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More than a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf
Research Program convened a diverse group of 60 experts in a
virtual event to inform its efforts to enhance resilience to future
offshore oil disasters in the Gulf of Mexico region. The event,
Offshore Situation Room, took place over three half-days during
June 15-17, 2021, and had four main objectives: 1) develop a
concise, prioritized list of questions that need to be addressed to
support successful prevention, response, and recovery that would
minimize the impacts of an offshore oil disaster; 2) provide a
collaborative atmosphere where participants can share ideas,
capabilities, and information, and build a community dedicated to
the successful prevention of, response to, and recovery from an
offshore oil spill disaster; 3) explore capabilities for and
impediments to prevention, response, recovery, and understanding
impacts of an offshore oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico; and 4)
highlight how changes in policy, response, resilience, and
restoration efforts may affect outcomes of a major offshore
incident. This publication summarizes the presentations and
discussion of the event. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1
Introduction 2 Opening Plenary: "A Decade Later, Where We Are at
and Where We Are Going: A National Incident Commander Perspective 3
Incident-Phase Games Observations 4 Needs and Planning Game Actions
5 Closing Plenary: "What Just Happened?" 6 Next Steps Appendix A:
Identified Actions Appendix B: Event Agenda Appendix C:
Biographical Sketches of Keynote Speaker and Planning Committee
Members Appendix D: Registered Event Participants
Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town,
Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration-what
he called "exhibitionism"-to transcend his insecurities and his
part-time legal training to become one of America's most famous
lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst
championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and
reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce's
Ulysses in 1933 cemented Ernst's reputation as the top progressive
attorney of the era. To promote himself, Ernst befriended newspaper
writers, authors, actors, politicians, any practically anyone whose
work carried some weight in popular culture. But his hunger for
respect and recognition, and his need for excitement, led Ernst to
lavish praise on J. Edgar Hoover and to publicly defend, and profit
from, a Dominican dictator. Ernst thereby undermining his own
credibility and largely fell out of favor with the public. By
examining key moments of his life and career, The Legal
Exhibitionist describes how Ernst's exhibitionism led to his rise
and fall and suggests how his strategy of exaggeration anticipated
the rise of today's celebrity lawyers.
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