NATIONAL LGBT BAR ASSOCIATION AND FOUNDATION 2020 VIRTUAL LAVENDER LAW® CONFERENCE & CAREER FAIR WWW.LGBTBAR.ORG/ANNUAL 2020 LAVENDER LAW VIRTUAL SCHEDULE THE LAVENDER LAW® LIVE PROGRAM GENERAL ATTENDANCE SESSION: FEATURED CLE PROGRAM: WHY TRANS will be held on Wednesday, August 12 and Thursday, August 13 beginning at 12:00 pm ET/9:00 am PT and will FIGHTING THE RISE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ KIDS, WHY NOW: THE REACTIONARY last for roughly four hours each day. Please see below for more information about our featured panels, all of which LEGAL GROUPS ATTACK ON TRANSGENDER RIGHTS will include a live Q&A opportunity for the audience. Earn CLE credit and join us for our annual “family reunion” – Thursday, August 13, 12:30pm-2:00pm Eastern Time Thursday, August 13, 2:15pm-3:45pm Eastern Time you won’t want to miss it! LGBTQ+ people are under attack. Groups such as This past legislative session state legislatures were GENERAL ATTENDANCE SESSION: FEATURED CLE PROGRAM: TITLE VII AND the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Liberty inundated by an unprecedented and widespread ADDRESSING RACIAL EQUITY WITHIN THE BEYOND: THE SCOPE OF CIVIL RIGHTS Counsel have litigated for decades against same- legislative attack on trans youth. From criminalizing LGBTQ+ LEGAL COMMUNITY PROTECTIONS IN THE AFTERMATH OF sex relationship recognition and parenting, have doctors for providing medically necessary treatment to BOSTOCK/STEPHENS/ZARDA Wednesday, August 12, 12:30pm-2:00pm Eastern Time conducted trainings for thousands of law students and transgender youth to excluding transgender youth from Wednesday, August 12, 2:15-3:45pm Eastern Time lawyers, and have built a vast network of pro bono participating in sports, conservative legislators have laid While awareness of racial inequities in American society, attorneys who support their opposition to equality and bare a coordinated strategy to deny the transgender including within the legal profession, has dramatically On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its inclusion - all under the guise of religion. Following the community, especially trans youth, equal protection increased over the spring and summer of 2020, the long-awaited opinion in the combined cases of Bostock Obergefell decision in 2015, these groups increased under the law. Most of those bills have failed despite underlying inequities are far from a new phenomenon. v. Clayton County (“Bostock”), R. G. & G. R. Harris and broadened their litigation and policy attacks the cruelty of this political environment. This panel Our own beautiful, diverse LGBTQ+ legal community Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity on LGBTQ+ people, particularly targeting the most will explore these bills from a range of perspectives: is often perceived by others as being solely a white Commission et al. (“Stephens”) and Altitude Express, vulnerable in our “family,” our transgender youth. organizers and lobbyists who fought these bills, the community, disregarding the needs and interests of Inc., et al. v. Zarda et al. (“Zarda”), confirming that Fueled further by the Trump Administration, numerous lawyers challenging the bills should they become law, LGBTQ+ lawyers and law students of color; moreover, the prohibition on discrimination on the basis of “sex” members of these groups and the legions of attorneys and the research on the individuals and organizations the legal movement for LGBTQ+ equality is too-often contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 trained by them have now risen to high level positions behind this slate of hate. internally driven solely or heavily by white leadership, with includes a prohibition against both gender identity within the top echelons of government agencies and SPEAKERS: Alejandra Caraballo (Transgender Legal insufficient attention paid to issues that disproportionately and sexual orientation discrimination. The impact of the federal judiciary. This plenary session will review the Defense and Education Fund), Heron Greenesmith impact Black, Brown, and Indigenous LGBTQ+ people. this ruling upon LGBTQ+ people in America cannot be rise of power of these anti-LGBTQ+ legal groups and (Political Research Associates), Asaf Orr (National Each of us has a unique and urgent role to play in overstated: 16% of LGBT people report having lost a job their misuse of religion, and will discuss the threat they Center for Lesbian Rights), Allison Scott (Campaign dismantling white supremacy within our own movement due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, yet pose both to LGBTQ+ people's safety and equality and for Southern Equality), Libby Skarin (ACLU of and within our own places of work. Join us during our 25 states and three U.S. territories have no explicit state to the sense of fundamental fairness of a secular legal South Dakota) live program on Wednesday, August 12 for this featured law employment protections for LGBTQ+ people. This profession. Attendees will learn actions every lawyer plenary of esteemed speakers from different legal sectors win is monumental since now LGBTQ+ individuals across can take to push back against these groups while to learn more about the