NAWL Newsletter

On March 17, 2006, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) will launch its interactive job board, the NAWL Career Center. With its focus on employment opportunities for women in the legal profession, NAWL Career Center offers its members—and the legal profession at large—an easy-to-use and highly targeted resource for online employment connections.

Both members and non-members can use NAWL Career Center to reach qualified candidates. Employers can post jobs online, search for qualified candidates based on specific job criteria, and create an online resume agent to email qualified candidates daily. They also benefit from online reporting that provides job activity statistics.

For job seekers, NAWL Career Center is a free service that provides access to employers and jobs in the legal profession. In addition to posting their resumes, job seekers can browse and view available jobs based on their criteria and save those jobs for later review if they choose. Job seekers can also create a search agent to provide email notifications of jobs that match their criteria.

Visit the NAWL Career Center at www.nawl.org.

NAWL's Midyear Program, entitled "Effective Techniques to Advance Women Lawyers to the Top", took place on March 2-3 in Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations (NCWBA), and held in combination with NCWBA's Women's Bar Leadership Summit. "Effective Techniques to Advance Women Lawyers to the Top" was hosted by the law firms of Jenner & Block LLP and Jones Day.

L to R: Carole Aciman of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, June McKinney Bartelle of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, and Lorraine Koc, President of NAWL, at the Midyear Meeting in Washington, DC

The program consisted of two days of career building and networking. On March 2, Jenner & Block hosted a Coaching Seminar entitled "Making Rain, Her Way" presented by Karen Kahn Wilson, Ed.D., PCC and John Mithcell, J.D. followed by an evening welcome reception. On March 3, Jones Day hosted two panel presentations including "Setting the Debate: What Can be Done to Drive Change so that Women Attorneys can Achieve at the Highest Levels", followed by "Building Relationships: How In-House Counsel Select and Evaluate Outside Counsel", sponsored by Martindale-Hubbell. Response to the panels was overwhelmingly positive, and as one attendee put it, "gave her plenty to think about". NAWL's Midyear closed with a networking luncheon hosted by Jones Day, and Joan Biskupic, author of the highly acclaimed Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice, delivered a fine keynote speech and signed copies of hr book for program attendees.

NAWL received generous support for its programming from 2006 Premier Law Firm sponsors Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, Jenner & Block LLP, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Distributed to hundreds of in-house counsel and at all NAWL events, the Directory is the premier resource for women attorneys, indexing lawyers and their practices across the country and beyond. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to promote your practice and your commitment to diversity in the legal profession! NAWL will be accepting listing, sponsorship and advertisement applications until March 31st, 2006. Please see our website, http://www.abanet.org/nawl/directory/directory.html, to read more about the project and to access our online application forms, and feel free to email Directory editor Jenny Carlson at carlsonj@nawl.org for more information. Come join the hundreds of other women lawyers who have taken advantage of this marketing and networking tool.

The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) announced today that attorneys Patricia Lee Refo, a Partner with Snell & Wilmer, and Anne M. Coughlin, O.M. Vicars Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, have been named as co-chairs of the Committee for the Evaluation of Supreme Court Nominees. "Trish Refo and Anne Coughlin have done an outstanding job on the Committee during the evaluations of now-Justices John G. Roberts and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. They bring the complementary skills of seasoned litigator and law professor, respectively, and both have excellent legal judgment," stated Lorraine K. Koc, President of NAWL.

Stephanie A. Scharf, a partner at Jenner & Block, Immediate Past President of NAWL, and Chair of the Committee, expressed high regard for the incoming Committee chairs as well as the work of the Committee over the past year. "Every member of the Committee did an outstanding job. NAWL received enormously positive feedback about the evaluations conducted by the Committee and the balanced process that led the Committee to its conclusions. I look forward to a continuation of the Committee's mission under the leadership of Trish and Anne."

Law Students, join us for the third program in our "Transitions" series! Learn from a panel of experienced women attorneys, who will discuss the transition from third-year law student to first-year associate. Get tuned in on the basics of office practice and survival, and start your career with confidence and understanding about the real practice of law. The panel discussions will be followed by an informal networking reception, where you can greet and meet the speakers and other law students. This is intended to be an interactive discussion, so come with your questions! Registration is free.

