Albert (Bert) B. Randall, President of and Principal at Franklin & Prokopik, will be speaking at next week’s ACI Employment Discrimination Conference in Chicago.  The conference will be taking place July 27-28 and Bert will be discussing “Medical Marijuana and Claims of Discrimination Based on Other Off-Duty Conduct.”

Now in its 7th year, ACI hosts the premier employment discrimination litigation conference, with more in-house counsel client presence and top federal and state jurists who are actively involved in these cases.  The conference will provide attendees with  unparalleled opportunities to convene with expert in-house counsel from companies such as Bank of America, Walmart Stores, Marriott International, Boeing Company, as well as a faculty of renowned federal and state judges, and leading outside counsel from around the nation.  For additional information on the conference, visit http://americanconference.com/discrimination/overview.

Maija B. Jackson, a Franklin & Prokopik Principal and one of the firm’s original founders has been elected to the Baltimore Bar Foundation’s Board of Trustees.  She was elected to serve for the 2015-2016 term at last March’s meeting and began her term July 1^st.

The Baltimore Bar Foundation is a charitable organization, incorporated in 1970 to foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of the law; to improve and to facilitate the administration of justice; to enhance and improve the image of lawyers; and to promote the study of the law and research therein, and the diffusion of knowledge thereof.