CHICAGO, Oct. 25, 2011—More than 250 lawyers will meet Oct. 27-29 at the Encore at Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., for the American Bar Association Family Law Section’s legal education conference.

Topics will include the lawyer’s role in helping parents have children through assisted reproductive technology, and obtaining discovery from casinos in divorce cases.

National and international legal experts will speak at various programs on the crazy-quilt of laws and regulations involving surrogate mothers, egg and sperm donation, implanted and frozen embryos, and other assisted reproductive technology issues.

The casino discovery program will take place Oct. 28, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. The panelists are Kim Sinatra, senior vice president and general counsel for Wynn Resorts; Mark Russell, vice president and general counsel for The Mirage Casino-Hotel; and James Jimmerson, a nationally renowned civil litigation and family lawyer in Las Vegas.

Please click here for a conference program.

For media credentials, to interview conference speakers, or for other information, please contact Ira Pilchen, ira.pilchen@americanbar.org, 312-988-5743.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the world’s largest voluntary professional membership organization. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

The ABA Section of Family Law has nearly 10,000 members worldwide. Members serve the field of family law in areas such as adoption, divorce, custody, alternative families and elder law.

What:
ABA Section of Family Law Fall CLE Conference

When:
Oct. 27-29

Where:
Encore at Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev.

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