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1991 Women's Bar Association Newsletter 1 (1991)

handle is hein.peggy/wbanewsl0025 and id is 1 raw text is: BOORPORATED 1917 JANUARY 1 i9 NEW FRNIRSAOND W LD To Showcase Emerging Business/Legal Opportunities for Women New Frners Anr)nd the W~ol wil be the ous of the WBA's upcoming Showcase Program, to be held Tuesday, January 29,1991 at The Watergate Hotel. The program will highlight emerging international legal and business career opportunities tor women. The world has chantgedl dramatically in recent months, and the wide-ranging ramifications for the practice of law are still being defied. One thn that i alreay clear is that these are tunes of-unparalleled opportuity for U.S. lawyers. Attorneys with specialties in cormmunications law, transpoartation law, securiies law, environment law, litigation and mny other fields-who have never before conidere themslves internationa attorneys--now fin their expertise in demand from Centra Europe and the Soviet Union to Africa, South America and beyond. The upcming WBA program will ait participats in identifying such intentional opportunities Three workshops ae pla to explore ways to extend a career internationally. Raimakg Around the Wor'l will address the development of international busines, including consideration of key counies and legal specialties that hold prmise for grow in the 19 X~. Panelists on this topic will include Sarah Cary, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson in D.C., who ha developed a nationaly reogmze international tranatonal practice with an emphasis on the Soviet Union and Cantral Europe, and Judith Bello, a pare in the D.CQ office of Sitley & Austin, who ha helped to build that firm's sophisticate internationa trade practice. Alerative Use tor Your Law Degree will focus on ways to us a legal career as a stepping stone into international b-siness and public service positions. Conrinued o page 6 WBA HOLIDAY PARTY A GREAT SUCCESS The cafeteria of the Francis School was packed the evening of December 4, as 160 homeless chit- dren, 200 tutors and dozers of WBA members and their [amilies and guest gathered for the WBA's ARY PAGE 2 PR-ESIDENT'S COLUMN1 PAGE 4 REPODRT FRO (M THfjE BOARD PAGE 4 WOMIEN PARTNERS DINNER PAGIE 5 HOW TOVWORK A ROOM1 See also Career Opportunities Bulletin Advancing in tue Federal Gxovsrnmnents 1990 loliday Party, which benefited Project Northstar, the Homeless Tutorial Project. The evening began with a party for the children and their tutors, featurng festive decorations and special holidy refreshment. Members of the WBA Com- munity Projects Committee which sponsored the event, distributed treat bags and gifts donated by WBA members. Also in attendance at the party was Jeff Bostic, the Washington Redskin, who signed autographs for the children. Other entertainment included a clown and Santa, who posed [or photos with the children. At 8:00 p.m., approximately 40 WBA members ad their guests adjourned to the Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbnidge Conmference Center for a private one-hour reception. WBA members exchangedl seasons' greetings with old and new WBA friends, as they enjoyed an impressive assortment of home Con(nued on Page 6 Digitized from Best Copy Available JANUARY 1991

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