racial inequities within the legal the country have clear workplace federal civil rights ensuring that their own legal workplaces are LGBTQ+ community as a whole as well as the challenges specific to protections. Yet this does not bring an end to the work. inclusive and affirming. our own LGBTQ+ legal community. Our panelists will also, Our panel will analyze the combined Bostock/Stephens/ SPEAKERS: (Political Research importantly, discuss techniques that we all can implement Zarda opinion, discuss its broad impact on the LGBTQ+ Heron Greenesmith Associates), Sharon McGowan (Lambda Legal), Cathy or advocate for within our workplaces to make tangible community, and talk about next frontiers in the fight for Sakimura (National Center for Lesbian Rights), Brennan impact to dismantle biased systems. full equality under our current laws and beyond. Suen (Media Matters), Kasey Suffredini (Freedom For SPEAKERS: Taylor Brown (ACLU), Bendita Cynthia SPEAKERS: Sunu Chandy (National Women's Law All Americans) Malakia (Hogan Lovells), Justice Sabrina McKenna Center), Alexander Chen (Harvard Law School), James (Hawai'i Supreme Court), Robert Raben Esseks (ACLU), Nan Hunter (Georgetown University Law (The Raben Group) Center), Sharon McGowan (Lambda Legal) 2 2020 VIRTUAL LAVENDER LAW® CONFERENCE & CAREER FAIR u LGBTBAR.ORG THE LGBT BAR u 1701 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 3 2020 RECRUITER EMPLOYEE BENEFIT INDEX QUESTIONS 1–7 sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status? QUESTIONS 8-14 11c. Number of counsel who identify as LGBTQ+ 1.Non-Discrimination Policy 5.Nontraditional Family Planning 8.Pro Bono Hours 11d. Number of associate attorneys who identify as LGBTQ+ Does your organization include “sexual orientation” and Does your organization offer benefits that cover What was the approximate total number of pro bono hours “gender identity and expression” (separate from gender) as nontraditional family planning, such as in vitro fertilization spent representing individuals regarding LGBTQ+ related 11e. Number of other attorneys who identify as LGBTQ+ protected classes in its nondiscrimination policy? and adoptive benefits? issues, or on behalf of an LGBTQ+ organization in the last 11f. Number of your organization's top 10% highest 2.Diversity Training 6.Equal Nontraditional Family Planning calendar year? compensated partners who identify as LGBTQ+ Does your organization include gender identity/expression If so, are those benefits available on equal terms for all 9.Billable Credit 11g. Total number of lawyers, firm-wide diversity training? employees, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, Does your firm give billable credit for work that is directly 12a. Are men who identify as LGBTQ+ or marital status? 3.Transition Guidelines related to LGBTQ+ diversity efforts (but not pro bono work)? 12b. Are women who identify as LGBTQ+ 7.LGBT Affinity Group Does your organization have supportive gender transition 10.Sponsorship Program 12c. Identify as LGBTQ+ but not as male or female guidelines in place? Does your organization have an LGBT affinity group? Does your firm have a formalized sponsorship program 13. Email Signature Pronouns 4.Paternity or Maternity Leave Benefits 7a. Number of Affinity Group Members focused on LGBTQ+ attorney retention and promotion? Does your firm encourage employees to include pronouns Does your organization offer paternity/maternity leave 7b. Percentage of members identifying as LGBTQ+ 11a. Number of equity partners who identify as LGBTQ+ in the email signature? 7c. Percentage of members identifying as allies benefits on equal terms for all employees, regardless of 11b. Number of non-equity partners who identify as DNO = Does not offer this benefit LGBTQ+ Firm/Organization Nondiscrimination Policy Nondiscrimination Training Diversity Guidelines Transition or Maternity Paternity Leave Family Nontraditional Planning Nontraditional Equal Planning Family Group Affinity LGBT Group Number of Affinity Members of members Percentage as LGBTQ identifying of members Percentage as allies identifying Bono Hours Pro Billable Credit Program Sponsorship partners Number of equity as LGBTQ+ who identify Number of non-equity as who identify partners LGBTQ+ who Number of counsel as LGBTQ+ identify Number of associate as who identify attorneys LGBTQ+ Number of other attorneys as LGBTQ+ who identify 10% highestNumber of top who partners compensated as LGBTQ+ identify number of lawyers, Total firm-wide as men who identify Are LGBTQ+ who identify women Are as LGBTQ+ but not as LGBTQ+ Identify as male or female Pronouns Email Signature 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7a 7b 7c 8 9 10 11a 11b 11c 11d 11e 11f 11g 12a 12b 12c 13 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 74 Alston & Bird Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 37 100% 0% 1085.5 No No 3 9 1 16 4 0 815 0 1 0 No Altria Client Services LLC Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes 650 No No Amazon Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Arent Fox LLP Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Baker & McKenzie LLP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Baker Botts L.L.P.