Register at: https://www.law.msu.edu/indigenous/conf/register.php

Conference art by Peter Boome https://turtletalk.wordpress.com/2018-ilpc-tica-annual-law-conference/

2018 ILPC/TICA Tentative Schedule

Pre-Conference Events: Wednesday, November 14th

11am-3pm TICA Board Meeting

3pm-5:15pm ICWA Tribal In-House Attorney Meeting and Panel

4pm-5:15pm Families First and Tribal Title IV-E Sponsored by: Casey Family Programs

• Jack Trope, Casey Family Programs
• Andrea Smith, Port Gamble S’klallam Tribe
• Suzanne Garcia, Tribal Law and Policy Institute

4pm-5:15pm Tribal Intern Recruitment and Information Session

6pm-8pm Conference Welcome Reception at Beggars Banquet, Sponsored by Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry LLP

Thursday, November 15th

8:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 Welcome

• Professor Matthew L.M. Fletcher, MSU ILPC
• President Doreen N. McPaul, Tribal In-House Counsel Association

9:00 Keynote:

• Matthew L.M. Fletcher, MSU College of Law

10:00-11:30 Tribes, Treaties, and Time

• Paul Spruhan, Navajo Nation
• Heather Whiteman Runs Him, NARF
• Monte Mills, Alexander Blewett III School of Law-University of Montana

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-2:00 Effective Partnering with your Federal Trustee

• Venus McGhee Prince, Kilpatrick Townsend LLP
• Eric N. Shephard, DOI Solicitor’s Office
• Daron Carrerio, DOJ
• Kara Pfister, DOI Field Solicitor’s Office

2:15-3:45 World Justice Project Rule of Law

• Moderator: Hilary Tompkins, Hogan Lovells LLP
• Paul Spruhan, Navajo Nation
• Alex Ponce, World Justice Project
• Juan Carols Botero, Republic of Colombia

4:00-5:00 Filling the Pipeline

• Moderator: Neoshia Roemer, ILPC
• Jessica Intermill, Hogen Adams
• Leah K. Jurss, Hogen Adams
• Rachel R. Felix, Sacks Tierney P.A.

(will fulfill elimination of bias CLE)

6:00 Conference Reception at Hopcat, Sponsored by Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP

Friday, November 16th

8:15 Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:00 Tribal Self-Regulation of Health Care

• Geoff Strommer, Hobbs Straus
• Stephen T. LeCuyer, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
• Rebecca Patterson, Sonosky Chambers

10:15-11:45 Murphy v. Royal Overview and Implications

• Stephen Greetham, Chickasaw Nation
• Prof. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Univ. of Oklahoma
• Lindsay Dowell, Creek (Muscogee) Nation
• Debra Gee, Chickasaw Nation
• Sara Hill, Cherokee Nation
• Philip Tinker, Kanji & Katzen

11:45-12:45 Lunch

12:45-2:15 Litigating Difficult ICWA Cases

• Moderator: Kathryn E. Fort, MSU ILPC
• April Olson, Rothstein Donatelli LLP
• Tom Murphy, Gila River Indian Community
• Annette Nickel, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians

2:30-4:00 Professional Responsibility & Ethical Obligations

• Kaighn Smith Jr. Drummond Woodsum
• TJ McReynolds, Pueblo of Nambe
• Nikki Borchart Campbell, NAICJA

(will fulfill ethics CLE) 

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