The first WILL Academy held in 2004 offered an exciting opportunity for women lawyers who have practiced ten years or less to interact with a diverse, world-class faculty of leading lawyers and judges from around the country.

This WILL Academy is intended for young women lawyers, specifically those three to ten years out of law school. Its primary focus is career and legal skills development with an eye toward leadership. Participants will learn to take charge of their leadership potential, self-assess, build their own personal leadership plans, and hear from those who have lead the way before them. The CLE sessions will be strong on content and focused on practical, concrete advice and guidance.

While the programs are designed to attract women lawyers who have practiced ten years or less, the WILL Academy is open to all women in the profession. The Women in Law Leadership Academy will offer the perfect networking opportunity for young women professionals.

For more information, please click here or contact Veronica Munoz.

NAWL's hallmark career development series moves to the west coast! Plan on joining NAWL for the sixth program in its nationwide series, designed to jump start the process of learning the skills and information needed for career success, leadership roles, and a sense of personal achievement. Learn from the advice of experts who have been put to the test and emerged as leaders in their field of law.

CLICK HERE to register and HERE to view press release of March 6, 2005.

VIEW the program brochure

For more information, please contact Lisa Gilford.

NAWL is now accepting nominations for the 2006 Outstanding Law Student Award from ABA-approved law schools. One student will be nominated by the dean of each school who best represents the criteria listed below.

• Contributes to the advancement of women in society
• Promotes issues and concerns of women in the legal profession
• Exhibits motivation, tenacity and enthusiasm
• Demonstrates academic achievement
• Earns the respect of you and your colleagues

Honorees will be recognized by publication in the Women Lawyers Journal®, receipt of an Outstanding Student Award, and a one-year honorary membership in the Association, entitling the award winner to participate in the full range of NAWL activities and committees and to receive all publications. The law student will also receive a Certificate of Recognition. For nomination guidelines, please visit www.nawl.org.

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On January 5, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005). The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) commends President Bush and Congress for reauthorizing VAWA. Ground-breaking when first passed in 1994, the VAWA funded women's shelters and law enforcement training and also focused on other crucial aspects of efforts to combat domestic violence and sexual assault. It provided funds to treat children affected by violence and enhance health care for rape victims. It included provisions to hold repeat offenders and high-tech stalkers accountable and ease housing problems for battered women. For more information about NAWL's support of this Act, click here.

The following text is taken from the website savetitleix.com. More information and updates on this important issue to come from your NAWL Legislative Committee.

It's been 33 years since Title IX became law and schools are still not giving women and girls equal opportunities in sports. Instead of enforcing the law, however, the Department of Education on March 17, 2005 issued a new Title IX policy that threatens to reverse the progress that women and girls have made in sports. Mothers and fathers, Republicans and Democrats agree that sports are as important for our daughters as they are for our sons. The Department's latest "Clarification" ignores long-time policy and years of court rulings by telling our daughters they have to prove they are interested, while male athletes have never had to prove their interest in order to receive athletic participation opportunities.

Before this policy "clarification," schools had to make a serious effort to gauge interest, including by talking to coaches and students and surveying women's sports offered by high schools or other colleges in the region. Schools also had to examine whether their lack of recruitment effort dampened real interest in sports opportunities by potential female athletes. Now schools can simply say they've met their obligation by sending students mass emails.

Members can show their support of equality for girls and women in sports by viewing the webcast as set forth in the attached webpage. Additionally, for more information on the most recent threat to Title IX, which has been in effect for almost a year under the Department of Education's Title IX policy clarification issued in the spring of 2005, please visit www.savetitleIX.com and www.titleIX.info. The policy clarification threatens to reverse decades of progress women and girls have made in sports by allowing schools to claim they are providing equal opportunities to play sports based only on results from an e-mail survey of female students' interests in sports.

