I will conduct a program on why and how to find sponsors for the Fellows of the new On-Ramp Fellowship, which provides opportunities in law firms for experienced women lawyers who want to re-enter the profession after taking time out.
The 2014 Hastings Leadership Academy for Women will take place July 23-26 in San Francisco. This unique course is for women law firm partners and experienced in-house counsel. For additional information and to register, click here.
The Santa Cruz County Bar Association will host a Luncheon for Champions to honor sponsors and promote sponsorship. The event will take place at the Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz.
I will present a webinar on “Finding Sponsors” for the inaugural Fellows hired through the new OnRamp Fellowship.
I will present a webinar for Watermark on July 9, 2014, on “Sponsoring Women: What Men Need to Know.”
The next meeting of the Global PD Roundtable will be in Minneapolis on June 23-24. Anyone who is interested in joining the Roundtable and attending the meeting should contact me.
I’ll be in Seattle, where DLA Piper will host a Breakfast for Champions.
I am on the Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves and will be traveling with the Board to Poland on a study tour.
I will lead a discussion of “Beyond the New Lawyer: Mentoring at Later Career Stages,” at the National Legal Mentoring Consortium Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
The next meeting the Women Leaders Roundtable will be in San Francisco at 4:00 on April 29. Anyone interested in joining the Roundtable and attending the meeting should contact me.
The Law Without Walls ConPosium will be at the University of Miami April 12-13, and I’ll be there with my team to support our students.
I will be back in Seattle, presenting at the NALP Annual Education Conference on “Tailor-Made Mentoring: Two Law Firms’ Perspectives on Implementing, Refocusing and Sustaining Formal Programs.” Co-panelists will be Don Smith from Fried, Frank and Kari Jensen Thomas and David Axtell from Stinson Leonard Street.
Our next Breakfast for Champions will be at the Columbia Tower Club in Seattle, sponsored by DLA Piper.
In connection with my new book on sponsorship, law firms and groups are holding “Breakfast for Champions,” events to celebrate the men who sponsor women and to encourage more men to follow their lead. The first Breakfast for Champions event will be hosted by the Chicago Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law on Thursday, February 6, from 8:00-9:30 am, at Reed Smith.
The National Association of Bar Executives has invited me back to expand on my 2013 presentation, “Connecting Core Competencies: New Graduates and the Bar.” At their 2014 mid-year meeting in Chicago, February 4-6, 2014, I will continue the conversation about the changing role of bar associations in preparing new lawyers for practice.
The kickoff session for next year’s Law Without Walls will take place at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on January 18-19, 2014, and I will be there! I will be an Entrepreneur Mentor for a student team in the 2014 course.