Walter Olson, who edits PointofLaw.com, examined the full conference schedule of Lawyering on the Edge: Unpopular Clients, Difficult Cases, and Zealous Advocates,” the conference that took place early this week at Hofstra Law School and that featured the convicted supporter of terrorism, Lynne Stewart.

Olson concluded that Stewart would not “face a lion’s den of severe critics” and that students would not glean the lesson that the disbarred lawyer in fact “went ‘over the edge, both ethically and legally.’”

It would now be interesting to hear from someone who attended the conference whether Stewart’s reception was all “tea and sympathy,” as Olson predicted.