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Tuition: $75.00; $69.00 for Suffolk Alumni, attorneys admitted after 2011 and members of the WBA. Non-Suffolk Law Students
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Credit: Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT and ME.
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The pathway to success for women attorneys is a constantly evolving and important conversation. In today’s rapidly changing world and legal marketplace, women have increasing oppor-
PANELISTS AND AGENDA
JODY L. NEWMAN, ESQ., CO-CHAIR
Collora LLP
MARY CLARE DECKER, ESQ., CO-CHAIR
Monitor Group
tunities to exercise leadership, power and influence yet obstacles remain. Leadership skills are
learned by observation, discussion, taking risks and reflection. This Academy will help women
learn about leadership through the inspiration of successful women who have made their mark
DARLY G. DAVID, ESQ.
Lawson & Weitzen, LLP
in business, government, the judiciary and academia. They share their lessons because they all
believe that one woman’s rise to the top is meaningless unless she brings others along.
SHARE THE POWER!
Learn from national leaders
→ Sharpen your business savvy
→ Build career connections
→
Women in practice, have their own stories to
tell and own perspectives from different
types of practice environments. Their les-
ANDREA EISENBERG, ESQ.
Managing Director
Preferred Transition Resources
PHYLLIS FEDERICO, ESQ.
Schmidt & Federico, PC
sons on business development provide tips
HONORABLE AMY NECHTEM
Juvenile Court, President of the National
Association of Women Judges
DEAN CAMILLE NELSON
Suffolk University Law School
BRONWYN L. ROBERTS, ESQ.
Duane Morris LLP
on how you can be successful no matter where you are in your career.
CAROL FULP
President & CEO, The Partnership Inc.
The studies and statistics make it clear that women in law, in government and in business have
NINA M. WELLS, ESQ.
Former Secretary of State, New Jersey
not made the gains that their numbers in the profession would indicate. Recently, Anne-Marie
Slaughter in The Atlantic created a buzz in declaring that women cannot “have it all” unless
our culture evolves to permit women to have meaningful careers and family life. She said, “If
12:00 P.M. NETWORKING LUNCH
1:00 P.M.
PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS AND INSPIRATION FOR THE ROAD AHEAD
▪ Lessons on Leadership
▪ How You Can Apply Them to Your Career
MODERATOR: Dean Camille Nelson
PANELISTS: Andrea Eisenberg, Carol Fulp, Judge Amy Nechtem, and Nina M. Wells
2:15 P.M.
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT—“CRACKING THE CODE”
▪ Navigating Your Career at Each Stage of Practice
▪ How to Be Business Savvy
▪ Finding the Time for Business Development
MODERATOR: Jody L. Newman
PANELISTS: Mary Clare Decker, Phyllis Federico, Darly G. David, and Bronwyn L. Roberts
3:45 P.M.
Q&A
4:00 P.M.
NETWORKING RECEPTION
women are ever to achieve real equality as leaders, then we have to stop accepting male behavior and male choices as the default and the ideal. We must insist on changing social policies and
bending career tracks to accommodate our choices, too.”
This Academy is about women who have achieved success, sharing their wisdom, successes
and mistakes to help others and coming together for mutual inspiration and encouragement.