Seminars & Conferences
Seminars & Conferences
The Holloran Center hosts and sponsors a range of events addressing ethical leadership topics.
See below for a current and archived list of events.
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Upcoming Seminars, Conferences & Forums
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Crime, Punishment, & Redemption: 
Three Unique Reunions
Nov. 12, 2009
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Reception to follow
UST Law School
Schulze Grand Atrium
Four individuals who went to prison for white collar
crimes in Minnesota will be joined by their respective
federal sentencing judges and prosecutors to explore
their offenses, the consequences, and life after prison.
Panels include:
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Stephen Rondestvedt, former lawyer, and the Honorable John Tunheim;
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David Logan, former CEO and public official, and the Honorable Michael Davis; and
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Nick and Carolyn Ryberg, former senior HR executive and his wife, and the Honorable Joan Ericksen.
The panels will be moderated by University of St. Thomas Law School professor Hank Shea and Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Magill, who prosecuted the cases. The Honorable Diana Murphy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, will provide closing comments. Click here for more information about this event. CLE credits will be sought. To register for this free event, email holloranctr@stthomas.edu.
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Featured Past Seminars, Conferences & Forums
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Exxon Valdez Revisited:
Justice Achieved or Denied?
Oct. 1, 2009
4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
UST Business School
Schulze Hall Auditorium
(across from the Law School)
This public forum followed the UST Law Journal's Fall symposium, Exxon Valdez Revisited: Rights and Remedies. The Holloran Center's companion event included appearances by WCCO news anchor Don Shelby, Twin Cities lawyer Brian O'Neill, who represented the plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez trial, NTSB investigator William Woody, who investigated the spill, Twin Cities attorney and author David Lebedoff, Tom Holloran, and others.
You can see video of the Holloran Center's Exxon Valdez Revisited event here:
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Watergate Revisited:
The Ethics of the Lawyers
April 2, 2008
4:00 - 6:15 p.m.
UST Law School
This forum featured four attorneys -- two White House insiders and two 
members of the prosecution team -- involved in unraveling and resolving the Watergate scandal that forced President Nixon’s resignation and discussed what the legal profession did and did not learn from this historic event. This marked the first joint public appearance for two prominent Watergate defendants, John Dean and Bud Krogh, since serving as attorneys in the Nixon White House more than 30 years ago, not to mention their first public discussion of these events with former prosecutors Jill Wine-Banks and Charles Breyer. Forum speakers were:
- John Dean, former counsel to President Nixon, who pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, and was the government’s star witness in the Watergate trial of former Attorney General John Mitchell, and former top assistants to the President, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
- Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr. was a Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, who was given the special assignment by President Nixon to be co-director of the secret White House investigative unit known as the “Plumbers”. He pled guilty to a deprivation of civil rights of another person in connection with the activities of that unit.
- Charles Breyer, U.S. District Court Judge, from San Francisco, served as a Watergate prosecutor on the Plumbers Task Force. It was at his Washington, D.C. residence that members of a shaken prosecution team gathered the night Nixon fired the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox., best known as “the Saturday Night Massacre."
- Jill Wine-Banks, was one of three Assistant Special Prosecutors to try the main Watergate case. But she first entered the history books during a pre-trial hearing when she took Nixon’s personal secretary through a public cross-examination when Rose Mary Woods claimed she was responsible for the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap on a key secret tape recording Nixon had made of his first Watergate conversation with Bob Haldeman. Jill Wine-Banks showed that it was physically impossible for Ms. Woods to have erased the tape as she claimed.
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Complete List of Past Seminars, Conferences & Forums
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Click here for a complete list of 2009 events
Click here for a complete list of 2008 events
