Please join FBA-NOVA for this invaluable annual event for all EDVA practitioners. The Judges of the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, will introduce their career and term law clerks for the 2025-2026 term.
Our keynote speakers are Mary Kartal and Douglas Morris. Please join us afterward for food and drink at a reception in memory of past FBA-NOVA president Torrey Armstrong.
Schedule
5:00pm - Check-In
5:30pm - Keynote Speakers
6:15pm - Law Clerk Introductions
6:30pm - Reception
Mary Kartal
Born in 1928 in Budapest, Hungary, Mary Kartal, now age 97, was 11 years old when World War II first began. In 1944 the Nazis invaded Hungary, and life for her and her Jewish family was upended. She, her brother, father, and mother survived raids, concentration camps, and unimaginable hiding places. Others in her family were less fortunate and were killed. Eventually, after traveling over multiple countries, spanning three continents, Mary and her husband John arrived to the United States in 1954 as refugees. John joined the Army as a medical doctor and five years later they became United States citizens; a day he never failed to describe as the happiest day of his life. Mary and John had three children and ten grandchildren. She joins her granddaughter, Jessica Carmichael, to discuss her early life and the effect of the institutions that failed her.
DOUGLAS G. MORRIS
Douglas G. Morris, PhD., J.D., is a retired criminal defense attorney for indigent clients (for 30+ years with Federal Defenders of New York), and a legal historian (now an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School). He is author of Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2020) – which explores the ways a Jewish Social Democratic lawyer in Nazi Germany represented political defendants in court, engaged in underground activities, and produced both a classic analysis of the Nazi regime and an original theory of resistance. Mr. Morris is also the author of Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and has published a series of scholarly articles on twentieth-century German legal history.
EVENT REGISTRATION
This event is free, but registration is required. Please register using the form below by Friday, OCTOBER 3.