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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Federal Society virtual virtual event. My name is Marco J. Lloyd,

and I'm the assistant director of practice groups for the Federalist Society. Today, we're excited

to host a webinar, Does Board Law Matter after Loper Bright, featuring Professor Samuel

Stryker and Alex McDonald's. Our moderator today is Karen Harned.

Karen is president at Harned Strategies LLC.

For over 20 years, she has served as Executive Director of the National Foundation

of Independent Business's Small Business Legal Center,

building it from the ground up.

Karen is a recognized expert in small

business issues, labor law, constitutional law, and federal regulation and the regulatory process.

She has testified numerous times before the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and

frequently appears on national media. If you'd like to learn more about today's speakers, their full bios can be appears on national media.

If you'd like to learn more about today's speakers, their full bios can be viewed on our website,

fedsock.org.

If you have a question at any point in today's program, please enter into the Q&A function at the bottom of your Zoom window, and we'll do our best to answer as many as we can.

Finally, I'll note that, as always, the Federal Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues.

And all expressions of opinion are those of the speakers.

And I believe we may have lost Karen.

So I will kick it over to Professor Stryker who can maybe introduce the subject

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