Off by telling you what my association with the bushgore election actually turned out to be. When they discovered that we were going to have a long and drawnout scenario as to who actually won this election, the news media as they usually do clapped their hands and said, boy, weve got something going here for a long time. Now all we have to do is get somebody on that Supreme Court who is willing to tell us how the court is going to rule. Thats the florida Supreme Court. Well, obviously they couldnt get that. The next thing was well, lets find somebody who is on the Supreme Court and maybe he or she can help us out. Thats how they got to me and i appeared in about 75 to 80 interviews on tv and on the radio give them my opinions as to what i thought may happen next. And it might surprise you to know that i was on every major network, even on pbs, even on Geraldo Rivera whats his name again . Rivera. Anyhow, i was on his show, which was an experience in and of itself the one night they ha
Program will be moderated by a professor geoffrey hazard, a distinguished professor of law at uc hastings. The professor is a leading expert in the field of civil procedure of legal ethics and is good at asking questions. It is my pleasure to introduce our very special guest, stephen zack, president of the American Bar Association. With nearly 400,000 members, it is the largest volunteer professional Membership Organization in the world. Mr. Zack is the first hispanic american to serve as the president and the second to be born abroad. He was only 14 when his family emigrated from cuba under harrowing circumstances, including last minute detention by the secret police. He made it here. In two lines and two lines come to mind when i think of him. This is my country, land of my choice. This is my country, here i found voice. What a voice it is. He earned his aba at the university of florida and he is now in their hall of fame. He is a partner in the miami office of the national law firm.
Professor geoffrey hazard, a distinguished professor of law at uc hastings. The professor is a leading expert in the field of civil procedure of legal ethics and is good at asking questions. It is my pleasure to introduce our very special guest, stephen zack, president of the American Bar Association. With nearly 400,000 members, it is the largest volunteer professional Membership Organization in the world. Mr. Zack is the first hispanic american to serve as the president and the second to be born abroad. He was only 14 when his family emigrated from cuba under harrowing circumstances, including last minute detention by the secret police. He made it here. In two lines and two lines come to mind when i think of him. This is my country, land of my choice. This is my country, here i found voice. What a voice it is. He earned his aba at the university of florida and he is now in their hall of fame. He is a partner in the miami office of the national law firm. His clients range from former
Clogging up the court system . Does it make any difference to the Business Community or to average americans who dont need the court system . Well, we are all going to be a minority some day in some way. We are all going to need the court system. The fact is this is as important to the Business Community as any other community. That is something that has not been written about and that we learned during the course of these commission hearings, that we had colorados of fortune 50 companies and general counsel ceos of fortune 50 companies and general counsel telling us there are billions of dollars tied up in the court system between powerful corporations that cannot get their day in court because the courts are not there. They are closed down. They cannot put it on their balance sheet. They can put it on their balance sheet, they could have new jobs. They create new technologies. But, they dont know whose money it is. In los angeles, they said, most recently, they have lost 16 billion i
But the days of staying and defending your home and killing our Fire Fighters are done. We will not stand and defend a house that has not been prepared by a land owner and die for it. We dont do that any more. Thats one of our doctrinal changes and we set forth some new guidelines with that. Thank you. Question, mr. Secretary. In a large scale Disaster Relief, where the military is called in to assist the civilian components there is an obvious issue of how you get the command and control and in particular what telecommunications is used to support that command and control. Your exercising together is very critical, i think, to working out command and control but you still have an equipment problem because the equipment, telecommunication equipment designed for the military was different from that used. How are you working out to get the coordination of telecommunications, particularly in Disaster Relief where the cellular infrastructure may be broken down and not available to support