Vermont Business Magazine The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) will be hosting its annual Summer Meeting in Burlington on June 21. Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell will welcome the nation’s State Attorneys General. The three-day Summer Meeting is an opportunity for attorneys general to convene with key staff, other government officials and academic, corporate and association representatives to discuss legal issues on a number of topics to include consumer credit reporting, veterans in the workforce, health insurance coverage and mental health treatment, and keeping children safe.
Governor Peter Shumlin will extend a welcome at the Tuesday opening luncheon at the Hilton Hotel and Burlington Chief of Police Brandon del Pozo is featured as the first guest speaker to kick off the meeting. Most of Wednesday’s presentations will address civil rights issues, past and present. Former Vermont Chief Justice and Attorney General Jeff Amestoy will discuss the 1853 prosecution of America’s only African-American attorney for opposing slavery—a case described in his recent non-fiction book, Slavish Shores: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Former Tennessee Attorney General Mike Cody will discuss his firm’s representation of Martin Luther King, Jr at the time of his death in then-segregated Memphis followed by a panel discussion led by Attorney General Sorrell, on the present day need to build a coalition of trust between police and communities of color. On Thursday, Vermonter and former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission Julie Brill will lead a panel discussion on privacy and data security regulation and law enforcement.
“I am honored to welcome my friends and colleagues from around the country to our beautiful State,” said Sorrell. “I am particularly proud to share the agenda with Vermonters who have earned national reputations for excellence in their respective professions.”
WHEN & WHERE:
Tuesday, June 21 at noon through June 23 until 3:45 p.m.
Hilton Burlington, 60 Battery Street, Burlington, VT 05401
Open sessions will be videotaped and posted to the NAAG website, www.naag.org, the same day as presented.
Vermont AG: June 13, 2016