Trials Facing Women Litigators in MA & Tips for Success

The MA Women’s Bar Association & Mass. Academy of Trial Attorneys Women’s Caucus have a great panel discussion lined up for June 9, 2010 at 4 p.m. at the Moakley Federal Courthouse: Trials Facing Women Litigators & Tips for Success.

Panelists:

• Hon. Marianne Bowler, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, D. Mass.
• Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General
• Marianne LeBlanc, Sugarman and Sugarman , P.C.
• Michelle Peirce, Donoghue, Barrett, & Singal, P.C.
• Sarah Worley, Pre-Trial Solutions, Inc.

Reception immediately to follow At The Daily Catch.  RSVP to wba@womensbar.org or 617.973.6666

Jury Finds Police Officer Marcus Huffman Guilty of Rape

This just in from the Projo 7 to 7 News Blog:

A jury has found a Providence police officer guilty of rape.

Providence patrolman Marcus Huffman was ordered held without bail after the jury reported finding him guilty of first-degree sexual assault stemming from the May 17, 2007, incident.

He raped a 19-year-old woman in a police substation in South Providence while the woman was intoxicated, according to trial testimony.

Huffman showed little emotion when the verdict was announced.

His attorney said he plans an appeal.

The jury began deliberating Wednesday, spending about four hours considering a verdict.

RI Women’s Bar Association Forum: Restoring Civility in Civil Procedure

The Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association’s is hosting the second part of their Women in Law Series with an event entitled, “Restoring Civility in Civil Procedure: How to Decode the Unwritten Rules of Practice and Successfully Navigate the Discovery and Trial Process.”

Learn from the pros how cooperation, respect and flexibility generally serve the best interests of the court, the client and the attorney. Lunch is included and participants will earn 1 MCLE credit for this seminar.

PRESENTED BY: The Honorable Susan McGuirl, Associate Justice, RI Superior Court; Rebecca Tedford Partington, Assistant Attorney General; Melody A. Alger, Alger Parker LLP

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:30 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
Courtroom 1
Licht Judicial Complex
$25.00 for Members and $35 for Non-Members

Please return checks payable to “RIWBA” to:
Melody Alger
Alger Parker LLP
95 Chestnut Street, Providence, R.I. 02903

You can RSVP on Facebook here.

Leading Women Attorneys in Rhode Island Discuss Work and Life

This Tuesday, there is a great forum exploring leading women lawyers and “defining success in work and life” sponsored by the RWU School of Law and the RI Women’s Bar Association

Leading Lawyers: Defining Success in Work & Life
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Law School Room 283

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Address by Cynthia Thomas Calvert, Esq. – Barrier Update: The Glass Ceiling and Maternal Wall in Law Firms Today – Cynthia Thomas Calvert is the co-director of the Project for Attorney Retention (“PAR”), at the Center for WorkLife Law.  The Center studies law firms? retention and advancement of female attorneys and work/life issues in legal employment.   As one of its hallmarks, PAR works with all stakeholders to develop practical solutions to issues of attorney retention and the advancement of women lawyers.

2:15 – 3:30
Panel Presentation: Women Who Broke Through.  Moderator: Mary Holper, Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law.  This panel will feature women who have broken through the “glass ceiling,” focusing on the path these women followed to their current position, including how they overcame challenges along the way.

• Beverly Ledbetter, Brown University
• The Honorable Judith Savage, RI Superior Court
• Patricia Sullivan, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
• Miriam Weizenbaum, Deluca & Weizenbaum, Ltd.

3:30 – 3:45
Break

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
Panel Presentation: Balancing the Scales.  Moderator: Colleen Murphy, Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law.  This panel will explore the strategies that women practitioners implement in their professional careers to address work/life issues, highlighting different ways that they both define and achieve success.

• Patricia Andrews, Law Offices of Patricia Andrews
• Ondine Galvez-Sniffen, Catholic Social Services of Fall River
• Martha Holt, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of RI
• Olayinka Oredugba, City of Providence

5:00 p.m.
Reception

RSVPs are requested but not required.  Please email Feinstein.Institute@rwu.edu if you plan to attend.