Sentences with phrase «women in bar association»

Since its first female members in 1918, the ABA has spearheaded the promotion of gender diversity and equitable representation of women in bar association leadership.

Not exact matches

In addition to the Florida Bar, she currently holds memberships with the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators, the Brevard County Bar Association and the Brevard Association of Women Lawyers.

Women's Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY) Launches State Wide Initiative in Response to Nassau County's DA's Decision to Ax Part - time Employees

The Women's Bar Association has had to take her to task on serious issues that directly effected the lives of women in her ofWomen's Bar Association has had to take her to task on serious issues that directly effected the lives of women in her ofwomen in her office.

Just a quarter of lawyers who have leadership roles in New York state and federal courtrooms are women, according to a new analysis by the New York State Bar Association.

In a $ 3.1 trillion federal budget, the $ 211,500 set aside for the Capital District Women's Bar Association's Legal Project amounted to pocket change.

Earlier this month, the New York State Bar Association came out in support of a convention, as did the League of Women Voters and the good - government group Citizens Union.

In addition, the American Civil Liberties Union of N.C., the State Bar Association, and the N.C. League of Women Voters have expressed support for the bill.

Vicki has received numerous accolades and awards for her work, including the «Women with Vision» award from the Women's Bar Association of Illinois for her breakthrough research in behavioral economics, and the «Nalco Innovation Award» for her cutting - edge eLearning programs that incorporated immersive simulation environments, 3D animated avatars, and gamification.

She is also a member of the Texas chapter of Women in Public Finance, the Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys, National Association of Bond Lawyers, Houston Bar Association, Texas Bar Foundation and Texas Women Lawyers.

How compelling if we could rely not just on movements like the Leading Women's Alliance, WomenEd and BAMEed, but on mainstream leadership associations to champion diversity by raising the bar on what is expected in their own organisations, truly leading by example?

Although the New York City Bar Association's panel may have been off - base in assuming that men are better networkers than women, the panel did emphasize one important point.

«I was just so pissed off,» Avvy Yao - Yao Go, a well - known social justice activist and lawyer, wrote in the Toronto Star after Justice Minister Peter MacKay made comments at a recent Ontario Bar Association meeting that women and visible minorities aren't applying for judge jobs and that's why they're under - represented on the bench.

On March 1, 2011, approximately 200 lawyers attended the New York City Bar Association's program entitled «Where are the Women in Commercial and Appellate Litigation?»

In light of the most recent round of federal judicial appointments announced last week, I wasn't surprised to find 24 women and just one man attending the Manitoba Bar Association's lunch & learn event, So You Want to be a Judge?

Rosenblum spoke Feb. 2 during «Challenges and Rewards for Women in Politics: Both Personal and Professional,» a luncheon hosted by the Canadian Bar Association of British Columbia's Women Lawyers Forum during the ABA Midyear Meeting.

Finding her true calling as an operations leader, she was named «Young Woman of the Year» by the National Association of Professional Women in 2011 and recently completed the rigorous «Reading the Law» apprenticeship program in preparation for the California Bar exam.

Articles and quotes have appeared in the American Bar Association, Legal Career Journal; BusinessInsider.com; Dynamic Search Solutions, UK; Forbes Coaches Council; Mental Floss; National Association of Women Lawyers; The Times of India; and RD.com.

Introduction of Nina Totenberg at the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Fifth Annual Conference, 1998

She has served on the District of Columbia Bar Association's Lawyers» Assistance Program Advisory Board (2007 - 2013), the 2011 Women's Power Summit on Law & Leadership Advisory Board, The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession's Women in Law Leadership Academy faculty (2004 - 2006) the ABA Women Rainmakers» Board (2012 - 2013), and the UC Hastings Leadership Academy for Women Lawyers faculty (2014).

Savannah Law Review, Editor - in - Chief (two terms, 2016 - 2017 and 2017 - 2018), Associate Editor (2015 - 2016); Moot Court Honor Board, competitor (2016) and coach (2017); Student Bar Association, President (2015 - 2016); Federalist Society, Secretary (2015 - 2016); and National Women Law Students» Organization, member.

Guest Speaker, Philadelphia Bar Association, Women in the Profession Committee Luncheon, September 2001

Honoree and Guest Speaker, Pennsylvania Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession's Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 1996

Amy is also the founder and co-organizer of Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of the one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal.

She is a member of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and served as Liaison and Advisory Board Member to the Commission on Youth at Risk and Vice Chair of the Women in the Profession Committee.

Anna is actively involved in the legal community, including as a member of the Lawyers» Association for Women (LAW), the Nashville Bar Association and its Young Lawyer's Division, the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

She has been named one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014 and was Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal.

Overall, according to the American Bar Association's «A Current Glance at Women in the Law,» dated September 2012 and compiled by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, women make up 33 % of the legal profession, while men make up Women in the Law,» dated September 2012 and compiled by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, women make up 33 % of the legal profession, while men make up Women in the Profession, women make up 33 % of the legal profession, while men make up women make up 33 % of the legal profession, while men make up 67 %.

