WOMEN’S BAR ASSOCIATION NETWORK NEWSLETTER

Volume XXIII Issue No. 2 Spring 2013 Our purpose is to promote the leadership, advancement and interests of women attorneys through professional education, networking and the exchange of ideas between our members, local bar associations, business and the community. Deborah Platt Majoras Honored with the

2013 OWBA Founders’ Award the legal profession have come in a sin - gle generation. In 1952, Sandra Day O’Connor (who later became the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court) was rejected by 40 law firms and eventually accepted a non-paying first job as an at - torney. In contrast, after Majoras gradu - ated from Westminster College (where she studied social work and Spanish) and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1989, she clerked for a federal judge and accepted a position at Jones Day, where she achieved partner status. She worked for the Justice Department for approximately three years. Then, after re - L-R: Sherri Dahl, Deborah Platt Majoras and Michelle Proia Roe enjoy the evening at 21c turning to Jones Day, during her first Museum Hotel. week in the office, Majoras received a call from White House staff and at 40 be - By Sherri Dahl provided heartfelt comments on the im - came the head of the Federal Trade Com - portance of the OWBA and introduced mission. Today, Majoras has reached the On March 7, Deborah Platt Majoras, Majoras as the Founders’ Award winner, pinnacle of legal success in a corporate chief legal officer and secretary for Proc - saying “we emphatically thank you for environment by leading P&G’s global ter & Gamble, was honored during the always reaching to touch the stars and, in legal department of approximately 580. Ohio Women’s Bar Association doing so, making them seem that much Despite all of her obvious success, during Founders’ Gala at 21c Museum Hotel in closer to the rest of us.” her remarks, Majoras suggested that Cincinnati. Attendees traveled from all climbing the career “ladder” is more of a over Ohio, including Cleveland and The Founders’ Award recognizes an out - zig zag than a straight line. Columbus, to participate in this tradition standing woman attorney who has con - of women honoring women. A VIP re - tributed significantly to the legal (continued on page 3 ) ception preceded the Founders’ Award profession. Named for the OWBA’s program which was followed by net - founders, which include Ohio Supreme Inside this issue working, food and drinks. OWBA Presi - Court Justice , the dent-Elect, Magistrate Judge Stephanie Honorable Patricia Hemann, Pamela President’s Message ...... 2 Bowman, began the presentation cere - Hagle Hultin, the first class of founding mony and Denise Platfoot-Lacey, Univer - OWBA members and 26 women who at - Effective Leadership ...... 4 tended the first OWBA meeting on Sept. sity of Dayton School of Law professor Women in the News ...... 6 and president of the Ohio Women’s Bar 23, 1991, the Founders’ Award is pre - Foundation, explained the focus of the sented biennially. This year, Majoras What I Want to Be When I Grow Up ....8 joined a list of 13 other award winners as Leadership Institute and the goals of the OWBA Annual Meeting ...... 9 OWBA Foundation. OWBA President the first in-house counsel recipient since Michelle Proia Roe, Mettler-Toledo the award’s inception. Calendar of Events ...... 9 LLC’s general counsel for the Americas, Majoras exemplifies how far women in In the Spirit of Camaraderie ...... 10 OWBA board members President’s Message President I want to avoid one of day is a week away from the night I am sit - Michelle Proia Roe those cliché articles ting down to write this last president’s mes - President-Elect about the last year of my sage, and I am so grateful to have the Mag. Judge Stephanie K. Bowman presidency and how we chance to share birthday cake with him Vice President continued to move the again this year. OWBA forward. Cer - Laura Sanom In recent weeks, I have run across this story tainly it is important to Secretary that probably first showed up somewhere remind your audience Jennifer J. Jacquemain on someone’s Facebook page. It is a story Michelle Proia Roe about such progress, but about