Tuesday, April 28, 2014
Upcoming Events
Boston, MA
Kilgore Coffee Hour
Friday, May 2, 2014, 8:30 - 10:00am
K&L Gates LLP,
State Street Financial Center, One Lincoln Street
Our Kilgore Society Coffee Hours are coming to Boston! This is a
wonderful opportunity to socialize and network with local Boston-area
alumnae. Many thanks to our host firm, K&L Gates, and
thanks to Jennifer Janeira Nagle L'07, for facilitating.
Please click here to
RSVP.
Philadelphia, PA
Kilgore CLE: Entertainment Everywhere: Licensing and
Lawyering in the New Media Age
Saturday, May 17,
2014, 4:15pm - 5:15pm
The University of
Pennsylvania Law School (Room TBD)
This year's Kilgore CLE Panel will feature the following panelists: Stephanie Abrutyn L'91, Julie Fenster
L'83, Priscilla
"Sally" Mattison L'97, Marni Pedorella L'94,
and Michelle
Shanahan L'91.
Visit our Reunion CLE Discussions
page for speaker bios and for more information on all of
our CLE offerings during Reunion Weekend.
Please click here to
register for our Kilgore CLE Panel Discussion and any of our other
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Job Opportunities and Fellowships
2014-2015 Women & Justice Fellow, Avon
Global Center for Women & Justice at Cornell Law School (Ithaca,
New York)
DEADLINE: Thursday, May 1st. This one
year position begins in August 2014 and offers varied experience in
the areas of international human rights and gender justice. For more
details about this position and information on how to apply, click here.
Legal Director, Human
Rights First (New York, NY)
DEADLINE: Friday, May 2nd. For more
details about this position and information on how to apply, click here.
Deputy
Director, Vermont
Legal Aid (Burlington, VT)
DEADLINE: Friday, May 2nd. For more details
about this position and information on how to apply, click here.
Legal
Director, New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest (New York, NY)
DEADLINE: Friday, May 23rd. For more details
about this position and information on how to apply, click here.
Director, Business
and Legal Affairs, Scripps
Networks Interactive, Inc. (New York, NY)
For more details about this position and
information on how to apply, click here and
choose 4252 in the Requisition Number drop-down menu.
Senior Attorney, Fair
Shake Environmental Legal Services (Pittsburgh, PA and Kent, OH)
For more details about this position and
information on how to apply, click here. |
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Alumnae Notes
Elizabeth Preate
Havey L'97: The Pennsylvania
Senate recently confirmed Governor Tom Corbett's nomination of Preate
Havey (currently Counsel at Dilworth Paxson LLP) to the Pennsylvania
Economic Development Financing Authority (PEDFA) Board. Click here for
more information about Preate Havey's new role within the Board and
the Board's mission.
B.B. Liu L'08: Liu, currently a Staff Attorney at the Children's Law
Center in New York, is this year's recipient of the Doris S. Hoffman
Outstanding New Lawyer Award. This award is presented by the Women's
Bar Association of the State of New York to a young attorney who has
been a member of the bar for less than five years and has made
outstanding achievements within the profession, outstanding
contributions within the WBASNY member's community, or both.
Maryam
Jamshidi L'07, Maria Pabon Lopez L'89, and Corey Sdhaimah GL'98: The
above-named alumnae have been selected to showcase their recently
published works at this year's Penn Law Alumni Author Book Signing on
May 17th at 12pm.
Jamshidi, a Senior Associate in the DC office of Miller Chevalier and
founder of Muftah.org, a digital magazine focusing on issues
affecting countries in the Middle East and North Africa, will feature The Future of the
Arab Spring: Civic Entrepreneurship in Politics, Art, and Technology
Startups.
Pabon Lopez, currently Dean and Judge Adrian G. Duplantier
Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans
College of Law, will feature Persistent
Inequality: Contemporary Realities in the Education of Undocumented
Latina/o Student.
And Sdhaimah, Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator for the
MSW/JD Dual Degree Program at the University of Maryland, will
feature Negotiating
Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for
Social Change.
Click here for
more information about the book signing and their books.
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In the News
Leaning In Without Falling Over
Sunday Book Review:
"What Works for Women at Work" (The New York Times, 4/11/14)
According to the NYT,
authors Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey offer "unabashedly
straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women." In their book, Williams, founding director of the Center for
WorkLife Law at the University of California's Hastings College of
the Law, and her daughter Dempsey address the four major obstacles
women face and offer advice on how to achieve success in the
workplace. |
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