Florida Association for Women Lawyers

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Nice evening tonight celebrating MDFAWL scholarship winners and donors. Thank you Kelly Peña for your leadership and Littler Mendelson for hosting. #MDFAWL #lawstudents #scholarship #mentorship #MDFAWLFoundation

#FAWL Board members Valeria Obi, Esq. and Paige Tucker attended the Hillsborough County Bar Association Bench Bar Conference alongside Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers members including #HAWL Board Member Sara Peacock!

This morning, #FAWL President Jessica Thomas and Webinar Committee Chair Yasmin Rammaha attended the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association, Inc. Breakfast!

Now accepting: HAWL Leadership Academy Class of 2025 Applications

I was boots on the ground today giving the Florida Association for Women Lawyers Cooley Law School chapter some face time with their YLD! Looking forward to working with these future esquires 😍

Apply for HAWL’s Award Winning Leadership Academy! The HAWL Leadership Academy is now accepting applications for the Class of 2025! The program is open to active HAWL members who are in their first seven (7) years of practice as of the date of application. For more information, and to apply to the Leadership Academy, please see the electronic form, HERE: https://lnkd.in/eiT2jgJj Applications are due no later than September 30, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. EST.

Join us for a special event on September 7, 2024. We reserved 50 tickets for our members to this sold-out event featuring Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. We are also hosting a cocktail reception beginning at 5:30pm. We can't wait to hear from our very own Miami Supreme Court Justice. In case you needed another reason, this is definitely a good time to become a member of MDFAWL. 😉 RSVP at mdfawl.org/events

Black Women in Law joined a collaboration event with several USF organizations where we recruited students to join our club. At our table we had an activity for people to write and share their own daily affirmations. This was an amazing opportunity to meet different people who share similar passions within the school community!

Member Spotlight 🔦 Meet Damaris Henlon! Damaris is an attorney with the City Attorney's Office for the City of Hollywood. Her advice to women in the legal profession? I’s important to really consider what you want your life to look like, both personal and professional, and make your choices based on that vision without compromise or regret. Check out more about Damaris at mdfawl.org/blog. #female #lawyer #law