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Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Vol. 14, No. 7 March 2010 promoting the full participation of women lawyers and judges in the legal profession advocating principles of fairness and equality improving the status of women in our society -Excerpts from the WLALA Mission Statement NEWSLETTER President’s Message - page 2 Business Development at Each Stage of Your Career - page 3 Thank You to our Annual Giving Contributors - page 3 2010 Litigators Forum - page 5 Justice Gap Fund - page 6 Calendar of Events - page 7 Become a WLALA Officer - page 8 In This Issue... by Julie Goulet 2010 Litigators Forum Tech Matters: The Convergence of the E- Revolution and Your Litigation Practice Established 1919 Continuing a yearly tradition of outstanding programs, WLALA is delighted to announce the fifteenth annual Litigators Forum — TECH MATTERS: The Convergence of the E-Revolution and Your Litigation Practice — sched- uled for Monday, March 15, 2010 at the downtown of- fice of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). The 2010 Litigators Forum will focus on two of the most current issues in the law today: the effect of technology on the law, and the merger of law and technology, on both a substantive and practical level. This program will feature insights from world-class attorneys, in-house counsel, a Special Master, e-discovery consultants, a pro- fessor, a retired judge now a practicing mediator/arbitra- tor, and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. The pro- gram will begin at 8:30 am and continue until noon, fol- lowed by a luncheon with keynote speaker Sharon Barner, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The breakfast is spon- sored by eClaris, Inc. and the lunch is sponsored by JAMS. The program will be divided into two segments. Our expert panelists will discuss legal developments triggered by technology as well as ethical issues brought to the fore by technology and “New Media.” The panelists for the first segment of the Forum will address issues involving globalization, trade secrets, white collar crime, intellectual property and patent law, and antitrust issues. The panelists will include: Judith Bain. Ms. Bain is Vice President, Legal Af- fairs and General Counsel for Epson America, Inc., a subsidiary of Seiko Epson Corporation. Seiko Epson is a global manufacturer of high quality and energy efficient computer peripheral products. Ms. Bain founded the Epson America Legal Affairs Department in 1986. As Epson America’s General Counsel, Ms. Bain oversees the legal issues arising from the development, market- ing, sales, and support of these products in a rapidly changing and multi-national business environment. Janet Levine. Ms. Levine is partner in Crowell & Moring LLP’s Los Angeles office and Chair of their White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group. She is an ex- perienced trial and appellate attorney, with extensive ex- perience in espionage, securities, health care, tax and public corruption matters. She has represented politicians, judges, and licensed professionals in myriad industries, providing defenses against governmental accusations of wrongdoing. Jack Lerner. Mr. Lerner is Clinical Assistant Profes- sor of Law and Director of the University of Southern Cali- fornia (USC) Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic. Before joining USC, Professor Lerner was Clinic Fellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Prior to his position at Boalt Hall, Mr. Lerner was in private practice and was a research fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Professor Lerner is the Executive Editor of Internet Law & Practice in California, 2008 Revision (CEB 2004), and contributed the “Copyrights and the DMCA” and “Content Clearances, Licensing, and Fair Use” chap- ters. Professor Lerner’s most recent publications include: Intellectual Property and Development at WHO and WIPO, in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, and Taking the “Long View” on the Fourth Amendment: Stored Records and the Sanctity of the Home, published in the Stanford Technology Law Review with Deirdre K. Mulligan. Minda Schechter. Ms. Schechter is Of Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP and part of their Business Law and Intellectual Property groups. As both an antitrust expert and a registered patent attorney, Ms. Schechter’s practice primarily involves issues involving the cross-over between antitrust and patent law. In particular, her practice focuses on standard setting, patent pooling, licensing and related litigation. Ms. Schechter was previously a member of the full time faculties of Columbia Law School in New York and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. The first panel will be moderated by Tanya L. Forsheit. Ms. Forsheit is one of the founding partners of the InformationLawGroup, based in Los Angeles, California. Tanya founded the InformationLawGroup after twelve continued on page 4
Transcript of Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Women Lawyers Association of
Los Angeles
Vol. 14, No. 7 March 2010
promoting
the full
participation
of women
lawyers and
judges in the
legal profession
advocating
principles of
fairness and
equality
improving
the status of
women
in our society
-Excerpts from
the WLALA
Mission
Statement
NEWSLETTER
President’s Message - page 2
Business Development at Each Stage of Your Career - page 3
Thank You to our Annual Giving Contributors - page 3
2010 Litigators Forum - page 5
Justice Gap Fund - page 6
Calendar of Events - page 7
Become a WLALA Officer - page 8
In This Issue...
