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ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AND PRESIDENT'S PICNIC Thursday 8/14/08 5:30pm - 7:30pm One of our themes this year and has been bringing WLA to new venues. We couldn't stop now so this year's President's Picnic and Annual Membership Meeting is moving . . . inside to beat the heat. Maybe it doesn't qualify as a picnic if it's inside but we promise it will still be fun! It's also your chance to check up on WLA's Board of Directors and hear the report of all the past year's actions and activities. The "Picnic" will be in the historic Clifton Heights neighborhood of South St. Louis at 6172 Simpson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63139. It's right around the corner from you, just take Highway 40 or 44 to Hampton south, make a right on Columbia Ave (stoplight) and a right at Clifton Ave (stop sign). 6172 Simpson is the last house on your right before the park. Who can resist free appetizers & drinks? So please join us and bring a couple of friends to let us show off what a great year we've had. Please RSVP by calling our hostess and outgoing President Gen Nichols at 314-647-0033 or by emailing Katie Wolf.
PAY YOUR 2008-2009 DUES WITH PAY-PAL!! It's that time of year again, to renew your WLA membership for the brand new 2008-2009 year, dues should be paid in September. New this year is the ability to pay those dues through pay-pay - a safe and easy way to pay by credit card on the internet. If you just have one membership to purchase, just click on the "Buy Now" button underneath the membership level of your choice. If you have more than one membership to purchase, click on the "Add to Cart" button underneath each of the membership levels you need. Then click on the "View Cart" button when you're finished and pay for all the women in your firm at once! You'll see that we've increased our dues for the first time in at least 7 years. We hope that you'll see the benefits over the course of the year in more free events, bigger charitable donations and activities, and new and exciting locations. Suggestions on how we can make WLA even better? Drop us a line at wla@wlastl.org.
Finished with your purchases? Click on the "View Cart" button below to finish enrolling your whole firm in WLA! *Proceeds from additional dues paid by Black Robe, Gavel, and Scales of Justice Members will be donated to the WLA Foundation for WLA's charitable activities including the Linda J. Murphy Scholarship Fund for women law students. CONGRATS TO MEGAN PHILLIPS! Newest Addition to the MoBar Bd of Gov's
NEED A LAWYER? TRY A WOMAN! Click and "Find A Woman Lawyer" Today At long last (or maybe you didn’t even know you were waiting for it) the online directory is here. Potential clients, other attorneys, judges, journalists, and tons of others can now found you, a woman lawyer, on line. Just got to the side-bar above and to the left on your screen and select “Find a Woman Lawyer”. Not only does the directory work well, it looks good. The directory offers four searching parameters: Last Name, Practice Area, Location & Committee Membership—combine one or more of the parameters to narrow your search. Be sure to hit the enter button on the page and not the enter button on your keyboard. Looking for another attorney to help you with your clients’ personal injury issues? Not a problem, selecting from the practice area pull down menu is a snap and gets you to the right woman for the job. Too many choices in that practice area? Narrow it down by location to get exactly what you’re looking for. Need an email address for the lawyer you met at the last WLA function? Simple as pie, just type in her last name and get all her contact info. As an added bonus, you can search the directory for members of WLA’s various committees Best of all, it’s affordable: a one time fee of $10.00 gets you on the information superhighway as long as your WLA dues remain current. If you are already a member of WLA, click here for an application for the directory only and send it in. If you have already enrolled in the online directory, please go and check your listing today. If it is incorrect, email me at nichols@coffey-law.com and I’ll fix it right away. An online directory of women lawyers? What more can a girl ask for?
WLA STATEWIDE WORKPLACE SURVEY The raw results are in! Thanks so much to the 541 women out there who responded to the survey and worked hard to provide invaluable information about their employment conditions and experiences. We will use the survey to identify policies and practices that help or hinder women lawyers in the workplace. Right now WLA is still working hard to put the results together. We plan to informally present the results to the women lawyers at the big firms in the fall and to formally present the results during a forum in the spring. Check out September's newsletter for a sneak peak at the results. Thanks also to Megan Phillips for putting the survey together. Click Here for a snapshot of the results. Click Here for a copy of the Gail Appleson's 6/23/06 Post-Dispatch article about the survey results.
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Okay, we can't claim credit for this one but we are very pleased to congratulate Megan on being the newest member of the Missouri Bar Board of Governors. Just when she was all ready for a big election, it turned out that she was one of two people on the ballot for the two open Board seats allocated for the City of St. Louis. As long as we get one more woman on the Board we're thrilled so atta' girl Megan!