Here’s what our LGBTQ+ Bar team members achieved last month:
- We signed onto and distributed a response from a number of our sibling LGBTQ+ and legal organizations to the Trump Administration’s Day 1 Executive Orders: https://lgbtqbar.org/executiveorder
- We answered many requests for assistance from our community members for guidance in this time of legal uncertainty.
- We starting planning a webinar series on mental health and well-being for LGBTQ+ professionals with allied associations.
- We participated in numerous community meetings about the effects of the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders impacting LGBTQ+ people – particularly transgender and nonbinary people – and the state of DEI programs nationally.
- We presented the National LGBTQ+ Bar’s Annual Exclusive Consulting Session for Recruiters on How to Attract and Retain Trans and Nonbinary Talent. This was one of the exclusive benefits for our Gold or Silver sponsors of the Trans in BigLaw Monthly Networking Program. Recruiters and DEI leaders from our top sponsors attended this interactive and informative session: https://lgbtqbar.org/programs/tibl/
- We opened up four $2500 law student scholarship applications for the 2025-26 school year. To apply, click here.
- Several of our staff, Board members, and members attended the American Bar Association’s Midyear Meeting, representing the Bar in the ABA’s House of Delegates, Young Lawyers Division, and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Commission meetings.
- On January 1st we opened registration for the 2025 Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair, which will take place July 28-30 in NYC! To register for the largest gathering of LGBTQ+ legal professionals in North America, click here.
- We opened up our Workshop Proposals period for Lavender Law – click here to submit a proposal!
- We opened up this year’s Lavender Law® Student Travel Grant Fund, a need-based grant program to assist law students with travel expenses to and from our annual Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair. To donate, click here. To apply for a grant, click here.
- We onboarded a new employee who joined our Program team, strengthening our ability to serve our membership and support our work year-round!