Fourth Annual Roberto Felipe Maestas Legacy Award

Roberto’s life was dedicated to building the “Beloved Community”* through multi-racial unity and he deeply believed that poverty, racism and social inequity could only be eradicated if people of all races came together to do so.
 
In honor of Roberto and his legacy, the Fourth Annual Roberto Felipe Maestas Legacy Award will recognize two individuals, a woman and a man, who have exemplified Building the Beloved Community through multi-racial unity and working to eliminate poverty, racism and social inequity.
 
El Centro de la Raza will celebrate them and their contributions by making a $1,000 gift in their name to an organization of their choice. Award recipients will be recognized at El Centro de la Raza’s Building the Beloved Community Gala on Saturday, September 27th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Legacy award applicants can self-nominate or be nominated by someone else. Recipients are asked to participate in a video interview and attend El Centro de la Raza’s Building the Beloved Community Gala.
 
Deadline for application submission is Tuesday, June 9, 2014 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time. Click here to access the application.

MAMAs Invites you to attend our next monthly lunch seminar:

Parenting Older Children: Middle School, High School and Beyond

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When:

Tuesday, June 3^rd , 2014, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Where:

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, 1201 Third Ave., Floor 22, Seattle, WA 98101

RSVP: through Big Tent (preferred if you are a MAMAS member) or by email to[co-director’s email]. Please identify if you will attend in person in Seattle or if you will participate by phone.

What changes when your kids start middle school? How do you handle your increasing responsibilities at work while being a mindful parent for your teenagers – on top of juggling the after-school activities, monitoring homework, coping with adolescent emotions and interrupting random acts of mischief? Join us to hear from MAMAs who can happily report that their adult children survived unscathed, and from those in the trenches right now!

June Campbell. June recently retired from Lane Powell to start her own practice in mediation, arbitration and select personal injury matters. June and her husband, Tom, have two daughters now ages 23 and 21. June took two maternity leaves while an attorney at Williams Kastner and joined Lane Powell in 1996 when her daughters were 3 and 6 years of age. June and Tom, while both working full time, navigated parenthood through the high school and college years and continue to provide advice and support as their daughters head to graduate school.

Tina de Jong. Tina is Senior Corporate Counsel for the Farmers New World Life Insurance Company. Tina’s career spans eighteen years as in-house counsel with several insurance companies in Seattle and the East Coast. She and her husband, Leo, have a son in high school and a daughter in middle school and a few tricks up their sleeves!

Moderators: Robin A. Schachter is the Director of Corporate Relations for Gamoran Legal Consulting, the Vice-President of the MAMA Seattle Board, stepmother to three adult children and mother of one soon-to-be middle school daughter. She recently left private practice with a firm after almost twenty years as a trial lawyer.

Ellen Blanchard is currently the Associate General Counsel of Evolver Legal Services, an e-discovery and litigation support company. She is an experienced commercial litigator, the co-director of Outreach for MAMA Seattle and the proud mother of a five year old daughter and a new baby boy!

We encourage you to attend our lunch seminar meeting in person to facilitate both networking and a lively discussion.

Please bring your lunch and join us for this presentation, and meet fellow MAMAS members! Cookies will be provided.

For those who cannot attend in person, we offer the option to participate by phone.

Call in #: 888-757-0729; Passcode: 1396142354#

When attending via telephone, please use your mute button to prevent background noise, but do not place the call on hold. Some firms have hold music, which is disruptive to the presentation. If you need to leave the call briefly, please hang up and call back in when you are able.

MAMAS would also like to thank our

Platinum sponsors:

Garvey Schubert Barer

Navigant Consulting, Inc.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

and Gold sponsors:

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

K&L Gates LLP

Microsoft Corporation

Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt

Susman Godfrey L.L.P.

www.MAMASeattle.org

NYU School of Law invites applications for its new Public Interest Law Center (PILC) Fellowship. This will be a full time, two year position, commencing in June 2014.
 
 

Position

The Fellow will further develop and manage the Law School's New York State Bar Pro Bono program (for both LLM and JD students), counsel recent public interest graduates who are still seeking permanent employment, coordinate the LLM post-graduate International Finance and Development Fellowship Program, and oversee the Public Service Auction.  The Fellow will also develop and undertake a research project of their choice with a Professor or Center at NYU, dependent on PILC and faculty approval.

Selection Criteria

A primary law degree (JD, LLB or other) is required, and secondary degree (LLM, PHD or other) preferred. 2+ years’ of post-graduate legal work experience is preferred, with experience in management, program development and pro bono and/or public interest work preferred.
 