a woman who is telling her mother of Treasurer we have an event calendar for the past her struggles in life and how on some days Claudia S. Herrington twelve months to refresh us. she just wants to give up. The mother asked Immediate Past President I prefer instead to focus on what my per - her daughter to follow her in the kitchen, Jennifer Breech Rhoads sonal takeaways will be 10, 20, or God- where she filled three pots with water. In Executive Director willing, 30 years from now about this one, she placed carrots. In the second, eggs. Elizabeth Krile experience. Valoria Hoover, a recent past And in the third, she placed ground coffee Trustees president of both the OWBA and the beans. They all boiled, and then the mother OWBF, asked me in February 2011 on be - placed them each in a bowl. She asked her Grace Royalty Jennifer Elleman half of the OWBA Nominating Committee daughter to tell what she observed. to accept the presidency this past year. If Leah Sellers The carrots softened, the eggs hardened, you know Valoria, you know why I said Lori Silcott and the coffee beans turned into a deli - Judge Patricia A. Delaney yes. She is quite persuasive. Later that cious aromatic blend. The mother asked Emily Wilcheck very same evening, and amusingly coinci - her daughter which of the three objects the Judge Mary DeGenaro dental in hindsight, my now-husband daughter resembled when adversity hit. Amanda Martinsek asked me for my hand in marriage. Magistrate Sharono Dennis Did she soften and fall apart like the car - Ann Zallocco I took this OWBA office in May 2012 and rots? Did she harden like the eggs when C. Lynne Day married the love of my life three months she once had enjoyed a much softer spirit? Kristyn Huening later. On the day after I returned from my Or was she instead like the coffee beans, Laurie Avery honeymoon, I learned I was promoted to which actually changed their environment Lisa Kathumbi the top legal spot for my company for (the hot water), turning everything into Carrie A. Starts North and South America. I would serve as quite a pleasant result? Peggy Koesel the sole attorney in the legal department of Magistrate Maria McBride The parable concludes by asking, “When the Americas for a multi-billion dollar the hours are the darkest and trials are their Past Presidents global manufacturing company traded on greatest, do you elevate to another level or the New York Stock Exchange. I had this Pamela Nagle Hultin (92-93) do you let your environment change you?” role without another attorney’s help for the Mary Lynn Readey (93-94) How do you handle adversity? My take - five-month period immediately following Barbara J. Smith (94-95) away after this OWBA year is that the fight Linde Hurst Webb (95-96) my nuptials, until we could hire a junior at - is worth fighting. As leaders, we can never Laura A. Hauser (96-97) torney. Then, less than a week before the give external circumstances the permission Kirsti Talikka Garlock (97-98) new attorney came on board, 2013 greeted to alter who we are. Like the coffee beans Maria A. Kortan-Sampson (98-99) me with very serious health issues facing in the parable, OWBA members are chang - Jami S. Oliver (99-00) both of my parents within just a few weeks Helen MacMurray (00-01) ing the legal environment very much for of each other requiring me to travel out of Debra J. Horn (01-02) the better both for themselves and for those state on both occasions. Suzanne M. Nigro (02-03) not able to do it alone. Please join me in so Michelle J. Sheehan (03-04) Somewhere around these January and Feb - graciously thanking all of the members of Halle M. Hebert (04-05) ruary 2013 family emergencies, I had to our Women’s Bar for answering this most Monique B. Lampke (05-06) squeeze in work travel to India, half a magnificent call. n Pamela D Houston (06-07) world away when I wanted to be nowhere Susan E. Petersen (07-08) Michelle Proia Roe is General else but by my parents’ side. Because of Michele A. Shuster (08-09) Counsel –Americas and Secretary of Met - very sound medical treatment, my parents Lisa R. House (09-10) tler-Toledo, LLC. Valoria C. Hoover (10-11) are now doing well. My dad’s 70th birth - Jennifer Breech Rhoads (11-12) 2 News

