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Tuesday,
January 20, 2015
Events
Washington, DC
Kilgore
Networking Coffee Hour
This Thursday,
January 22, 2015 at 8:30am
NPR | 1111 North
Capital St., NE
Please join us for a networking coffee hour reception, hosted by NPR in
its new NoMa office! There will also be an opportunity to meet and hear
from attorney members of NPR's Office of the General Counsel (including
our host, Michelle Shanahan L'91, Senior Associate General Counsel at
NPR), and a chance to tour the NPR headquarters following the
reception.
RSVP here.
Philadelphia,
PA
The 14th Annual
Penn Law APALSA Conference
Crescendo:
Amplifying the Asian-American Voice
Saturday, January
31, 2015 from 9:00am - 6:00pm
Fitts Auditorium,
Penn Law
Alumnae Erica
Lai L'08 (Covington & Burling LLP) and Sunni Yuen L'08 (Google) are featured panelists in the morning session "Peering
Through the Glass Ceiling: An In-Depth Look at Firm Life for
Minorities" (10:15am - 11:20am) moderated by Professor Christopher
Yoo.
Read more about the conference and see a full schedule here.
Job Opportunities
Civil Court of
the City of New York, Chambers of Hon. Jose A. Padilla, Jr. (New York,
NY)
Deadline: 1/30/15. For more details, click here.
Vera Institute
of Justice, Two
Positions (New York, NY)
For more details, please click on the position titles below
New York City Bar/City Bar Justice Center, Inc., Attorney
- Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Project (FEDPRO) (New York, NY)
This innovative pilot project will provide one-on-one legal assistance,
free of charge, to non-prisoner, pro se litigants in the Eastern
District of New York.
For more details, click here.
Fellowships
National Center
on Philanthropy and the Law (NCPL)'s Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF)
Fellowship in Nonprofit Law
One year fellowship at the Vera Institute of Justice, working closely
with the General Counsel to Vera and her staff. The Fellow will
also be deployed to various of Vera's projects and programs to address
the legal, business, and organizational issues confronted by these
projects and programs.
Deadline: 2/2/15. For more details, please click here. |
Alumnae Notes
Judge Alice Beck Dubow L'84
Dubow, who has presided in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas for
seven years, is running for a spot on the Pennsylvania Superior
Court. Dubow's mother, the Hon.
Phyllis Beck, made history in 1981 as the first woman
appointed to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, following her time as
Penn Law's Vice Dean.
Jill Darrow L'78
Darrow, a partner at Katten Muchin (NYC) and frequent presenter on tax
law issues, will be speaking at the 7th annual PLI RE Tax
forum in NYC on 2/5/15.
Read more here.
Beth Fenton L'98
Fenton recently joined Saul Ewing as a commercial litigation partner,
resident in firm's Wilmington and Philadelphia offices.
Read more here.
Lydia Fayal L'14
and Stephanie Shyu L'14
Fayal and Shyu were recently written up by Forbes Magazine and included
on Forbes' 2015 list of 30 Under 30 in Education for their work as
co-founders of AdmitSee, a college and graduate school application
advisory service.
Read more here.
Melanie Foreman
L'13
Foreman was recently elected to the Executive Committee of the
Philadelphia Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division, and she will
also begin serving this year as a Board Observer with Community Legal
Services.
Tara Grigg
Garlinghouse L'14
Garlinghouse has been named one of this year's Skadden Fellowship
recipients. The highly competitive two-year fellowships provide
benefits to recent law graduates who want to pursue work in the public
interest, particularly in service to the poor, elderly, homeless, and
disabled. Garlinghouse will represent poor and disabled
children at Medicaid Fair Hearings through Disability Rights Texas in
Houston, where she'll work to keep children at home with their parents
and advocate for children already in the foster care system.
Lois Kimbol L'76
Kimbol, of Counsel in the environmental law group at Dechert and Vice
President of Programs for the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group, was
recently honored at the Rutgers-Camden Law's Black Law Students
Association's Social Justice Awards Banquet. She was the first
chairperson of Dechert's Diversity Committee, she represents Dechert on
the Board of the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group, and she was also
recently named as an On Being Black Lawyer 2013 Power 100 Advocate, as
1 of 12 non-black lawyers honored for their efforts to help achieve
significant advances for diversity.
Tess
Wilkinson-Ryan L'05
A recent study undertaken by current Penn Law faculty member and alumna
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L'05, together with Penn Law Prof. Jill Fisch, was
referenced in the Motley Fool article “3 Tips for New 401(k) Mutual
Fund Investors”.
Read more here and here.
In the News
The Secret History of Women in the Senate (Politico
Magazine January/Feburary 2015)
In the entire history of the United States Senate, a mere 44 women have
served. Ever. Even today, the women of the Senate are
confronted with a kind of floating, often subtle, but corrosive sexism,
a sense of not belonging that is both pervasive and counter to the
narrative of real, if stubbornly slow, progress that many are reluctant
to acknowledge this persistent secret.
Read more here.
What Ruth Bader
Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad (The Atlantic 1/8/15)
A young lawyer puts his former boss's ideals into practice.
Read more here.
Philadelphia
City Paper, Writer, and Others Join New Lawsuit Opposing
Revictimization Relief Act/"Mumia" law (Metro 1/9/15)
Philadelphia City Paper and Staff Writer Daniel Denvir, together with
alumna and Penn Law Prof. Regina Austin L'73 are some of the several co-plaintiffs
in a suit challenging a law allowing victims of a crime to file a civil
injunction to stop actions by an offender that create "severe
mental anguish" .
Read more here.
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