Preference will be given to creative, energetic candidates who demonstrate:

·         deep commitment to, and strong substantive knowledge of, public interest law;
 
·         excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to interact with and convey information to a diverse population;

·         networking skills, with the initiative and ability to reach out to organizations and attend events on behalf of PILC;
 
·         high levels of organization and self-motivation to successfully juggle multiple tasks and priorities; and
 
·         vision for a particular research project, or specific project area.

Selection Process

Applicants should email their cover letter and resume (in one PDF document attachment) to leej@exchange.law.nyu.edu with the subject line “NYU Public Interest Law Center Fellowship Application”. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled, but are strongly encouraged to apply by May 15, 2014.

Join the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and the Young Lawyers Division for the webinar, "Learning to Lead: What Really Works for Women in Law." For more information and to register, visit http://apps.americanbar.org/cle/programs/t14ltl1.html.

During this program, you'll learn about effective leadership techniques and how to apply those principles to women lawyers. This webinar is based upon the Commission's new book of the same name by Gindi Eckel Vincent, who will be participating in the webinar. The "Learning to Lead" book synthesizes the research and anecdotal evidence on leadership techniques that help women in all fields develop in all aspects of their careers and then condenses and focuses the information into digestible concepts that women lawyers can use. During this program, theories from the book are discussed, and panelists share practical tips and tricks for success.

Program Faculty:
* Lacy Durham; Tax Manager; Deloitte Tax, LLP; Dallas, TX
* Carrie J. Hightman; Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer; NiSource Inc.; Merrillville, IN
* Gindi Eckel Vincent; Counsel; Exxon Mobil Corporation; Houston, TX
* Margaret K. Masunaga (Moderator); Deputy Corporation Counsel; County of Hawaii; Kealakekua, HI

Thursday, May 8, 2014
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Eastern Time

10 am PDT

For more information and to register, visit http://apps.americanbar.org/cle/programs/t14ltl1.html.

ABA Member Tuition: $25
General Public Tuition: $50

Thank you - The Commission on Women in the Profession

Making it Work:

Words of Wisdom from MAMAS Members

Who are Working Full Time (or More)

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When:

Tuesday, May 6th, 2014, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Where:

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, 1201 Third Ave., Floor 22, Seattle, WA 98101

RSVP: through Big Tent (preferred if you are a MAMAS member) or by email brownbags@mamaseattle.org. Please identify if you will attend in person or if you will participate by phone.

Come join us for an engaging discussion on “Making it Work” – being a mom while working full time. Our panel of MAMAS members will share their strategies and approaches for balancing the demands of work and life to the best of their abilities, both from the in-house perspective, as well as that of MAMAS in private practice at large and boutique firms.

Donna Cochener. Donna Cochener is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine with a practice focused on corporate securities, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. In addition to her "day job", Donna is the chairman of the board of Cochener Garvey Capital Partners, a company that has been in her family for four generations, and has two small and energetic boys, ages 5 and 1, and a husband who is both a graduate student and a chronic entrepreneur, currently in the process of developing his next new company. Donna is also on the board of MAMAS and the board of trustees of the Seattle Repertory Theatre and is never, ever bored.

Andrea Ostrovsky. Andrea is a partner at Calfo, Harrigan, Leyh & Eakes where she focuses on white collar criminal defense, government investigations, and complex commercial litigation. Andrea has extensive experience defending business organizations, company employees, and witnesses in government investigations and white collar criminal cases, including cases involving allegations of environmental and safety-related criminal offenses, and in securities, health care, government contracting, and tax fraud matters. Andrea also has significant experience handling complex civil matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. Before starting private practice, Andrea clerked for the Honorable Marsha J. Pechman on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and Justice Robert L. Eastaugh on the Alaska Supreme Court. Andrea is the mother of two girls, Ada (3 ½) and Astrid (1 ½) and is wife to Aaron Ostrovsky, an attorney at BlackRock.

Katina Thornock.Katina Thornock serves as Director, Corporate Counsel, Litigation at Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle, Washington. She is responsible for overseeing tort, commercial and ADA litigation on behalf of Starbucks in North America. Katina also advises internal business units, including the company’s Global Safety and Security, Risk Management, Store Development and Supply Chain Operations departments. Katina began her career in the Prosecuting Attorneys Offices of King and Pierce Counties, Washington where she guided misdemeanor and felony prosecutions through trial. Prior to joining Starbucks, Katina gained extensive litigation experience in private practice working at the Reed McClure law firm and then Cozen O’Connor. In 1996, she graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in English and Political Science. She is a 2001 graduate of Seattle University School of Law. Katina and her husband have three young boys.