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Anyone who has met Majoras feels her warmth immediately (she is a hugger). Accepting the Founders’ Award, Majoras reminded the room of more than 80 of the importance of treating everyone well, doing good work and being a team player. Perhaps this view stems from her up - bringing in Meadville, Penn., or from her time before law school as a secretary and paralegal at Porter Wright. She also mod - els the importance of giving back to the profession by generously volunteering her free time to speak at the OWBA’s Leader - ship Institute and continuing legal educa - tion programs. Despite all of the strains on Majoras’ time, she prioritizes sharing her experience with other women. Special events like the Founders’ Gala could not take place without the careful organization of the OWBA’s Executive Director Elizabeth Krile and generous supporters. The OWBA thanks the fol - lowing sponsors: Squire Sanders (US) LLP; Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L.; Dins - more & Shohl LLP; McDonald Hopkins LLC; Jones Day; Bricker & Eckler LLP; Thacker Martinsek LPA; Mary Sullivan at Peck Shaffer & Williams, LLP; Mac - Murray Petersen & Shuster LLP; Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP; and Reminger Co, LPA. Often, we are reminded by surveys and statistics that women lawyers’ advance - ment has remained stagnate during much of the last 20 years. Debate ensues on where to place blame for the lack of women in top legal positions. Majoras serves as a welcome reminder that women are ascending to the highest lev - els of the legal profession. On March 7, we raised our glasses to Deborah Platt Majoras, the 2013 Founders’ Award Hon - oree. Cheers to her and to all of the mem - bers of the OWBA who are achieving Clockwise from top left: John Majoras, Founders’ Award recipient Deborah Platt Majoras and success and paying it forward. n Anne Owings Ford; President-Elect Magistrate Judge Stephanie Bowman welcomes the crowd at the Founders’ Gala; Susan Schultz, Erin Rosen and Amber Reams; Elizabeth Zak, OWBA Trustee Sherri Dahl is a principal at Squire Grace Royalty and Andrea Backscheider; Celebrating the achievement of the OWBA Founders Sanders (US) LLP in the corporate re - and Deborah Platt Majoras are OWBF President Denise Platfoot Lacey, OWBA Vice President structuring group. Dahl will also be join - Laura Sanom and OWBA Trustee Emily Wilcheck; Founding member Priscilla O’Donnell attends ing the OWBA Board of Trustees in May. the Founders’ Gala. Twenty-two years ago O’Donnell joined the OWBA; Active OWBA member Mary Sullivan and OWBA Executive Director Elizabeth Krile 3 News Effective Leadership—the last session of the

