Newly minted American Bar Association (ABA) President Mary L. Smith is setting her sights on democracy and artificial intelligence as she takes the gavel from Deborah Enix-Ross, the trade group’s immediate past president.

Lawmakers and legal pros from around the nation used the 33rd anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to highlight its importance to the disability community and discuss new ways it can continue to protect them.

It is now just mere days before legal intelligentsia from around the U.S. descend upon Denver for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Annual Meeting. The robust agenda features topics ranging from environmental resiliency to the role artificial intelligence will have in the legal landscape. Noteworthy guests, like U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, will also be featured during the six-day-long event running from Thursday, Aug. 3 to Tuesday, Aug. 8.

The breadth of the U.S. Supreme Court’s summer decisions appear to firmly rebuke the liberal agenda and could indicate, unsurprisingly, the conservative court is going to play largely to the back of its baseball card.