CLE (continuing legal education) presented by the ACLU of Pennsylvania
When: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Registration: 8:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Program: 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Where: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
One Oxford Centre, 32nd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
2 substantive CLE credits
Open to All - Cost: $20.00
Presenter: Witold "Vic" Walczak, Legal Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania.
Presenter bio:
Vic Walczak , the son of a Polish Holocaust survivor, came to the United States at age three. He graduated from Colgate University and Boston College Law School. Before attending law school, Vic traveled to martial-law Poland, where he experienced the deprivation of civil liberties, including police brutality, wiretapping, and a strip search. Vic joined the ACLU in 1992, after five years of prisoners' rights work at Maryland's Legal Aid Bureau. He served for 12 years as the Pittsburgh Chapter's Executive Director. In 2004, he became the ACLU of Pennsylvania's Legal Director.
Besides specializing in free-speech and religious-liberty cases, Vic has handled nationally significant cases involving challenges to widespread police misconduct, substandard public-defender services, and the Secret Service's use of "protest zones" to shield President Bush from demonstrators. In 2005, Vic was one of three lawyers who successfully tried Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the first case challenging the teaching in public schools of Intelligent Design (ID), which the ACLU claimed was creationism repackaged. Most recently, Vic was co-lead counsel in a precedent-setting case challenging an anti-illegal-immigrant ordinance in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, the first of its kind in the nation. Vic has received many honors, including the 2003 Federal Lawyer of the Year award from the Federal Bar Association's Western Pennsylvania Chapter.
Registration: Registration will take place at the door, but please send an email to cle@aclupgh.org to reserve your place for the course.
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