The Constitutional Rights of Lawyers and Law Firms

Recent executive orders targeting law firms for the clients they represent, the partners they associate with, or the causes they pursue raise urgent constitutional questions. Such measures strike at the core of the First Amendment, threatening both expressive freedom and the independence of the legal profession. How should the Constitution protect professional autonomy against ideological restrictions? What happens when principles of expressive association collide with anti-discrimination law? How do legal ethics, the Sixth Amendment, and the historic role of lawyers as Alexis de Tocqueville’s "natural aristocracy" safeguard the rule of law itself?

Joined by leading First Amendment scholars and nationally recognized figures in legal ethics, this symposium The Constitutional Rights of Lawyers and Law Firms, will explore each of these questions in depth.

Location: University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis | Hybrid format (in-person and Zoom).

An application will be made to the Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 5.75 CLE hours.

Info: The First Amendment Rights of Lawyers and Law Firms to Choose their Clients, Cases, Causes, and Colleagues.

Info: The Right to Counsel, Lawyers' Professional Independence, and the Practical Consequences of the Trump Executive Orders.

Info: "The first thing we do, let's K*ll all the lawyers": Government Coercion and the Role of Lawyers in Preserving a Free Society.

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