This year’s theme is Owning the ‘Change’ Reaction. Although we won’t be able to gather in the beautiful Chicago offices of McDermott Will & Emery as planned, we are pleased to embrace the theme of Change with our first-ever virtual women’s bar leadership Summit and announce that registration is now LIVE. Keynoting the Summit will be Kori Carew. Please join us for this and more on July 30th and 31st!!
THURSDAY, JULY 30TH (Complimentary programming open to public)
3:00 PM (CT) GOOD Guys Event: Male Allies Owning the ‘Change’ Reaction
Moderator: Teresa Beck, Co-Chair of CA Litigation, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Presenter: Steve Velkei, Partner, Baute Crochetiere Hartley & Velkei LLP
Panelists: Alan Tse, General Counsel, Jones Lang Lasalle; Al Harris, Co-Founder, Speaker & Trainer at Andie & Al; Captain Chuck LeMoyne, Commanding Officer, Region Legal Service Office Northwest; Alexander Simpson, Attorney, Microsoft.
Attorneys are all familiar with the frustrations of the "echo chamber." The NCWBA's GOOD Guys program seeks to break through the "echo chamber" and Own the 'Change' Reaction by engaging male leaders in the conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion and drawing on their voices and resources to help us effect meaningful change at an exponential rate. You will hear from dynamic GOOD Guys who inspire us with their commitment and encourage other male leaders to join the GOOD Guys movement.
4:00 PM (CT) Welcome Reception
Join us directly after the GOOD Guys Event for a Virtual Reception.
FRIDAY, JULY 31 (Programming for registered attendees only. For tickets, please visit https://bit.ly/ncwbaregister)
11:00 AM (CT)
Welcome
Jeanne Marie Clavere, President NCWBA, 2019-2020
Opening Remarks and Induction of 2020-2021 Officers and Directors
Chief Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
11:40 AM (CT)
Women Founders and Leadership in Attorney Associations
Moderator: S. Claire Gibson, The Gibson Law Practice, PLLC
Panelists: Mary Reding Smith, co-founder of Military Spouse JD Network, Moya O'Connor, founder of the New York Caribbean Attorney Network and Michelle Browning Coughlin founder of Mother's Esquire.
Join us for a dynamic conversation with our panelists asthey discuss their roles as women founders of their organizations including why they founded their organization, the hurdles they overcame as women creating and changing spaces for attorneys, how they balance their roles as leaders with their careers and other obligations and their advice for other women attorneys seeking to create organizations for change in the legal profession.
12:50 PM (CT)
Keynote Speaker
Kori Carew, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, Seyfarth
Ms. Carew is an advocate, speaker and inclusion strategist who is passionate about people, human and civil rights, diversity and inclusion and is a former litigator and trial attorney. She loves to ask "why?" and negotiates with "should."
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