by Julie Goulet
2010 Litigators ForumTech Matters: The Convergence of the E- Revolution and Your Litigation Practice
Established 1919
Continuing a yearly tradition of outstanding programs,WLALA is delighted to announce the fifteenth annualLitigators Forum — TECH MATTERS: The Convergenceof the E-Revolution and Your Litigation Practice — sched-uled for Monday, March 15, 2010 at the downtown of-fice of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA).The 2010 Litigators Forum will focus on two of the mostcurrent issues in the law today: the effect of technologyon the law, and the merger of law and technology, onboth a substantive and practical level. This program willfeature insights from world-class attorneys, in-housecounsel, a Special Master, e-discovery consultants, a pro-fessor, a retired judge now a practicing mediator/arbitra-tor, and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. The pro-gram will begin at 8:30 am and continue until noon, fol-lowed by a luncheon with keynote speaker Sharon Barner,Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for IntellectualProperty and Deputy Director of the United States Patentand Trademark Office (USPTO). The breakfast is spon-sored by eClaris, Inc. and the lunch is sponsored byJAMS. The program will be divided into two segments. Ourexpert panelists will discuss legal developments triggeredby technology as well as ethical issues brought to thefore by technology and “New Media.” The panelists for the first segment of the Forum willaddress issues involving globalization, trade secrets, whitecollar crime, intellectual property and patent law, andantitrust issues. The panelists will include: Judith Bain. Ms. Bain is Vice President, Legal Af-fairs and General Counsel for Epson America, Inc., asubsidiary of Seiko Epson Corporation. Seiko Epson is aglobal manufacturer of high quality and energy efficientcomputer peripheral products. Ms. Bain founded theEpson America Legal Affairs Department in 1986. AsEpson America’s General Counsel, Ms. Bain overseesthe legal issues arising from the development, market-ing, sales, and support of these products in a rapidlychanging and multi-national business environment. Janet Levine. Ms. Levine is partner in Crowell &Moring LLP’s Los Angeles office and Chair of their WhiteCollar & Regulatory Enforcement Group. She is an ex-perienced trial and appellate attorney, with extensive ex-perience in espionage, securities, health care, tax andpublic corruption matters. She has represented politicians,judges, and licensed professionals in myriad industries,providing defenses against governmental accusations ofwrongdoing.
Jack Lerner. Mr. Lerner is Clinical Assistant Profes-sor of Law and Director of the University of Southern Cali-fornia (USC) Intellectual Property and Technology LawClinic. Before joining USC, Professor Lerner was ClinicFellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public PolicyClinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School ofLaw (Boalt Hall). Prior to his position at Boalt Hall, Mr.Lerner was in private practice and was a research fellowwith the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at HarvardLaw School. Professor Lerner is the Executive Editor ofInternet Law & Practice in California, 2008 Revision (CEB2004), and contributed the “Copyrights and the DMCA”and “Content Clearances, Licensing, and Fair Use” chap-ters. Professor Lerner’s most recent publications include:Intellectual Property and Development at WHO and WIPO,in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, and Takingthe “Long View” on the Fourth Amendment: Stored Recordsand the Sanctity of the Home, published in the StanfordTechnology Law Review with Deirdre K. Mulligan. Minda Schechter. Ms. Schechter is Of Counsel in theLos Angeles office of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLPand part of their Business Law and Intellectual Propertygroups. As both an antitrust expert and a registered patentattorney, Ms. Schechter’s practice primarily involvesissues involving the cross-over between antitrust and patentlaw. In particular, her practice focuses on standard setting,patent pooling, licensing and related litigation. Ms. Schechterwas previously a member of the full time faculties ofColumbia Law School in New York and Loyola Law Schoolin Los Angeles. The first panel will be moderated by Tanya L. Forsheit.Ms. Forsheit is one of the founding partners of theInformationLawGroup, based in Los Angeles, California.Tanya founded the InformationLawGroup after twelve
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by Helen B. Kim
March is Women’s History
