Thursday, February 26, 2009

Today's Meeting Minutes

Pride Law Meeting 02/26/2009

Upcoming Events

Thursdays on the Hill
Come by at noon and grab lunch with your fellow Pride-Lawers!
Look for the rainbow flag

THLA board mtg - www.thla.org
Mar 5th @530 at the center


Our discretionary funding requests were successful!
Atty Panel and Mixer
March 2nd – Next Monday!
6-640 in WH2A
640-8pm Mixer with “beverages” and snacks in faculty reading room
Please post it on your facebook, forward the email, tell your friends, etc

Tax Atty at lunch on 03/04 – co-sponsored with Tax Law

Post Prop 8 panel w/ Prof D. McGowan
Mar 19 @ lunch
Prof McGowan will focus less on law, and more on methods of protests used int the 60’s civil rights protests and how they can be applied to the current day

Hate crimes speaker
Mid April – the NDoS – 04-17-09?
We are still working on this :)

Social Event
Lips! – Christine is planning a night out at Lips, a drag dinner show on el cajon blvd in North Park– March 28 @9pm.
www.lipsshow.biz



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

Pride Annual Attorney Panel and Mixer

March 2, 2009
6:00 – 6:40 pm
In WH2A

Mixer and Reception to Follow
In the Faculty Reading Room


Featured Panelists and Attendees:
Superior Court Judge David Rubin
Jonathan Schneeweiss, J.D., LL.M., President of the Tom Homann Law Association
Members of the Tom Homann Law Association, San Diego’s GLBT Bar Association

About the Program:
The Annual Pride Law Panel will discuss a variety of career experiences including Deputy DA to Judge and JAG Corps to Real Estate. The panel will also discuss some of the challenges faced as members of the GLBTQQA community within the legal profession.

Snack and Refreshments Will Be Served!
No RSVP Required

Monday, February 23, 2009

Meeting this Thursday 2/26 at noon

Our 2nd meeting of the semester will be this Thursday at noon (room TBA).
We will discuss the upcoming attorney panel/mixer and the other great events we have planned for the semester.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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!