BLy Neitaa Hadnsoen rship Institute On March 15, 2013, the Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation’s Leadership Institute was privileged to be addressed on the topic of “Effective Leadership” by 10 of Ohio’s finest women leaders. Beginning the day was , Ohio’s first woman Secretary of State. Brunner’s soon-to-be released memoir about women, politics, and Ohio is entitled Cupcakes and Courage. She offered two especially poignant pieces of advice: Control the nar - rative; and institutionalize changes so they are not dependent on you. Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice L-R Standing: Melinda Burton, Laurie Avery, Program Chair Angela Courtwright, Nita Hanson and Yvette McGee Brown encouraged the in - Marilyn McClure-Demers. L-R Sitting: Katie Giumenti and Clare Krumlauf. stitute class to be open to saying, “Yes!” by serving as Speaker of the Ohio House It can be a bad influence, or an opportu - She challenged the class to overcome the of Representatives. Due to time con - nity for growth. Whatever the reason you negative voice within (which turned out straints, she was unable to make her pres - are in the game, you have to swing the bat. to be a common theme among speakers). entation but she showed up in support of Cindy Lazarus, former Columbus city Justice Brown reminded the class to save the OWBF. council president, and CEO and president room in the daily schedule so that when The afternoon session began with words of the YWCA (among other achieve - really good things come along, you are of wisdom from Rhonda Comer, general ments) reminded the class to be authen - not too busy to do them. counsel and senior vice president of Na - tic. Lazarus challenged the class to be Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith tionwide Children’s Hospital. Advice that initializing—lead instead of respond. She French encouraged those present to be she personifies, Comer reminded the class encouraged the class to recognize the brave and persistent with bad actors; but that, “The more power you wield, the breadth of their individual talents. admonished the importance of keeping softer your voice needs to become.” Take Former U.S. Representative Deborah one’s ego in check. She recommended every opportunity that is presented, and Pryce ended the day by challenging the watching other leaders, but being a good do not show fear or lack of confidence. class to step out bravely. One might plan lawyer first. Kathy Ransier is a retired partner with the differently if they were not afraid to take Rounding out the morning session were Columbus office of Vorys. She reminded chances. She reminded the class to net - words of wisdom from Ohio’s first the institute class to “take off your legal work with women leaders, and always woman Auditor of State, first woman At - hat” and watch for opportunities to lead. support each other. torney General, first woman State Sena - You must be a leader in your family first. If you would like the privilege of being tor in District 2 (among other “firsts”), To be a good leader, you need to be one included in the next Leadership Institute, . Montgomery chal - of a very few. Ransier challenged the at - the application deadline is April 15, lenged the class to be persistent, but be tendees not to be shy about making 2013. Applications can be found at polite, and reminded the attendees not to friends and making contacts. www.owba.org/leadershipinstitute accept all invitations to fight. Sometimes Sandra Anderson is the associate vice n you make the best impression when you application. president and deputy general counsel for just leave it alone. She encouraged that Nita L. Hanson is a commercial litigator The Office of Legal the side door is still an opening, so look in the Columbus Office of Dinsmore & Affairs. Also a retired partner with the for opportunities in unique places. Shohl. She is the class representative for Columbus Office of Vorys, Sandy re - the 2012-2013 Leadership Institute, and JoAnn Davidson capped a public service minded the class that one has a choice the OWBA District 5 Representative to career that spanned more than 30 years 4 about how to respond to negative stimuli. the Board. News

Clockwise from top left: Speakers Cindy Lazarus and ; Effective Leadership speak - ers Rhonda Comer and Kathy Ransier; Sandra Anderson and Program Chair Leah Sellers each talked about her leadership journey; Former Justice Yvette McGee Brown shared advice on being a leader; Jennifer Brunner talks to class members about her path to becoming a leader; Justice Judith French and Betty Montgomery shared tips on being an effective leader.

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Congratulations to Justice Judith French on her re - Women in History cent appointment to the Supreme Court (April, May, June and July) of Ohio. Justice Ju - April 13, 1933 : Ruth Bryan Owens is June 23, 1972 : President Nixon signs the dith L. French be - the first woman to represent the United Education Amendments of 1972, which came the 155th States as a foreign minister when she is includes Title IX. This legislation pro - justice of the Ohio appointed as envoy to Denmark. hibits sex discrimination in education. Supreme Court on Jan. 1, 2013. April 19, 1977 : Fifteen women in the July 2, 1964 : President Lyndon Johnson Prior to her appointment, Justice French House of Representatives form the Con - signs the Civil Rights Act; Title VII pro - served at the Tenth District Court of Ap - gressional Caucus for Women’s Issues. hibits sex discrimination in employment. peals, which hears appeals from Franklin County courts and state administrative May 21, 1973 : Lynn Genesko, a swim - July 7, 1981 : Presi - agencies. She was elected to the appellate mer, receives the first athletic scholarship dent Ronald Reagan court in November 2004 and served until awarded to a woman (University of nominates Sandra her appointment. Justice French is an avid Miami). Day O’Connor as supporter of the OWBA and she served the first woman on the OWBA Board as a trustee during June 9, 1949 : Georgia Neese Clark con - Supreme Court Jus - the 2011-12 year. firmed as the first woman treasurer of the tice. .

