When: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, 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 Heather Coldwell at Heather.Coldwell@dwt.com.  Please identify if you will attend in person in Seattle or if you will participate by phone.

Join for us for a discussion of the ins and outs of nursing as a working mom.  Our panelists will discuss methods for helping preserve and sustain the nursing relationship while working, including practical tips and advice on pumping, both in the office or on the road.  The panelists will also offer their advice and experience on handling unexpected events or complications that may arise as a working and nursing mom and how employers and colleagues can support nursing moms through informal networks and formal policies. 

 

Joy MacTavish-Unten is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, Certified Childbirth and Newborn Educator and Certified Breastfeeding Specialist.  In these roles she works directly with parents during the perinatal period.  She will sit for the IBLCE exam in July in order to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.  This, in addition to a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies, has drawn Joy to continued education and advocacy work.  She also serves as the Project Coordinator for the Puget Sound Lactation Support Outreach Project of the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington, where she focuses on providing direct outreach, training and materials to employers establishing effective policies and creating a supportive environment for working mothers in compliance with local and federal laws.

 

Jaime Drozd Allen is a member/partner at Ogden Murphy Wallace, P.L.L.C., where she specializes in representing both defendants in product liability and general business litigation, as well as plaintiffs who have been injured by governmental negligence or otherwise.  Jaime is a co-founder of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group.  She earned her B.A. degree from the University of California, San Diego; and her law degree cum laude from the Boston University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Boston University Law Review and a G. Joseph Tauro Distinguished Scholar.  Jaime is currently serving her second term on the Board of Directors of MAMAS.  She is a passionate pro bono advocate, having devoted significant time to the pro bono representation of criminal defendants, children with special needs and prisoners in civil rights matters.  Jaime and her husband are parents to three kids – Sydney (6), Isabelle (4), and Jack (2).  Having returned to work after each of her kids was 4 months old and breastfeeding her children until they were 15-19 months, Jaime has experience being a breastfeeding mom in the workplace…and airports, courtrooms, factories, and clients and opposing counsels’ offices.

 

   We encourage you to attend our brown bag 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

 

 

The Young Lawyers and Social Media Working Group of the Gender Equity Task Force hopes that your members will join us in a virtual march on Washington for Gender Equity. 

   
The Gender Equity Task Force's Virtual March for Gender Equity

The ABA Gender Equity Task Force needs your organization’s participation and promotion of our virtual march for gender equity.

How You Can Help:
Participating is as simple as clicking your heels three times. Click on the link to the website: http://www.americanbar.org/groups/women/gender_equity_task_force/click_your_heels.html/  Click the vote button next to the red shoes and click the submit button. Then you have “Clicked” your heels for gender equity.

Why is this important and what is the point?

The visual of hundreds of thousands of people descending on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the sea of people coming together for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 has become an iconic representation of people standing in concert to effect change. While nothing can ever replace the historic transcendence of that day, in this new millennium a virtual voice carries the same power and ability to effect change as a physical presence.

Like in 1963, people of today still struggle with the ability to be treated equally in the work place. What is gender equity? It is equal pay for equal work. It is paternity leave without stigma. It is flexible time to meet personal and family needs, while still being able to participate and make a productive contribution to the work place. It is the recognition of the differences between men and women without diminishing the value and contribution each provide. In a word, it is “fairness.”

March with us starting on Equal Pay Day on April 9ththrough the ABA’s Day of the Woman on August 10th 2013.

Please share this opportunity to “march” for equality with your members.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the right to counsel landmark decision on March 18, 1963 (Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S. Ct. 792 (1963)), the Supreme Court and members of the public defense community have collected some links to educational materials to honor the anniversary. We are hoping you will join us in commemorating this event in your community this Law Day.

