WLALA Newsletter: September 2020 |
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President's Message
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Mary Church Terrell – founder and president of the National Association of Colored Women – wrote: “And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.” Ms. Terrell was a tireless advocate for Black women’s suffrage. This August, through a series of programs put on with the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) and the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ), WLALA celebrated the Centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In these programs, we recognized and celebrated the efforts of heroic women who fought for, took and ultimately gained the right to vote for women. We also recognized that the right to vote did not extend to all women equally. During the Women’s Suffrage movement, Black women often had to march separately from White women in suffrage parades. Additionally, in writing the history of women’s suffrage, White suffragists rendered women of color, and their important and significant contributions to the fight for equality, invisible.
To view the rest of the President's Message, please CLICK HERE.
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2020 Inner City Law Center Fellow: Victoria Bonds |
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I am a third-year part-time student at Loyola Law School and am a WLALA 2020 Fellow. As a fellow, I interned at Inner City Law Center in their Homeless Veterans Project this summer.
I was interested in this fellowship because of the impact legal services had on my grandfather, who is a veteran. Without the work of nonprofit legal services, he would not have been able to navigate the complexities of receiving his veteran benefits after serving in Vietnam. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to help veterans who are in similar situations through my internship this summer, especially during this time of financial insecurity.
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2020 Inner City Law Center Fellow:
Andrea Poma Hernando
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This summer was filled with confusion, hurt, anger and change, but I was able to hone in on a beacon of light every day when I clocked into work from my living room. During these unprecedented times, it was an incredible privilege to be able to work for an organization that was doing its best to ease some of that pain that I saw my community struggling with. As a WLALA /ICLC Fellow, I worked directly with Veterans, some of whom were people of color and female, fighting for their rights to receive benefits and compensation after serving our country. As a law school student, the skills that I gained this summer were instrumental. However, as a person whose dream has always been to help her community, the knowledge and experience was astonishing.
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Get to Know the New Board: Autumn L. Moore
Each month, WLALA will feature a 2020-2021 WLALA Board Member so you can get to know more about her role within WLALA, her professional experience and her personal interests.
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Autumn L. Moore, Co-Chair of WLALA's Labor & Employment Section, is an experienced litigator and counselor at Clark Hill LLP. She focuses her practice on resolving labor and employment matters for employers in state and federal courts, arbitration and government agency hearings regarding wrongful termination, FEHA-related harassment and discrimination, whistleblower actions, PAGA representative actions, retaliation, wage and hour, and failure to provide leave actions. Autumn also advises and counsels employers on a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to the employment relationship, including personnel management, employee discipline and termination, personnel policies and practices suitable to the size and culture of an organization, as well as leave of absence issues. Autumn has also performed workplace investigations dealing with complex employment issues. In her spare time, Autumn enjoys being a part of the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
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Complimentary WLALA Membership for WLALA's Local Sister Bar Organizations
WLALA is offering one complimentary year of membership to WLALA's local sister bar organization members at APAWLA, BWL and LLBA. Offer is good until December 31, 2021. Membership will be good for one year after you register.
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WLALA Membership for New Admittees and Law Students is FREE
WLALA offers free memberships to New Admittees (those who passed the bar less than a year ago) and Law Students. Don't forget to pass the word along and join today and see what WLALA has to offer!
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COVID-19 News Updates
WLALA has created a COVID-19 page to inform our members of current news related to COVID-19. To view the page, please CLICK HERE.
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Public Counsel Remote Pro Bono Opportunities
The following is a list of current pro bono opportunities that lend themselves to working remotely. For more information, please CLICK HERE.
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2020 Conference of California Bar Associations Virtual Conference on Saturday, September 26, 2020
Have you ever thought, “this law should be changed or amended,” or “it should not exist at all?” Have you ever thought “there ought to be a law about this” but when you researched the appropriate legal authorities, you found no law existed that addressed the topic you researched? Do you enjoy debating policy and the law as well as meeting interesting people from across the state?
If so, now is your chance to get involved by attending the Conference of California Bar Associations annual Conference on Saturday, September 26, 2020. Because of COVID-19, it will be a one-day virtual video conference for the low price of $25.00. To register for the Conference go to www.calconference.org.
CCBA is a group of attorneys from local, specialty, and affinity bar associations across the state, that are focused on improving California’s laws. During the Conference, the various bar associations debate revisions and amendments to California law called “resolutions.” Once a resolution is passed by the Conference, CCBA takes the resolution to the State Legislature or California Judicial Council to find a sponsor and hopefully get the resolution passed into law. To see the resolutions that will be debated at this year’s Conference go to CCBA’s website at www.calconference.org.
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WLALA webinars have been recorded and are available for purchase. To view all recordings, please CLICK HERE. Following the purchase, the recording will be sent via email. If MCLE credit applies, the materials will be sent after we receive zoom confirmation that the video has been viewed.
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iDepo will make a donation to WLALA if you schedule a court reporting or videotaped deposition with them as follows:
- $20 donation to WLALA for each court reporting services of at least 100 pages per day.
- $50 donation to WLALA for each videotaped deposition with at least 100 pages per day.
When scheduling, please email or call and mention Code WLALA. Email to [email protected] or call at 323-393-3768.
IDepo will send donations to WLALA within 90 days after receipt of payment of invoices.
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To view the rest of the local bar events and news, please CLICK HERE.
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WLALA Networking Facebook Page
We are excited to announce that WLALA has created a Facebook page for members called WLALA Networking where you can connect with other members of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. You can join HERE. Please note that you must be a member to join. Before posting, please be sure to read the Rules and Guidelines here:
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The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles ("WLALA") promotes the full participation in the legal profession of women lawyers and judges from diverse perspectives and racial and ethnic backgrounds, maintains the integrity of our legal system by advocating principles of fairness and equality, and improves the status of women by supporting their exercise of equal rights, equal representation, and reproductive choice.
- WLALA Mission Statement
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The WLALA newsletter is a publication of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. Contents do not necessarily reflect the views of WLALA. To advertise and for rates, contact the WLALA Office at [email protected]. The newsletter welcomes articles, submissions and information about our members’ activities. For information about submissions to the WLALA newsletter, please contact Farah Tabibkhoei at [email protected].
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