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The lunchtime events take place
from noon to 1 p.m. at the Chicago
Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth
Court and most offer MCLE credit.
Attendees can come in person or
view live via CBA Webcast. Both
in-person andwebcast registration
can be completed online at www.
The Chicago Bar Association is offer-
ing an innovative new monthly
speakers series beginning this fall
that will provide cutting edge legal infor-
mation on topics ranging from the exami-
nation of false confessions as portrayed
in the popular television documentary
Making a Murderer, to legal rights for
immigrants and refugees in today’s politi-
cal climate.
The Signature Series, introduced by
CBA President Thomas R. Mulroy, is free
for CBA members and will feature promi-
nent speakers on two separate topics each
month through May.
“The CBA is very excited to introduce
the Signatures Series, which will bring
some of the most thought-provoking
speakers and relevant legal information
directly to our members,” said Mulroy.
This month’s lineup kicked off on Sep-
tember 8 with a timely examination of legal
rights for immigrants, refugees and asylum
seekers in today’s government and political
climates. Mary Meg McCarthy, the Execu-
tive Director of the National Immigrant
Justice Center, examined constitutional
and due process issues currently impacting
the civil rights of the nation’s immigrant
populations.
The second installment of the series will
take place onTuesday, September 26, with
a true-story examination of a false confes-
sion in the case involving Brendan Dassey,
whose confession became a key subplot in
the Netflix series Making a Murderer. Das-
sey’s attorneys, Steven Drizin and Laura
Nirider, will explore the problem of false
Steven Avery (above) and Brendan Dassey, the subjects
of Making A Murderer
Drizin
Nirider
confessions and examine how psychologi-
cal interrogation works to elicit both true,
and in some cases, false confessions.
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BLUHM LEGAL CLINIC ATTORNEYS TO ADDRESS MEMBERS ON SEPTEMBER 26
CBA Kicks Off Unique Speaker Series
By Sally Daly, CBA Public Affairs Director
12 SEPTEMBER 2017