You are invited to join Just The Beginning – A Pipeline Organization  as it brings hundreds of students, attorneys, judges and other members of the JTB-APO family together for its 2016 National Conference: “Equal Justice Under Law: Celebrating the Legacy of Judge Constance Baker Motley.”   Just The Beginning began as a celebration of the integration of the Federal Judiciary on September 19, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois. That original celebratory event honored Judge James Parsons, the first African-American United States District Judge. The registration fee is $750 (CLICK HERE TO REGISTER).  SPACE IS FILLING FAST.  Once we have reached capacity, registration will be closed. Click here

Note the following programs in which AABANY members are speaking

Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, 1:45pm – 3:45pm - CLE CREDIT EVENT: Historic Reenactment of A Trial: Constance Baker Motley, James Meredith and The University of Mississippi, featuring Judge Denny Chin (2nd Circuit) and Kathy Chin, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Centre St., Courtroom #506)

Saturday, September 17, 2016, 10:15am – 11:30am - CLE CREDIT PANEL: “Voting Rights and the Unfinished Business of Selma,” Moderated by Gay J. McDougall, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. Featuring Sherrilyn Ifill, Executive Director, NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Deputy Asst. Attorney General Justin Levitt, Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division; Jerry Vattamala, Director, Democracy Program for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Nancy Trasande, Senior Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF. (New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, Marquis Ballroom, 9th Floor)