Stephen Cullen and Kelly Powers, principals in the firm's Family Law & Private Clients practice group, will be participating in a CLE panel discussion on "Why the Hague Abduction Convention Impact Rocks the Federal World" at the 2021 Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting & Convention.

Program Description:

Learning the Hague Abduction Convention is essential private international law for all federal trial attorneys, federal judges and magistrate judges. This article 6 treaty has been successful here and around the world for the last 25 years, because the federal courts’ influence and reach is without borders. Every year more and more Hague cases land on the federal benches across the nation. Our federal opinions are cited day-in-day-out in the 100+ countries that are now States Parties with the United States under this treaty. On this crucial text of private international law, our federal courts are hugely instrumental and SCOTUS has now spoken four times on the treaty. Hague cases are launched by the treaty itself and by federal statute on a rocket-pace that requires judges and attorneys to make life-changing complex decisions about families and children at lightening speed. Learning the treaty, developing case law, having it all at your fingertips, are essential tools for all federal court trial attorneys, and for federal judges and their law clerks. Our presentation will capture the 25+ years of panelist experience and arm participants with the best of what is now part and parcel of every federal practitioner and federal judge’s experience.

Moderator:

• Brett A. Barfield, Partner, PAG.law PLLC

Panelists:

• Hon. Beth Bloom, U.S. District Court Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
• Stephen J. Cullen, Partner, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
• Hon. Adalberto J. Jordan, Circuit Court Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (invited)
• Kelly A. Powers, Partner, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.