The student ACS chapter at the University of Texas School of Law will present a discussion with John Vail, vice president and senior litigation counsel for the Center of Constitutional Litigation. He litigates issues regarding mandatory arbitration. He is counsel to Jamie Leigh Jones in Jones v. KBR.

Jamie Leigh Jones was 19 and working for Halliburton/KBR in Houston when she volunteered to go to Iraq. Four days after she arrived, she was drugged and gang-raped by thugs employed by KBR. Jamie filed suit to hold KBR accountable, and KBR involved the mandatory arbitration clause in an attempt to keep the case away from a jury. On May 9, 2008, a Houston federal judge ruled that a jury, not an arbitrator, would decide Jamie's claims. The case in on appeal to the 5th Circuit.

Food will be provided.