«These statistics confirm what women, particularly in large firms, already know, which is that women are not receiving the kind of support that translates into equity partnerships and true leadership positions,» American Bar Association President Laurel Bellows said in response to the report.

Late last month, the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, the Ontario Bar Association's sexual orientation and gender identity committee, the Women's Law Association of Ontario, the South Asian Bar Association, the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, and the Hispanic Ontario Lawyer Association teamed up to distribute its Bencher Candidate Equity Survey to all candidates in this year's Law Society of Upper Canada bencher election.

Findlay has been active in the Canadian Bar Association and is the founding chairwoman of the B.C. Women Lawyers Forum and National Women Lawyers Forum, and a former 1997 - 98 president of the CBABC.

I was fortunate enough to be named one of 10 Women to Watch in Tech in the Journal of the American Bar Association.

He considers first the numbers reported by The Minority Law Journal's 2006 Diversity Scorecard and in a new report from the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms.

She is also a member of the Federal Bar Council, Intellectual Property Section, and the New York State Bar Association, Section on Women in IP.

She is a board member of the Young Lawyer's Division of the Federal Bar, member of the Association for Women Attorneys, and has been included in the Rising Stars list since 2015.

Alta May Hulett Award 2010 (Chicago Bar Association award that recognizes one lawyer per year practicing law for less than 15 years who have demonstrated the promotion of positive change and contributions to the advancement of women in the legal profession)

In 2014, Ms. Shoss was the first woman in the 100 - year history of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel to receive its Buist M. Anderson Distinguished Service Award for lifetime service to the life insurance bar and industrIn 2014, Ms. Shoss was the first woman in the 100 - year history of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel to receive its Buist M. Anderson Distinguished Service Award for lifetime service to the life insurance bar and industrin the 100 - year history of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel to receive its Buist M. Anderson Distinguished Service Award for lifetime service to the life insurance bar and industry.

Today, the Women Lawyers Forum of the Manitoba Bar Association is gathering to honour and celebrate women appointed to the Bench in Manitoba or retiring from the BWomen Lawyers Forum of the Manitoba Bar Association is gathering to honour and celebrate women appointed to the Bench in Manitoba or retiring from the Bwomen appointed to the Bench in Manitoba or retiring from the Bench.

You don't necessarily have to be licensed in the jurisdiction to belong to the Women's Bar Association of Tennessee.

There is a really, I think what you're talking about too, I sat on a diversity panel presentation for our local Louisville bar association not too long ago and one of my co-panel members who was a man from a local corporation stood up and said that he does trainings in this area and he said, «I have that people, particularly men who come to my trainings look at, I have them list all the male characteristics they can think of and all the «female characteristics» that they can think of and then I draw this line down the middle and I say women at work have to walk down this narrow line of not being too masculine and not being too feminine and finding that balance between the two and that's a difficult tightrope to walk sometimes.»

In early 2014, Minnesota's Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, met with representatives of the state's minority bar associations (Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and LGBTQ) and urged them to recruit a greater number of applicants for judicial selection.

As an active member of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's Firm Affiliate Network, the firm also encourages and supports membership and involvement in national and local bar associations, including minority and women's bars, and community organizations and activities.

The Power of the Purse, which is a program that's free, can be downloaded by anyone, can be done in Bar Association or in conjunction with in - house counsel, and it advises in - house counsel on ways that they can use their economic influence to increase diversity on law firm teams, not just women but diversity as well in all other ethnicity and other ways.

She is the author of Evernote as a Law Practice Tool, an American Bar Association (ABA) publication, a white belt in Legal Lean Sigma Project Management and Process Improvement, and the architect behind the ABA's Women of Legal Technology initiative that celebrates and encourages women in legal technoWomen of Legal Technology initiative that celebrates and encourages women in legal technowomen in legal technology.

Recent studies by the Washington and New York state bar associations, the National Association of Women Lawyer, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Catalyst, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and others, confirm that women lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barrWomen Lawyer, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Catalyst, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and others, confirm that women lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barrwomen lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barrwomen's professional success can remove those barriers.

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Member, Texas Young Lawyers Association Member, Houston Bar Association Minorities in the Legal Profession Committee and Litigation Section Member, Houston Bar Association Communities in Schools Committee Member, Association of Women Attorneys — Houston Member, Middle Eastern Lawyers Association Member, Christian Legal Society Member, Women's Energy Network of Houston Member, Trademark Committee, State Bar of Texas Co-Chair, Houston Young Lawyers Association Diversity Committee

The Associated Press reports that a 29 - year - old woman somehow obtained a Maryland State Bar Association photo ID and business card in Sprehn's name.

A few days after International Women's Day, the Manitoba Bar Association's Equality Section held a continuing professional development program looking at progress made toward gender diversity in the legal profession in Manitoba in the 20 + years since the Touchstones report was issued.

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