We enclose these links to assist you in accessing these materials to plan your programs.

http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/key-constitutional-concepts

http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Files/Documents/LessonPlans/RigthToCounselLessonPlan.pdf

http://vimeo.com/constitutionproject/defending-gideon

http://news.uscourts.gov/gideon-v-wainwright-50-students-experience-right-counsel

http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ClassroomActivities/SixthAmendment/sixth-amendment-right-counsel.aspx

http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources.aspx

http://www.uscourts.gov/multimedia/podcasts/Landmarks/GideonvWainwright.aspx

http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ClassroomActivities/SixthAmendment/sixth-amendment-right-counsel/facts-case-summary-gideon.aspx

http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ClassroomActivities/SixthAmendment/sixth-amendment-right-counsel/re-enactment.aspx

http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ClassroomActivities/SixthAmendment/sixth-amendment-right-counsel/fictional-scenario.aspx

mailto:aogrp_outreach@ao.uscourts.gov

http://news.uscourts.gov/topics/judicial-history

http://news.uscourts.gov/topics/united-states-supreme-court

Food from the Bar is a grass-roots campaign started by lawyers to fight hunger among children in our communities. It consists of a month-long friendly competition in the spring among law firms and legal offices in which participants contribute money, donate food, and/or volunteer time sorting and packing food at the local food banks in their communities. This year’s 2013 campaign will run from April 29 to May 24. NCWBA has been a leading supporter of Food from the Bar.

What was once "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" and is now officially titled "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" is an opportunity for those in the legal profession to introduce their children and other young relatives and friends to a perspective on what they do all day that may deepen a child's interest in the law or help the child gain a better understanding of the what it means to be in the workforce.  Women's bar associations are natural partners in this event, as they can provide networking opportunities for children and adults and expand the scope of the day's experience beyond the doors of a single law office.   Women Lawyers Association of Michigan is hosting a luncheon. Oregon Women Lawyers has often held a brown-bag event at a courthouse where children are invited to take turns sitting at the judge's bench and to learn about the various roles of court personnel.  For more about the day and possible activities, click here. Now in its second decade, the popularity of the day has waned.  For a blog post about why that might be the case, click here.

American Bar Association Nominations for 2013 ABA Medal are due by Thursday, May 16, 2013 Deadline

The Operations and Communications Committee of the Board of Governors invites your nominations for the 2013 recipient of the ABA Medal. The ABA Medal was established to honor a member of the bench or bar who has “rendered conspicuous service in the cause of American jurisprudence.”  Consistent with the Association's commitment to diversity, we encourage you, in considering who to nominate for the Medal, to include women and candidates of diverse backgrounds. Please submit your nominations, by Thursday, May 16, 2013.

 

The WSBA is now soliciting nominations for our annual awards, which are presented at our Awards Dinner in September. We ask that you strongly consider making a nomination or encouraging others to do so. This year's awards are listed below. We would love to receive nominations from all around the state. Please tell us who inspires you!

The nomination deadline is April 30, and the nomination form can be found on our Awards web page

FREE WEBINAR Gender Bias Against Women in the Law: Where We Are and What We Can Do About It

April, 18 2013 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific/2:00-3:00 PM Eastern

Although women have been graduating from law school in large numbers for several decades, many fewer women than men have advanced into senior law firm positions and leadership roles. Since 2006, NAWL and the NAWL Foundation have surveyed law firms on their retention and promotion of women lawyers, and most recently on the role played by Women's Initiatives for advancing legal careers.  The results offer surprises as well as recommendations for women lawyers and their firms.  

NAWL, the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law, the CBA Alliance, and Ms. JD have joined together to co-sponsor a presentation on the latest research into women's initiatives in law firms. Come learn more about this unique research, its implications for eliminating gender bias and the steps firms can take to advance women lawyers.

 

Speakers:

       Jennifer K. Gust, Partner, Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP/
       Board Member, Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law
       Stephanie A. Scharf, Partner, Scharf Banks Marmor LLC/
       President, NAWL Foundation

       Janet Wallace, Associate, Duggan Smith & Heath LLP/
       Vice President, Ms. JD

 

Moderator:

       Leslie Richards-Yellen, Partner/Chief Diversity and Inclusion
       Officer, Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP/Board Member, National
       Association of Women Lawyers 
 
To view the report on the National Survey of Women's Initiatives, please click HERE

 

We will be addressing questions about the survey and its results as part of the panel presentation.  Please send your questions by April 10th to Sarretta McDonough, NAWL Board Member, at smcdonough@gibsondunn.com.

 

*Registrants must be individually registered in order to be eligible for
Continuing Legal Education credits.   

 

MCLE INFORMATION*

CLE credit is currently pending in the following states: NY, NJ, IL, PA & CA