Mar. 9, 2012

The National Association of Women Lawyers held its midyear meeting at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles on Feb. 23. The event brought together women lawyers from local, national and international law firms and businesses for a day of networking, seminars and panel discussions. The meeting also provided an occasion for NAWL to present its annual “Challenge” and “Leadership” awards. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. received the Challenge Award for exceeding the association’s goal of 30 percent female representation among its chief legal officers. Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, who has served more than 30 years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, received the Leadership Award. Stanford Law School Professor Barbara Babcock gave the keynote address, in which she discussed her book “Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz.” Caldwell Leslie & Proctor PC, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, O’Melveny & Myers LLP and association President Heather Giordanella’s firm, Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP, were among the event’s main sponsors. — Erica Phillips