Wednesday,
October 22, 2014
Events
Kilgore Wine & Cheese Networking Night in NYC
TONIGHT: Wednesday,
October 22, 2014 from 6:30pm-8:00pm
Holland & Knight
LLP | 31 West 52nd Street
Get to know fellow local alumnae for an early evening break with wine
and cheese in a highly interactive and fairly informal session. Many
thanks to Leisa Lundy L'93 for facilitating and to Holland & Knight
LLP for their hospitality. View the agenda here and RSVP here.
Job Opportunities
Equal Rights
Advocates (San Francisco, CA)
Equal Rights Advocates has transformed the law for hundreds of
thousands of women and girls for over four decades, through impact
litigation, advice and counseling, and policy reform. For more
details and information on the two jobs listed below, please on the job
titles.
Huntingdon House (Huntingdon,
PA)
Huntingdon House is a program dedicated to providing services to
victims of domestic violence. For more details and information, please
click on the job title below.
New York Lawyers For The Public Interest, Program
Director - Health Justice Program (New York, NY)
For more details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Quattrone Center
for the Fair Administration of Justice at Penn Law (Philadelphia, PA)
For more details and information on the two jobs listed below, please
on the job titles.
Multinational Pharmaceutical Company - name withheld, Senior
Director (Latin America)
The attorney would be responsible for overseeing and managing the
compliance function and legal affairs for Latin America. The role
will have a dual report to the General Counsel and Regional Head of
Compliance. The role has a large compliance component, comprising
of approximately 60-70%, and legal being approximately 30-40%.
The main requirements include:
- JD degree with at least 10 years of relevant
pharmaceutical industry experience, including 5 years focused on
legal, regulatory and/or compliance matters
- Knowledge of Latin American legal and
compliance issues and FCPA requirements
- Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese
If
interested, please contact Natalie Rosenberg, Esq. Senior Managing
Director at Empire Search Partners, LLC at 212-688-9200 or nrosenberg@empiresearch.com.
Urban Justice
Center, Staff
Attorney for the Peter Cicchino Youth Project (New York, NY)
For more details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Long Island
Housing Services, Staff
Attorney (Bohemia, NY)
Two positions available for licensed New York State attorneys. For more
details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Lawyers Alliance, Program Associate
for Pro Bono (New York, NY)
For more details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Urban Justice
Center, Benefits
Advocate - Veteran Advocacy Project (New York, NY)
This is a one year position and ends on October 15, 2015. For more
details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Open Society
Women's Rights Program, Program Officer (New York, NY)
Deadline: Friday, October 24
For more details and information on how to apply, please click here.
Fellowships
Georgetown Law's
Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (Washington, DC)
Deadline: November 14, 2014. For more information click here. |
Alumnae Notes
LAS Alumni Award Winners (Engel
L'83, Sellers
L'79, and Whitmore
L'08)
Penn Law and the Law Alumni Society will be honoring three of our
fellow alumnae at a ceremony and reception next week, on Tuesday, 10/28
at 6:15pm at Penn Law.
Read more about our outstanding alumnae honorees here.
Marcy Engel L'83 - Alumni Award of Merit,
honoring professional achievement and service to the Law School
Patricia Viseur
Sellers L'79 - The Louis H. Pollak Public Service
Award, honoring a
career of advancing justice through service to others
Charlotte
Whitmore L'08, GED'08 - Young Alumni Award, honoring
the professional achievement of an alumnus/a who has graduated within
the past ten years
A full list of the evening's honorees, with detailed bios, can be found here. To RSVP for the event,
click here.
Jennifer Brandt
L'94
Brandt, a Member of Cozen O'Connor's family law practice, was recently
recognized as one of Main Line Today's "Power Women"
Read more here.
Rachel Ehrlich
Albanese C'98 L'01
Many NYC attorneys have been engaging in pro bono work on behalf of
unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally. Alumna Ehrlich Albanese L'01, is one of them, and is quoted in a recent
WSJ article, found here.
Anita Singh L'07
Singh, who previously worked at the White House on cybersecurity issues
before serving as Acting Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff of
the DOJ's National Security Division, has now been appointed the Chief
of Staff and Counselor in the DOJ's National Security Division.
Leila Vaughan
L'06
Vaughan recently joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka's Philadelphia office as
Senior Counsel. A tax specialist, Vaughan's practice focuses on
all aspects of tax planning, with particular emphasis on taxable and
tax-free corporate and partnership transactions. Read more here.
In the News
The Women Tech Forgot (The
New York Times 10/1/14)
It's no secret that people are often erased from the history of
big-tech companies. But what may come as a surprise is the number of
women who played a pivotal role but who are now forgotten. Read
more here.
Two Women Win
Spots Atop Big Law Firms (Wall Street Journal 10/5/14)
The top leadership at many big U.S. law firms still resembles a boys
club, but there are exceptions, as Jami Wintz McKeon takes the helm at
Morgan Lewis and Therese Pritchard at Bryan Cave. Read more here.
Meeting of the
Minds: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dorit Beinisch, and Nina Totenberg (92 St. Y On Demand,
10/19/14)
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former President of the
Supreme Court of Israel Dorit Beinisch joined NPR's legal correspondent
Nina Totenberg for a "meeting of the minds" as the two
judicial stateswomen and pioneers reflect on their professional
journeys, the role of the Supreme Court in a democracy, and challenges
to the judiciary in the United States and Israel today.
During the interview, she mentioned her oft-heard response to the
question frequently asked of her regarding how many females justices
would be "enough. Her response: " When there are nine. For
most of country's history, there were nine and they were all men. Nobody thought that was strange." Watch the
interview in its entirety here.
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