This is a conference you won't want to miss! Mark your calendars now for two days of career building and networking with NAWL. The program will include a coaching session on March 2nd by Karen Kahn Wilson, entitled "Making Rain, Her Way", followed by a reception. March 3rd panels include "Setting the Debate: What can be Done to Drive Change so that Women Attorneys can Achieve at the Highest Levels", followed by "Building Relationships: How In-House Counsel Select and Evaluate Outside Counsel", sponsored by Martindale-Hubbell. NAWL's Midyear will close with a networking luncheon, and author Joan Biskupic will speak on her book, Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Become its More Influential Justice. For a full description of the program and information about how to register, please visit www.nawl.org or email Michelle Park at parkm@nawl.org.

We are now accepting listing, sponsorship, and advertisement applications for the 7th Edition of The National Directory of Women-Owned Law Firms and Women Lawyers, 2006-2007. Published annually, the Directory has become the definitive guide for locating women lawyers and women-owned law firms throughout the United States. NAWL sends complimentary copies to thousands of in-house counsel across the country. We also distribute the Directory to professional organizations and at NAWL-affiliated events, including the Annual and Midyear meetings of the American Bar Association. This wide readership affords Listers, Sponsors and Advertisers the opportunity to promote their commitment to diversity to a large audience of potential clients. Please see our website at www.nawl.org or contact CarlsonJ@nawl.org to access more information about the National Directory, including listing and sponsorship applications.

The Legislation Committee Chairs are seeking suggestions on legislative issues of interest to NAWL and volunteers. Please contact Kristen Albertson at kristen.albertson@tyson.com if you would like to get involved on NAWL's Legislation Committee.

The International Committee Chairs are seeking suggestions on international issues of interest to NAWL and volunteers. Please contact Eva Herzer at eva@igc.apc.org or Stephanie Masker at smasker@mwe.com if you are interested in getting involved on NAWL's International Committee.

On Thursday, January 26, 2006, the first Maximizing Your Potential Web conference was presented on behalf of Foley & Lardner LLP, the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), and the National Conference of Women's Bar Association (NCWBA). The topic of the discussion was Leadership: Embracing It and Achieving It. Heather Palmer, secretary of the NCWBA, was the moderator, and the panelists included Robbin Itkin, partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLC; Cleta Mitchell, partner at Foley & Lardner LLP; and Judge Caryl Privett, Circuit Judge, Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama.

The discussion began with a definition of leadership, which includes a position or an office, the capacity or ability to lead in a direction, and the act of providing guidance or direction to others. In addition, clear and principled values, courage, and integrity were added as important leadership characteristics. It was noted that it is important for qualified women to actively seek out leadership roles.

Other topics discussed during the web conference were:
Are leaders born or made?
The difference between a manager and a leader
What factors make it worthwhile for women to pursue leadership roles?
Finding time for both family and career

Visit Foley.com to download a recording of the conference, and to register for upcoming conferences. The next program in the Maximizing Your Potential series will take place on April 20, 2006, featuring "The Retention of Women." For more information on the April program, contact Cynthia Flowers at cflowers@foley.com.

Mark your calendars now for a day of career building and networking. The morning will begin with a panel on current issues affecting the advancement of senior women in the legal profession, followed by another panel on the ways in which the corporate world addresses these issues through their selection and evaluation of, and cooperation with, outside counsel. A program on what bar associations can do to advance women in the profession will take place after a networking luncheon. Click on http://www.abanet.org/nawl/calendar/meetings.html for more information.

Law Students, join us for the third program in our "Transitions" series! Learn from a panel of experienced women attorneys, who will discuss the transition from third-year law student to first-year associate. Get tuned in on the basics of office practice and survival, and start your career with confidence and understanding about the real practice of law.

Click on http://www.abanet.org/nawl/calendar/meetings.html for more information or contact Lisa Horowitz.

The first WILL Academy held in 2004 offered an exciting opportunity for women lawyers who have practiced ten years or less to interact with a diverse, world-class faculty of leading lawyers and judges from Participants will learn to take charge of their leadership potential, self-assess, build their own personal leadership plans, and hear from those who have lead the way before them. The CLE sessions will be strong on content and focused on practical, concrete advice and guidance.

