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2010-2011, Issue V 2010-2011, ISSUE V In This Issue WBA/WBA Foundation Events Annual Dinner WBA/WBA Foundation Annual May 26, 2011 Dinner Recognizes Women Recognizes Women 7:00 PM EST - 9:00 PM Helping Women Helping Women WBA and WBA Foundation 2011 Annual Dinner President's Column The WBA and WBA Foundation will hold their Annual Dinner on Thursday, May 26, 2011. The Presented by: Women's Bar WBA Foundation 2011 Annual Dinner theme "Women Helping Association of the District of Columbia and WBA Foundation Committee & Forum Highlights Women" will celebrate women in-house and outside counsel pairs who have created and maintained close Featuring: 2011 Janet Reno Member News professional relationships, demonstrated that Torchbearer Award: Dovey Johnson networking and rainmaking can work well among Roundtree; 2011 Women Lawyers women, and who have personally taken a leadership of the Year: Sherri N. Blount, role in the advancement of women. This theme is in Partner, Fitch Even Tabin and About Us concert with Phase III of the WBA's Initiative on Flannery and Debra Lee, Chairman Advancement and Retention of Women: & CEO, BET Networks. Navigating the Corporate Matrix, Advancing WBA Board of Directors Women in Corporate Law Departments, which Founded in 1917, the WBA is one of focuses not only on the advancement of women in- the oldest voluntary bar associations WBA Foundation Board of house, but the role that other women, particularly in the United States dedicated to the Directors women outside counsel, can play in that process. advancement of women in the law. Our Annual Dinner helps support the Sustaining Members The Annual Dinner helps support the ongoing ongoing efforts of the WBA to efforts of the WBA to maintain the honor and maintain the honor and integrity of integrity of the legal profession, to promote the the legal profession, to promote the administration of justice, and to advance and protect administration of justice, and to Raising the Bar the interests of women lawyers. Proceeds from the advance and protect the interests of Editors Annual Dinner also help support the WBA women lawyers. Proceeds from the Foundation, a grant making organization that seeks Annual Dinner also help support the Beth Davidson to improve the lives and futures of women and WBA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) Georgetown University Law children through use of the law... educational and charitable Center organization that seeks to improve [email protected] the lives and futures of women and children, and to address legal issues Cynthia Hemphill of particular concern to women. Trow & Rahal, P.C. [email protected] WBAF Presents Grants to Board Liaison 15 Organizations at the President's Yolanda Hawkins-Bautista Column Freddie Mac Uniting for Justice Grant Yolanda_Hawkins- Awards Reception By Holly E. Loiseau, WBA [email protected] President Staff Liaison Hello WBA Community! Carol Montoya, CAE WBA I often comment that one of the great 202-639-8880 strengths of the WBA is its wealth of [email protected] programming. This strength has been on display over the months of March and April and will continue through Member News May. This issue of Raising the Bar looks at influential women (our Torchbearer Award recipient and Amy Berman Jackson Women Lawyers of the Year, Confirmed to U.S. District The WBAF presented DV LEAP with a $10,000 Communications Law Forum's "A Court "supergrant" to support their work on behalf of Conversation with The Honorable victims of domestic violence and their children. Rosemarie Annunziata"), how we Kathy Barlow Promoted & as women are committed to striving Featured for the best in our personal lives The WBA Foundation (WBAF) held its Second Lorie Masters Releases (Tax and Business Law Forum's Annual Uniting for Justice Grant Awards Reception Liability Insurance "Recipe for Financial Health"), and on April 21 at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis and the mentoring efforts that WBA has Michele Dearing Promoted Bockius. The event takes its title from the "Uniting done and is doing for young women for Justice" fundraising campaign that the WBAF lawyers in various practices Members' Firms Recognized launched in 2009. The event brought together (Communications Law Forum's "An for Philanthropy Women's Bar Association members, WBAF Evening of Mentoring for supporters, grant recipients, and leaders from local Communications Lawyers")... Welcome New WBA Members! philanthropic and legal communities to recognize the amazing work of the WBAF's 2011 grant recipients... 2011 WBAF Grant Recipients Calvary Women's Services DC Employment Justice Center DC Law Students in Court Program, Inc. Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project EduSeed High Tea Society GWAC Foundation, Inc. Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia Legal Counsel for the Elderly Mothers' Outreach Network New Community for Children Our Place DC Survivors and Advocates for Empowerment, Inc. Women Empowered Against Violence The Washington Middle School for Girls Committees and Forums Tax & Business Forum Presents a Recipe for Financial Health. A Conversation with The Honorable Rosemarie Annunziata Communications Law Forum Hosts an Evening of Mentoring For Communications Lawyers Working Parents Forums Presents Au Pair Fair 2010-2011, ISSUE V In This Issue Feature: WBA/WBA Foundation Annual This is an excerpt from Tongue-Tied America: Dinner Recognizes Women Revivi Helping Women President's Column WBA Foundation Committee & Forum Highlights Member News Professor Molly Bishop Shadel Once you are Events Women should be aware of vocal and ph May 26, 2011 7:00 PM EST - 9:00 PM WBA and WBA Foundation 2011 Annual Dinner Presented by: Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia and WBA Foundation Featuring: 2011 Janet Reno Torchbearer Award: Dovey Johnson Roundtree; 2011 Women Lawyers of the Year: Sherri N. Blount, Partner, Fitch Even Tabin and Flannery and Debra Lee, Chairman & CEO, BET Networks. Founded in 1917, the WBA is one of the oldest voluntary bar associations in the United States dedicated to the advancement of women in the law. Our Annual Dinner helps support the ongoing efforts of the WBA to maintain the honor and integrity of the legal profession, to promote the administration of justice, and to advance and protect the interests of women lawyers. Proceeds from the Annual Dinner also help support the WBA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) educational and charitable organization that seeks to improve the lives and futures of women and children, and to address legal issues of particular concern to women. About Us WBA Board of Directors WBA Foundation Board of Directors Sustaining Members 2010-2011, ISSUE V In This Issue WBA/WBA Foundation Annual Dinner Recognizes Women Helping Women WBA/WBA Foundation Annual Dinner Recognizes Women The WBA and WBA Foundation will hold their Annual Dinner on Thursday, May 26, 2011. Helping Women The 2011 Annual Dinner theme "Women Helping Women" will celebrate women in-house and outside counsel pairs who have created and maintained close professional relationships, President's Column demonstrated that networking and rainmaking can work well among women, and who have personally taken a leadership role in the advancement of women. This theme is in concert WBA Foundation with Phase III of the WBA's Initiative on Advancement and Retention of Women: Navigating the Corporate Matrix, Advancing Women in Corporate Law Departments, Committee & Forum Highlights which focuses not only on the advancement of women in-house, but the role that other Member News women, particularly women outside counsel, can play in that process. The Annual Dinner helps support the ongoing efforts of the WBA to maintain the honor and integrity of the legal profession, to promote the administration of justice, and to advance and protect the interests of women lawyers. Proceeds from the Annual Dinner also help support the WBA Foundation, a grant making organization that seeks to improve the lives and futures of women and children through use of the law. Events Women Lawyers of the Year are recognized for exceptional achievements in the legal profession and/or for extraordinary contributions to the advancement of women in the May 26, 2011 profession. The WBA has bestowed the award annually since 1964. The 2011 recipients are 7:00 PM EST - 9:00 PM Sherri N. Blount, Partner, Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, and Debra Lee, Chairman and WBA and WBA Foundation Chief Executive Officer, BET Networks. The two women met in elementary school and have 2011 Annual Dinner been longtime friends and business associates. Presented by: Women's Bar Ms. Blount is a partner in Fitch, Even, Tabin & Association of the District of Flannery's Washington, DC office, where her practice Columbia and WBA Foundation focuses on intellectual property, entertainment, and media Featuring: 2011 Janet Reno issues. She was named Top Intellectual Property Lawyer Torchbearer Award: Dovey in Washington, DC, by the Washington Business Journal Johnson Roundtree; 2011 in 2007, and named one of Washington's top intellectual Women Lawyers of the Year: property lawyers by Washingtonian magazine in 2006 Sherri N. Blount, Partner, Fitch and in 2008. She routinely handles advertising, Even Tabin and Flannery and entertainment and media matters including television and Debra Lee, Chairman & CEO, radio production deals, program acquisitions, rights BET Networks. clearances, syndication, FCC content review, and other Founded in 1917, the WBA is entertainment and media issues. In this capacity she has one of the oldest voluntary
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