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Bernard “Bernie” Nussbaum delivers the Wyc and Lyn Orr Distinguished Lecture
The University of Tennessee College of Law brought the fifth in its series of the American Bar Association’s Lions of the Trial Bar to campus on Nov. 18, 2011.
Bernard “Bernie” Nussbaum delivered the Wyc and Lyn Orr Distinguished Lecture to a standing-room only audience of law students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the college.
Nussbaum, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, discussed the future of the legal profession, and the things he feels threaten it. He identified three trends – the erosion of the attorney/client privilege, the low pay of court-appointed counsel and adequate compensation for judges – which may have far-reaching implications in the legal field should they continue unchecked.
Nussbaum, who was a senior member of the staff of the House Judiciary Committee, leading the Watergate impeachment inquiry in 1974, stepped into federal politics again when he became counsel to President Bill Clinton in 1993. He remains friends with the Clintons and served as a reference for Hilary Clinton when she was vetted for her current position as Secretary of State by the Obama administration.
For more information on Nussbaum’s career, and the many noteworthy trials he has won, please visit Tennessee Today.
You also can watch the lecture in its entirety.
The Wyc and Lyn Orr Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible through the support of the Orrs of Gainesville, GA. Wyc Orr, a 1970 UT law alumnus, is a founding partner of Orr Brown Johnson LLP and has been a trial lawyer for almost four decades.