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Carolyn Lamm, D.C.-Based International Lawyer, Nominated for ABA Helm
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2008 – Carolyn Lamm, an international arbitration and litigation lawyer from Washington, D.C., has been nominated to become president of the American Bar Association in August 2009. The vote was held Sunday at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Los Angeles following a yearlong, three-person race.
Lamm, a partner with White and Case, is past president of the District of Columbia Bar and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in America by the National Law Journal. Her nomination as ABA president-elect will be considered by the association’s House of Delegates in August 2008.
Lamm said she hopes to focus on building membership in all segments of the association, including young lawyers, and lawyers from both small and large firms. She said she also would work to increase diversity within the legal profession.
Lamm was a member of the ABA House of Delegates from 1982 to 2005, and of the ABA Board of Governors from 2002 to 2005. She is former chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division, and served on the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary, and on numerous committees with the ABA Litigation, International Law and Business Law sections.
Lamm is also a council member of the American Law Institute, and a board member of the American Turkish Chamber of Commerce, the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and the American Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce.
A native of Buffalo, Lamm received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and her law degree from the University of Miami School of Law.
Lamm lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Peter Halle, who also is a lawyer. The couple has two sons.
With more than 413,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.