Month. One of the purposes ofWomen’s History Month is to re-mind us to remember and to appre-ciate the contributions of womentrailblazers who paved the way forwomen today. It is also a time totake stock of where women standtoday and to assess whether we con-tinue to make progress towards ourgoals. Fortunately, at WLALA, withthe support of our members, appreciatingwomen trailblazers is not limited to the monthof March. We work to preserve women’s legalhistory year-round. For several years,WLALA’s History Project, chaired by PastPresident Eileen Decker, has been recording theoral histories of women legal pioneers in LosAngeles. In interviews conducted by Eileen andother WLALA Board members and volunteers,these women trailblazers discuss the challengesthat they, as women lawyers, faced and over-came during the course of their careers. WLALAhas archived the full recordings of these inter-views, which have been captured on audiotapeand/or videotape. Eileen has been working dili-gently to produce a film based on a series ofclips from these interviews. I know that, formany of us, the 13-minute preview, shown atlast September’s Annual Installation and AwardsDinner, was the highlight of the evening. Wehope to finish the film this year so that it can bedistributed to law schools and the legal commu-nity. It is undeniable that women have made im-pressive strides in the legal profession since1878, when Clara Shortridge Foltz became thefirst woman lawyer admitted to practice law inthe State of California. But recent reports, aswell as anecdotal evidence, underscore the needto take steps today to ensure that recent gainsare not lost. In early February, the AmericanBar Association released a report entitled, “Di-versity in the Legal Profession: The Next Steps,”finding that the recession has resulted in“downsizing and cutbacks that may dispropor-tionately and negatively affect lawyer diversity– thereby undoing the gains of past decades.”(See http://new.abanet.org/centers/diversity/Publ icDocuments /Divers i ty_Summary_Report.pdf, at p.10) The report’s finding ishardly surprising. While many of our most re-cent law school graduates have found their startdates deferred by employers, just as many, ifnot more, practicing attorneys have lost theirjobs. Nearly everyone I know has heard storiesof part-time attorneys, of counsels and non-equity partners suffering the brunt of these cut-backs. For some, it is easy to justify these cutsas being driven by profitability determinationsand the mentality of “last in, first out.” But itshould come as no surprise that some of thesecuts have fallen disproportionately on women,who comprise the vast bulk of part-time attor-neys (74% of part-time attorneys are women,according to NALP) and a small fraction of eq-uity partners (only 16% of equity partners arewomen according to another recent ABA study
(see http://www.abajournal.com/n e w s / a r t i c l e / s t u d y _ f i n d s _astounding_absence_of_women_in_top_rainmaking_roles/). Indeed, layoffsof part-time lawyers fell dispropor-tionately on women, even after tak-ing into account that women fill themajority of part-time positions. Ac-cording to the ABA’s study, virtu-ally all of the part-time lawyers laidoff were women. The business case for diversity
in the legal workforce is compelling. A diverseworkforce within the legal community is nec-essary to reflect different perspectives and thediversity of clients. Yet another ABA studyreleased in February found that a judge’s raceor gender can make a dramatic difference in theoutcome of cases they hear. (See http://w w w. a b a j o u r n a l . c o m / n e w s / a r t i c l e /race_gender_of_judges_make_enormous_differences_in_rulings_studies_find_aba/.)For example, a review of 556 federal appellatecases involving allegations of sexual harass-ment or sex discrimination in violation of TitleVII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 concludedthat plaintiffs were at least twice as likely toprevail if a female judge was on the panel! If having a female judge on an appellate panelcan make such a dramatic difference, imaginewhat a difference there would be if there werea critical mass of women rainmakers, womenmanaging partners or women general counselat law firms and legal employers. So, althoughwomen lawyers have come a long way, we stillhave a long way to go. Each and every one of you can make a dif-ference by supporting women in your every-day lives. Mentor a woman lawyer. Staffyour cases with women lawyers. If you’re ina position to give out business or make a refer-ral, give it to a qualified woman lawyer. Sup-port women’s groups, like WLALA, whichsponsor programs and provide speaking andnetworking opportunities for women lawyers. This month, for its 2010 Litigators Forum,WLALA is presenting “Tech Matters: TheConvergence of the E-Revolution and Your Liti-gation Practice,” featuring keynote speakerSharon Barner, Deputy Under Secretary ofCommerce for Intellectual Property andDeputy Director of the United States Patentand Trademark Office, as well as panelistsJudith Bain, VP of Legal Affairs and GeneralCounsel for Epson America, Inc.; Janet Levine,a partner in Crowell & Moring LLP; JackLerner, Clinical Assistant Professor of Lawand Director of USC’s Intellectual Propertyand Technology Law Clinic; Minda Schechter,Of Counsel at Connolly Bove Lodge & HutzLLP; John Schaeffer, a partner in Lathrop &Gage LLP; and Carole E. Handler, a partner inWildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP. I hope to see many of you at the Litigator’sForum on Monday, March 15. If you’re al-ready a WLALA member, bring a non-memberto the next WLALA event you attend. Andencourage your friends to do the same.
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by Sarah Gettings
The WLALA Business Development
Committee is pleased to announce an
exciting March teleconference series
featuring Marianne Trost, the Women
Lawyers Coach.
