Join us for the first-ever World Forum for Women in the Law to be held virtually January 27-29, 2021.

This cutting-edge conference will focus on Women, Power and Disrupting the Status Quo. The Forum will bring together women leaders in the legal profession, representing a global array of international firms, corporations, NGOs and public officials committed to advancing women into leadership roles. We encourage you to share this invitation far and wide with your bar associations and networks.

If you are a governmental member, academic member, judicial member, public lawyer member, or a student, please call the ABA Service Center at (800) 285-2221 or International: +1(312) 988-5000 for your complimentary registration. You can also email the Service Center at service@americanbar.org to register.  All other non-members, $100; ABA members, $75

View the schedule and exciting program descriptions here.

Sneak Peek at some of our sessions:

Making Decisions: the Role of Reason, Emotion, and Bias - Yours and Others'
As lawyers, we make judgments and decisions daily, and the decisions we regularly make have consequences for those around us, including those we work and interact with, as well as those affected by our work. Our minds, our personalities, our life experiences, and the social structures around us influence how we take in, process, and use information in our decision-making, often in the form of biases, assumptions and expectations. This session will explore the impacts of bias, assumptions, and expectations on various aspects of legal practice including interactions with clients and colleagues. We'll also discuss measures to identify and address biases, assumptions and expectations both in how we relate to others and how others relate to us.

Standing up for Change: African-American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Take a virtual tour of this thought provoking exhibit at the Women's History Museum. In the 20th century, African-American women formed the backbone of the modern Civil Rights Movement. They were the critical mass, the grass roots leaders challenging America to embrace justice and equality for all. This program discusses women's critical roles in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock's Central High School integration, and the little known women behind the scenes of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Join us to explore the Civil Rights movement through the perspectives of its women leaders.

Speakers Include:

Hilarie Bass, President, Bass Institute for Diversity and Inclusion
Christina Blacklaws, Immediate Past President, Law Society of England and Wales
Paulette Brown, Senior Partner and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Locke Lord
Vivia Chen, the Careerist Blog; Senior Columnist, the American Lawyer
Connie Collingsworth, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Officer, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC, Head, Atkin Chambers, London
Hon. Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator for Illinois
Paula Davis, Founder and CEO, Stress and Resilience Institute
Patricia Diaz Dennis, Board Member, US Steel; Entravision Communications; Amalgamated Bank
JoAnne Epps, Executive Vice President and Provost, Temple University
Patricia K. Gillette, National Speaker and Author
Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women's Law Center
Maria Green, Director, Tennant Company, WEC Energy Group, and Littelfuse Inc
Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics and Integrity and Affiliated Monitors; Faculty, International Anti-Corruption Academy, Austria
Deborah Epstein Henry, Consultant, Speaker, Author, DEH Consulting, Speaking, Writing
Dr. Milana Hogan, Chief Talent and Legal Officer, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
Nancy Hirsch, Booking Producer, MSNBC
Hon. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York
Valerie Jarrett, Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama; Distinguished Senior Fellow, the University of Chicago, the Law School
Stasia Kelly, Executive Director of Client Relations, DLA Piper
Eileen Letts, Partner, Zuber Lawler
Roberta "Bobbi" Liebenberg, Partner, Fine, Kaplan, and Black; Principal, the Red Bee Group
Hon. Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago
Charisse Lillie, CEO, CRL Consulting LLC
Meredith Mandell, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, and Sullivan, LLP; Previously Producer, MSNBC Legal Unit
Ambassador Audrey Marks, Ambassador of Jamaica to the United States
Judy Perry Martinez, ABA Immediate Past President; Simon, Peragine, Smith, and Redfearn
Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, New York Public Library
Hon. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Rebekah Mintzer, Assistant Managing Editor, Bloomberg Law
Lelia Mooney, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement for the Rule of Law in the Americas; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law
Maureen Mulligan, Chair, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession; Partner, Peabody and Arnold
Nancy Northup, President and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights
Dr. Destiny Peery, the Red Bee Group
Ingrid Pierce, Global Managing Partner, Walkers
Anita Ramasastry, University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson Endowed Professor of Law; Director, Sustainable International Development Graduate Program; Faculty Director, International, Comparative and Transnational Programs
Patricia Lee Refo, ABA President; Partner, Snell and Wilmer
Hillary Sale, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
Helena Samaha, President and CEO, Lex Mundi
Stephanie Scharf, Partner, Scharf Banks Marmor, LLC; Principal, the Red Bee Group
Tshepo Shabangu, Immediate Past Chair, Partner, Spoor and Fisher
Tiziana Sucharitkul, Co-Managing Partner, Director of Dispute Resolution, Tilleke and Gibbons
Joyce White Vance, Former U.S. Attorney and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Alabama School of Law
Simone Weichselbaum, the Marshall Project, Staff Writer

A HEARTFELT THANK-YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS!

Global

• Duane Morris, LLP
• Kirkland and Ellis, LLP

Platinum

• DLA Piper
• Reed Smith, LLP

Gold

• Huntington National Bank
• Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius LLP
• WilmerHale, LLP

Silver

• Covington and Burling, LLP
• Fox Rothschild, LLP
• Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher LLP
• Haynes and Boone, LLP
• Hogan Lovells
• K&L Gates, LLP
• Latham and Watkins, LLP
• Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann and Bernstein, LLP
• Locke Lord, LLP
• Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC
• Sidley Austin, LLP
• Wiley Rein, LLP