Monday, February 24, 2014 5:55 PM
2 West Coast Kilgore Events, 2 Philly Events, 9 Job Opps (NY/NJ/CT/TX), Alumnae Hannam L'03 and Mattison L'97, and more from WaPo and the WSJ...
Attachments: LA Kilgore Gibson Breakfast Invite+Agenda (3.11.14).pdf; LA Kilgore L&W Lunch Invite+Agenda (3.11.14).pdf; Hadassah - Assistant General Counsel.doc; Robin Hood Project - Staff Attorney.pdf; Urban Justice Center - Housing Staff Attorney.pdf; African Services Committee - Supervising Attorney.doc; Siemens M&A Counsel.docx
This week's Kilgore news, events, and opportunities...
Upcoming Events
Kilgore's
coming to the West Coast...with two events in LA on Tuesday, March 11 –
one in downtown LA, and one in Century City!
Please see attached
invitations and agendas for more details and to RSVP.
Los Angeles, CA
1: Kilgore LA Breakfast/Coffee
Hour (Century City)
Tuesday, March 11th 8:00am-9:30am at Gibson Dunn (2029
Century Park East, Suite 4000)
Many thanks to fellow alumna Angelique Kaounis L'00 for
facilitating, and to Gibson for hosting!
2: Kilgore LA Lunch Event (Downtown LA)
Tuesday, March 11th from 12-1:30pm at Latham & Watkins (355 S. Grand Avenue)
Many thanks to fellow alumna Cindy Starrett L'84 for facilitating,
and to Latham for hosting!
Philadelphia,
PA
1: The
40th Anniversary Conference: Penn Women's Center and Penn's Gender,
Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS) Program Celebrate Forty Years on Campus
at Penn
Thursday,
February 27 and Friday, February 28 at 5:00pm at the University of
Pennsylvania
This
conference honors the evolution of women, gender, and sexuality studies at
Penn, and the field's decades-long evolution in academia and at Penn. The
anniversary celebration features faculty and student panels on a range of
topics, including the role of gender in art, literature, health care, the labor
market, and religion. For more information, click here.
2: Women's Resource
Center's 8th Annual Leadership Luncheon
Friday, April 11th from 11:00 am-2:00pm at Hyatt at the
Bellevue
The Women's
Resource Center, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting women, strengthening
families, and building community through information, referral, counseling, and
legal and education services, will be holding its
annual Leadership Luncheon on April 11 to
honor women and businesses leading the way in helping women, girls, and
families.
Jami McKeon, the current chair-elect of Morgan Lewis LLP, which
will make her the firm's first woman chair and one of only a handful of women
in the U.S. to head large law firms, will serve as the keynote
speaker.
Click here for more information on the WRC and related volunteer opportunities, and/or to purchase luncheon tickets.
Job Opportunities
1: Assistant General Counsel – Hadassah, the Women's
Zionist Organization of America, Inc. (New York, NY)
For position description,
see attached Word doc. To apply for
this position, please contact Lisa Kanner L'01 at lkanner@hadassah.org.
2: Corporate Counsel – Amdocs (Jersey City, NJ)
Amdocs is hiring a corporate counsel with 5+ years experience and
a strong I.T. transactions or telecoms background.
If interested,
please contact Niamh Marie Blumentals L'99 at NiamhOL@amdocs.com.
3: Mergers and Acquisitions Counsel – Siemens
Corporation (Iselin, NJ)
This
position will be responsible for counseling with respect to a variety of transactional, securities, capital markets, antitrust, and
corporate legal matters.
For more
information, see attached Word doc. To apply, click here, and search by Requisition ID number
130760.
4: Professional Development Manager– Baker & McKenzie (New York, NY; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX)
This position will support two regional practice groups,
Corporate & Securities and Banking, Finance & Major Projects, to
improve and provide high quality professional developmental support to lawyers
in North America.
For more information about
this position and to apply, click here.
5: Staff Attorney for Robin Hood Project – Advocates
for Children of New York, Inc. (New York, NY)
This position will specifically work on the Robin Hood Project, which partners
with Robin Hood-funded organizations to assist clients
who are struggling with education related issues.
For more information, see
attached pdf “Robin Hood Project – Staff Attorney.”
6: Housing Staff Attorney – Urban Justice Center's Safety Net Project (New York,
NY)
This position will provide direct legal assistance to tenant associations in
the area of landlord-tenant practice. Applicants must be admitted to the New
York State Bar and speak fluent Spanish. Applications will be considered
on a rolling basis.
For more information, see
attached pdf “Urban Justice Center – Housing Staff Attorney.”
7: Supervising Attorney – African
Services Committee (New York, NY)
This role oversees various programs and projects, provide training to
legal staff, and provide services to clients. The ASC 's mission is to improve
the health and self-sufficiency of the African community through provision of
direct health, housing, legal and social services, advocacy, policy work, and
programming benefiting African refugees and immigrants in NYC and in poor
communities in Africa. Applications will be
accepted until March 1, 2014.
For more information, click here.
8: Staff Attorney – Pace Law's Women's
Justice Center (White Plains, NY)
This four day a week position will provide civil legal representation for
victims and survivors of domestic violence and elder abuse. Applications
will be accepted until Friday, February 28, 2014 or until position is
filled.
For more information, please
visit https://careers.pace.edu, select Staff Positions,
and search by job title for “Staff Attorney, New Rochelle/Elder.”
9: Associate – Murtha Cullina LLP (Stamford, CT)
The Business and Finance Department of Murtha Cullina LLP is seeking a
full-time associate with 3-5 years of significant experience with complex real
estate and finance transactions. Experience
representing both lenders and borrowers needed. Applicants should have superior
drafting, organizational, communication, and client relationship skills and an
entrepreneurial focus.
To apply for this position, send
your cover letter, resume, writing sample, and law school transcript to Beverly
Annello at bannello@murthalaw.com.
Alumni Accolades
Sabrina Hannam, L'03
Sabrina Hannam, founder and chair of the Law Office of Sabrina N. Hannam, was
recently featured by One Caribbean Television Network's program Island Innovators. The
Jamaican-American Hannam speaks about her practice and career in an interview, found here.
Sally
Mattison, L'97
Priscilla J. (“Sally”) Mattison recently presented two articles that she
co-authored at the 48th annual MIDEM conference in Cannes, France. The articles, “An Overview of Synchronization
Licenses” and “An Overview of Master Use Licenses: Film and Television Uses,”
were both published in the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers
2014 publication, “Licensing of Music—From BC to AD (Before the Change/After
Digital).”
In the News
Gender-Diverse
Boards Draw Investors
Advisers say more clients want to put money in companies that promote women (Washington
Post, 2.9.14)
Large
Law Firms are Failing Women Lawyers
“For a profession whose guiding tenets include equity in treatment and the
elimination of bias, law is failing its women.” (Wall Street Journal,
2.18.14)
*As always, please send job opportunities, updates regarding promotions, awards received, or other accomplishments of Penn Law women, and any other relevant news items to kilgoresociety@law.upenn.edu.*
