THE J. REUBEN CLARK LAW SO CIET YD C/MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER

MAY 31, 2016 • 12:45 pmMayflower Hotel, Washington DC

2001 Carter G. Phillips2002 Seth P. Waxman2003 Theodore B. Olson2004 Edwin S. Kneedler2005 Maureen E. Mahoney2006 Michael Dreeben2007 Jeffrey P. Minear2008 Barbara McDowell

2009 Paul D. Clement2010 William T. Coleman, Jr.2011 Beth S. Brinkmann2012 Gregory Garre2013 William C. Bryson2014 Sri Srinivasan2015 Patricia A. Millett

ADVO CACY AWARDRex Lee

Shawn Bentley

WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE andTHANK the FOLLOWING SPONSORS:

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21st Century FoxArent Fox LLPMotion Picture Association of AmericaNational Association of BroadcastersProskauer Rose LLPRecording Industry Association of AmericaSidley Austin LLPThe Walt Disney Company

Arnold & Porter LLPBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovington & Burling LLPHunton & Williams LLPLatham & Watkins LLP Marcus G. Faust, P.C.Polsinelli, PCTate, Bywater, Fuller, Mickelsen & Tull, PLCThe Becket Fund for Religious LibertyTime Warner Inc.William & Carolyn IngersollWilliams & Connolly LLP

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PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDS

LUNCHEON

WelcomeJONATHAN S. JACOBSChair, JRCLS Washington, D.C. Chapter

InvocationJ. TAYLOR McCONKIE

Chair-Elect, JRCLS Washington, D.C. Chapter

LUNCHPresentation of Shawn Bentley Public Service Awards

D OUGLAS R . BUSHPartner, Arent Fox LLP

Presentation of Rex Lee Advocacy Award toMalcolm L. Stewart

DAVID H. MO OREAssociate Dean, J. Reuben Clark Law School

RemarksMALCOLM L. STEWART

Deputy Solicitor General

Panel Discussion on “Art of Oral Advocacy”Moderated By

JUD GE THOMAS B. GRIFFITHPANEL MEMBERS

BETH S. BRINKMANN • CARTER G. PHILLIPS • JUDGE PATRICIA A. MILLETTGREGORY G. GARRE • JUDGE SRI SRINIVASAN

BenedictionSTEPHANIE BARCLAY

JRCLS Religious Liberty Chair

J. REUBEN CLARKJ. Reuben Clark, a graduate of the Columbia University Law School, was a distinguished lawyer who spent most of his career in public service holding such positions as Solicitor of the State Department, Under Secretary of State, and eventually as Ambassador to Mexico. During World War I he was a major in the Judge Advocate General’s Officers’ Reserve Corps, and served for a time while on active duty in the U.S. Attorney General’s office preparing emergency legislation on the war powers of the President. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He spent the last 28 years of his life as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

REX E. LEE

Rex Lee was a distinguished appellate lawyer who argued 59 cases before the United States Supreme Court. Justice David Souter is reported to have said that “Rex Lee was the best solicitor general this nation has ever had, and he is the best lawyer this justice ever heard plead a case in this court. … He set a new standard of excellence for generations of lawyers and justices. No one thing has happened to change the nature of advocacy of this court which has had as much impact as the loss of that one player.”

SHAWN BENTLEYShawn Bentley, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, spent over a decade working for the United States Senate, eventually becoming the Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He helped write a number of important pieces of legislation, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Protection Act. After leaving the Senate, he worked as Vice President of Intellectual Property and Global Public Policy for Time Warner. At the time of his passing, Senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Shawn on the Senate floor, saying, “Shawn was among the brightest and most informed. Yet, he was never arrogant, a rare quality in one so talented, especially on Capitol Hill! … And it was such a joy to work with him, because all knew he was a model of decency, humility, and spirituality.”

The mission of the Society is to strive through public service and professional excellence to promote fairness and virtue founded upon the rule of law. The Society also seeks to affirm the strength brought to the law by a lawyer’s personal religious conviction.

The Rex Lee Advocacy Award is presented annually to one of the nation’s outstanding advocates whose life and legal practice reflect the values exemplified by the award’s namesake, Rex Lee, a former U.S. Solicitor General, university president, and founding dean of the BYU law school. The National Law Journal has called the Award a “coveted” prize with an “honor roll ... that reads like a who’s who among the nation’s top appellate lawyers.”

These awards are stipends given to law students who have demonstrated a willingness to explore a public service opportunity in the legal profession in the Washington, DC area during their law school career and who are affiliated with student chapters of the Law Society.

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