ABA midyear meeting. Fortifying Defenses

• Author: Lyle Moran
• Pages: 64-65

ABA Insider | ABA MIDYEAR MEETING

January, the Wisconsin Supreme Court

granted the parents’ petition for re-

view.

“Because of this procedural issue

that is kind of interesting, we haven’t

really gotten to the merits of the law-

suit,” Feinstein says.

Introducing kids to hockey

Feinstein has helped make a difference

in other ways, including as a hockey

player and coach.

She started playing hockey when

she was a senior in high school—odd-

ly enough, she says, after her mother

learned to play to help coach her young-

er brother.

She joined a local scrimmage group

and later played on the women’s club

team at the University of Illinois and on

an intramural team called the Tortfea-

sors in law school.

Feinstein is now a member of the

Madison Gay Hockey Association ,

where she plays with and against

LGBTQ athletes. It is the country’s

largest gay hockey league but accepts

people of all sexualities and gender

identi cations.

“We have people who have played

hockey since they could  rst put on

skates as kids, and people who just

started playing hockey this year and

everybody in between,” Feinstein says.

“It’s a great group of adults who come

together because we love the sport, and

we want to have fun.”

When Feinstein’s mother introduced

her to hockey, she also introduced her

to a player named Joe Kaufman. That

player is now her husband.

Kaufman and Feinstein are par-

ents to 11-year-old Max and 9-year-

old Caroline, and they both began

playing as soon as they could put

on skates.

Feinstein is the assistant coach

for her older child’s team and the

head coach for her younger child’s

team.

She has also helped other kids get

involved in hockey, including the two

young daughters of Cecely Castillo,

a member of the Dane County Board

of Supervisors and the chief of staff to

Wisconsin Sen. Kelda Roys .

“Emily is a fantastic coach,” Castillo

says. “She really keeps the kids motivat-

ed, and she meets them at their level. My

[oldest] daughter had done zero skating

aside from skating on the pond, so I was

a little worried when she started.

“But she makes it accessible for kids

of all experiences … and she’s just really

encouraging.” Q

Hockey is a family activity for

Feinstein, shown here with her

younger child, Caroline.

ABA MIDYEAR MEETING

Fortifying

Defenses

ABA president stresses

association’s mission

as ‘storm clouds’

threaten rule of law

BY LYLE MORAN

AND AMANDA ROBERT

While ABA President

Reginald M. Turner

remains hopeful the sun

is rising on the rule of

law, he told the House of Delegates at

the 2022 ABA Midyear Meeting that

“storm clouds increasingly appear on

the landscape.”

These clouds include forces through-

out the globe “promoting lawlessness,

corruption and attacks on democratic

governance, threatening hard-won fun-

damental rights and freedoms.”

What gives Turner hope amid the

storm is the important work lawyers do

and his conviction the organized bar is

needed more than ever to defend liberty

and deliver justice.

“You fortify our defense of the rule

of law here at home, and shine a beacon

for lawyers and people everywhere who

yearn for freedom,” he said.

Turner said he recognizes that ABA

members want and need the association

to play a leadership role in advancing

justice and the rule of law.

This work includes education and

advocacy efforts on public policy issues

essential to basic rights and freedoms

under law, with the most fundamen-

tal right being the right to vote freely

and fairly.

“We oppose any barriers to fair

and open elections and any subversion

of the voting process,” Turner said.

“Unfounded attacks on our election

systems, processes and of cials under-

mine public trust in elections and our

duly elected leaders. Through advocacy,

education and the policies adopted by

Photo courtesy of Emily Feinstein

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