Floyd Abrams is a partner at the New York City law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, LLP. Mr. Abrams is the attorney best known for his tireless defense of freedom of speech, including clients as diverse as Wayne Newton, Rudolph Giuliani and the U.S. government and representing clients as politically dissimilar at Al Franken and Senator Mitch McConnell. In this talk, Abrams candidly describes events unfolding behind the scenes in some of his most important cases and the need to protect freedom of speech. (#9530)