2020 Spring Meeting
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is complex and far-reaching. Over the past several weeks, the NAWL Board and Staff have been focused on how best to continue the important work we do to provide leadership, a collective voice, and essential resources to advance women in the legal profession and advocate for equality of women under the law. Early on, as concerns began to seriously escalate and restrictions began to emerge, we moved quickly to transform our Mid-Year Meeting into a virtual event. We were very pleased with the success of that program overall, and we gained valuable experience and insights into how to continue to enhance virtual programming, both in the current environment and as an option for future programs.
Following Mid-Year, we were very hopeful that we could similarly shift our Spring Washington D.C. conference to a virtual event. As we proceeded with planning, however, we encountered a perfect storm with the dramatic and sudden increase in the impact of COVID-19 to our communities, our workplaces and our lives. Very quickly, it became clear that it would be extremely difficult to effectively deliver a conference to the level of quality that our members and our sponsors expect and deserve. For those reasons, the Executive Committee of the NAWL Board has decided to cancel the conference.
NAWL is grateful to the Spring Conference’s devoted and hard-working planning committee, and we continue to work with our outstanding volunteers on planning our future conferences. The Spring Conference Committee has developed some excellent content that we are working to re-purpose to deliver in other ways. We are also continuing to monitor the impact of COVID-19 to our upcoming conferences and working with our planning committees to develop virtual options. As circumstances evolve if in-person conferences aren’t feasible, we’ll be prepared to shift to virtual.
We greatly appreciate your support of NAWL and are looking forward to connecting soon to learn more about how we can continue to work together to advance women lawyers. Please direct all questions to nawl@nawl.org.
Thank You to Our Planning Committee
Nikaela Jacko Redd
Morgan Stanley
Baltimore, MD
Chair
Arian June
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Washington, DC
Chair
Mary Card-Mina
Fairfax, VA
Board Liaison
Sheila Murphy
New York, NY
Board Liaison
Anika Jones
Morgan Stanley
Baltimore, MD
Logistics Chair
Christina Anderson
Alston & Bird
Charlotte, NC
Tara Ellis
Balch & Bingham LLP
Jacksonm MS
Kelly Fisher
PJH & Associates, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Brianna Kadjo
Perkins Coie LLP
Denver, CO
Heather Petrovich
Cozen O'Connor
Washington, DC
Mary Catherine Vergona
US Army Trial Judiciary
Washington, DC
Caiti Zeytoonian
Morgan, Lewis, Bockius
Boston, MA
Sumaira Shaikh
Hunton, Andrews, Kurth LLP
Anais Taboas
Legal Services Corporation
Washington, DC
Rachel Ziolkowski Ullrich
FordHarrison, LLP
Dallas, TX
Brittani Ivey
Navy Federal
Washington, DC
Program Co-Chair
Laura O'Neill
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Washington, DC
Marketing Chair
Akua Adu-Gyamfi
Morgan Stanley
Baltimore, MD
Nadia Banduka
Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, NJ
Megan Gold
Allstate
Northbrook, IL
Sara Powell
Faegre Baker Daniels
Indianapolis, IN
Divya Srivastav-Seth
Schneck Price
Sheea Sybblis
Boehringer Ingelheim
Ridgefield, CT
Naveen Zaidi
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
Latoya Tyson
IP Enthusiast
Washington, DC
Jessica Yeshman
Hunton, Andrews, Kurth LLP
Washington, DC
Lisa Horowitz
Attorney Talent Strategy Group
McLean, VA
Erin Martinko
USAA
Washington, DC
Program Co-Chair
Ingrid Hall
Paypal
San Jose, CA
Sponsorship Co-Chair
Raisa Patron
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Washington, DC
Bethany Krystek
DLA Piper
Washington, DC
Mary Catherine Jobe
George Washington
Washington, DC
Juanne Harris
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
Lindsay Carlson
Latham & Watkins LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Samantha Grunberg
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Washington, DC
Elizabeth Emanuel
Microsoft
Washington, DC
Maureen O'Brien
McDermott Will & Emery
Chicago, IL
Allison Pierre
Innovative Prosecution Consulting LLC
Washington, DC
Deborah Froling
Kutak Rock LLP
Washington, DC
Jacqueline Rogers
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
Wilmington, DE
Marketing Co-Chair
Jewel Watson
Prudential Financial, Inc.
New York, NY
Sponsorship Co-Chair
Carol Anderson
AT&T
Seattle, WA
Sara Fernandez
McDermott Will & Emery
New York, NY
Daphne Forbes
Microsoft
Washington, DC
Nakita Haynes
RDL Eagle Trade
Kathleen Marron
The Marron Alliance
Minneapolis, MN
Tania Martin
Katrina Murphy
Learning Consultant Exec.
New York, NY
Amy Pocklington
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Richmond, VA
Suzanne Zakaria
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Washington, D.C.
Katherine Sandburg
Hunton, Andrews, Kurth LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Gilford
Sidley Austin LLP
Los Angeles, CA
