William (Bill) Ross, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law

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Selected Papers given at Conferences and other Presentations

Ethics of Attorney Billing and Fees

Member of panel on billing ethics for IOMA Audio Conferences, December 13, 2004;

Member of State Bar of Texas professional development panel on “Ethics and Malpractice Avoidance for Business/Corporate Lawyers and Litigators,” Dallas, Texas, November 3, 2000;

Member of panel at conference on attorney fee issues, Phoenix, Arizona, February 22, 1999;

Presentation on billing ethics at ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility, Montreal, Quebec, May 29, 1998, published as ‘The Ethics of Time Based Billing by Attorneys,” at pages 81-88 of the 1998 symposium issue of The Professional Lawyer;

Keynote address at conference on attorney billing practices, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2, 1998;

Presentation on billing ethics at continuing legal education seminar, Dallas, Texas, October 10, 1997;

Presentation on billing ethics at continuing legal education seminar, Jackson, Mississippi, April 25, 1997;

Presentation on billing ethics to attorneys at Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey, July 25, 1995;

Speech on billing ethics at law seminar on attorneys' fees, London, England, July 11, 1995;

Keynote address on billing ethics at law seminar, "Controlling Your Legal Costs," San Francisco, April 21, 1995.

Judicial Ethics

Presentations on judicial ethics at Advanced Judicial College conference sponsored by Texas Center for the Judiciary, Austin, Texas, March 21, 2001;

Member of panel on judicial ethics at ABA annual meeting, Toronto, Ontario, August 1, 1998;

Conducted day-long seminar on judicial ethics to convocation of the New Hampshire judiciary, North Conway, New Hampshire, June 16, 1995;

Presentation on the propriety of extra-judicial speech given at a conference on judicial ethics at Georgetown Law Center, sponsored by the National Judicial College and the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, October 8, 1988.

Constitutional History

Response to Professor Barry Cushman’s Mitchell Lecture entitled “Mr. Dooley and Mr. Gallup: Public Opinion and Constitutional Change in the 1930s,” Buffalo Law School, April 5, 2002;

Presentation at conference marking the 75th anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, October 6, 2000;

Keynote address at U.S. Department of Education conference marking the 75th anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Washington, D.C., July 11, 2000;

Presentation on contemporary significance of Meyer and Pierce at conference on education and the Constitution, University of Akron Law Center, March 31, 2000;

"Meyer v. Nebraska: A Missing Link in Constitutional History?," a paper delivered at a symposium on "Law, the Bill of Rights and the Great Plains," sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska, March 8, 1991;

"A Muted Fury: Attempts by Populists, Progressives and Trade Unions to Curb Federal Judicial Power, 1890-1937," a paper delivered before the American Society for Legal History, Sam Francisco, October 23, 1991.

Judicial Appointments

27-minute interview on the Supreme Court appointments process, aired on C-SPAN, June 4, 1993;

Talk on the reform of the Supreme Court appointments process, given at Library of Congress symposium, May 17, 1993.




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