2023 Judicial Conference Program

Dean Fairfax held positions at GW Law School as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Public Engagement. His scholarship has been published in books and leading journals, and he has taught courses and conducted research on criminal law and procedure, professional responsibility and ethics, criminal justice policy and reform, racial justice, and grand jury and internal investigations. He has championed diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts throughout higher education and the legal profession. Prior to his career in academia, he practiced law with the firm of O’Melveny and Myers LLP in Washington, DC, and served as a federal prosecutor through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and to Judge Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Dean Fairfax has served on the boards of the National Bar Association, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, and the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and he currently serves on the boards of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Historical Society of the DC Circuit. In 2019, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed him to the Judicial Conference of the United States, Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules. Dean Fairfax is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Maryland, and is admitted to practice in a number of federal trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated with honors from Harvard College, the University of London, and Harvard Law School, where he was an NAACP Legal Defense Fund/Shearman and Sterling Scholar and an editor of the Harvard Law Review. LARRY FLETCHER-HILL is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B. 1981) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1984). After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Rya W. Zobel of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and then practiced in Boston for five years, both in private practice and then in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Judge Fletcher-Hill moved to Baltimore in 1990 to join the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. He served in the Civil Division for ten years, first as an Assistant Attorney General, then as Deputy Chief of the Division, and finally as Chief of Litigation. In 2000, he returned to private practice with Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger and Hollander, LLC, where he chaired the Litigation Practice Group. Judge Fletcher-Hill was appointed to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in 2009. In addition to his regular duties on the Circuit Court, Judge Fletcher-Hill is Director of the court’s Business and Technology Case Management Program and Chair of the Complex Litigation Committee of the Conference of Circuit Court Judges. Judge Fletcher-Hill also teaches as an adjunct professor at both the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He has taught courses on legal writing and advocacy, the legal profession, evidence, and civil procedure. HONORABLE LAWRENCE P. FLETCHER-HILL CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY 111 N. CALVERT STREET | BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21202

2023 Judicial Conference | 35