The Lawyers’ BD CLUB

100 + TED-style Talks, GC Summits & The GC Dining Club

Established by Colin Carroll, London (2011). Colin worked as a lawyer with two of Ireland’s leading law firms – Arthur Cox & McCann FitzGerald. He also worked as a solicitor in London

Previous guest speakers include:

The Chairman of Goldman Sachs International

The Deputy Global Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi,

The CEO of Hogan Lovells, The CEO of IDA Ireland,

The CEO of Enterprise Ireland, The CEO of Facebook (Ireland),

The CEO of the British Council, The CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi (MENA), The CEO of O2 (UK),

The CEO of PayPal (EMEA), The Global GC of MetLife, The Global GC of Diageo plc, The Global GC of Diageo plc, The Global GC of NetApp, The Global GC of BT plc, The EMEA GC of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, The GC of Citibank Europe plc, The GC of Manchester United F.C.

Previous law firm sponsors / hosts of our TALKS & General Counsel Summits:

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Clifford Chance

Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills

Arthur Cox, A&L Goodbody

William Fry, ByrneWallace, Matheson

Kerman & Co, Donohoe & Co

Gowling WLG, Sullivan & Worcester

CMS, Norton Rose Fulbright

Goodwin Procter, Ropes & Gray, Reed Smith, Pinsent Masons

Weil, Morgan Lewis, White & Case

The 5th Annual International Lawyers’ Photography Competition

Competition Theme: Travel

Entries now open

Top Prize:

A fabulous 2 night stay in the luxury boutique hotel (Vivenda Miranda) in the Algarve, Portugal (including dinner x 2 on one evening)

Our Prize: Luxury boutique hotel, Vivenda Miranda, the Algarve, Portugal

Email your Photo to:

colin.carroll@empowermentinternational.com

Good evening,

I am delighted to be celebrating our 5th year running the international lawyers’ photography competition. Over the years, I have received travel photos from lawyers in London, Dublin, Paris, Geneva, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco. The winners of our previous competitions have been announced at receptions generously hosted at two international law firms in London – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS. If you have a travel photo, I’d love to see it.

Colin

Professor Ira P. Robbins

American University

Washington College of Law

Washington D.C.

Thanks to Professor Ira P. Robbins for entering the above photo in our 5th Annual International Lawyers’ Photography Competition. Ira’s beautiful photo was taken in Kenya.

About Professor Ira P. Robbins

Ira Robbins, Professor at AU’s Washington College of Law, is an expert on criminal law and procedure, the death penalty, habeas corpus, prisoners’ rights, privatization of prisons and jails, conspiracy, insanity, and other legal issues. He was Acting Director of the Federal Judicial Center’s Education and Training Division and served as the reporter for the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Death Penalty Habeas Corpus and its Task Force on Privatization of Corrections. Professor Robbins also served as a Supreme Court Fellow and as a special consultant to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States. In 2008, Professor Robbins was named a member of the American Bar Association Task Force on Post-Conviction Remedies.

Professor Robbins is a founding member of the WCL Criminal Justice Practice & Policy Institute. His recent books include Habeas Corpus Checklists (2020) and Prisoners and the Law (six vols., 2019). His interviews and analyses have appeared on all of the major U.S. and foreign television and radio networks (including The Colbert Report, on Comedy Central) and in such publications as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, London Times, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ABA Journal, National Law Journal, and Legal Times. Many of Robbins’ recent media inquiries have focused on the legal proceedings and trials in terrorism and other high-profile cases, as well as on many criminal cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2016, in recognition of his scholarship and testimony opposing private prisons since their inception, Professor Robbins was elected to the Board of Directors of Abolish Private Prisons. The aim of the organization is to eliminate private prisons in the U.S. by challenging their constitutionality. Professor Robbins was also named legal consultant to the litigation team.

Professor Robbins’ honors and awards include the Chief Judge John R. Brown Award for Judicial Scholarship and Education (1998). He is also an Elected Life Member of the American Law Institute (2007). At American University, he received the University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching (1985) and was selected as American University’s Scholar/Teacher of the Year (1988), the University’s highest faculty award. In 2010, Professor Robbins won the Pauline Ruyle Moore Award, in recognition of his scholarly work in the area of public law. In 2011, he was selected as the first recipient of the Washington College of Law Award for Exemplary Teaching. In 2015, he was honored with the Washington College of Law Award for Outstanding Service.

Apart from his law-related endeavors, Professor Robbins is an award-winning photographer.

Your Photo

So if you are a lawyer (including trainee lawyer) and interested in entering our competition, I’d love to see you travel photo. My email is:

colin.carroll@empowermentinternational.com

I look forward to hearing from you.

Take care,

Colin

Prize

A fabulous 2 night stay in the luxury boutique hotel, Vivenda Miranda perched on a cliff overlooking the ocean in the Algarve, Portugal. Dinner for 2 on one evening is also included. (Flights not included!).