2013 KBA Annual Convention
T
he KBA Annual Convention Planning Committee
has selected "Preserving Justice" as the theme for
the 2013 Annual Convention at The Galt House Hotel
in Louisville scheduled for Wednesday, June 19,
through Friday, June 21, 2013. The theme was adopted
in recognition of the importance of adequate funding
for state courts; the upcoming 50th anniversary of
the landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright
that required state courts to provide counsel in
criminal cases for indigent defendants; and the
recent 40th anniversary of the creation of the
Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy.
The planning committee is also pleased to
announce national legal analyst and author
Jeffrey Toobin will be a featured speaker for
the 2013 Annual Convention. Toobin is a
staff writer at The New Yorker, senior
legal analyst at CNN, and the author of
such best-sellers as The Nine:
Inside the Secret World of the
Supreme Court; Too Close to
Call: The Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000
Election; A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex
Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; and
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson. His
latest book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the
Supreme Court, was released in September 2012.
Serving as co-chairs of the
2013 Annual Convention
Planning Committee are
John Bilby, Douglass
Farnsley, and Bobby C.
Simpson, all of
Louisville, with Richard
Hay of Somerset
serving as CLE
Program Chair.
More information on the 2013
Annual Convention will be
available in future editions of
e-News and the
Bench & Bar.
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