Some of you may remember
Marianne’s presentation, “Empowering
Women Lawyers to Succeed in Business
Development,” last spring at the Legal
Marketing Association event at the Standard Hotel. Marianne
is a dynamic speaker with 18 years of experience working
exclusively with lawyers on business development. She is an
international columnist for Women Legal Magazine and writes
frequently on issues of interest to women lawyers. Marianne
is also co-author of the 2008 and 2009 National Association of
Women Lawyers (NAWL) Report on the Retention and
Promotion of Women in Law Firms. Her mission is to help
women lawyers succeed in business by providing practical tips,
guidance, and inspiration through speaking and coaching.
The March business development program will be
administered in three sessions, each geared to women lawyers
with different levels of business development experience.
Junior Associates (30 mins.): Marianne will focus the first
presentation on topics of interest to junior associates. Topics
will include where to focus your business development efforts,
serving your internal client base, serving as a resource, market-
ing when you don’t feel like you have enough experience, ask-
ing to participate, updating your online presence, finding busi-
ness development, support, and networking.
Mid-Level Associates (45 mins.): The second session will
be geared toward mid-level attorneys and those just beginning
to build books of business. Marianne will focus on topics in-
cluding maximizing your special strengths, planning and follow
up, expanding your existing contacts, getting reconnected with
past contacts, developing your referral network, tweaking your
elevator pitch, stating accomplishments, selecting effective com-
munity activities, writing and speaking, and increasing opportu-
nities for inclusion.
Senior Associates & Junior Partners (45 mins.): The third
and final session will be geared toward senior associates and
junior partners, particularly those who have not spent substan-
tial time developing business. Topics will include utilizing your
time wisely, planning and follow up, staying in touch, nurturing
and growing your existing relationships, identifying the full scope
of your contacts, asking for business, refining your referral
network, writing and speaking, and aligning your non-billable
time with your clients, prospective clients, and referral sources.
Each program will begin at 12:00 noon. A phone number
and password for the conference call, along with a copy of
Marianne’s PowerPoint slides, will be e-mailed to attendees the
day before the event. The cost for each call is $20 for members
and $30 for non-members. This charge is per phone line, not
per individual. For registration, go to www.wlala.org, or call
the WLALA office at (213) 892-8982.
For more information, please contact Sarah Gettings
([email protected]) or visit The Women Lawyers Coach
(www.thewomenlawyerscoach.com).
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AT EACH STAGE OF YOUR
CAREER
A Three-Part Teleconference Series With Practical Tips,
Guidance, and Inspiration from Marianne Trost
Junior Associates Tuesday, March 16
Mid-Level Associates Tuesday, March 23
Junior Partners Tuesday, March 30
Food for Thought: Join us for a Lunchtime Teleconference
Sarah Gettings is co-chair of WLALA’s Business Development Committee
and Young Lawyers Section.
Susan Alker, Elizabeth Bluestein, Amy Brantly, Antonella Castro, Wendy Chang, Tina Charoenpong, Hon. Judith Chirlin(Ret.), Luci-Ellen Chun, Michelle Court, Patricia Daza, Lorna De Bono, Sarah de Diego, Eileen Decker, Susan DeWitt,Beatriz Dieringer, Kimberly Encinas, Kristin Escalante, Hon. Dale Fischer, Tanya Forsheit, Katherine Forster, Holly Fujie,Adrienne Hahn, Maria Hamar, Kelly Hanker, Hartwell Harris, Angela Haskins, Stacy Horth-Neubert, Shirley Hufstedler, LeliaJabin, Ruth Kahn, Meredith Karasch, Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation, Karla Kerlin, Helen B. Kim, Jennifer Landau,Ruth Lavine, Marilyn Lazar, Jennifer Leland, Ashley Lile, Hon. Elaine Mandel, Kathleen McDowell, Michelle Mehta, MichelleMichaels, Judith Seeds Miller, Munger, Tolles & Olson Foundation, Cathy Ostiller, Joan Patsy Ostroy, Ellen Panksy, JessicaPink, Courtney Powers, Anna Raimer, Holly Roark, Jennifer Romano/Folger Levin & Kahn Philanthropic Fund, PamSellers, Dominique Shelton, Kiran Singh, Selma Moidel Smith, Marjorie Steinberg, Susan Steinhauser, Heather Stern,Teresa Sullivan, Anne Tremblay, Phyllis Truby, Alicia Vaz, Jeanne Wanlass, and Roz Zakheim.
