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The LGBT Bar Announces 2020’s Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40
Stephanie Robin
Stephanie Robin, a Miami native, will start her career in labor and employment law this summer with Fisher & Phillips, with which she interviewed at the 2019 Lavender Law® Career Fair. “I got my dream job,” Robin told us. “I knew I wanted to do employment law and was hoping to get a job at […]
The Powerful Role of Attorneys
By M. Dru Levasseur, Deputy Program Officer of the National LGBT Bar On February 1st, I had the honor of keynoting the 19th Annual Minnesota Lavender Bar Conference. It’s always a pleasure to be in the room with members of one of our 38 state and local LGBT Bar Affiliates to hear about the exciting work […]
Tiffany Palmer
The Honorable Tiffany Palmer, a highly experienced LGBTQ+ family law specialist and now a Family Court Judge in Philadelphia, first interacted with the National LGBT Bar when she began attending Lavender Law® early in her legal career as a way to connect with other lawyers committed to LGBTQ+ civil rights. When the Lavender Law® Conference […]
Matthew Jannusch
Matthew Jannusch, an Assistant State Attorney with the Cook County State Attorney’s Office for the past 18 years, currently works in the Office’s Community Justice Unit. He works to reduce violence in Chicago neighborhoods through data-driven prosecution and is additionally tasked with reaching out to at-risk and marginalized populations, including but not limited to homeless […]
Beyond Pronouns: Embracing the Full Gender Spectrum
By M. Dru Levasseur, Deputy Program Officer of the National LGBT Bar Last week I spoke to Law360 about “How BigLaw Is Starting To Embrace The Full Gender Spectrum.” It is truly significant that law firms are taking a visible stance to include transgender and nonbinary attorneys in the legal workplace, particularly with the current […]
Brian Rice
Brian P. Rice is a prime example of what it means to be a success in the legal field. He attended our 2003 Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair as a rising 3L, hoping to network with a handful of firms. Little did he know, the connections he made at Lavender Law would spur him […]
National LGBT Bar Association Celebrates International Pronouns Day
Chris Czerwonka
What does a lawyer look like? Chris Czerwonka is an adjunct professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and an advocate of LGBT and disability rights, but he doesn’t necessarily fit everyone’s image of a lawyer. “I have a walker, I’m five feet, I move slowly,” he says. “Someone like […]