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Call for Submissions: Gender Diversity: Have we solved the problem? If not, where do we go from here?

The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession announced their 2008 Video/Essay Competition:

Put your video and writing skills to work! Create a 3-minute YouTube video and/or craft a 6-page essay to tell us what you think about Gender Diversity: Have we solved the problem? If not, where do we go from here?

Open to young lawyers and law students, winners will receive $500 and award winning entries will be posted on the Commission's website.  

Entries must be submitted by 12:00 p.m. Central Time on December 31, 2008.

Click here for more information and contest rules.

Questions? Contact Barbara Leff at leffb@staff.abanet.org.

ABA Broadway Theater Event--Legally Blonde, The Musical

6 Aug 2008 - 8:00pm
6 Aug 2008 - 11:00pm
US/Eastern
Where: 
Palace Theater, New York, NY

The MGM film is a Broadway hit musical, and now Legally Blonde The Musical is celebrating its first anniversary on Broadway! Legally Blonde follows sorority star Elle Woods, an underestimated blonde all the way to Harvard Law. Enjoy the show that celebrates women in the profession of law.

Tickets just $86.50--save $35 off the regular price of $121.50!

After the performance Wednesday night, stay for an exclusive talk back with cast members of Legally Blonde The Musical.

Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards Luncheon

10 Aug 2008 - 11:30am
10 Aug 2008 - 1:30pm
Etc/GMT-8
Where: 
NYC

Join the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession for Its 18th Annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards Luncheon

Honoring

Ruth Cooper Burg , Roberta Karmel, Linda Strite Murnane,
Mary Jo White, Ann Claire Williams, and
special award recipient Sarah Weddington

Women in Law Leadership Academy

8 Nov 2007 - 9:30am
9 Nov 2007 - 12:30pm
America/Chicago
Where: 
Chicago - Hyatt Regency McCormick Place

Sponsored by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession

Visit http://www.abanet.org/women/will.html for more info, to register, to sponsor, etc.

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