Thanks to the generosity of 67 donors named below, the WLALA Foundation’s third Annual Giving Campaign raised $13,586.02.We recognize and applaud our donors for their generosity and belief in our work. Their continuing support of our work enables theFoundaitons to help women law students through the award of Law School Scholarships and Fran Kandel Public Interest Grants.Please join us at our Installation Dinner in September when we’ll introduce our Scholarship Recipients and our Grantees. For more
information regarding the Campaign, please call the WLALA office at (213) 892- 8982.
3RD ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN RAISES ALMOST $14,000MANY THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS
Donors:
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years as a litigator and privacy/data security counselor atProskauer Rose LLP, where, most recently, she was co-chairof the firm’s international privacy and data security practicegroup. In 2009, Ms. Forsheit was named one of the Los Ange-les Daily Journal’s Top 100 women litigators in California. Sheis currently the First Vice President of WLALA. The panelists for the second segment of the Forum willexplore the ethical implications triggered by technological in-novations as reflected in the law, forensics, and e-discoveryissues. The second panel will also feature an interactive panelin a mock oral argument setting. The interactive panel will ex-plore the technological resources available to litigators to maxi-mize their effectiveness in the courtroom. The panelists forthe second segment of the Forum will include: The Honorable Stephen E. Haberfeld (Ret.). JudgeHaberfeld is widely respected as a mediator and arbitratorbringing three decades of dispute resolution experience to JAMS.Judge Haberfeld is frequently selected to resolve the most com-plex and contentious disputes. Judge Haberfeld has success-fully resolved a broad range of complex disputes involving busi-ness/commercial, class action, intellectual property, entertain-ment, insurance, real estate, construction, employment,estates and trusts, insurance, securities, civil rights, andantitrust matters. Prior to joining JAMS, Judge Haberfeld wasU.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Central District ofCalifornia (1988-1992) and partner at Haberfeld & Haberfeld(1978-1988; 1992-present). The Honorable Maureen Duffy-Lewis. Judge Duffy-Lewishas been a judge since 1987. Judge Duffy-Lewis currently sitsin Department 38 of the Stanley Mosk Los Angeles SuperiorCourt as a trial judge. She manages, for trial, approximately350-400 cases. Previous judicial assignments include eightyears at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, thecentral criminal courthouse for the County of Los Angeles. Atthe time of her appointment in 1987, she had tried nearly 100trials as a trial attorney, with approximately a 90% successrate. She was one of the Governor’s youngest appointees.Judge Duffy-Lewis is currently the chair of “Judicial MentoringInitiative” in Bulgaria and lectures and publishes in the area ofelectronic discovery. Daniel Garrie. Mr Garrie was recognized as a Top Neu-tral “Rising Star” by the Los Angeles Daily Journal in 2009.Hespecializes in resolving e-discovery and related electronic mat-ters. Frequently appointed as Special Master by order of thecourt, Mr. Garrie’s computer science education and experi-ence provide a unique perspective to resolve legal/technologydisputes. Mr. Garrie is Principal and Managing Partner ofFSRDG, a consulting firm with a track record of streamliningthe global E-Discovery process. He has a master’s degree inComputer Science. Mr. Garrie has worked in the Justice De-partment on the new federal E-Discovery rules and is the Edi-tor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Technology and Risk Man-agement. Mr. Garrie has published more than forty articlesand books on e-discovery, software, intellectual property, com-pliance, technology, legal, telecommunications, US and EU pri-vacy policies, and a range of other e-law issues. Carole E. Handler. Ms. Handler is a partner in the Intel-lectual Property Department of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & DixonLLP. She has tried numerous entertainment, trademark, copy-right, and antitrust cases in state and federal courts in Califor-nia, New York and Pennsylvania. Her primary fields of prac-
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tice are copyright in new media, antitrust, and the interface ofantitrust and intellectual property. Before joining Wildman Harrold,Ms. Hander was Chair of the IP Litigation Practice at Foley &Lardner in Los Angeles where she also served as a member ofthe Trademark, Copyright & Advertising and Antitrust Prac-tices, as well as the Entertainment & Media Industry Team. Ms.Handler is adjunct professor of antitrust and intellectual prop-erty law at the University of Southern California School of Law. Sheryl Katz. Ms. Katz is Senior eDiscovery Consultant foreClaris, Inc., specializing in data management and discoveryconsulting services. Prior to joining eClaris, Inc., Ms. Katz prac-ticed law in Washington DC and Los Angeles for thirty years inthe government and in private practice. Ms. Katz also served asGeneral Counsel of 101 Communications, LLC, a technologypublishing