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title: 'Vice Dean Joel Nichols Presents at National Legal Conferences'
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# Vice Dean Joel Nichols Presents at National Legal Conferences

![Vice Dean Joel Nichols and Director of Tennessee Bar Admissions, Lisa Perlan.](https://law.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/DSC05796.jpg)*Vice Dean Joel Nichols and Lisa Perlen, Executive Director of the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners*This summer, Vice Dean Joel Nichols presented at the NCBE (National Conference of Bar Examiners) Annual Bar Admissions Conference in Seattle and at the ABA Associate Deans Conference in Salt Lake City. These conferences offer attendees – attorneys on state licensing boards, state Supreme Court Justices, directors of licensing agencies, and leaders of law schools around the country – the opportunity to engage with major issues in legal education and leadership at the national level.

![Vice Dean Joel Nichols presents with plenary session with Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner (Utah) and Dean Dave Moore (BYU) on Disruption in Legal Education.](https://law.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/25-ad-conf-photos.jpg)*Vice Dean Joel Nichols with Deans Dave Moore (BYU) and Elizabeth Kronk Warner (Utah)*At the NCBE Conference, he presented *Read Between the Lines: Law Schools and Character and Fitness Issues* in a discussion moderated by Lisa Perlen, Executive Director of the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners. At the ABA Conference, he served as a co-chair for the conference; led a “Day in the Life” discussion; co-hosted the plenary session, *Disruption in Legal Education,* with Deans Elizabeth Kronk Warner (University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law) and Dave Moore (BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School); and co-hosted *Practical Strategies for Working with General Counsel* with Associate Dean Amy Flynn (University of San Francisco School of Law).