MANDATE: To facilitate and promote mentoring by ACTL Fellows of young lawyers, with the goals of creating career opportunities and of imparting the core principles of the College, namely: 1) improving access to justice; 2) improving the standards of trial practice; and 3) maintaining the highest levels of professionalism and integrity. The Committee is tasked with implementing the recommendations of the College’s Mentoring Task Force, which include advocating for the importance of trials in our justice system; encouraging judges, public sector attorneys, clients, and in-house counsel to provide opportunities for younger lawyers to have speaking roles in courtroom proceedings; inspiring young lawyers to take on pro bono matters; and overseeing the development and distribution of written material that will serve these ends.
Elizabeth B. Wright
Chair
Thompson Hine LLP
Cleveland, OH
Kimball R. Anderson
Vice Chair
Winston & Strawn LLP
Chicago, IL
Susan Aramesh Price
Vice Chair
Orange County District Attorney's Office
Santa Ana, CA
Michael A. Attanasio
Member
Cooley LLP
San Diego, CA
Timothy G. Barber
Member
King & Spalding LLP
Vincent A. Citro
Member
Losey PLLC
Orlando, FL
Jan Conlin
Member
Ciresi Conlin LLP
Minneapolis, MN
Ann Campbell Flannery
Member
Law Offices of Ann C. Flannery, LLC
Philadelphia, PA
Harold K. Gordon
Member
Jones Day
New York, NY
David C. Hall
Member
Hall Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC
Chicago, IL
Lindsay C. Jenkins
Member
US District Court, Northern Dist of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Shawn S. Kasserman
Member
Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC
Chicago, IL
Susan G. Kellman
Member
Law Offices of Susan G. Kellman
Brooklyn, NY
Thomas L. Kirsch II
Member
US Court of Appeals
Chicago, IL
Edward Kole
Member
Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A.
Woodbridge, NJ
Charles G. LaBella
Member
Barnes & Thornberg, LLP
San Diego, CA
Tracy A. Miner
Member
Miner Siddall LLP
Boston, MA
William J. Ricci
Member
Ricci Tyrell Johnson & Grey
Philadelphia, PA
Lonnie J. Williams, Jr.
Member
Stinson LLP
Phoenix, AZ
John S. Siffert
Immediate Past Chair
Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP
New York, NY
Robert P. MacKenzie III
Regent
Starnes Davis Florie LLP
Birmingham, AL