company where she also served as its Chief Infor-mation Officer. Ms. Katz also possesses MCSE (MicrosoftCertified Systems Engineer) and GIAC¬GLEG (certification inComputer Compliance and eDiscovery) certifications. John Shaeffer. Mr. Shaeffer serves as the partner in chargeof Lathrop & Gage LLP’s Los Angeles office. He has litigatedsome of this nation’s largest and most challenging antitrust, prod-uct liability, intellectual property and environmental cases in bothstate and federal court. Mr. Shaeffer has written and publishedextensively in a variety of areas and teaches New Media Law atSanta Clara School of Law. Our lunchtime keynote speaker is Sharon Barner, DeputyUnder Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property andDeputy Director of the United States Patent and TrademarkOffice (USPTO). Prior to her appointment in October 2009,Ms. Barner, was a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP in Chi-cago with twenty-three years of legal experience, and she chairedthe firm’s Intellectual Property Department. Her experience in-cluded patent, trademark and copyright disputes and technicalscience fields such as genetically engineered foods, computersand satellites. The program chairs are Carole E. Handler of Wildman,Harrold, Allen, & Dixon LLP, Jennifer Salzman Romano ofCrowell & Moring LLP, and Julie Goulet Stromberg of KutakRock LLP Sponsorship levels and opportunities are:• Gold sponsor: $1,200 — full page ad, recognition of the spon-sorship level in the program book, attendance at the programfor ten people.• Silver sponsor: $600 — half-page ad, recognition of the spon-sorship level in the program book, attendance at the programfor five people.• Bronze sponsor: $250 — quarter-page ad, recognition of thesponsorship level in the program book, attendance at the pro-gram for two people. Ads in the program book are available for $500 for a full
page, $250 for a half page, and $125 for a quarter page.The deadline to submit materials for the program book is
March 4, 2010. Attendees will earn three (3) MCLE credits, including onehour of ethics. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contactKay Burt at the WLALA Office, 213-982-8982, or visit theForum’s webpage at http://www.jamsadr.com/litigators-forum-tech-matters.
Julie Goulet is co-chair of WLALA’s Litigation Section.
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2010 Litigators Forum Tech Matters: The Convergence of the E-Revolution and
Your Litigation Practice
The 2010 Litigators Forum will focus on two of the most current is-sues in the law today: the effect of technology on the law, and the merger of law and technology, on both a substantive and practical level. Our expert panelists will discuss legal developments triggered by technology as well as ethical issues brought to the fore by technol-ogy and "New Media." In addition, an interactive panel will explore the technological resources available to litigators to maximize their effectiveness in the courtroom. The first panel, How Technology is Shaping the Law, will be moderated by Tanya Forsheit, InfoLaw-Group LLP, and will include the following speakers Judy Bain, Ep-son; Janet Levine, Crowell & Moring LLP; Jack Lerner, USC Intel-lectual Property and Technology Law Clinic; and Minda Schechter, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP. The second panel, How Tech-nology is Shaping the Practice of Litigators, will include a mock oral argument by John Shaeffer, Lathrop & Gage; and Carole Han-dler, Wildman Harrold. A follow up panel discussion will feature the Hon. Stephen E. Haberfeld (Ret.), JAMS; Hon. Maureen Duffy-Lewis, Los Angeles Superior Court; and Sheryl Katz, eClaris, Inc.; and Daniel Garrie, ARC. The luncheon keynote speaker will be Sharon Barner. Ms. Barner is the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Of-fice (USPTO).
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The State Bar wishes to thank those of you who have previously contributedto the Justice Gap Fund and call upon your generosity to make the 2010Justice Gap campaign a success.
The need for legal services is at a critical level and your contribution of thesuggested $100 or more will help make justice a reality to the underservedpeople in California. Contributors of $1000 or more will receivespecial recognition as Benefactors of the Justice Gap Fund.
Millions of Californians in need rely on your generosity to fund legal aidorganizations that are often their only hope for justice.
What is the JUSTICE GAP FUND?The Fund implements Assembly Bill 2301, signed by the Governor inAugust of 2006, authorizing the State Bar to collect contributions from itsmembers to support legal assistance for Californians in need, in order tobridge the “Justice Gap”
• Contributions can be made annually with attorney bar memberdues or any day of the year through the State Bar’s website;
• The Justice Gap Fund will take advantage of the existing networkof local legal aid programs to provide services efficiently andeffectively;
• 100% of your donation goes to non-profit legal aid organizationsthat provide needed legal services.
• The Legal Services Trust Fund Commission and the Access toJustice Commission share responsibility for overseeing this fund.
• Contributions are tax-exempt to the full extent of the law.
