September 2012 Newsletter - Dallas Women Lawyers Association

September 2012 Newsletter
Michele Wong Krause to Receive
2012 Louise Raggio Award
Michele Wong Krause embodies the spirit of the Louise
Raggio Award. She has held leadership positions in many bar
associations since graduating from SMU Law School in 1985,
including President of the Dallas Asian American Bar
Association in the 1990s and President of the Dallas Hispanic
Bar Association in 2002. She has also represented Dallas in a
term on the Board of the State Bar of Texas, as both the first
Asian and first Hispanic attorney elected to that position.
Michele Wong Krause created the Dallas Minority Attorney
Program (DMAP) in the mid-1990s. The free, ABA awardwinning program is a one-day seminar designed to meet the
unique challenges facing solo, small-firm, minority, and
female attorneys by focusing on business development,
marketing, office management, technology, guardians ad
litem, and court appointments.
Michele has also been instrumental for many years with
"Bar None." Since its debut performance 23 years ago, "Bar
None" has raised over $1 million for the Sarah T. Hughes
Diversity Scholarships at SMU's Law School.
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We will honor Michele Wong Krause at the
2012 DWLA Judicial Reception, which will be
held on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at The
Stoneleigh Hotel, Dallas, Texas from 5:30 P.M.
to 7:30 P.M. See pages 11 and 12 for ticket and
sponsorship information.
Inside This Issue
• President’s Letter, Page 2
• Scenes from Karaoke, Page 4
• Judicial Profile, Pages 7-8
• Board Minutes, Page 9
• Pipeline to Equity P’ship, Page 13
• September Meeting, Page 14
Save the Dates!
Upcoming DWLA CLEs
Noon at the Belo Mansion
September 11, 2012: Social
Media: New Media, New
Threats, New Opportunities
with Angelina LaPenotiere,
Bhaveeni Parmar, Amanda Ellis,
Renae Zappa, and moderator
Christy Jump. 1.0 hour CLE
approved.
December 11, 2012: Justice
Debra Lehrmann with the Texas
Supreme Court.
September 18, 2012: Dressing
First Class on a Coach Budget.
Times Ten Cellars from 5:30 pm
- 7:30 pm.
September 19, 2012: Networking with In-House
Counsel. Times Ten Cellars
from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
September 26, 2012: Joint
Sister Bars Happy Hour. From
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm; location to
be determined.
DWLA Judicial Reception
October 11, 2012
President’s
Letter
Christy Jump
We are over half way through the year, and I am as excited about what we've done as I am about
what we still have planned to do!
You all know we are proud of what has happened in the first half of the year. In the past three
months alone, we have added these accomplishments and successes:
" selected our first two scholarship recipients for our Study Stipend, awarded to two law
school students to help bridge the time while studying for the bar exam;
" hosted more events with the sister bar associations, including a karaoke night at Family Karaoke where the presidents of DWLA, DAABA and J.L. Turner sang memorable versions of
both "Thriller" and “Low” ("Apple Bottom Jeans");
" hosted a CLE where the Executive Director for the Center for Women in Law spoke regarding
effective advocacy for women in the law; and
" established our first ever official mentoring program with the Women in Law of SMU Dedman School of Law.
In the next few months alone, we look forward to honoring Michele Wong Krause as our 2012 Louise Raggio recipient at our annual Judicial Reception, to be held at the Stoneleigh hotel on October 11, 2012.
We will also be joining the SMU Women in Law for a Women's Welcome and Fashion Show, with
styling by Lisa Rowe of the Perfect Image, on September 18, 2012, at Times Ten Cellars.
And, we are glad to join with our sister bars Dallas Asian American Bar Association, Dallas Hispanic
Bar Association, J.L. Turner Legal Association and Dallas Association of Young Lawyers for a rare
5-way happy hour, on September 26, 2012.
We will have even more to announce in the future. For now, though, I am thrilled to look back on
all that we have done already, and feel so proud of the lady lawyers of DWLA and all that we have
accomplished this year. Through working with sister bar associations as well as with each other,
we have already reached far more achievements than I dared to hope we could at the beginning of
the year. We thank all of you for your ongoing support and for joining us in all of our new, as well
as traditional, ways of celebrating professionalism of women in the legal profession, and having
fun while doing it.
Yours Truly,
Christy Jump
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Words of Wisdom from June 2012 CLE
On June 12, Linda Bray Chanow, Executive Director of UT Law's Center
for Women in Law, offered frank remarks and started an interesting
discussion regarding the topic, "Power Advocacy: Getting Results for Your
Clients Through More Effective Advocacy." Key take-aways: • Playing
the power game is worth it; • There are tried and true strategies for
acquiring power; • You can build your unique path to power; and • Don’t
try to be a man.
