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.]

This year’s end o’ oral argument season reception at CAAF has been docketed for 1500 on Wednesday, 19 May.

The schedule for CAAF’s 10-11 March Judicial Conference is now online here.  This lecture from 0930 to 1030 on Wednesday, 10 March looks particularly fascinating:  The Honorable Togo D. West, Jr., Protecting the Force:  Lessons from Fort Hood, Report of the DOD Independent Review.

CAAF will hold its annual Judicial Conference on 10 and 11 March at the Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.  A list of confirmed speakers is on CAAF’s web site.  The two biggest names are DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and former Secretary of Veteran Affairs and former Secretary of the Army Togo West, who recently co-chaired the DOD review panel examining the Fort Hood shootings, and former Senator Chuck Hagel, co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.  Here are the other confirmed speakers:

John Abele, co-founder of Boston Scientific

Georgetown Law Professor Jane Aiken

Kenneth Feinberg, Speial Master for TARP Executive Compensation and former Special Master for the 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund

Chief Judge Steven McAuliffe of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Robert Poole, author of a recent book about Arlington National Cemetery

Kiam Taipale, executive director of the Stillwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy

James Tierney, director of the National State Attorneys General Program

Here’s a link to the agenda for the 16 October 2009 JAA/CAAF Appellate Advocacy symposium.

CAAF’s Judicial Conference will be held 10 and 11 March 2010.

CAAF and the Judge Advocates Association will host the 2009 Appellate Advocacy Symposium on 16 October at the George Mason University School of Law.  The cost is $50, which includes lunch and refreshments.

I’m excited about attending because the headliner is Thomas C. Goldstein of Akin, Gump’s Supreme Court practice.  Mr. Goldstein is also, of course, the co-founder of SCOTUSblog.  Mr. Goldstein’s topic will be “Effective Oral Advocacy and Brief Writing.”

Brigadier General John Cooke (Ret.) will be giving a lecture called “The Legacy of Judge Robinson O. Everett.”  Even if Mr. Goldstein weren’t speaking, this alone would make the conference worth the price of admission.

CAAF Clerk William A. DeCicco will be giving a lecture called, “Electronic Filing, Grostefon, and Other CAAF Practice Pointers.”

There will also be a demonstration and discussion of Case Management/Electronic Case Files, a panel discussion on “Practical and Ethical Issues for Appellate Government and Appellate Defense Counsel” and the annual panel of CCA judges.

Registration info will soon be available on JAA’s web site, www.jaa.org.

Today’s CAAF orientation was very informative — as each of the last three years’ sessions have been.  One piece of information to emerge from the orientation is that CAAF will hold a memorial session in honor of Judge Everett on 7 December.