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Fall Community Outreach Project

As our 2013 Fall Community Outreach Project, the AWA has chosen to help the Metro Battered Women Shelter (Metropolitan Center for Women and Children). Metro offers individual and group counseling for domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking...

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Volunteers needed for NAWJ Conference

As many of you know, the National Association of Women Judges ("NAWJ") is holding its 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans from October 9-13, 2013. Since 1979, the NAWJ has fought to preserve judicial independence, ensure equal justice and access to the courts for...

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Special Meeting

The AWA Board of Directors is calling a special meeting for the sole purpose of voting on this Resolution. The Resolution supports Act 227, which authorizes construction of a stand-alone civil courthouse at the Duncan Plaza site. The proposed Resolution is in line...

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Katie Lasky receives LSBA Volunteerism Award

We are excited to share that long-term AWA board member, and our current Membership Chairperson, Katie Lasky, has received the LSBA 2013 Leah Hipple McKay Memorial Award for Outstanding Volunteerism. The award is in memory of Leah Hipple McKay, LSBA member and wife of...

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2013 Law Student Awards

As one of its initiatives in the legal community, the AWA has committed to award $500 annually to an outstanding law clinic student from each of the two local law schools, whose work has focused on issues important to the AWA. At Tulane, the $500 award is given to the...

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AWA co-sponsoring Superwoman Seminar

Join the LSBA, the New Orleans Chapter of the Association for Women Attorneys, the Louisiana Association of Black Women Attorneys, and the New Orleans Bar Association’s Women’s Committee for a half day, morning seminar designed especially for women by women to address...

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