Association of Reporters of Judicial Decisions

Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August 7-11, 2008

Tentative Education Program Schedule




Thursday, August 7, 2008


                                         9:00 A.M.                         Welcome

                                         9:15 A.M.                         Welcome from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
                                                                                                Honorable Max Baer, Associate Justice
                                                                                                Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
                                        9:45 A.M.                         Break

                                        10:00 A.M.                         Roundtable Discussion
                                                                                                Topic: "We Now Know What New Members Want -- Let's Start To Provide It"
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                Moderator: C. Clifford Allen
                                                                                                Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

                                        11:45 A.M.                         Break for Lunch

                                                                                                Honorable Gerald Lebovits, Judge, New York City Civil Court
                                                                                                New York County, and Adjunct Professor, St. John's Law School

                                                                                                Topic: "The Ethical Appellate Opinion"

                                        3:00 P.M.                         Break

                                        3:30 P.M.                         Business Meeting (Members Only)

                                        4:30 P.M.                         Break



Friday, August 8, 2008


                                        9:00 A.M.                         Professor Peter W. Martin
                                                                                                Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law
                                                                                                Cornell Law School
                                                                                                Topic: "Reporting Judicial Decisions to a World of Google and Wikis"

                                        10:30 A.M.                        Break

                                        11:00 A.M.                         Roundtable Discussion
                                                                                                Topic: "Too Many Cases Reported, Too Much Citation?"                                                                                                 Moderator: [Volunteer Needed]
                                                                                                

                                        12:00 P.M.                        Break for Lunch

                                        1:30 P.M.                          Business Meeting (Members Only)

                                        3:00 P.M.                         Adjourn



Saturday, August 9, 2008




                                        9:00 A.M.                         Professor Ross E. Davies, Professor of Law
                                                                                                George Mason University School of Law, Editor-in-Chief, The Green Bag

                                                                                                Topic: "The Evolution and the Evolvement of the Reporting of Legal Scholarship"

                                        10:30 A.M.                         Break

                                        11:00 A.M.                         Business Meeting

                                        12:00 P.M.                         Adjourn



Monday, August 11, 2008




                                        9:00 A.M.                         Roundtable Discussion
                                                                                                  Topic: "Open Discussion"
                                                                                                  Moderator: [Volunteer Needed]