It will cost $55 more to register for the 2014 Third Circuit Judicial Conference if you wait until after April 18. Until then, its $480.

The conference is May 7-9 in Hershey. Current agenda here. Highlights include a talk by Justice Alito, a fireside chat with Solicitor General Verrilli, and a screening of the documentary Pull of Gravity.

Verrilli stars in one of my all-time embarrassing lawyer moments. A couple years out of law school, I played a minor role in helping a local lawyer prepare for a Supreme Court argument. Somehow I got to sit in on a moot in D.C. that Verrilli was hosting at Jenner. Any non-fool would have sat and learned, quietly. But no. There I was, earnestly explaining why I disagreed with Verrilli about something or other. His main reaction, I imagine, was pity.

So I’ll be there for his chat–silently.

The fool