NAWL's hallmark career development series moves to the west coast! Plan on joining NAWL for the sixth program in its nationwide series, designed to jump start the process of learning the skills and information needed for career success, leadership roles, and a sense of personal achievement. Learn from the advice of experts who have been put to the test and emerged as leaders in their field of law.

NAWL has been offered an opportunity for discounted attendance for our members at the RainDance Conference, which is put on by the Legal Sales & Service Organization (LSSO). If learning to leverage your contacts into new clients, and servicing them impeccably is important in your career, don't miss this conference. It is being held at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, June 14-16. NAWL members are being offered a rate of $755 if they register before April 15 (as opposed to $905 for a non-LSSO member). Use the passcode LSSORD5 with your online registration to receive the discount. Click here to register and for more information.

NAWL has established the annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition, designed to encourage and reward original law student writing on issues concerning women and the law. Law students enrolled at any time during the 2005/2006 school year are eligible. The author of the first-place essay will receive a cash price of $500 and travel expenses to a NAWL meeting, where the winner will be recognized. The winning essay will be published in the Spring, 2006 NAWL Women Lawyers Journal.

Entries for the first law student writing competition will be due March 1, 2006. For more details, please visit the NAWL website at www.nawl.org.

Clara Shortridge Foltz of California, who in 1878 became the first woman lawyer on the Pacific Coast. She was self-taught and, wishing a formal education, applied to the Hastings College of Law at the state university. She was turned away with the now famous remark, "...it's a well known fact that the rustling of a woman's skirts distracts the minds of male students." She persevered and was admitted by court order.

Not a member? Join NAWL now. Become an active voice for the concerns of women in the legal profession and women worldwide. Join NAWL. www.nawl.org The voice of women in the law.

Welcome to NAWL News! We send this newsletter in order to keep you updated on the latest news and events surrounding NAWL and issues surrounding women in the law. This is a free newsletter, and we encourage you to pass it on to others who would be interested. We'd be happy to put them on the list!

The National Association of Women Lawyers ("NAWL"), Committee for the Evaluation of Supreme Court Nominees, has evaluated Judge Samuel Alito for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Committee has determined that Judge Alito is not qualified to serve on the Court from the perspective of laws and decisions regarding women's rights or that have a special impact on women.

NAWL's rating of not qualified from a women's rights perspective is the result of its evaluation of Judge Alito's writings, including his judicial record. On those women's rights issues that he has addressed, Judge Alito has shown a disinclination to protect or advance women's rights. Our concern also recognizes that Judge Alito will be replacing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has been a decisive vote in a number of cases involving the rights of women and laws that have a special impact on women. Judge Alito's jurisprudence in the area of women's rights has not been restrained, as some have characterized his general judicial approach; rather, he has too often engaged in strained legal reasoning to effect a narrowing of women's rights beyond the intent of statutes and precedent.

Of primary concern to NAWL is Judge Alito's stance on women's reproductive rights. Judge Alito's dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 947 F.2d 682 (3d Cir. 1991), is a pointed attack on the abortion right. Judge Alito argued that married women should be compelled by law to notify their husbands of their abortions. This conclusion—that women lack medical autonomy—was at odds with the opinion of the Supreme Court in an earlier case, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986), which affirmed Roe, condemning indirect constraints on a woman's right to choose. Judge Alito was willing to require that Planned Parenthood take on the impossible burden of proving the number of women who informed their husbands of their intent to obtain abortions. In addition, he was willing to ignore directly applicable Supreme Court precedent.

In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), Judge Alito's endorsement of spousal notification was explicitly struck down in an opinion by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the Justice he is seeking to replace. NAWL believes that Judge Alito's reasoning in the 1991 Planned Parenthood decision stems from a bias against the abortion right and is more results-oriented than precedent supports. This is consistent with the approach advocated by Judge Alito in May 1985, when, working in the Solicitor General's office, he wrote a memo to the Solicitor General expressing the belief that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and urged an incremental attack on it by means of decisions that would empower the states to regulate abortions and undermine the authority of medical professionals.