Pat Gajda was re - June 10, 1963 : Equal Pay Act enacted, cently elected to the “To prohibit discrimination on account of July 12, 1984 : Rep - Brouse McDowell sex in the payment of wages by employ - resentative Geral - Executive Committee ers engaged in commerce or in the pro - dine Ferraro and became the first duction of goods for commerce.” (D-New York) is female partner to be chosen as the first elected to Brouse Mc - June 18, 1983 : Dr. female to run for Dowell’s Executive Sally Ride becomes vice president of the Committee. Pat is chair of the Business, the first American United States on the Corporate & Securities practice group. woman in space. Democratic Party She focuses her practice on corporate ticket with Walter Mondale (D-Min - transactions, joint ventures, general cor - nesota). n porate counseling and securities. Pat has negotiated complex, multi-entity joint ventures and acquisitions, and also ad - vises clients on a variety of general corpo - rate issues and agreements. She has advised and consulted with both privately held and publicly traded clients. In addi - tion to chairing the Business, Corporate & Securities practice group, Pat also led the Associate and Paralegal Review Commit - Learn more about the tee of the firm until 2013. Pat is a member of the Class of 2011-2012 Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation Leadership Institute, and Ohio Women’s Bar is currently slated to be Vice President of Association the OWBF for the upcoming year. n www.owba.org 6 News Thank You Sustaining Members! Deborah Akers-Parry Jennifer Jacquemain Edele Passalacqua Grace Royalty Wolf and Akers LPA Oldham Kramer Edele Passalacqua, Attorney at U.S. District Court, Southern Law, LLC District of Ohio Randal Sue Bloch Maria Kortan-Sampson Wagner & Bloch Susan Petersen Laura Sanom Martha Krebs Petersen & Petersen, Inc. Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L. Judge Stephanie Bowman Martha H Krebs Attorney at U. S. District Court, Southern Law Denise Platfoot Lacey Christine Santoni District of of Dayton School Reminger Co., LPA Cynthia Lammert of Law Angela Courtwright Reminger Co., LPA Jennifer Sardina Carlozzi Ice Miller LLP Michelle Proia Roe Davis & Young Co., LPA Helen MacMurray Mettler-Toledo, LLC Judge Mary DeGenaro Mac Murray Petersen & Shus - Michele Shuster 7th District Court of Appeals ter Julie Rabin Mac Murray Petersen & Rabin & Rabin Co LPA Shuster Judge Nancy Fuerst Catherine Martineau Cuyahoga County Common MacMillan Sobanski & Todd, Kathleen Ransier Rosemary Taft-Milby Pleas Court LLC Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Weltman Weinberg & Reis Pease LLP Co., LPA Amanda Gatti Amanda Martinsek Reminger Co., LPA Thacker Martinsek LPA Lynn Readey Patricia Walker Ohio State University Walker & Jocke Melissa Graham-Hurd Jean McQuillan Melissa A. Graham-Hurd, At - Case Western Reserve Univer - Jennifer Rhoads Linde Webb torney at Law sity School of Law Ohio Petroleum Marketers & Lydy & Moan, Ltd. C-Store Assn Laura Hauser Susannah Muskovitz Margaret Wong Thompson Hine LLP Muskovitz & Lemmerbrock, Alice Rickel Margaret W. Wong & Assoc. Alice Rickel & Assoc. Co., LPA n Valoria Hoover LLC Kohrman Jackson & Krantz Suzanne Nigro Carol Rolf PLL Suzanne M. Nigro, Attorney at Rolf Goffman Martin Lang Law Co, LPA