We encourage you to attend our lunch seminar meeting in person to facilitate both networking and a lively discussion.

Please bring your lunch and join us for this presentation, and meet fellow MAMAS members! Cookies will be provided.

For those who cannot attend in person, we offer the option to participate by phone.

Call in #: 888-757-0729; Passcode: 1396142354#

When attending via telephone, please use your mute button to prevent background noise, but do not place the call on hold. Some firms have hold music, which is disruptive to the presentation. If you need to leave the call briefly, please hang up and call back in when you are able.

MAMAS would also like to thank our

Platinum sponsors:

Garvey Schubert Barer

Navigant Consulting, Inc.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

and Gold sponsors:

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

K&L Gates LLP

Microsoft Corporation

Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt

Susman Godfrey L.L.P.

www.MAMASeattle.org

Gates Public Service Law Speaker Series
Professor Thomas Buergenthal

“Becoming an International Judge via the Holocaust”

Monday, May 5, 2014

4:30-5:30 pm, William Gates Hall, Room 138

Reception to follow at the Burke Museum

celebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of the

UW Center for Human Rights

 For complete topic information: http://www.law.washington.edu/Calendar/EventDetails.aspx?id=28717&date=5/5/2014

For the convenience of folks traveling to Seattle to attend our 2014 Banquet, this CLE will be held the day following the Banquet. You are also eagerly invited to attend the Banquet, which will be April 17th, with a cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m. and dinner beginning at 7:00, at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. The QLaw Banquet is one of the best attended minority bar events, with more than 400 guests attending each year, including judges, elected officials, and community leaders. Register for the Banquet while seats are still available!

We hope you will join us for the CLE and Banquet to celebrate the progress made in legal rights in Washington and nationwide in the past year!

Seattle University School of Law
 is proud to present
Professor Eric K. Yamamoto
 
“Repudiating the Supreme Court's WWII
Japanese American Rulings”
 
His lecture is based on the release of his co-authored book "Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment" (second edition) (Aspen 2013) (with Margaret Chon,  Carol L. Izumi, Jerry Kang, and Frank H. Wu)

Responses provided by:
 
Margaret Chon
 Donald and Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice
 
Lori Bannai
 Professor of Lawyering Skills and Director,
 Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
 
 
 
Tuesday, April 15
 Room C5, Sullivan Hall, 4:30 p.m.
 Reception to follow

The event is open to all, but RSVPs are requested.

The WSBA Civil Rights Law Section would like to invite and encourage you to contribute an article for the upcoming WSBA Civil Rights Law Section Newsletter.  The general theme for the upcoming newsletter will be: Civil Rights in the 21st Century (though we will consider articles on any topic regarding civil rights).

Submission deadline: May 15, 2014

To submit an article for possible inclusion in the spring newsletter, please send the article, author’s name, contact information, and a short biography to Callie Sechrist at calandra.sechrist@k12.wa.us, or Nancy Talner at ntalner@aol.com by May 15, 2014.

About the WSBA Civil Rights Law Section

The Civil Rights Law Section evolved from the WSBA Civil Rights Committee, which had been the primary WSBA entity focusing on civil rights law. The Section addresses all aspects of civil rights law and policy in Washington state as it implements its mission to educate, advocate, and improve the practice of our members in the area of civil rights law.

I am contacting your organization on behalf of Family Law CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of King County, which is a non-profit organization that assists with family court cases regarding the custody and safety of the children involved. Family Law CASA is committed to providing an Advocate for every child who needs one. Advocates serve as a critical link between the courts, the families, and the children caught in the middle. Through this program, our volunteer Advocates provide the court with a comprehensive account of each child’s life, bringing clarity and insight to complex custody cases.

 If your organization is interested, we would greatly appreciate an opportunity to meet with a representative to discuss volunteering opportunities. Our Advocates assist our organization in some of the toughest custody cases, with the help of our staff who are experienced in social work. If any of your members are interested in positively impacting a child’s life, please inform them of our volunteer program.

 Please contact me at (206) 748-9700 or rmennes@familylawcasa.org if you are able to meet to discuss an opportunity to meet. Thank you for your time and for considering this request. We look forward to working with you and creating a stronger community.