Our 2017 Women's Bar Leadership Summit: Succeeding with Strength and Savvy will be held in the heart of New York City, in the 30th-floor offices of Thomson Reuters at 3 Times Square, with spectacular views from the Hudson River to Times Square's New Year's Eve Crystal Ball.  Over the next several weeks, we will provide detailed information about the Summit. Here is a preview of some of the highlights:

Events will be kicked off on Thursday, August 10, at Fordham Law School, with a Welcome Reception, which will include a screening of the documentary Balancing the Scales, a film featuring candid interviews with a wide range of women attorneys and judges who will share their career perspectives--from young lawyers facing challenges as they start their careers, to mid-level associates striving to achieve professional success, to senior attorneys and judges who have become leaders in the profession. A panel of distinguished speakers, including filmmaker and attorney Sharon Rowen, will be on hand to answer questions about the film and ways in which we can work to further advance equality in the profession.

On Friday, August 11 we will hold a full day of Summit events, featuring extraordinary speakers and panels, and our annual awards luncheon. Our first program on Friday will be Women in the White House - A Conversation with Kathy and Kim. This will feature  Kathryn Ruemmler, now a partner at Latham & Watkins and former Chief Counsel to President Obama, and Kimberley Harris, former Deputy Counsel to President Obama, who now serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for NBCUniversal. The moderator will be Jessica Brown, Gibson Dunn partner and past president of the Colorado Women's Bar Association.

In the coming weeks, we will provide information about other items on our Summit schedule, including a wonderful panel on networking, mentoring, coaching and sponsorship (and how we all need each of these to advance our careers), and G OOD Guys 101 - Engaging Men in Our Success.

In addition to these and other programs, there will be plenty of time for networking and sharing ideas about effective programs and services for women's bar associations.

Who should attend the Summit? Anyone seeking ideas to energize their women's bar associations, sections or committees, and anyone who wants to stay on top of the latest trends and issues facing women lawyers. This will be a terrific event, in an amazing venue, and we hope you will join us. Early registration information will be available in April.

We also encourage individuals, firms and companies to become Summit sponsors. For details and options for  sponsoring the Summit,  click here . We also want to thank our "early-bird" sponsors: 

Financial Sponsors:
Gold: New York Women's Bar Association

Silver: Elizabeth A. Bryson
Bronze: Cuba Cultural Travel, FindLaw, Sutliff & Stout.

In-Kind Sponsors:

Platinum: Thomson Reuters and the Legal Executive Institute

Fordham University School of Law

By virtue of membership in the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations, you are entitled to a 10% discount when you register for the National Association of Women Lawyers' 2017 Seattle Conference, to be held Tuesday, May 9 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel. Just use the code SCNCWBA2017 when you register. For more information, click here.

For a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges    of combining lawyering and parenting, and ideas for making law firms work better for families, click here for a podcast featuring MothersEsquire founder Michelle Browning Coughlin.

Those of you who are subscribed to our listserv ( NCWBA@yahoogroups.com) have from time to time seen job postings. These posts to the listserv tend to be for jobs with the federal government, law schools or nonprofits. We hope you will share these as you deem appropriate with your own membership. From time to time we also get announcements about jobs of more regional interest. These may be with private firms or state governments. If you are interested in receiving these announcements, please let us know, and we will forward them to you as they are received. If you aren't a member of the NCWBA@yahoogroups.com listserv and would like to join, please  email us with your preferred email address and women's bar affiliation.

Our membership year runs with the calendar year, which means that this is the right time to send in your organization's membership dues for 2017. Dues for 2017 have not increased, and are based on your organization's membership numbers. We rely on your membership dues and active participation in order to strengthen women's bar groups throughout North America.  Click here to download a membership form  to send in with your dues check. If you prefer to pay by debit or credit card,  click here .