The Law School's annual Legal Education Opportunities (LEO) Banquet will take place Saturday, March 16 at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, organized this year by the Indigenous Law Students Association. The keynote speaker will be Attorney Keith Harper, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a senior staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund. Mr. Harper currently represents 500,000 individual Indians in a multi-billion dollar suit against the United States for the government's failure to properly manage these individual Indians' trust funds. He is the President Emeritus of the Native American Bar Association of Washington, D.C. and teaches federal Indian law at Catholic University Columbus School of Law and American University Washington College of Law. (Mr. Harper replaces the speaker who was originally announced, Wilma Mankiller, first woman chief in the Cherokee nation. Unfortunately, Ms. Mankiller is very ill.) Each year the LEO Banquet celebrates the contribution of this Law School to opening legal education to qualified students of all backgrounds and to diversifying the legal profession in Wisconsin, the nation and the world. The banquet on March 16 will feature a social hour, music, dinner and an "After Party". Tickets are on sale now. Student tickets will cost $20 each or 2 for $35, through March 1. Between March 2 and March 6, student tickets will cost $25 each or 2 for $45. Faculty and staff tickets cost $30 each. All ticket sales end on March 8. The location for the After Party will be announced later. For more information on tickets, send an e-mail to Natalie Luhman at naluhman@facstaff.wisc.edu or call her at 608-262-2242 (Law School Room 5106).

Submitted by on February 26, 2002

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