D. Brook Bartlett Lectures

The D. Brook Bartlett Lectures began in June 2001 as a memoriam to the late Honorable D. Brook Bartlett. The Lectures are held annually during the month of June at the Charles Evans Whittaker Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri. If possible, they are also simulcast to the United States Courthouse in the Central Division in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Invitations are sent to active members of the WDMO bar approximately four weeks prior to the annual event. Reservations are required. In the past, three (3) hours of CLE have been approved by the Missouri Bar and the Kansas Bar and there has been no fee to attend.

In addition to an annual presentation by the United States Courts, Western District, Court en banc, the following individuals have presented at the DBB Lectures.

Year	Presentation	Presentation
2012	Direct Examination As Jurors Want It Professor Thomas A. Mauet University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law	The Supreme Court in Review Erwin Chemerinsky Founding Dean University of California, Irvine School of Law
2011	The Supreme Court Review: October 2010 Analysis and Differing Perspectives Dean Erwin Chemerinsky University of California, Irvine School of Law & Ken Starr, President Baylor University	Protecting Lawyer Confidences in the Internet Age Professor Burnele Powell University of South Carolina School of Law
2010	Better Brief-Writing in 60 minutes Bryan A. Garner Law Prose, Inc., Dallas, TX	The Supreme Court in Review Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean University of California, Irvine School of Law
2009	Direct Examination As Jurors Want It Professor Thomas A. Mauet University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law	The Supreme Court in Review Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean University of California, Irvine School of Law
2008	Persuasive Closing Argument: Ethical but Effective Professor Barbara Bergman University of New Mexico	The Supreme Court in Review Professor Robert J. Pushaw Pepperdine University School of Law
2007	Impeachment - The Law and The Technique Professor Thomas A. Mauet University of Arizona, College of Law	The Supreme Court in Review Professor Erwin Chemerinsky Duke Law School
2006	The Supreme Court - Year in Review Professor Drew S. Days III Yale Law School	Electronic Discovery-Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure The Honorable Lee Rosenthal, U.S. District Judge, S.D. Texas, Kenneth J. Withers, The Sedona Conference & Jonathan M. Redgrave, Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner LLP
2005	The Supreme Court - Year in Review Professor Erwin Chemerinsky Duke Law School	Guideline Sentencing after Booker Professor Susan R. Klein University of Texas School of Law
2004	Trial Advocacy Professor Stephen A. Saltzburg George Washington Law School	Evidence from an Advocate’s View Professor James W. Jeans Sr. University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
2003	The Supreme Court in Review Professor Suzanna Sherry Vanderbilt Law School	Employment Discrimination Law in a Nutshell Professor Joel Friedman Tulane Law School
2002	Supreme Court Review - Year in Review Professor Erwin Chemerinsky University of Southern California Law School	Employment Discrimination Law in a Nutshell Professor Joel Friedman Tulane Law School
2001	Supreme Court Review - Year in Review Professor Erwin Chemerinsky University of Southern California Law School	Federal Practice & Procedure James M. Wagstaffe Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP

Biography

Judge Bartlett practiced law in Kansas City, Missouri with the law firm of Stinson, Mag, Thomson, McEvers, and Fizzell. He then served as an Assistant and then a First Assistant in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. He returned to Kansas City to practice with Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary, and Lombardi.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Bartlett to the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Judge Bartlett was elevated to Chief Judge in 1995. During his tenure as Chief Judge the new courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri was planned and built. Judge Bartlett passed away on January 21, 2000 while serving as Chief Judge.

Ms. Karen Iverson Bartlett, Judge Bartlett’s wife and an attorney, said “Brook strove to give those who appeared before him a chance to tell their story in a venue of respect and compassion, and he succeeded time and again.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, United States Supreme Court, who worked with Judge Bartlett at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, observed that “...Judge Bartlett enjoyed a wonderful reputation among his fellow jurists and among members of the bar. He was considered deliberate, analytical, thoughtful, and dedicated to fairness and impartiality, but even more, he was a good man and he was my friend.”

Taken from the Historical Society News
of the U.S. Courts in the Eighth Circuit
Vol. 8 2001