Speaking

David Lat has addressed groups across the country on a wide range of topics, including the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, law firms and the business of law, law schools and legal education, media and the First Amendment, legal technology, social networking for lawyers, diversity in the legal profession, and coronavirus/Covid-19.
He has appeared as a speaker or faculty member at numerous conferences and continuing legal education programs, including the judicial conferences of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the District of Delaware, the District of Hawaii, and the District of Oregon, as well as events sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the National Association for Law Placement, the National Association of Legal Search Consultants, the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Practising Law Institute. He has delivered speeches and made presentations to Am Law 200 law firms and leading boutiques, at firmwide retreats, partner retreats, hiring committee meetings, diversity events, and similar gatherings. He has spoken or guest-lectured at more than 45 law schools, including all the so-called “T14” or Top 14 law schools.
David would be happy to work with you to design a custom presentation for your organization. For rates, availability, and references, please contact him. Lists of some of the groups he has addressed and some of the law schools he has spoken at appear below.
Organizations
- Alt Legal
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- American Association of Law Libraries
- American Bar Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Constitution Society
- Arent Fox LLP (now Arent Fox Schiff LLP)
- Asian American Bar Association of New York
- Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento
- Avvo
- Bloomberg Law
- Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- BriefCatch
- Burford Capital
- Center for Women in Law
- Clio
- Conference of Court Public Information Officers
- Connecticut Bar Association
- Consumer Brands Association
- Cozen O’Connor
- Dallas Asian American Bar Association
- Delaware Inns of Court
- Diebold Nixdorf
- Dollar Tree, Inc.
- Eastern District Association
- Factor
- Federal Bar Association
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
- Filipino American Lawyers Association of New York
- Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego
- Filipino Bar Association of Northern California
- Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Harvard Law School Association
- Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP
- LexFusion
- Linn American Inn of Court
- Mayer Brown LLP
- Media Law Resource Center
- National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
- National Association for Law Placement
- National Association of Legal Search Consultants
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- National Filipino American Lawyers Association
- National Organization of Bar Counsel
- New York City Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- New York State Judicial Institute
- New York Women’s Bar Association Foundation
- NexFirm
- Northern California Association of Law Libraries
- Orange County Asian American Bar Association
- Philippine American Bar Association
- Practising Law Institute
- Regis Bar Association
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Siltstone Capital LLC
- Susman Godfrey LLP
- The Travelers Companies, Inc.
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
- U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
- Walmart Inc.
- Willis Towers Watson (WTW)
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
- Yale Law School Association

Law Schools
- Boston University School of Law
- Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark Law School
- Cardozo School of Law
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Columbia Law School
- Cornell Law School
- Duke University School of Law
- Fordham University School of Law
- Georgetown University Law Center
- George Mason University – Antonin Scalia Law School
- Harvard Law School
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Marquette University Law School
- New York Law School
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- NYU School of Law
- Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- Rutgers Law School
- Santa Clara University School of Law
- Seton Hall Law School
- SMU Dedman School of Law
- Southwestern Law School
- St. John’s University School of Law
- Stanford Law School
- Syracuse University College of Law
- Texas Tech University Law School
- Tulane University School of Law
- UCLA School of Law
- UC Berkeley School of Law
- UC Davis School of Law
- UC Hastings College of the Law
- University at Buffalo School of Law
- University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
- University of Baltimore School of Law
- University of Chicago Law School
- University of Cincinnati College of Law
- University of Colorado Law School (Boulder)
- University of Connecticut School of Law
- University of Houston Law Center
- University of Louisville (Brandeis)
- University of Michigan Law School
- University of Mississippi School of Law (Ole Miss)
- University of Montana – Alexander Blewett III School of Law
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- University of Virginia School of Law
- Vanderbilt Law School
- William & Mary Law School
- William S. Boyd School of Law (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
- WVU College of Law
- Yale Law School

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