SMU Women in Law Presents
Dressing First Class on a Coach Budget:
Create a winning look in and
out of the courtroom!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Times Ten Cellars
6324 Prospect Avenue, Dallas Texas
SMU Women in Law would like to thank
the sponsors of this event:
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JULY 19, 2012
WE ARE FAMILY
KARAOKE JOINT SOCIAL
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Building Your
Personal Brand
Joint Event with DAABA,
DHBA, and J.L. Turner
Scenes from 5th Annual Inspiring Women
Christy Jump, Sarita Smithee, Alyson Vrana, and Sherry Meyer
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CLE on How Best to Work with Outside Counsel and
Working With Clients and Potential Clients
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Profile
Judge Catharina Haynes
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
By Lisa R. Hasday
“Never discount a child,”
says Judge Catharina Haynes,
who sits on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
At age ten, Haynes decided
she wanted to become a
lawyer. A woman attorney
named Fran Jamieson had
visited her school on career
day, and Haynes was
fascinated. Jamieson later
became a well-known judge in
eastern Florida, where Haynes
grew up.
Even at that young age,
Haynes recognized how,
through a career in law, she
could work to ensure that our
system of justice functions
well. “I just pursued that and
never wavered from that,”
Haynes remembers. She
graduated from high school at
age 16, college at 19, and law
school at 22. “I was in a hurry
to get somewhere, I hoped,”
she explains.
She received an
undergraduate psychology
degree in 1983 with highest
honors from the Florida
Institute of Technology, where
her father was a physics
professor, and her law degree
in 1986 with distinction from
In 1998, colleagues
encouraged Haynes to run for a
state district judge position.
“To think about running for
Haynes has based her entire judge in a million-plus
professional career in Dallas, community where you’re not
although she previously had no from seems amazingly
daunting,” she recalls. “But I
ties to the area. Not sure
whether she wanted to stay in talked to people and they said,
‘I think you’d be good at it.’”
Atlanta after law school,
Haynes went ahead and
Haynes asked an Emory
ultimately ran unopposed.
placement counselor to
suggest other Sun Belt cities of
“It’s an example of ‘if it’s
a similar size. The counselor
something
you can do, don’t
recommended Dallas. Haynes
sell yourself short,’” she says.
spent part of a summer here
Haynes wanted to become a
and decided to stay. “I felt
that Dallas was a place where I judge because she thought it
was “an amazing way to serve
could succeed or fail on my
the public” using her legal
own merits,” she says.
skills and her ability to be fair.
Haynes began her career at “It should never be looked at
Thompson & Knight, where she as a personal goal,” she warns,
“but instead as an opportunity
met her husband, Craig, a
lawyer to whom she has been to serve others.”
married for almost twenty-four
She served on the state
years. After two years at
bench
for eight years, from
Thompson & Knight, Haynes
January 1999 to December
joined Baker Botts, spending
about six years as an associate 2006, working around the clock
to reduce the case backlog she
and about four years as a
had inherited. “I sometimes
partner in the firm’s trial
had one jury deliberating in
section. Along the way, she
one box and a new jury in
became board certified in
Consumer and Commercial Law another box,” she remembers.
by the Texas Board of Legal
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Specialization.
Emory University in Atlanta,
becoming the first lawyer in
her science-minded family.
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judge in a court. I can hear
the transcript.”
with her. “I’ve changed my
mind,” she says. “Or
sometimes you’re able to
During 2005, Haynes was the
Haynes emphasizes the
arrive at yet a third place that
Presiding Judge of the Dallas
pulls from both viewpoints.
Civil District Courts. While on importance of the appellate
standard of review. “The
Sometimes you can’t and you
the state court, she also
end up in dissent, but I think
volunteered as a judge for the standard of review has to do
with who is on the ground and twice before I write a dissent.”
Dallas Volunteer Attorney
who is not,” she says. Purely She explains that she does not
Program.
discretionary decisions merit a “personalize” her decisions,
deferential standard of review, instead focusing on the facts
Haynes then returned to
Baker Botts in January 2007. whereas purely legal decisions and the law.
