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2010 EVENTS
March 10, 2010
 On Wednesday, March 10th, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy Jim Copland presented the shocking findings of his latest research into how today's massive trial lawyer lobby buys political influence, blocks tort reform, and costs Americans billions.
Mr. Copland's recently released Trial Lawyers Inc: K Street—A Report on the Litigation Lobby, 2010, has garnered praise from the likes of Senator Jeff Sessions, Representative Lamar Smith, and former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, but another group on the Hill is less than pleased with having the whistle blown on their unyielding support of the lawsuit industry. Included in this group is Senator Arlen Specter, who wrote a fiery Letter to the Editor in response to Copland's Wall Street Journal op-ed on the report.
February 3, 2010
 On Wednesday, February 3rd, grassroots strategist and president of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist joined the Young Leaders Circle to discuss the current trend in how Americans want their government to work for them. As presented in his recent book, Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives, Norquist argued that a burgeoning coalition of the American electorate who want simply to “control their own destinies,” free of government intervention and interference, has the potential to be the defining movement of the next 50 years. As a gift from Mr. Norquist, all members who attended received a complimentary copy of his book.
Mr. Norquist serves on the Board of Directors of both the American Conservative Union and the National Rifle Association, and is a contributing editor to The American Spectator. He holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, both from Harvard University .
January 6, 2010
 Kicking off the 2010 program series, on Wednesday, January 6th, the Young Leaders Circle had the honor of welcoming former Manhattan Institute senior fellow and current W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Charles Murray.
One of the country's leading social policy scholars and author of 1984's landmark Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, Mr. Murray discussed the United States' apparent slide towards European-style social democracy and its potential for disastrous civic consequences. He argued that only with a momentous revival of American exceptionalism can our current leaders' pushes for growth-stifling social democracy be countered. A political scientist, author, and libertarian, Murray earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His talk at YLC was a version of his AEI Irving Kristol speech, the text of which is available here.
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