In his opinions, Judge Alito has disparaged substantive due process, a critical underpinning of women's reproductive rights. In a zoning case, Phillips v. Borough of Keyport, 107 F.3d 164 (3d Cir.1997), Judge Alito concurred with the majority but dissented in part, expressly to attack the validity of a substantive due process argument offered by the plaintiff. His hostility toward the Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, upon which Roe v. Wade rests, is another basis for NAWL's concerns.

Although Judge Alito's former law clerks and professional associates interviewed by NAWL generally reported that he has had positive and supportive working relationships with women and has appropriately hired women and promoted them to senior positions, Judge Alito's interpretation of statutes affecting women and their families further reflects a narrow reading of the requirements of those statutes to the detriment of women's rights. In this area, he takes a highly technical approach to statutory interpretation that arguably is inconsistent with the intent of the statutes in question. See, e.g., D.R. v. Middle Bucks Area Vocational Technical School, 972 F.2d 1364 (3d. Cir. 1992); Sheridan v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 100 F.3d 1061 (3d Cir. 1996)(Alito, J., sole dissenter to en banc opinion); United States v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996), cert. denied, 522 U.S. 807 (1997); Chittester v. Department of Community and Econ. Development, 226 F.3d 223 (3d Cir. 2000).

We are pleased to report that the law firms of Latham & Watkins and Jones Day have become new NAWL sponsors. Congratulations to both firms for their support of their women attorneys, and of women in the law!

Web Conference series focused on helping women lawyers make the most of their professional and personal goals and aspirations. This innovative program series will explore issues faced by women in the legal industry and provide first-hand insight, guidance, and solutions related to these issues. Simply log on and attend this interactive program from the convenience of your own office. Our first program in the series on the subject of leadership will address how to strive for and achieve a leadership position within your organization, including: 1) What qualities make a good leader 2) Defining your leadership style 3) Unleashing the leader within 4) Communication skills. The program is free of charge! CLE credits will be applied for following the program.

Understanding the decision maker who purchases legal services is critical for business development and effective marketing but this often gets lost in the day-to-day issues of practicing law. This unique program offers audience members an opportunity to select a break-out session for interactive discussion of their key marketing issues after hearing insights from both sides of the marketing story from savvy in-house counsel and a private practice lawyer. Admission is open and free to everyone, so please save the date to join the ABA Women Rainmakers for their Mid-Year Program.

Mark your calendars now for a day of career building and networking. The morning will begin with a panel on current issues affecting the advancement of senior women in the legal profession, followed by another panel on the ways in which the corporate world addresses these issues through their selection and evaluation of, and cooperation with, outside counsel. A program on what bar associations can do to advance women in the profession will take place after a networking luncheon. In addition, NAWL will hold its annual midyear meeting of its Executive Board in the afternoon.

NAWL has established the annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition, designed to encourage and reward original law student writing on issues concerning women and the law. Law students enrolled at any time during the 2005/2006 school year are eligible. The author of the first-place essay will receive a cash price of $500 and travel expenses to a NAWL meeting, where the winner will be recognized. The winning essay will be published in the Spring, 2006 NAWL Women Lawyers Journal.

Entries for the first law student writing competition will be due March 1, 2006. For more details, please visit the NAWL website at www.nawl.org.

In 1924, NAWL's vice president for California, Georgia P.Bullock, was appointed the first woman Police Judge in Los Angeles. For this distinction, she received letters threatening her life if she attempted to serve. Yet serve she did, and soon she was elevated to the Municipal Court, and thereafter to the Superior Court.

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Welcome to the first edition of NAWL News! We will be sending this newsletter out on a monthly basis, in order to keep you updated on the latest news and events surrounding NAWL and issues surrounding women in the law. This is a free newsletter, and we encourage you to pass it on to others who would be interested. We’d be happy to put them on the list! To unsubscribe, please hit “reply” and put “unsubscribe” in the subject box.