For more information, please go to www.calbar.org/justicegapfund or contactstaff at (415) 538-2252 or [email protected].
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WLALA “Downtown” Happy Hour WLALA “West” Happy Hour
WLALA Westside Mentoring Circle
Tuesday,March 2, 2010
6:00 pm- 7:30 pm
WLALA’s Family Law Section
Networking Lunch
Wednesday,March 3, 2010
5:30 pm- 7:30 pm
Tuesday,March 9, 2010
6:30 pm Thursday,
March 11, 201012:15 p.m.
For more information or to be included in a monthly emailreminder, contact Maria Hamar at (310) 550-0460 or
[email protected] or Laurel Amaya at (626) 441-2473 [email protected].
This lunch is for Family Law & Non-Family Law Attorneys.
Provecho Restaurant and Remedy Lounge
800 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Join us in Downtown for another fun night of socializing and
networking, this time at the lovely Provecho Restaurant and Remedy
Lounge in Downtown. This is a great opportunity to mingle with old
friends and meet new ones in a casual setting. Arrive early and enjoy
happy hour priced drinks throughout the evening.
To RSVP or for more information, please email Gigi Wanlass at
[email protected] or Cynthia Loo at [email protected].
Join us on the Westside for another fun night of socializing and
networking, this time at the lovely Bodega Wine Bar in Santa
Monica. This is a great opportunity to mingle with old friends and
meet new ones in a casual setting. Street/metered parking. Arrive
early and enjoy happy hour priced drinks throughout the evening.
Bodega Wine Bar
814 Broadway (@Lincoln)
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Drago
2628 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
WLALA Salutes the FollowingMembers Who Have Been Identi-
fied by Law & Politics/SuperLawyers® as Southern California
Super Lawyers® in 2010:
Top 50 Women: Judith R. Forman,Patricia L. Glaser, Ruth D. Kahn,
Edith R. Matthai, Donna D. Melby,Ellen A. Pansky, Patricia Phillips,Stacy D. Phillips, Kelli L. Sager,
Amy Fisch Solomon, Mary-Chris-tine “M.C.” Sungaila, and Shirley
Watkins
Top 100 Lawyers: Patricia L. Glaser,Edith R. Matthai, Ellen A. Pansky,
and Stacy D. Phillips
Top 10 Lawyers: Stacy D. Phillips
Special Guests: Hon. Soussan G. Bruguera andHon. Diana Wheatley
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010- WLALA, WLALA "Downtown" Happy Hour.Join us on the Downtown for a fun night of socializing and networking.This is a great opportunity to mingle with old friends and meet new onesin a casual setting. This event is free to everyone! 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.For questions, please call the WLALA Office at (213) 892-8982.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010- WLALA, WLALA "West" Happy Hour.Join us on the Westside for another fun night of socializing and network-ing, this time at the lovely Bodega Wine Bar in Santa Monica. This is agreat opportunity to mingle with old friends and meet new ones in a casualsetting. Street/metered parking. This event is free to everyone! BodegaWine Bar, 814 Broadway (@ Lincoln), Santa Monica. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30p.m. For questions, please call the WLALA Office at (213) 892-8982.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010- WLALA, Westside Mentoring Circle. Drago,2628 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. 6:30 p.m. For questions, please callthe WLALA Office at (213) 892-8982.
Thursday, March 11, 2010- WLALA, Networking and Mingling Lunchfor Family & Non-Family Law Attorneys. 12:15 p.m. For more informa-tion or to be included in a monthly email reminder, contact Maria Hamarat (310) 550-0460 or [email protected] or Laurel Amaya at (626) 441-2473 or [email protected].
Thursday, March 11, 2010- South Asian Bar Association, Annual Ban-quet. Speaker is Erwin Chemerinsky. Awardees are Sonal Ambegoakarand Arnold Peter. Union Station, Los Angeles. Cocktail Reception 6:30p.m. and Dinner & Awards 7:30 p.m. To RSVP or for more information,please go to www.sabasc.org/mediaCenter.php.
Thursday to Saturday, March 11-13, 2010, UCLA, "Intersectionality:Challenging Theory, Reframing Poetics, Transforming Movements." Pan-els, workshops, and round-table topics include a variety of subjects relat-ing to intersecting barriers, discrimination and challenges facing women inmany arenas, including the legal profession, the criminal justice system,employment, health-care, and politics. For more information, please goto http://crsonline.law.ucla.edu/CRS_Program/Annual_Symposium/03.11.10.