(WAs of Mearlchc 18,o 201m3) e NAmye Friwedma nnMemMbeliessa rMsose! r Amber Reams Buckingham, Doolittle & Chase College of Law student The Matre Law Group April Anthony Burroughs, LLP University of Akron School of Melinda Nenning Genevieve Reiner Law Stephanie Gurgol Bailey Cavalieri LLC Oakland Nursery Vinita Bahri Mehra Sherry Hesselbein Katherine Newton Erin Rosen Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter Marathon Petroleum University of Dayton School Lyons & Lyons, Co., L.P.A. Company LP of Law Kristen Brown Susan Schultz WLFC Janet Kleckner Julie Pfeiffer Butler County Prosecutor's Summit County Domestic Office Amable Bunry Relations Court Law Student Adrienne Pietropaolo Michele Simonelli Jaqueline Martin Barnes & Thornburg Village of Washingtonville, Shantae Clayborn Ohio Clayborn Law Office, LLC Crystal Miller Sarah Rathke Public Utilities Commission Squire Sanders (US) LLP Erin Woods n of Ohio 7 News What I Want To Be When I Grow Up… Wait, I’m Already Grown Up By Suzana Koch being promoted, managing files Maybe it happened for you the way it without oversight, happened for me. Or maybe it has yet to chairing commit - happen to you. Maybe you had a com - tees, running organ - pletely different experience. For me, izations. At the there were a series of moments when the office, we find our - realization began washing over me. Yup, selves bumping up I was a grown-up. against the Baby When did that happen? How did it sneak Boomer’s glass up on me? I was very busy working on ceiling. Yes, Vir - my plan to becoming an adult, and then I ginia, there is still realized I was a wife, a mother, a law that other glass partner, a member of several boards, even ceiling, but I’m re - a Sunday School teacher and occasional ferring to the one 5k participant with crazy triathlon aspira - that neither men tions. I even learned to knit, and I like nor women can knitting. I am a grown-up. break through until our parents’ genera - My next realization was, “What now?” tion (typically those I have no idea. That’s what. born between 1944 but my hard work was coupled with great and 1962) retires, if they are even plan - opportunity. Once the Great Recession I was very busy doing the things I was ning on retiring. Generally, Baby hit, the opportunities that were present for supposed to be doing to become a grown- Boomers have a strong sense of loyalty my generation are not nearly as readily up that I am not nearly so sure what I’m to their employer and are not yet ready to available for the younger generation. The supposed to be doing now that I am one. leave the workplace. Those that are retir - Millennials are just now joining the work I’m still a work in progress, still figuring ing from their primary career seem to be force, if they’ve been lucky enough to get it all out, still don’t have it all. I don’t going on for Act Two. That “having it that opportunity. think I know what “having it all” even all” Boomer mentality seems to be fol - If you’re a Gen-Xer like me, then you are means, despite being asked to speak on lowing them into “retirement.” panels about “having it all” as though I’m probably also concerned about our econ - some sort of expert. But here I am, with We are also simultaneously managing the omy coming out of the recession, our fu - my fellow Generation Xers (those of us next generation, the Millennials (with ture, and what our world will look like in born between 1963 and 1981), as we birthdays between 1982 and 2003), train - the next 5, 10, 25 years. Where will our make lifestyle choices in an effort to bal - ing them and shaking our heads at them work come from? How will we continue ance all that. because they don’t work as hard as we do to make our law firms prosper? Will our (yes, I know, this article is full of broad in-house friends ever dig out of the We are jumping jobs. I left the law firm I generalizations but it’s really just an mounds of work under which they are never thought I would leave because they essay). I am certainly not the first to buried? Will there ever be enough didn’t fully support the decisions I was compare Generation X to the middle child money, time, or resources for our friends making to spend more time with my fam - in a family, but the comparison is apt be - serving the underprivileged? You wonder ily. As a Generation, we are becoming cause my generation is bridging the gap when we will get to retire, and if we will very good at our jobs. We have been at between the older Boomers and the still be trying to keep Social Security this game long enough now that we know younger Millennials. Millennials are in a afloat. Then again, I think we have pretty what we’re doing – we are competent tough spot, and I don’t envy them. I much given up on the idea of Social Se - and skilled. Our colleagues and clients worked really hard to get to where I am, curity for us because we are constantly are recognizing our abilities. We are 8 News

