The annual Art. 146, UCMJ Code Committee public meeting will be held Mar. 6, 2012 at 10:00 am at the CAAF Courtroom, see announcement here.

From the CAAF website, here, I don’t think we posted the link before, 2012 Judicial Conference and Continuing Legal Education Program, March 7 – 8, 2012 at the Catholic University of America , Columbus School of Law.  The schedule of events is not active.  We’ll update you when it is.

Judge Matthew J. Perry served as a judge on the Court of Military Appeals from February 1976 through September 1979, when he left the court to become a United States District Judge in South Carolina.  By the time of his death in July 2011, the Columbia, South Carolina federal courthouse in which he worked as a senior judge was named for him.

The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will hold a memorial session in honor of Judge Perry next Thursday, 12 January, at 1100.  The memorial session is open to the public.  The keynote speaker will be South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal.

In addition to serving as a judge for 35 years, Judge Perry is remembered as a leading advocate in the legal battle for civil rights.  As noted by the Courthouse News Service here, he litigated cases that led to the integration of South Carolina beaches, parks, restaurants, public schools, and Clemson University.  Clemson later hired him to represent the university in connection with NCAA rules violations.  That’s an example of what this article calls his ability to make “friends of his enemies even as he compelled resistant whites to open public parks and university classrooms to black South Carolinians.”

Judge Perry served in the Army from 1942 to 1946.

An alert reader called our attention to this hamptonroads.com post reporting that the Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School will celebrate its 60th anniversary on 4 October.  The Judge Advoate General of the Army, Lieutenant General Dana K. Chipman, and UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan will speak at a public ceremony at 1400.

h/t Bobby Don

The Judge Advocates Association will present this year’s Jobs for JAGs program on 25 October.  More information is available here.  The luncheon speaker will be the always enlightening and entertaining Major General Bill Suter, Clerk of the United States Supreme Court.

Each year, CAAF Clerk Bill DeCicco presents an orientation for new counsel.  Despite that description, I attend every year.  And I learn something new every year.  This year will be no exception; I’ll be there at 1000 on 7 September. 

Details of the program are available here.

The schedule for this year’s CAAF Judicial Conference, which will be held 9-10 March at Catholic University’s law school, is now available here.  And it’s quite an impressive lineup, including Andrew Pincus on SCOTUS litigation, Professor Douglas Berman on child pornography law, General Chiarelli on judge advocates’ role, Peter Grande on DOD confinement (would it be too tacky if I asked him to sign my copy of his book?), and Professor Stephen Gillers on legal ethics.

On St. Patrick’s Day 2011, USDB Chief of Staff Peter Grande will be giving a lecture about the history of the USDB at 1900 at Fort Leavenworth’s post museum.  I understand from someone who has heard Mr. Grande lecture that he’s quite good.  We previously noted Mr. Grande’s recently published collection of photographs and captions about the history of the USDB.

This year’s JAA/CAAF appellate advocacy symposium promises to be off-the-charts fantastic.  With only one exception (moi), the line-up is comprised of true all stars. 

The first substantive lecture will be by Professor Steve Saltzburg, whose Military Rules of Evidence Manual most of us use everyday.  He’ll be providing an update about civilian courts’ crim law and crim procedure cases that we should know about.  Then Rear Admiral Nan DeRenzi, the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Navy, will be speaking about appellate practice in the military.  And she’s one of us — a Code 45 alumna.  Next will be Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, known to many of us as the result of his incredible advocacy in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.   There will be a working lunch with Major Jay Thoman from TJAGLCS giving a specially tailored presentation on ethics for appellate practitioners.  I’ll then give a barking mad lecture on legal research.  That will be followed by a panel of CCA judges.  And the day will close with Chief Judge Sentelle of the D.C. Circuit lecturing on persuading appellate judges.

The program will be a week from today at GMU’s law school in Room 121.  It isn’t often that one sees CLE with speakers of the caliber that have been assembled for this session (overlooking the one dubious slot).  BZ to course coordinator CPT Joshua Johnson of Army GAD! 

Online registration is available here.

This year’s CAAF/JAA Appellate Advocacy Symposium will be held next Friday, 15 October, at George Mason University’s law school.  Online registration is available here.

Every year, the military justice system’s appellate judges gather for the William S. Fulton, Jr. Appellate Military Judges Conference.  This year, with commendable openness, ACCA’s website has posted the conference materials here.

The Judge Advocates Association is accepting reservations for the Jobs for JAGs program here.   The program will be held on 21 September from 0800 to 1700 at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington.  A brochure for the program, which costs $45 for those who register by 7 September, is available here.

On 21 September, from 0800 to 1700, the Pentagon Chapter of the FBA will host its Jobs for JAGs program at the Army Navy Club in Arlington.

On 15 October, the Judge Advocates Association and CAAF will hold this year’s Appellate Advocacy Symposium from 0800 to 1700 at the George Mason University School of Law.  Some information about the program is available here.

The JAA will hold its annual awards dinner on 13 May at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington.  Registration information is available here.

For obvious reasons, the presentation of the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Life Service Award will be particularly poignant this year.  Who better to receive it than the universally respected and admired Brigadier General John S. Cooke, USA (Ret.)?  Other honorees include the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham and Air Force Chief Trial Judge Colonel Dawn Eflein.

And speaking of the JAA, the organization’s web site now has a snazzy new look here.

[Disclosure:  I'm on the JAA's board of directors.]