Thursday, February 5, 2009

Today's Meeting

Pride Law Meeting 02/05/2009

Welcome Back!

Recurring Events
Thursdays on the Hill will resume next week! - Look for the rainbow flag
THLA board mtg - Feb 5th @530 at the center (Tonight!) - www.thla.org


Upcoming Events
1)Atty mixer – (Jenn and Ben are organizing) This event will be a shortened panel and a mixer after, featuring a cross-section of atty’s in the community - Career Services is cosponsoring and will be helping us out with getting atty’s and publicity. If anyone has a type of practice they would like to see represented, email usdpridelaw@gmail.com and let us know.
2)Post Prop 8 panel w/ Professors –( Nick. Aiming for March). - Prof. David McGowan has expressed interest in doing a speaker event on “what we can do” to promote equality, etc. We will be asking some some Profs to join in the event. -- More details to come
3)Hate crimes speaker – (Michelle - Goal Date: Mid April – the NDoS – 04-17-09) -- We will be talking to Judge Rubin and some others for this event -- More details will come

We are looking for help with these events. Please volunteer to help out with at least one event this semester! It will be a small time commitment.


Social Events
Lips! - Christine is organizing a Pride Law night at Lips! (It’s a drag show in the North Park area) - More details to come
Baseball Game Watching party at Prof. Dripps - Date TBA – Ben is organizing

Administrative
Brief Reminder: Dues - $10 - Make check out to Pride Law, put in pride law mailbox

Comments:
We will be trying to organize our meetings with the new Reproductive Law Society in order to avoid future time conflicts! The RLS deals with GLBT issues, and Pride Law members are welcome.

Goal for next meeting: bring/invite one friend to Pride Law who hasn’t been before!
Have a great few weeks!