Program Details
2026-08-05 14:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-08-05 14:00:00
1h CLE Credits
Intermediate
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2:00 pm - 2:20 pm ESTThis session walks through the 2025–2026 term’s most significant merits decisions across executive power, culture wars, civil rights and election law, and immigration. It examines the legal principles and reasoning underlying each ruling and their practical implications for practitioners and lower courts across key areas of federal practice.
Amy Howe
Jean Phillip Shami 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm ESTThe Court’s emergency docket stayed as consequential as its merits work this term. This session reviews the term’s most significant emergency rulings, what they reveal about the Court’s reasoning and direction, and how practitioners should account for emergency-docket orders when advising clients and litigating pending cases in the lower courts.
Amy HoweJean Phillip Shami 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm ESTDrawing on the term’s emerging doctrinal trends and themes, this session assesses where the Court may head next — including possible retirements and the cases shaping the 2026–2027 term. Attendees leave ready to apply these insights to litigation strategy, advocacy, and issue-spotting as the next term’s developments reach their federal practice.
Amy HoweJean Phillip ShamiAmy Howe is a legal journalist and appellate attorney best known for her work covering the United States Supreme Court as a reporter for SCOTUSblog. She has extensive experience analyzing Supreme Court litigation, constitutional law, and federal appellate practice, and is widely recognized for making complex legal issues accessible to attorneys, academics, and the public. In addition to her work as a journalist, she has represented clients in significant appellate and Supreme Court matters and has written extensively on developments in Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Jean-Phillip Shami is an associate at Bartlit Beck LLP, where he focuses on complex commercial litigation, appellate advocacy, and trial practice. He represents clients in high-stakes disputes involving constitutional law, antitrust, intellectual property, product liability, class actions, and other complex business litigation. His practice includes briefing and arguing appeals in federal and state courts, including matters before the United States Supreme Court.
Amy Howe is a legal journalist and appellate attorney best known for her work covering the United States Supreme Court as a reporter for SCOTUSblog. She has extensive experience analyzing Supreme Court litigation, constitutional law, and federal appellate practice, and is widely recognized for making complex legal issues accessible to attorneys, academics, and the public. In addition to her work as a journalist, she has represented clients in significant appellate and Supreme Court matters and has written extensively on developments in Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Jean-Phillip Shami is an associate at Bartlit Beck LLP, where he focuses on complex commercial litigation, appellate advocacy, and trial practice. He represents clients in high-stakes disputes involving constitutional law, antitrust, intellectual property, product liability, class actions, and other complex business litigation. His practice includes briefing and arguing appeals in federal and state courts, including matters before the United States Supreme Court.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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