The DC Courts and the DC Bar will hold their biennial joint conference this Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11, 2008.  Judges of the DC Court of Appeals and Superior Court and members of the DC Bar will discuss the impact various social, technological and economic factors will have on the future of the legal profession.  The topic of this year’s biennial conference is Transitions and the Future of the Legal Profession.  The two chief judges will deliver their ‘State of the Judiciary’ remarks and the President of the DC Bar will deliver a ‘State of the Bar’ address.   
 
WHAT: Biennial Judicial and DC Bar Conference 
 
WHERE: International Trade Center (Ronald Reagan Building), 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 
 
WHEN: Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, 2008 
 
WHO: Chief Judge Eric T. Washington, DC Court of Appeals; Chief Judge Rufus G. King, III, Superior Court of DC; DC Bar President Melvin White 
 
 
DC Courts plenary panel discussions:  Treatment Courts/New Skills, Impact Litigation, and Intergenerational Changes.  DC Bar seminar topics include:  Wired in the Workplace; Guns, Germs & Toxic Waste; Defeating Terrorism with the Law; Increasing Diversity on the Bench; and The Future of Innocence - As DNA Exonerations Decline, Do Wrongful Convictions Still Matter?  For a detailed schedule of events, click here:  http://www.dcbar.org/conference/itinerary.cfm 
 
 
REPORTERS PLEASE NOTE: Media passes are available with some restrictions on photography and live feeds.