Upcoming Programs

Topic:

The Roberts Court 2024-25: Trumpeting Presidential Power From the Shadow

Date:

October 21, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Program Description:

Please join us to hear John Barkett’s review of the 2024–2025 Term of the Roberts Court. He will discuss how the Trump Administration’s multiple successful stay applications dominated the headlines during the Term. John will cover those orders, along with merits-docket decisions involving the reach of presidential power and the elimination of the “universal injunction,” which litigants have used over the years to attempt to rein in presidential authority. Additionally, John will discuss important decisions under the First Amendment, in the administrative law arena post-Loper Bright, and under the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. The program is designed to be interactive, so please don’t hesitate to post questions about the Court’s decisions.

Instructors:

Mr. John M. Barkett is a partner at the law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. in its Miami office. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.A. in Government, 1972, summa cum laude) and Yale Law School (J.D., 1975), and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable David W. Dyer on the former Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Barkett is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules of the Federal Judicial Conference from 2012–2018 and served on the Discovery Subcommittee that drafted the December 1, 2015, amendments to the rules; the Rule 23 Subcommittee that developed the 2018 amendments to Rule 23; and the Rule 30(b)(6) and MDL subcommittees.

He also served as a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility from 2014–2015 and 2016–2019. Mr. Barkett is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA), the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, and the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He recently completed service as a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the CCA.

In 2019, Mr. Barkett received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Miami Daily Business Review. He is also Board Certified in International Litigation and Arbitration by the Florida Bar.

CLE Credits:

2.0 Areas of Professional Practice (transitional/non-transitional)