Tuesday,
August 19, 2014
Events & Programs
Philadelphia, PA
Annual Meeting
of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF)
September 21-24,
2014
The Philadelphia
Marriott Downtown | 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
The NAMWOLF Annual Meeting and Law Firm Expo is a unique networking
opportunity that connects corporate counsel from Fortune 1000 companies
and the nation's top minority and women owned law firms in a relaxed
environment. Fran
Griesing L'81 is co-chairing this year's conference, which includes
several CLE panels and prominent keynote speakers and panelists,
including Wendy
White L'75, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, University of
Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine.
Please see the schedule of events for more information
and click here to register for the three
day conference.
New York, NY
Kilgore Society
Co-Sponsoring the National Association of Women Lawyers' 10th Annual
General Counsel Institute
November 6-7, 2014
InterContinental
Times Square | 300 West 44th Street, New York City, NY 10036
Penn Law's Kilgore Society is proud to be co-sponsoring the National
Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) 10th Annual General Counsel
Institute (GCI). This event is open to all in-house counsel and
provides a unique opportunity for in-house attorneys from across the
nation and from diverse employers to share experiences.
Please click here for a schedule of events, a
list of keynote speakers and panelists, and more information on how to
register*.
*Kilgore Society members receive a 10% discount by using the code GCIPenn2014.
San
Francisco, CA
Potential New SF
Chapter of MAMAS
Penn Law alumnae in the San Francisco area are exploring starting a
local chapter of he Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Seattle (MAMAS), an organization founded in 2006 in an effort to empower
attorney mothers and encourage them to succeed while celebrating their
roles as attorneys and mothers.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact Alexis
Yee-Garcia L'10 at aygarcia@orrick.com.
Job Opportunities
Department of
Justice - Executive Office for Immigration Review, Multiple Immigration Judge
Positions Available (nationwide)
For a list of all 32 available positions and more details and
information on how to apply, please click here.
Office of the
New York State Attorney General - Division of Economic Justice, Internet Bureau -
Assistant Attorney General (New York, NY)
For more details and information on how to apply, please click here.
International
Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, International
Advocacy Officer (New York, NY)
For more details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Wolfe Research, Multiple Positions
Available (New York, NY)
For more details and information on how to apply for the following
three (non-legal, research/finance) positions, please click here.
- Associate, Institutional Equity Sales
- Associate, Macro Research
- Junior Research Associate
Legal Aid Society, Pro Bono
Opportunities (New York, NY)
Pro Bono Counsel are needed to provide assistance with accelerated
deportation hearings for unaccompanied children. For more details click here. If you would like to
participate, please complete the participation form found here. Live trainings will
be held on a regular basis beginning August 26.
Fellowships
University of
California - Hastings Refugee and Human Rights Clinic, together with
the University of California - Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee
Studies, Clinical
Teaching Fellowship, July 2015 - June 2017
(San Francisco, CA)
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with
a deadline of November 1, 2014. For more details on the fellowship and
information on how to apply, please click here.
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Alumnae Notes
Tanya Forsheit L'97
Forsheit recently
joined the Los Angeles office of BakerHostetler, as a partner in the
firm's Privacy and Data Protection team. Previousy, she worked at
the privacy and data security boutique law firm InfoLawGroup LLP, where
she was a founding partner.
http://www.bakerlaw.com/press/industry-thought-leader-tanya-forsheit-joins-bakerhostetlers-nationally-renowned-privacy-team
Carrie
Menkel-Meadow L'74
Menkel-Meadow, a professor of law at the University of California -
Irvine, recently contributed to a recent ABA Journal cover story highlighting "movies with pivotal lessons featuring lawyers" .
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/12_movies_with_pivotal_lessons_featuring_lawyers/
In the News
Smashing a Ceiling and a Lot of Egos (New
York Times 8/16/14)
Washington lawyer Michele Roberts, the new Executive Director of
the NBA Players Association (NBPA), will become the first woman to lead
a major North American professional sports union.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/sports/basketball/michele-roberts-nba-unions-new-leader-confronts-gender-barriers.html
Becky Hammon was
Born to Coach (ESPN.com 8/5/14)
With that simple news release -- headline: Spurs Name Becky Hammon Assistant Coach -- a very high, very thick glass wall was cracked. A woman is coaching
in the NBA.
http://espn.go.com/wnba/story/_/id/11313239/wnba-san-antonio-stars-future-spurs-assistant-becky-hammon-was-born-coach
Hedge Funds Run
by Women Outperform Those Run by Men (The Atlantic,
8/4/14)
Barclays' Women in Leadership Total Return Index, which consists of
American companies with a female CEO or whose proportion of female
board members is at least 25 percent, is one of a number of new funds
that aims to capitalize on the finding that companies with female
leaders tend to outperform those where women are relatively absent.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/hedge-funds-run-by-women-outperform-other-hedge-funds/375542/
Happy Birthday,
19th Amendment! (NCC
blog, 8.18.14)
On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was
ratified, guaranteeing that the right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of sex. Happy 94th birthday (yesterday)!
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/08/happy-birthday-19th-amendment/
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