National LGBTQ Bar Association

Congratulations to Nisha Parekh, Trial Attorney at U.S. Department of Labor and one of the 2024 LGBTQ Bar 40 Best LGBTQ Lawyers Under 40! "Being a leader in the LBGTQ community means knowing that unless we are all free, none of us are free, meaning we must keep fighting for and celebrating the existence of every iteration of queerness in every type of body, until all the world rejoices at the boundless diversity of humanity embodied in our rainbow community." We’ll be celebrating our 2024 Class at this year’s Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair; taking place August 7-9, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eyqGVj_U

Featured Session at Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair: Dismantling the Administrative State and the Impact on LGBTQI Communities What does a Supreme Court case about fishing regulations have to do with LGBTQI rights? Quite a bit, in fact. Government agencies radically impact the lives of our communities: issuing marriage licenses and driver’s licenses, regulating healthcare for people living with HIV, overseeing homelessness and immigration policy, ensuring access to food and gender-affirming care, and enforcing nondiscrimination laws. For decades, federal and state agencies were given wide latitude to administer these programs, with a wide range of consequences for LGBTQI people. However, as reflected most recently in the Loper Bright case, the Supreme Court has charted a course away from this fundamental component of functioning government. Join us at Lavender Law® as we discuss the present state of administrative law, key developments most relevant to LGBTQI communities, and effective strategies at the federal, state and local agency level to leverage positive outcomes for LGBTQI people. View the full program: https://lnkd.in/eWmdTjcP Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/g7vvSzu7

Congratulations to Lydia X. Z. Brown, Director of Public Policy, National Disability Institute and one of the 2024 LGBTQ Bar 40 Best LGBTQ Lawyers Under 40! We’ll be celebrating our 2024 Class at this year’s Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair; taking place August 7-9, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eyqGVj_U

Celebrating Nonbinary Awareness Week! The National LGBTQ Bar recently co-sponsored a webinar titled, “Creating More Welcoming Workplaces for Nonbinary Individuals | Practical Steps Towards Gender Inclusion in the Legal Profession.” The panel, which included Andy Izenson, D Dangaran, August Hieber, Rafael Langer-Osuna, and Rebekah Tobison Scherr, discussed their experiences as nonbinary legal professionals and shared the impact of “Creating More Welcoming Workspaces.” This trailblazing new guide, published by Beyond Binary Legal and the Harvard Law School LGBTQ Advocacy Clinic, outlines how and why the legal profession must uplift, support, and respect nonbinary people. The LGBTQ Bar is proud to sponsor both the guide and this panel, alongside the American Bar Association, Beyond Binary Legal, the Harvard Law School LGBTQ Advocacy Clinic, the National Association for Law Placement, Inc. (NALP), and the National Trans Bar Association. Watch the recorded webinar here: https://lnkd.in/eaG3vMYg Read the groundbreaking guide here: https://lnkd.in/e-wWAGkc

We are so excited to welcome Ogletree Deakins as a Supporter Level Sponsor for the 2024 Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair. Join us for the largest gathering of LGBTQ legal professionals in North America! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbwzjbV5 #lavlaw #lavenderlaw #lgbtqcommunity

We are so excited to welcome Quarles as a Patron Level Sponsor for the 2024 Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair. Join us for the largest gathering of LGBTQ legal professionals in North America! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbwzjbV5 #lavlaw #lavenderlaw #lgbtqcommunity

Please join the National LGBTQ Bar Association as we honor the 2024 Dan Bradley Award Winner: Bill Singer. The Dan Bradley Award is the LGBTQ Bar’s highest honor. It recognizes the efforts of a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal community whose work, like Attorney Dan Bradley, has led the way in our struggle for equality under the law. For more than 50 years, from his practice in rural Somerset County, New Jersey, Bill Singer has been working to create and protect queer families. He is an advocate as well as an attorney, speaking, writing, testifying, and lobbying. Bill will be honored at the 2024 Lavender Law® Awards Luncheon on August 9 in Washington, D.C. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbwzjbV5

Congratulations to Jacob Chen, Partner, DGW Kramer LLP and one of the 2024 LGBTQ Bar 40 Best LGBTQ Lawyers Under 40! We’ll be celebrating our 2024 Class at this year’s Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair; taking place August 7-9, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eyqGVj_U

We are so excited to welcome McDermott Will & Emery as a Patron Level Sponsor for the 2024 Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair. Join us for the largest gathering of LGBTQ legal professionals in North America! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbwzjbV5 #lavlaw #lavenderlaw #lgbtqcommunity

Congratulations to Olena Ripnick-O’Farrell, Associate General Counsel at Meta and one of the 2024 LGBTQ Bar 40 Best LGBTQ Lawyers Under 40! "My mere existence as a gay, neurodivergent woman, and my refusal to hide or diminish any part of my intersectionality, feels in and of itself like an act of protest in the current environment, and I wake up every morning and think about how I can advocate for my communities. Sometimes it’s a little act and sometimes it’s a big act, but it is always action. It isn’t enough to just be – being a leader means being willing to stand up and advocate, even when there is significant risk and potentially a great cost for doing so. Because sometimes there is. But being a leader means being willing to take that risk to make the world a little bit better for this and future generations." We’ll be celebrating our 2024 Class at this year’s Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair; taking place August 7-9, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eyqGVj_U