Lavender Law 2007 – Chicago

Call For Workshop Proposals

Interested in Presenting a Workshop?

Lavender Law aims to provide the most challenging and rewarding learning experience possible for our attendees and presenters.

Lavender Law 2007—Chicago will feature two dozen workshops on cutting-edge legal issues affecting LGBT individuals and the community on Friday and Saturday (as well as the career fair on Thursday). Topics covered will include practical litigation and transactional skills, constitutional law developments, estate planning and drafting, employment discrimination, HIV/AIDS, immigration, domestic violence, the Solomon Amendment and other LGBT law student group management issues, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell and other military matters, and issues affecting out legal practitioners in the profession from solo practice to large firms.

Deadline is April 30th.

Please click here to fill out the workshop proposal form online.

Registration and Hotel Bookings are Now Available

Hilton Chicago is a landmark downtown property located on the ''Cultural Michigan Avenue Mile'' overlooking Grant Park and Lake Michigan, Millennium Park and Museum Campus.

It is the closest luxury hotel to the loop, shopping and theatre. The hotel features richly appointed guest rooms, full service business center, fitness facilities, and diverse dining options.

Chicago Hilton rooms are being held exclusively for Lavender Law at a reduced price.  Please please book early or you may be disappointed when the reduced conference rate sells out.

Click here to register to attend.

Young Lawyers Division

The NLGLA Young Lawyers Liaisons invite you to the YLD Spring Conference sponsored jointly by the ABA YLD and the Young Bar Association of Montréal. 

The various events will be held in beautiful Montréal on May 3-5, 2007. This will be the first time in twenty years that the ABA YLD has held its conference in Montréal.

NLGLA thanks the ABA YLD for including LGBT issues in its confernece, and NLGLA is proud to co-sponsor a program called “Gay Marriage – An International Discussion.” 

For more details, please click here.

Position Vacancy at NLGLA

Development Associate -  The Development Associate will have primary responsibility for the Association’s membership programs and the Foundation’s giving programs. 

For more details, click here.

LGBT Legal Professional Issues in the News:

Rainbow Revolution
By Vivia Chen
The American Lawyer
March 1, 2007

In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas's same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for embracing the "anti-antihomosexual culture." Well, Scalia got that right. Not only are the nation's elite law firms not antigay, they are putting out the lavender welcome mat. Perks that seemed radical just ten years ago are now standard fare at Am Law 200 firms: health care benefits for domestic partners, nondiscrimination pledges, and sponsorship of gay organizations. Firms are also stampeding to recruit candidates at gay job fairs. (Emphasis added.)  Read more >>