Total Credits: 1.5 CLE
Please join us in an enlightening discussion of high-profile cases from the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term. Also, hear from one panelist about his experience arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Faculty:
Honorable Michael S. Catlett, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division I
Alexander Samuels, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Arizona Attorney General’s Office
Eric M. Fraser, Partner, Osborn Maledon
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: This CLE will be held at the state courts building at 1501 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona in conference rooms 329/330.
For our Tucson members, the event will be livestreamed to attendees to view at 400 W. Congress Street, Tucson, Arizona in the North building, third floor, in room 342. Signage will direct attendees to the viewing room.
was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2022. From 2020 to 2023, Judge Catlett worked at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as Deputy Solicitor General and Chief Counsel of Special Litigation, representing the State of Arizona and the Arizona Attorney General in trial and appellate courts. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Judge Catlett was a complex commercial and appellate litigator in private practice with the law firms of Quarles & Brady LLP (Associate 2010-2014, Partner 2014-2020) and Osborn Maledon, P.A. (Associate 2007-2010). After graduating from law school, Judge Catlett served a one-year clerkship (2006-2007) with the Hon. Paul J. Kelly, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Judge Catlett received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in finance from Arizona State University. Judge Catlett received his law degree summa cum laude and order of the coif from the University of Arizona College of Law, where he was Editor-In-Chief of the Arizona Law Review. Judge Catlett has been a member of the Arizona State Bar’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, is an author of a chapter in the Arizona Attorneys’ Fee Manual, and has been a professor of practice at the University of Arizona College of Law, co-teaching a course on Government Liability.
is a partner and co-chair of the appellate practice at Osborn Maledon, where his practice focuses on major civil appeals. He coauthors a monthly column in Arizona Attorney magazine covering civil appeals, coedits the azapp.com blog, and contributes to SCOTUSblog. He is a former chair of the State Bar's Appellate Practice Section. Eric received his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in Physics from Pomona College. Before joining private practice, Eric clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
