The Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Seattle invites you to attend

ESTATE TAX PLANNING for the Non-Specialist

Come learn what the Cliff-hanger Tax Law Enactments of January 2013 mean for you (personally), your family and your clients. MAMAS members Sandy Cairns of Carson & Noel, and Nancy Kennedy of Ryan Swanson & Cleveland will provide a plain language, practical overview of the new landscape of estate tax and its implications for your personal planning, and that of your clients.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

12–1:30 pm

Ryan Swanson & Cleveland PLLC

1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3400

Seattle

CLE Credit: Approved for 1.5 CLE Credits/Activity ID# 337464.

Registration: Fee to participate is $10.00.  Please register and pay through BigTent  (www.bigtent.org)  for MAMAS members, or pay by check to MAMAS and mail to Robin Schachter at Ryan Swanson & Cleveland . If you cannot attend the live program, please consider joining via teleconference.  (Dial in information provided upon registration/receipt of check)

Please contact Robin Schachter, 206-654-2272/schachter@ryanlaw.com, with questions.

Lawyers Helping Hungry Children fights child hunger and malnutrition through fundraising, advocacy and service. We are a group of lawyers who believe that no child should experience hunger. For more than twenty years, we’ve donated our time, skills and money to support anti-hunger work in Washington State and around the world. Lawyers Helping Hungry Children have been working since 1991 to end childhood hunger in Washington State.

Washington Leadership Institute Alumni Event

The WSBA is pleased to invite all WLI Alumni to a reception in order to reconnect and to learn about serving on the WSBA Board of Governors. WLI Alumnus and current Governor Tracy Flood will talk about her experience serving on the Board, the history of the At Large seats, and the opportunity to fill the seat she’ll be retiring September 30. Please consider attending. You can RSVP to Megan McNally meganm@wsba.org .

Friday, March 22^nd,

4 to 6:30 p.m.

WSBA Offices, 1325 Fourth Ave, 6^th Floor, Seattle (video and teleconference available)

At Large Seat Information Session

Hosted by WSBA on Wednesday, March 20^h beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the WSBA Offices (1325 4th Ave. #600, Seattle) and followed by a reception. To rsvp for this event send an email to diversity@wsba.org.

Victoria Pynchon is authoring a series of articles at Forbes in rebuttal to a piece about why women leave law firms.  The first four: A Plea To Women To Stay In Big Law;  Women Lawyers: Impressive Successes and Babies at 50; Five Sure Fire Ways To Lose Great Women; and, Young Women Thriving In Big Law have been published, with several more to come.  Ms. Pynchon is interested in interviewing a few more women who have left big law and are willing to talk about why.  If you or someone you know would be interested (anonymously, if preferred) please email her at victoria.pynchon@gmail.com

For those around the world unable to attend this event in Chicago in person, you may view the program via video webcast. Please register at http://bit.ly/13pC0tG and check yes for the video webcast. Once the webcast details are finalized, you will be sent an e-mail containing the link and instructions for viewing.

DATE: March 8, 2013
TIME: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (lunch will be served at no cost)
LOCATION: Baker & McKenzie; 300 East Randolph; Chicago, Illinois

Keynote Speaker: Laurel Bellows, ABA President

In collaboration with the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women and the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, please join the Women's Affinity Group of Baker & McKenzie to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2013 in Baker & McKenzie's Chicago office to mark the economic, political, and social achievements of women.

Organizations, governments, charities, educational institutions, women's groups, corporations, and the media celebrate the day. We celebrate the achievements of women while remaining vigilant and tenacious for further sustainable change. There is global momentum for championing women's equality, and this program celebrates that progress.

ABA President Laurel Bellows will speak on two principal issues: equal pay and domestic violence. Throughout the program we will also have an international dialogue, hearing from women around the world talking briefly about their experiences as women in their own countries, some of the struggles they believe women face where they are from, and what is being done to improve the standing of women.

Register at http://bit.ly/13pC0tG

Chicago attendees, please register by Wednesday, March 6th in order to submit your name to the security desk and for catering purposes.

Questions? Contact Dana Houpy at 312-861-8291 or dana.houpy@bakermckenzie.com

Download the brochure at http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/women/intl_womens_day2013.pdf