Past Annual Conferences 

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2026 Annual Conference | Washington, D.C.
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness: Foundations of Freedom

• Conference Program: English 

 

2025 Annual Conference | Mexico City, Mexico
Uno 

• Conference Program: English | Spanish
• Speaker Bios

 

2024 Annual Conference | Las Vegas
Go and do likewise

 

• 2024 Annual Conference Schedule and Session Topic Summary
• Watch Kevin J. Worthen, Hugh W. Colton Professor, BYU Law School, deliver his address, Peacemakers and Bridge
  Builders.
• Watch Judge Denise Posse Lindberg, Senior District Judge, State of Utah Judiciary and Judge Jay Bybee, Senior Circuit Court Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, deliver their address, The Lawyer, the Samaritan, and the Law of Obligations.
• Watch Heidi Hubbard, Partner, Williams & Connolly, deliver her address, Leaning Into the Light:Lessons from Life as a Trial Lawyer.
• Watch Justice Patricia Lee, Nevada Supreme Court, deliver her address, From Homelessness to the Supreme Court- A Personal
  Journey.
• Watch Religious Liberty Panel, Athar Haseebullah, Executive Director at ACLU of Nevada, Elli Roohani, Las Vegas Alliance for Religious Freedom and Human Dignity, Hannah Smith, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Kristen Clarke, William S. Boyd School of Law 2L, Moderator, panel discussion, Freedom of Religion: A Universal Right and Our Responsibility to Defend It Universally.
• Due to an error with the recording equipment at the Annual Conference, Judge Thomas Griffith's remarks given on Friday, March 22 were not recorded.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

2023 Annual Conference | Atlanta Georgia
Who is my neighbor?

 

• Watch Gary Bledsoe, President of the Texas NAACP, present his talk, The Role and Obligation of the Legal Community to Protect our Constitution, Democracy and Freedom.
• Watch the Honorable Judge Bernice Bouie Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (retired), recieve the J. Clifford Wallace Award and deliver the keynote address, Who is my Neighbor? My Journey in the Law.
• Watch Chief Justice Hassan Jallow, Supreme Court of The Gambia, deliver his address, Civil Rights and Social Justice: An African Perspective.

 

2022 Annual Conference | Salt Lake City, Utah
For such a time as this

 

• Watch Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles present Robert Abrams, Former Attorney General of New York, with the Thomas L. Kane Award on June 9, 2022 as the opening event of the 2022 Annual Conference.
• Watch Professor Shima Baradaran Baughman's remarks from the 2022 Annual Conference, "Lawyers For Such a Time as This".

2020 Annual Conference | Phoenix, Arizona
Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly

 

2019 Annual Conference | Seattle, Washington 

 

2018 Annual Conference | Salt Lake City, Utah

 

2017 Annual Conference | Philadelphia, Pennsylavnia

 

2016 Annual Conference |  San Diego, California

 

2015 Annual Conference | Tempe, Arizona

 

2014 Annual Conference | Kansas City, Missouri

 

2013 Annual Conference | Washington, D.C.

           

• Watch the opening remarks of the JRCLS 2013 Annual Conference held February 15, 2013, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Speakers include Ginny Isaacson, the Conference Chair, Jeff Bradford, the Chair of the student Chapters Board, and Doug Bush, the International Chair of the JRCLS.

• Watch Elder Holland's remarks at the 2013 Annual Conference. Part One | Part Two

 

2012 Annual Conference | Stanford, California

          

 

2011 Annual Conference | Dallas, Texas

 

2010 Annual Conference | Salt Lake City, Utah
"Service for good through the law"

         

 

2007 Annual Conference | Malibu, California

2006 Annual Conference | Washington, D.C.