipline, judicial discipline, and federal criminal law. He represents clients in disciplinary matters before the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, and the Louisiana Judiciary Commission. He also handles legal malpractice cases, lawyer disqualification motions and lawyer fee disputes. Finally, he consults and serves as an expert witness in the fields of legal ethics, legal fees and the standards of care and conduct governing lawyers. Professor Ciolino can be reached by telephone at (504) 975-3263, and by email at dane@daneciolino.com.
For additional biographical information, visit https://daneciolino.com/.
Prof. Ciolino’s legal ethics book, Louisiana Legal Ethics: Standards and Commentary (2018), is available for purchase at https://lalegalethics.org/ and at Amazon.com.
Register for Professor Ciolino’s free monthly Louisiana Legal Ethics Newsletter at his blog Louisiana Legal Ethics found at https://lalegalethics.org/ or on his newsletter subscription page: Subscribe to Louisiana Legal Ethics Newsletter.
Meghan Harwell Bitoun is a partner at Louisiana Legal Ethics, LLC, where she advises and represents lawyers and judges on disciplinary, ethics, and professional responsibility matters, and regularly presents on these topics. Before joining the firm, she focused on appellate practice and capital criminal defense. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and three children.
Joe Messina is a mediator with the mediation firm MAPS. He is also a partner with the law firm Lobman Carnahan, where he has practiced in the areas of insurance defense and general casualty litigation, and has tried numerous bench and jury trials to verdict in Louisiana state and federal courts.
Martin Davies is Niels F. Johnsen Chair in Maritime Law at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and Director of the Tulane Maritime Law Center. He is a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Before joining Tulane, he was Harrison Moore Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne in Australia and before that, he taught at Monash University, The University of Western Australia, and Nottingham University. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in China, Italy, Azerbaijan, and Singapore.
He is author (or co-author) of books on maritime law, international trade law, conflict of laws, and the law of torts. He has also published many journal articles on these topics. He has extensive practical experience as a consultant for over 35 years on maritime matters and general international litigation and arbitration, in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the USA. He is presently a Senior Consultant with the firm of Clyde & Co.
Professor Landyn Rookard joined the Loyola Law faculty in 2022 and holds the Edward J. Womac, Jr. Distinguished Professorship. He previously taught administrative law as an adjunct professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he also earned his law degree summa cum laude. Before joining Loyola, Professor Rookard clerked for Chief Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson and U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark J. Dinsmore, both of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. As Counsel for HWG LLP in Washington, D.C., he maintained a diverse practice, including telecommunications law, data privacy and cybersecurity, and civil litigation. He also served as a staff attorney for the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Professor Rookard teaches administrative law, legislative drafting and regulatory practice, and civil procedure. His research focuses on algorithmic governance and regulation of artificial intelligence, and his scholarship has been cited in judicial opinions, litigation briefs, and leading law reviews.