2014 Midyear Conference
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Hon. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby
HOST COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Barbara L. Johnson, Esq., Partner, Paul Hastings LLC
Beverly L. Perry, Esq. Pepco Holdings, Inc (Retired)
Grace E. Speights, Esq., Managing Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Host Committee Members:
Claude E. Bailey, Esq., Venable LLP
Johnine P. Barnes, Esq., Greenberg Traurig
A. Scott Bolden, Esq Reed Smith
Kevin Fitzgerald, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Pepco Holdings, Inc.
Deborah J. Israel, Esq., Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
William Robinson, Corporate Secretary, Geico
Stacey Sublett, Esq., Beveridge & Diamond
Benjamin Wilson, Esq., Beveridge & Diamond
| THURSDAY, MARCH 13* | |
| 12:00-1:30 PM | Congressional Women's Caucus Luncheon Meeting on Capitol Hill Celinda Lake, President, Lake Research Partners Martha Bergmark, Executive Director, Legal Civil Aid Hub Peter Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center |
| 2:15-3:30 PM | Private Lecture and Tour of the Archives Exhibit "Record of Rights" |
| 4:00-5:30 PM | NAWJ Resource Board Meeting |
| 5:30-7:30 PM | Reception at Venable, LLP |
| FRIDAY, MARCH 14* | |
| 9:15-10:30 AM | Plenary on Federal Regulatory Issues Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission Patrice Ficklin, Assistant Director, Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity, Consumer Finance and Protection Bureau Kevin Fitzgerald, EVP and General Counsel, Pepco Holdings Colette Honorable, Chairman, Arkansas Public Services Commission; President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners |
| 10:45-12:00 PM | Plenary on the Affordable Care Act Kim Horn, President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. Dora Hughes, Esq., Senior Policy Advisor, Sidley Austin LLP Natalie O. Ludaway, Esq., Leftwich & Ludaway LLC Joe Miller, General Counsel, America’s health Insurance Plans |
| 12:15-1:45 PM | LUNCHEON with KEYNOTE ADDRESS U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Justice |
| 3:00-3:30PM | THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Private Lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 3:45-4:45 PM | (Supreme Court) A Theatrical Reading of Janet Langhart-Cohen's play "Anne & Emmett" The play is based on the story of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, who was a victim of the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, a young African-American boy murdered in the American South during segregation and the "Jim Crow" era. |
| 4:45-5:30 PM | (Supreme Court) Implicit Bias and Access to Justice Issues Following the play, there will be a panel discussion with the author and several experts on the topic of Implicit Bias and Access to Justice. Dan Rather, Dan Rather Reports Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo Hon. Bernice Bouie Donald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Lonnie Bunch, Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture Janet Langhart-Cohen, President, Langhart Communications, Inc. Dr. William Meinecke, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| 5:30-7:30 PM | Reception at the Supreme Court Hosted by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| SATURDAY, MARCH 15* | |
| 8:45 AM-12:00 PM | ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR LABOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
Opening Remarks: Hon. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, NAWJ President Hon. Elizabeth Lee, Chair of the NAWJ Subcommittee on Human Trafficking Jonathan Mattiello, Executive Director, State Justice Institute Profile of Types and Dynamics of Labor Trafficking John Martin, Director, Human Trafficking and the State Courts Collaborative Labor Trafficking Survivor Scott Santoro, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Jennifer Silberman, VP, Corporate Responsibility, Hilton Worldwide Access to Justice Challenges and Forums for Addressing Labor Trafficking Hilary Axam, Director, Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, U.S. Justice Department Anne Breen-Greco, ABA Taskforce on Human Trafficking Hon. Virginia Kendall, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Martina Vandenburg, The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center Tools for Addressing Labor Trafficking E. Christopher Johnson, ABA Business Law Section, Taskforce on Human Trafficking Hon. Virginia Kendall, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Hon. Arline Pacht, NAWJ Subcommittee on Human Trafficking Martina Vandenburg, The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center Hon. Joan Churchill, Immediate Past-President, NAWJ |
| 12:00-4:00 PM | NAWJ Board of Directors Meeting Informal Reception |
* This schedule is subject to change.
HOST HOTEL
Reservations are now being accepted at The Westin Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Click here. You may also call The Westin at (202) 429-0100.
The NAWJ group rate is $199, and is available until February 24, 2014 or until the room block is sold. Be sure to reserve your room as soon as possible.
REGISTRATION
2014 Midyear Conference registration fees:
| NAWJ Members
Non-Members Guest |
- $425
- $525 - $375 (Guests are spouses and children of conference attendees.) |
Registration fees includes access to all events and receptions from Thursday, March 13, 2014 until Saturday March 15, 2014.
Cancellation and Refunds: If notice of cancellation is received after February 13, 2014, the registration fee, less a $25 processing fee, is refundable. Notices of cancellations received within 3 days of the conference are refundable less a $50 processing fee.
Register online or download the 2014 Midyear Leadership Conference Registration Form and fax or mail to: Craig Evans, National Association of Women Judges, 1341 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 4.2, Washington, DC 20036, Fax: (202) 393-0125.
Underwriter
LexisNexis
Platinum
GEICO
Pfizer Inc.
Gold
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
FedEx
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Pepco
Silver
AbbVie Inc.
Bancroft PLLC
Regina & Charles Cheever
ExxonMobil
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Latham & Watkins
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
Saul Ewing LLP
White & Case LLP
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP
Bronze
Andrews Kurth LLP
Archer & Greiner P.C.
Balch & Bingham LLP
Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Cooper Levenson April Niedelman & Wagenheim, P.A.
Covington & Burling LLP
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Holland & Knight
Hunton & Williams LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
Merrill Corporation
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Thomson Reuters
Walmart
Supporter
Kent Amos
Tracy Colden
CourtCall, LLC
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
Freeman & Freeman, PC
Gordon & Rees LLP
Holland & Knight
Hollingsworth LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
JAMS – The Resolution Experts
Keller and Heckman LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Lauren Leeker, Esq.
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C.
Reed Smith LLP
Sedgwick LLP
Shawe & Rosenthal LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
In-Kind
JWPT Holdings, LLC
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Sodexo
Venable LLP
In Partnership With
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
| Speaking Role at Conference | Complimentary Conference Registrations (includes Friends Lunch) | Complimentary Additional Friends Lunch Tickets | Screen Projected Logo | Listing on Conference Promo materials | |
| Underwriter $25,000 |
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| Platinum $20,000 |
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| Gold $10,000 |
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| Silver $5,000 |
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| Bronze $2,500 |
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| Supporter Up to $1,000 |
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Please contact the NAWJ Executive Director for more information or to sponsor.
Marie Komisar
Executive Director, NAWJ
202-393-0222. mkomisar@nawj.org
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