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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Upcoming Events
Philadelphia, PA
Kilgore Society Panel: Overcoming Career Challenges
& Changes
Wednesday, June
11, 2014, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The University of
Pennsylvania Law School (Room TBD)
Kilgore will be hosting a panel of
outstanding Penn Law alumnae discussing how they have successfully
weathered significant challenges and changes in their careers, which
have spanned BigLaw, in-house, the financial services industry, and
the bench, with various pitstops and pauses in between! Come
hear their stories - and stay to chat with our panelists and to meet other terrific Penn Law
alumnae in attendance.
- The Hon. Frederica Massiah-Jackson L'74, President Emeritus,
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
- Lorraine
Koc L'83, General
Counsel, SugarHouse Casino
- Shari
Solomon WG'91, L'91, General
Counsel, Diamatrix, Inc.
- Sarah
Hammer WG'99, L'11, Senior
Investment Analyst, Vanguard
The panel will be moderated by Fran Griesing L'81, Managing Member,
Griesing Law LLC.
Refreshments will be provided. Please click here to
RSVP.
Anywhere - Online Mentoring Speaker Sessions
The ABA's
Women Rainmakers Committee Presents its Online Mentoring Speaker
Series
The ABA's Women Rainmakers Committee is making the following panels
available for free download to all ABA members:
See below for a list of featured speakers and topics, and click here for
more details:
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Job Opportunities
U.S. Department of
Commerce's Office of the Secretary, Attorney Advisor (New York, NY)
Deadline: Friday, May 23, 2014. For more details and information on how to
apply, click here.
The Campaign
for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (2 positions), (1) Legal Director (Washington, DC, and willing to consider
arrangements for working remotely) and (2) Policy Counsel (Washington, DC, and willing to consider
arrangements for working remotely)
Applications
for both positions accepted on a rolling basis. For more details and
information on how to apply, click here.
Yale Law's
Orville H. Schell Center for International Human Rights, Executive Director (New Haven,
CT)
For more details about this position and
information on how to apply, click here.
Northeast
Legal Aid, Executive
Director (Lawrence, MA)
Deadline: June 13, 2014. For more
details and information on how to apply, click here.
National Center for
Law and Economic Justice, Executive
Director (New
York, NY)
Deadline: June 13, 2014. For more
details and information on how to apply, click here.
New York Civil
Court's Housing Part, Housing Court Judgeship (New York, NY)
Deadline: Friday, August 15,
2014. For more details and information on how to apply, click here.
The Innocence
Project, Policy
Director (New
York, NY)
For more details about this position and
information on how to apply, click here.
Vera Institute of
Justice's Center on Youth Justice, Director, (NYC office preferred,
DC will be considered)
For more details about this position and
information on how to apply, click here.
Catholic
Charities Community Services, Archdiocese of New York's Unaccompanied
Minors Program (UMP) & Legal Orientation for Custodians Program
(LOCS) - Staff Attorney (New York, NY)
For more details about this position and
information on how to apply, click here (and please submit applications
to: Margaret.Martin@archny.org).
Internship
NBCUniversal Law
Department's Promotions and Intellectual Property Law Internship
for Junior Attorneys, Intellectual Property Group (New York, New York)
Deadline: June 15, 2014. For more
details about this position and information on how to apply, click here.
Volunteer Opportunity
Fordham University's
Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Office of Student Leadership and
Community Development at Lincoln Center, Assistant Mock Trial Coach (New York, New York)
For more details about this position and
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Alumnae Notes
Shelia Bapat L'07: Sheila has recently published a new book, Part of the Family: Nannies,
Housekeepers, Caregivers, and the Battle for Domestic Workers' Rights and will be celebrating its launch with with wine and, together with
the National Domestic Workers' Alliance, a discussion of workers
rights, on June 17 at the Institute for Policy Studies in DC
(starting at 5:30pm, 1112 16th St., NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC
20036).
Linda Galante
L'79: Linda, a partner in Stradley Ronon's Philadelphia
office, was recently honored by Philadelphia's Drueding Center with
the St. Kathryn
Etchells, CSR, Lifetime Achievement Award, presented in
recognition of her unwavering dedication to the Drueding Center,
which serves more than 400 homeless and formerly homeless families
each year through transitional housing, case management, and a
licensed child care center.
Galit Kierkut CAS'91
L'95: Galit was recently
named one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in New Jersey by New Jersey
Superlawyers in the New Jersey Monthly Magazine. She is a
Member of Sills Cummis Gross, PC, and the immediate Past President of
the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.
Petra Smutny
GL'13: Petra, a recent LLM graduate serving on the Austrian
Court of Appeals in Vienna, spoke last week on gender issues at a
workshop in Vietnam sponsored by the United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The training workshop
focused on the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW), and sought to equip global participants with
the skills needed to incorporate gender mainstreaming (the concept of
assessing the different implications for both men and women of any
planned policy action or legislation) into the legal document drafting process.
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In the News
The Confidence Gap (The Atlantic,
4.14.14)
Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men - and that
to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's
why, and what to do about it.
Women Partners Still Lag
Behind Men in Billing Rates, Management Roles (Wall Street Journal Law
Blog, 5.5.14)
A new analysis looking at three years of billing data - from more
than 3,000 law firms for $3.4 billion in legal work - found that
women partners command on average 10% less for their services.
Morrison & Foerster
Shines the Spotlight on Female Lawyers
(InsideCounsel
Magazine, 5.5.14)
Taking a page out of the Kilgore Society playbook? MoFo creates
a Twitter account to promote the accomplishments of its female
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