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1986 Women's Bar Association Newsletter 1 (1986)

handle is hein.peggy/wbanewsl0023 and id is 1 raw text is: I Y~ WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NCORPORATED 1917 Nanci Nord, Ted Kleinmnan, and Carol Aleinman discuss using the law as a springboard into another career, at October program. HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT MONTHLY MEETINGS Three lawyers who have leapt from a law practice into another career shared their experiences and motivations with the WBA in the October program, Changing Careers: Using Law as a Springboard. Nancy Nord, executive director of the American Corporate Counsel Association, told the members that her ultimate career was not planned, although she wanted to be a lawyer since she was ten years old. She is not a full-time lawyer, but she couldn't function without being a lawyer. She writes amicus briefs, for exam ple. The rest of her activities are similar to those of a bar organization, such as educational programs and news- letters. Ted Kleinman, the Senior Vice-President for Finance, Associate General Counsel and Treasurer of Ocean Data Systems, has an MBA from Dartmouth, and LLB from Har yard and an LLM in taxaton from Georgetown His ambivalence between law and business led h im to start an information serv ice with his wife, on the side. He is now the Chief Financial Officer of a twenty millon dollar company which, among a variety of activities, supplies weather data to airlines and other users and also develops software sys- tems for health care institutions and has defcnse contracts as well. Carol K einman is the Directr, Women s Forensic Planning~ and Stasff Psychiatrist at Pcrkins Hlospitasl Center. She told thc group fthat her professonal choices wcre mostly a product of her backgroun~d and family. The dccision thiat she made ait thc early stagcs of cr carecr were made as a result of putti the desires of others be orc those of h~er own. Foresic, se exlaiedis he iterctin oflawandpsy chiat y involving issues such as mental competence and treatmnent of witniesscs. She now does both general and forensic psychiatry She concluded by remarking that her route was long and difficult, and she wouldn't recomrmend it Howcver, she felt she had to do what she did. In an interesting question and answer session, one issue stressed was that while legal trainirg teaches us to be individualistic, aggressive and adersarial, these skills are often at odds with traits such as co-operativeness and thc ability to achieve a consensus, which are important in business. November Meeting On November 21, the Program Committee and the Executive Endorsements Committee of the Women's Bar Association hosted a luncheon featuring Lynn Cutler, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Marcia Johnson, a Reagan appointee to the Merit Systems Protec- ion Board. Ms. Cutler and Ms. Johnson spoke on how to become politically active and how to secure a political appointment. Ms. Cutler, one of six elected officials at the Democratic National Committee, serves as liason to local elected (continued on page 6) JANUARY PROGRAM MEETING Ms. Patt Derian, formerly the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights amd Humanitarian Affairs in the Carter Administration and now affiliated with Main Street, is the featured speaker at the monthly meeting on January 28, 1986. She will address the WBA on women's rights as a human rights issue in foreign policy. The title of her presen tation is The Double Standard Goes International-U.S. Foreign Policy and Third World Women. Ms. Derian is a thoughtful and provocative speaker who brings a wealth of experience to her subject As Assistant Secretary for Human Rights, Ms. Derian was the architect of the Carter Administration s activist human rights policy. She was a vigorous and outspoken critic of human rights abuses whether pepetrated by Communist bloc countries or by friends and allies. She worked to ensure that countries responsible for such abuscs did not receive U. S military and financial aid According to her critics, she pursued this po licy without regard for other importart foreign policy and strategic concerns. The meeting is sponsored jointly by the Program and Membership Committees to welcome newly admitted meme- bers of th e D C. Bar and to introduce them to the benefits of WBA miembership.For further information, see the program supp emenr to trhiewsletter. 30 1 ,t * Wash ngt DC. 20006 1202) 347-!001 Digitized from Best Copy Available O0 F cfnla Av

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