Monday, March 15, 2010- WLALA, 15th Annual Litigators Forum: TechMatters: The Convergence of the E-Revolution and Your Litigation Prac-tice. WLALA will focus on two of the most current issues in the lawtoday: the effect of technology on the law, and the merger of law andtechnology, on both a substantive and practical level. Expert panelist willdiscuss legal developments triggered by technological resources availableto litigators to maximize their effectiveness in the courtroom. The eventwill feature Sharon Barner as the keynote speaker, and MCLE credit willbe available. Ms. Barner is the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce forIntellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent andTrademark Office (USPTO). LACBA Conference Room, 1055 WestSeventh St., Suite 2700, Los Angeles. 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Breakfast andlunch will be served. For more information, please call the WLALA Officeat (213) 892-8982.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010- Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project(WRRAP), An Evening with Gloria Steinem. Join WRRAP and GloriaSteinem for her vision and tireless work on reproductive rights for allwomen, regardless of their political party, race, religion or economic sta-tus. Private Estate in Beverly Hills. 6:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m. Wine and horsd'oeuvres will be served. For tickets, please call (818) 501-4286 or [email protected].
Wednesday, March 18, 2010- PAR, Diversity and Flexibility for the Next-Generation Law Firm. Conference highlights are findings of PAR’s recentpart-time partner report and study of the impact of compensation sys-tems on women, strategies to ensure the success of partners who work lessthan full time, interactive roundtable discussions regarding the eliminationof bias, expansion of PAR’s Diversity and Flexibility Connection andmore! Confirmed speakers are Michele Bufano, Barbara Caulfield, GordonDavidson, Joan Haratani, Whitney Head, Catherine Lamboley, StevenLowenthal, Nathaniel McKitterick, Steven Pfeiffer, Douglas Scrivner, andLaura Stein. To register or for more information, please contact PAR at(415) 565-4640.
Friday, March 26, 2010- Southern California Chinese Lawyers Associa-tion (SCCLA), Installation Dinner.
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles634 S. Spring St., Ste. 617Los Angeles, CA 90014www.wlala.org, Email: info @ wlala.org(213) 892-8982 (213) 892-8948 (fax)
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NEWSLETTER
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In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint and to reducecosts, we'd like distribute as many copies of this newslet-ter as possible by email, rather than printing and mailingthem. In January, we switched all WLALA members tothe electronic version of the newsletter -- unless youaffirmatively elected otherwise in your profile on theWLALA website. If you want to continue receiving theprinted version of the newsletter via U.S. Mail, please logon to the website at www.wlala.org and click on "Up-date My Profile." On the right side of the home page,towards the bottom of your profile, there is a drop downmenu that asks if you would like to receive WLALA’snewsletter by email only. Set this drop down menu to"No" and click "Submit Registration" at the bottom.
For questions, or to get your username and password,please call the WLALA Office at (213) 892-8982.
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Member News
Apply to become a WLALA Officer. If youhave served on the WLALA Board for atleast one year, you may seek election as anOfficer. The deadline for submitting an ap-plication is March 31, 2010. Please call theWLALA Office at (213) 892-8982 to obtainan application or go online to www.wlala.org.
Become a WLALA Officer
Board member and co-chair of the Family Law
Section, Maria Hamar, and her husband and partner
Richard Hamar of Hamar & Hamar APC have ex-
panded their firm by opening an office in down-
town San Diego at the Emerald Plaza. The new
office will handle family law, business litigation
and criminal litigation.
Michelle Abidoye, Annie Albertson, Joanna Ardalan,Lindsay Bailey, Joy Lynn Bala, Theresa Bangert, Kiran
Bisla, Sara Brucker, Michael Anne Cahill, LauraChooljian, Elleny Christopoulos, Danielle Claxton, TaraCouture, Rabecca Cross, Marcia Daniel, Shara Daven-
port, Amber Esposito, Justin Farahi, Sandra Fluke,Valerie Gallo, Donna Gephart, Audrey Goodwater,
Lindsey Greer, Victoria Gregson, Heather Hickman,Shawn Holley, Anne Hopkins, Layla Ilbak, Betty
Karmirlian, Cherie Lee, Tiffany Liu, Michelle Marquis,Alanna Martin, Maricruz Moghaddam, Mohammad Mir,Liora Moreh, Edith Nazarian, Louisa Okonyan, BeatrizPelayo-Garcia, Abigail Raish, Scheherazade Rastegar-
Djavahery, Hiro Senda, Jessica Shofler, MichelleSoliman, Salvina Turadzhikyan, Carmen Torres, KarenTso, Jennie Vu, Jennifer Winters, Laura Ybarra, Esther
Yeu, Yujin Yi, Amy Zavidow
