The 2025 ABA Young Lawyers Division's Midyear Meeting will be held in Phoenix, AZ. Take advantage of networking opportunities, engage in ABA governance, attend CLE programming, celebrate industry leaders, and learn how the House of Delegates enacts change for the profession. Register today!
All scheduled events are tentative and subject to change.
All times are Mountain Standard Time.
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Here’s a 3.17 mile route.
Speakers
Monte E. Frank is the co-chair of Pullman & Comley’s Litigation practice. He represents business and municipal clients in the state and federal courts in Connecticut and before administrative agencies on a wide range of matters, using his thirty years of experience to help clients resolve problems as effectively and efficiently as possible. He regularly represents clients in complex and sophisticated business litigation and construction matters, including mediation and arbitration in Connecticut and other states.
Monte is an advocate for democracy reform, working to improve our elections, and bring accountability to government. He serves on the American Bar Association’s Advisory Commission to the Task Force on Democracy by presidential appointment. He also served as vice chair of the Connecticut governor's working group on ranked-choice voting. Monte has lectured at Cornell Law School and has sat on many panels at the Connecticut Legal Conference, the University of Connecticut School of Law, Quinnipiac Law School and The National Council of Bar Presidents.
G. Michael Parsons: G. Michael Parsons is the Founder and Principal of Parsons Law PLLC, Senior Legal Advisor at FairVote, and Senior Counsel at Election Reformers Network. Michael works with nonprofits, commissions, and other groups working to make the government more representative, responsive, and responsible. At FairVote, Michael convenes a legal roundtable of national organizations working to advance election reform efforts.
Michael has represented clients in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and several state supreme courts, has published scholarship in several academic law journals, and is one of the nation's leading authorities on the law surrounding ranked choice voting. Prior to starting his own practice, Michael worked at two major international law firms, taught at NYU School of Law, and clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Honorable Robert E. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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