adjusting our 401(k)’s and our kids’ a firm that supports me in my decision to where I should be, and that I am incredi - 529’s. We have seen our homes lose work less than 1800 hours every year, but bly fortunate to be where I am. I am rais - ridiculous amounts of value, and along I also know that I must not abuse the flex - ing my children. I’m good at my job, and with that value, our equity. We have ibility I have been afforded. I enjoy the challenges it brings. I know I come to accept that our homes will be sacrificed a full time career (and forewent I know that I am probably one of the very worth their original purchase prices some - the attending salary) to spend more time few of my generation who has not em - time in the next decade or so. with my family, and I’m glad. Others braced social media. I don’t tweet, post have made different choices on their ways We are also parents. Working from home on Facebook, or use LinkedIn. Spare me to becoming grown-ups, and those with sick kids to get a merger to the finish your arguments – I’ve heard them all and choices are theirs to make. I don’t judge line or to put the final touches on motions am still not convinced I need any of it. others’ choices because I can’t. Each of us by filing deadlines is not out of the ordi - I’ll probably join some social network makes the decisions we believe are best nary. Balance is constantly elusive, but that has yet to be created when my kids for us, whatever that may mean for each we try anyway…taking our iPhones and have joined it and I need to monitor their of us. I only know what my choices mean iPads to soccer, dance, the dinner table. use. Until then, you can send me an old- for me. A good friend of mine recently We are always, always, always online. I fashioned email if you want to reach me. told me that if things are going easily for work at night after my children are in bed. I don’t know if others in my generation are you, then you are probably in the right I work on weekends. I can’t remember wondering the same kinds of “what now” place. And so, there it is. I am in my right the last time I put my “out of office” noti - questions as me. I think I should be doing place; just where I’m supposed to be. I fication on my email. I have a reduced more…more at work, more with my kids, hope that you, too, when you find your - billable hours target at my firm, but I am more at home. I think about what else or self to be a grown-up, are in your right still a “full time” lawyer. Just because what more I would like to accomplish. place, just as you are supposed to be. n I’m not in the office on Thursdays doesn’t mean that I am “off” that day. My clients But then again, when I am still and my Suzana is a partner at Brouse McDowell expect me to respond to them in a timely mind is truly quiet, I know that I am and was co-chair of the OWBA Golf manner, so I do. I am grateful to work in Classic.

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C incinna t i n Thursday, May 2, 2013 (See all OWBA events at Online registration available at Sheraton on Capitol Square, www.OWBA.org/events) www.OWBA.org/events Columbus 9 News In the Spirit of Camaraderie By Jennifer Fuller ues to make it an attractive place for continues the mission of OWBA Presi - OWBA members and others to work and dent Michelle Proia Roe to engage corpo - Ohio’s corporate counsel women took a live. In addition to learning about the rate counsel and government attorneys. well-deserved break to enjoy a tour of the process of making vodka, all attendees The subcommittee is planning additional locally owned and operated Middle West were given the opportunity to sample the events, including a cooking event at the Spirits distillery on Feb. 27, 2013. Co- various products manufactured in the dis - Franklin Park Conservatory in April in founder Ryan Lang led an engaging and tillery, including several flavors of vodka partnership with the Association of Cor - informative discussion on the develop - ® and a whiskey. porate Counsel and the OWBF. If you are ment of the OYO brand and the build - an in-house attorney, whether in the cor - This event was attended by corporate ing of the local distillery, which currently porate or public sector, please let the counsel from across the state representing produces several types of vodka and OWBA know so that you may be in - many varied organizations including large whiskey, and is located in Columbus’ cluded in future events. n Short North district. Middle West Spirits public companies, privately held compa - is committed to using locally sourced in - nies, state courts and government agen - Jennifer Fuller is in-house counsel at gredients, to the extent possible, and part - cies. Kegler Brown Hill and Ritter LPA The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and ners with other local start-ups, including generously sponsored this event. she spearheads the In-House Counsel Subcommittee in the Columbus area. She the highly acclaimed Jeni’s Ice Cream. The mix and mingle night at Middle West is a recent graduate of the OWBF Lead - The success of these local brands ener - Spirits was the second event hosted by the ership Institute. gizes the city of Columbus, and contin - In-House Counsel Subcommittee, and

In-house attorneys mingle with one another before the tour and tasting.

In-house attorneys enjoy the tasting. An old fashioned table is prepared for the tasting.

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