Law Day webinar is Thursday

On May 1, the legal community will celebrate Law Day with the theme: Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100.

The Monroe County Bar Association will kick off its celebration of Law Day with an online continuing legal education (CLE) program at 3 p.m., Thursday. The Bar Association is holding the event online to avoid spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The live interactive webinar will feature Deborah Hughes, president & CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, to honor the legacy of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, who died in 1906.

The program will consist of a discussion with Hughes regarding how Anthony used the law to advance women’s rights and the suffrage movement.

The local observance of Law Day will continue with recognition of several award recipients and a look at voting rights in 2020, likely a hot topic in a national election year amid a pandemic.

In a typical year, the Bar Association hosts an event where the awards are presented in person, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic that won’t be done this year.

The award recipients include:

• Steven V. Modica, Adolph J. Rodenbeck Award
• Carla M. Palumbo, Charles F. Crimi Memorial Award
• State Supreme Court Justice, J. Scot Odorisi
• Jeremy M. Sher, Raymond J. Pauley Award
• Siddharth Bahl, Emerging Bar Leader Award
• James S. Grossman, Justin L. Vigdor Senior Award for Service

To register for the Bar Association’s online program, visit: https://bit.ly/353FUw7. If you do not need CLE credit, you can participate for free. To do that, please contact Susan Hearn by email at [email protected]. A complimentary admission to the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is included in the price for CLE credit.

Also on Thursday, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., the American Bar Association (ABA) Division for Public Education and the Law Library of Congress will host a Law Day program called Social Movement Changing America: The Legacies of the 19th Amendment. The event will feature a moderated panel discussion online with nationally recognized experts.

ABA President Judy Perry Martinez will preside. The moderator will be Kimberly Atkins, senior news correspondent for WBUR-FM, the NPR radio station in Boston.

The panelists will include:

• Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University
• Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• Julie Suk, professor sociology, political science and liberal studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

To register for the ABA online event, visit: https://bit.ly/35dpUrv.

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