You Don’t Want To Miss This!!!!

First Women in the Profession Summit
June 18, 2008
PBI CLE Conference Center, Wanamaker Building, Suite 1010, 100 Penn Square East

11:30 – 12:00 Registration and Lunch

12:00 – 12:15 Welcoming Remarks
A. Michal Pratt, Chancellor, Philadelphia Bar Association
Maria Feeley, Chair, 1st WIP Summit

12:15 -12:35 Key Note Address by Charisse Lillie, Vice President of Human Resources for Comcast Corporation and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Comcast Cable

12:35 – 12:45 Break

12:45 – 1:45 Women in the Courtroom – Communication Across the Gender Gap
Moderator: Lynn Marks, Executive Director, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts
Faculty: The Honorable Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson, Philadelphia
County Court of Common Pleas
The Honorable Norma L. Shapiro, EDPA
The Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit
The Honorable Petrese B. Tucker, EDPA
The Honorable Diane M. Welsh (ret.), JAMS

1:45 – 2:45 Hot Topics for Women
Moderators: Kimberly Ruch-Alegant, Brett, Tessler & Associates, P.C.
Kelly Dobbs Bunting, Greenberg Traurig
Faculty: Danielle Banks, Stradley Ronan Stevens & Young, LLP
Nancy O’Mara Ezold, Nancy O’Mara Ezold, P.C.
Natalie Klyashtorny, Nochumson P.C.

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00 – 4:00 Best Practices for the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers
LAW FIRM EXECUTIVE PARTNERS
Moderator: Maria Feeley, Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP
Faculty: J. Gordon Cooney, Jr., Philadelphia Managing Partner, Morgan
Lewis
Thomas A. (Tad) Decker, President and CEO, Cozen O’Connor
Patrick Dunican, Chairman and Managing Director, Gibbons P.C.
Nina Gussak, Chairwoman, Pepper Hamilton LLP
John J. Soroko, Chairman and CEO, Duane Morris

4:00 – 5:00 Best Practices for the Retention and Promotion of Women Lawyers
CORPORATE COUNSEL
Moderator: Roberta D. Liebenberg, Partner, Fine, Kaplan & Black, R.P.C.
Faculty: Kamil Ali-Jackson, General Counsel, Ception Therapeutics
Teresa Ciccotelli, Divisional Counsel, Saint Gobain Corp.
Wanda Flowers, Chief Counsel, Sunoco, Inc.
Lorraine Koc, General Counsel, Deb Shops, Inc.

5:00 – 6:30 Cocktail reception

This Is News?

Anyone see the March 24th article in the ABA Weekly Newsletter on-line (below)?  They needed a study for this?  

Work/Life Balance

The Baby Effect: More Billables for Men, Fewer for Women

Mar 24, 2008, 06:06 am CDT

The Baby Effect: More Billables for Men, Fewer for Women

Posted Mar 24, 2008, 06:06 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

A Canadian study suggests that having children leads to fewer billable hours for female lawyers and more for their male counterparts.

The study of 670 lawyers at an Alberta law firm found that mothers with school-aged children billed fewer hours than childless women, while fathers with preschool-aged children billed more hours than childless men, according to a synopsis posted on TaxProf Blog.

Researchers Jean Wallace and Marisa Young conclude that billables dropped for the mothers because they were more likely to have partners who also work, putting more of the onus on the moms to handle household tasks and childcare, according to a blog published by business consulting firm Abeceder. The fathers, on the other hand, were more likely to have a partner who did not work and could take on more responsibilities.

Female lawyers without children had the highest billable hours of all the groups studied—more than male lawyers with or without children.

The study also found that men and women took advantage of family-friendly benefits in different ways. Fathers took advantage of flexible work policies to pursue leisure activities while mothers used them to tackle domestic duties.