Washington DC Lawyer Chapter

A Welcome from the Washington D.C. Lawyer Chapter

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:19:19 -0400

On behalf of the Washington, D.C. Lawyer Chapter of ACS, welcome to our website!

Our Chapter has provided programming and social events for the capital area since 2002. We boast one of the largest Lawyer Chapters in the nation and host a wide variety of panel lunches, career panel events, book reviews, networking events and social gatherings. Our substantive programs cover a broad array of issues, including Social Security reform, election protection, reproductive rights, budgetary policy, and criminal justice.

In 2008, the D.C. Chapter adopted a formal constitution, creating four committees:

• Social Committee: organizes social and networking events for the Chapter, including happy hours and other gatherings.
• Programming Committee: organizes substantive events on legal topics, including book club events and lunchtime speakers.
• Outreach Committee: coordinates the Chapter's interaction with other organizations, with current and prospective members, and with
law students.
• Special Projects: organizes the Chapter's activities for facilitating scholarship, mentoring, volunteering and other projects.

Washington DC Lawyer Chapter

Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter Hosts Networking Event

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:52:42 -0400

On May 29, 2008, over a hundred lawyers and law students met at Lima in Washington, D.C. to welcome summer associates and interns to the city and to kick off ACS's summer programming in D.C. Law students in town for the summer came along to hear about ACS activities in the city where they may one day come to work and to learn how to become more involved in the organization once they return to D.C. as attorneys at the end of next summer. Many members of ACS's D.C. Lawyer Chapter joined the students to discuss ACS's activities in D.C. The D.C. chapter will host a similar gathering this coming September to welcome D.C.'s newest attorneys and the lawyer chapter's newest members.

Washington DC Lawyer Chapter

Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter Hosts Progressive Careers Panel Discussion

admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:08:54 -0400

On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, the Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter hosted an event entitled “Progressive Careers Panel Discussion”. The event was co-sponsored with the George Washington University Law School Student Chapter. The discussion featured panelists Marc E. Elias, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP; Angela Kelley, Director, Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation; Seema Mahini, Attorney, USDA Office of General Counsel; Edward J. Palmieri, Counsel, Sprint-Nextel Corp., Office of Privacy; Corey W. Roush, Partner, Hogan & Hartson; Courtney Spivey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia; and was moderated by Elliot Williams, Counsel to Senator Charles Schumer, Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

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DC Lawyer Chapter Hosts Professor and Author Brian Landsberg

admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:42:13 -0400

On Friday, September 28, 2007, the Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter hosted Brian Landsberg, author and professor at Pacific McGeorge School of Law, for a discussion regarding his new book Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The event was held at Covington & Burling.

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DC Lawyer Chapter Hosts Discussion on "Classified Information and the Press: Do We Have an 'Official Secrets Act'?" on 3/23/06

admin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:45:00 -0500

On March 23, 2006, ACS's Washington DC Lawyer Chapter hosted a panel discussion on the criminal and civil liability of journalists who reveale classified information relating to government activities -- on the same day that The Washington Post's lead editorial warned of such "Dangerous Prosecution". The panel was moderated by Lillie Coney, Associate Director of the Electronic Information Privacy Center, and featured Walter Pincus, staff writer for The Washington Post; David Rivkin, partner at Baker Hostetler and former official in the George H.W. Bush Justice Department; and Lee Levine, partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P. and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

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DC Pilot Mentorship Program

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:51:36 -0500

The ACS national office, ACS’s Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter and ACS’s Georgetown University Law Center are proud to announce the launch of the DC Student/Lawyer Mentorship Pilot Program.

Since 2001, ACS has grown exponentially from a small campus organization to a national network of progressive scholars, judges, practitioners, advocates, public officials and law students. ACS and its members strive to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice are in their rightful place in American law. As evidenced by our conservative counterparts, a vital tool in achieving our mission is to create a means by which more senior members can provide career and professional guidance to those more junior. To this end, we have developed a student/lawyer mentorship program in Washington, DC.

In the coming years, ACS hopes to expand this to a national mentorship program in which senior members from various legal career paths will be paired with mid-level attorneys, recent graduate and law student members. This pilot program will match DC Lawyer Chapter members with DC area student chapter members. Participating student chapters include: American, Catholic, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, Howard, Maryland and the University of the District of Columbia. To the extent possible, matches will be made based on employment sector and substantive interest area. Please bear with us as this program develops.

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DC Lawyer Chapter Happy Hour a Huge Draw

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:09:26 -0500

On Friday, October 28 the DC Lawyer Chapter hosted a Happy Hour with over 75 attendees. Because the event was advertised at the Equal Justice Works Conference, many of those attending were progressive lawyers and law students who had not previously been involved with ACS. ACS Associate Director of Student Chapters Joi Chaney thought that having the event at a chic downtown bar contributed to its success, saying that attendees “may want to get involved now that they realize we are a fun group of people wishing to do more than just talk about con law."