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43rd Annual Stone Circle Luncheon
Date and time
Location
The University Club of New York
1 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019Refund Policy
Description
The Columbia Law School Association cordially invites
Stone Circle alumni and their guest to the
43rd Annual Stone Circle Luncheon
featuring remarks by
James S. Liebman
Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law
Why and How Professional Education Must Change
In the dynamic, hyper-connected, and unpredictable 21st century, workplace and career paradigms are rapidly changing. The professions are no exception. Technology has routinized and increased access to the expertise that traditionally set professionals apart from other workers, leading some to forecast professions’ demise. Even if new forms of complexity and needs for expertise continue to outrun technology, professionals’ lives and careers will diverge dramatically from past norms. The number of theories, diagnoses, and strategies among which each professional—alone or in teams—must make informed and workable judgments will increase exponentially, as will the rapidity with which their specialties become obsolete and have to be retooled or replaced. In this world, learning to learn will far outstrip the importance of applying the specialized knowledge with which professionals are initially programmed.
If this prediction is correct, then university-based professional schools, which historically have made their living by providing that initial programming, must change at the same pace as their graduates’ careers will change. This talk will address what those changes might look like, with particular focus on law schools.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Reception at noon | Luncheon at 12:30 p.m.
The University Club of New York
One West 54th Street at Fifth Avenue
Dwight Room, 1st Floor
New York City
Kindly RSVP by Monday, September 25, 2017.
Direct inquiries to Sallie Locke, 212-854-5446, sallie.locke@law.columbia.edu
Please note: Seating will be arranged according to class year. Classmates will be seated together and near neighboring classes. Reservations will be held at the door.
Club Dresscode: Jackets, dress shirts, and ties for men, and business attire for women, are required in the Club at all times.
The Columbia Law School Association and the Kent Affiliates of the 1754 Society present
"The Washington Tax Reform Game"
A presentation with Conrad L. Teitell ’57
Principal; Chair, Charitable Planning Group, Cummings & Lockwood LLC
The game is in extra innings. Conrad, who has observed and participated in tax reform legislation for decades, will talk about the current positions of the players—Congress, Administration, and interest groups. If Congress acts at the last minute, you won't be caught off base when making your tax and estate planning moves.
11–11:45 a.m. | Room 2, 9th Floor
Preceding the Stone Circle Luncheon
For information about Estate and Gift Planning,
please contact the Development Office at 212-854-2680.
2017 Stone Circle Committee
Chairperson
Susan B. Lindenauer ’64
Members
Hortense F. Mound ’38
Charles O. Blaisdell ’40
Eugene M. Grant ’41
Hon. Annette S. Elstein ’42
Hon. Beatrice Shainswit ’47
Hon. Jack B. Weinstein ’48
Dante M. Scaccia ’49
Hon. Felice K. Shea ’50
Arthur A. Feder ’51
Stanley Plesent ’51
William W. Karatz ’52
Hon. Joseph B. Russell
Morton L. Janklow ’53
Howard D. Stave ’54
H. Elliot Wales ’54
Prof. Barbara Aronstein Black ’55
Prof. Michael I. Sovern ’55
Isaac Shapiro ’56
Conrad L. Teitell ’57
Albert J. Cardinali ’58
Judith A. Gelb ’58
Roger F. Bloom ’59
Arthur M. Handler ’60
Robert L. Lieff ’61
Richard J. Hiegel ’62
Robert Selya ’63
Burton Lehman ’65
Judith Reinhardt Thoyer ’65
Bruce Rabb ’66
Harriet S. Rabb ’66
Lawrence E. Goldschmidt ’67
The Stone Circle Luncheon originated as an informal group of Columbia Law School graduates and special friends whose affiliation with the Law School was established during the deanship (1910–1924) of Harlan Fiske Stone, 1898. Their luncheons, held from time to time, by 1974 had become a formal, annual luncheon to which we welcome members of classes who have celebrated the 50th anniversary of their graduation from the Law School.