One focus of the National Association of Women Lawyers is promoting the rights of women and women lawyers. This came to the forefront early this month with Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, et al., No. 04-1144 (U.S. Sup. Ct.), argued in the Supreme Court recently.

The New Hampshire statute at issue in Ayotte requires notification of parents when a minor seeks an abortion and provides no exception to preserve the health of the mother, except in cases of “imminent death.” The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit had struck the statute down as unconstitutional. When the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, NAWL joined 31 other organizations as amicus curiae, urging the Court to nullify the statute as unconstitutional based on the lack of a health exception.

"In certain emergency circumstances, when delay of treatment poses a risk to the patient's health --even if not imminently life-threatening -- a doctor should be able to provide immediate medical treatment without notification requirements. If a pregnant teenager is hit by a car and faces a health emergency, the doctor should immediately do what is medically necessary -- including an emergency abortion, if required. The New Hampshire statute unlawfully put up a roadblock in this instance, making a doctor spend time on notifying parents or judges when the delay in treatment could jeopardize the girl's health. The case does not challenge parental notification laws outside of health emergencies,"
Explained Lorraine Koc, President of NAWL.

We are changing the look of our website! Over the next few weeks, we will be redesigning our website in an effort to make information more readily accessible, and to have the site more accurately reflect NAWL’s mission. The front page of the site is in semi-final form, and we are hoping that the redesign will be complete by early in 2006.

Understanding the decision maker who purchases legal services is critical for business development and effective marketing but this often gets lost in the day-to-day issues of practicing law. This unique program offers audience members an opportunity to select a break-out session for interactive discussion of their key marketing issues after hearing insights from both sides of the marketing story from savvy in-house counsel and a private practice lawyer. Admission is open and free to everyone, so please save the date to join the ABA Women Rainmakers for their Mid-Year Program.

Law students, join us for the third program in our "Transitions" series! Learn from a panel of experienced women attorneys, who will discuss the transition from third-year law student to first-year associate. Get tuned in on the basics of office practice and survival, and start your career with confidence and understanding about the real practice of law. The panel discussions will be followed by an informal networking reception, where you can greet and meet the speakers and other law students. This is intended to be an interactive discussion, so come with your questions! Registration is free.

This WILL Academy is intended for young women lawyers, specifically those three to ten years out of law school. Its primary focus is career and legal skills development with an eye toward leadership. Participants will learn to take charge of their leadership potential, self-assess, build their own personal leadership plans, and hear from those who have lead the way before them. The CLE sessions will be strong on content and focused on practical, concrete advice and guidance. Registration opens soon!

On September 23, Wal-Mart held its first Conference on Diversity near their corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. The conference was attended by attorneys from their top 100 law firms, and Wal-Mart’s message to them was quite clear: Support our diversity initiatives or we will find another law firm that does. The presentations were very direct and hard hitting, and after lunch a number of organizations, including NAWL, gave brief presentations about their missions and accomplishments. Attendees of the conference were urged to work with the organizations to help build their diversity programs. For a copy of NAWL’s presentation, please email parkm@nawl.org.

NAWL has established the annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition, designed to encourage and reward original law student writing on issues concerning women and the law. Law students enrolled at any time during the 2005/2006 school year are eligible. The author of the first-place essay will receive a cash price of $500 and travel expenses to a NAWL meeting, where the winner will be recognized. The winning essay will be published in the Spring, 2006 NAWL Women Lawyers Journal.

Entries for the first law student writing competition will be due March 1, 2006. For more details, please visit the NAWL website at www.nawl.org.

The entrance of American women into the formal practice of law began in 1869 with the admission of Arabella Babb Mansfield to the Iowa bar. It was accomplished by a liberal Justice's inclusion of women in the meaning of "white male person"-by novel application of a law which stated that masculine words may include females.

Not a member? Join NAWL now. Become an active voice for the concerns of women in the legal profession and women worldwide. Join NAWL. www.nawl.org The voice of women in the law.