While resuming her work as a do not. She recommends that
lawyers apply the standard of
When she has a free
partner there, she helped
found a pro bono legal clinic in review throughout their briefs evening, Haynes and her
and at oral argument.
husband enjoy the performing
the Vickery Meadow area of
arts. They have season tickets
Dallas. Haynes has also taught
Federal appellate judging
to the Dallas Theater Center
pre-GED classes in that area
and to the Broadway series at
for eight years. In July 2007, involves more types of cases
than state trial judging did.
the Winspear Opera House.
President George W. Bush
“As broad as my civil docket
They also enjoy Theatre Three
nominated her for a seat on
and have watched community
the U.S. Court of Appeals for was on the state court, now
theater in Duncanville,
the Fifth Circuit, and in April we multiply that by Texas,
Garland, Grapevine, Mesquite,
2008 Haynes was sworn in as a Mississippi, and Louisiana,”
says Haynes, referring to the
and Richardson. In addition,
Circuit Judge.
Fifth Circuit’s jurisdiction.
they have traveled to New
“What I’ve realized is that
York a few times and have
She likens the difference
your
expertise
as
an
appellate
seen Broadways shows there.
between practicing as a lawyer
and serving as a judge to the judge is in the science of
Among many bar awards,
difference between chocolate judging.”
Haynes received the 2003
and vanilla cake: “I like both
Haynes appreciates the
Outstanding Board Member
a lot, but they taste different.
time and other resources that Award and the 2004 Louise B.
As a judge, it’s not just a
Raggio Award from the Dallas
matter of making a good-faith appellate judges enjoy. “A
district judge, state or federal, Women Lawyers Association.
argument. You have to find
the right answer. Literally at might have to rule on an
evidentiary objection in three
Despite all of her success,
stake are people’s lives,
seconds,” she notes. “We
Haynes is remarkably modest.
liberty, and pocketbooks.
have the benefit of briefing,
“I am reviewing decisions of
That’s a very weighty thing.
oral argument, and time to
courts of limited jurisdiction
And I take it very, very
think
about
it.”
Federal
under a very clear set of
seriously.”
appellate judges, who decide standards of review,” she
maintains. “And I basically
Haynes is grateful for her cases on three-judge panels,
can’t function on my own,
time as a trial judge. “I have need that time to confer and
needing at least one person to
colleagues who are excellent reach agreement, she says.
agree with me. To the world
appellate judges without ever
The motto in Haynes’s
it looks like I am a very
having served as a trial judge,”
chambers is “challenge all
powerful person, but I consider
she says. “For me, it’s
assumptions.” She applies the myself very lacking in power.
immensely helpful to
motto to herself especially
Every day I challenge myself
understand how things work
when a colleague disagrees
not to lose sight of that.”
from the perspective of the
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DALLAS WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
1.
Call to Order
President Christy Jump officially called the meeting to order at 11:05 a.m. Members in attendance
included Staci Glenn, Krisi Kastl, Ayesha Rafi, Nicole Knox, Dena DeNooyer Stroh, Sherry Meyer, Jenny
Womack, Paula Walsh, and Kay Goggin.
2.
President's Report - Christy Jump
President Jump reported that DWLA had a nice turnout for the screening of the Miss Representation
documentary at the Studio Movie Grill on May 31, 2012. DWLA added 12 new members at the event.
The Judicial Reception Committee has selected Michele Wong Krause as the recipient of the 2012 Louise
B. Raggio Award. Kay Goggin informed Ms. Wong Krause of the news, and she was very grateful. The Board
is currently soliciting sponsorships for the event.
The date of the Randy Block CLE has been moved to August 2, 2012 (from April 26, 2012) to accommodate
a DAYL event.
3.
Social - Ayesha Rafi
Ayesha Rafi proposed a Karaoke Night as a joint event with DAYL and DAABA. She will check with the other
bar associations regarding an available date.
Ms. Rafi also proposed a Dress for Success/First Class on a Coach Budget presentation about dressing
professionally on a meager budget. She is searching for locations to host the event and plans to invite law
students to attend. Other ideas for social events include a Drinks and Defense self-defense night.
The J.L. Turner Legal Association has invited DWLA to participate an event on June 22, 2012 - "Building
Your Personal Brand," a presentation by Katy Goshtasbi, CEO of Puris Image. Nicole Knox moved that DWLA
make a $125 contribution to the presentation, and Kay Goggin seconded the motion, which carried
unanimously.
4.
CLE - Dena DeNooyer Stroh
Dena DeNooyer Stroh announced that the topic for the September CLE will be related to social media.
Justice Debra Lehrmann of the Texas Supreme Court is confirmed to speak at the December CLE.
5.
Secretary's Report - Staci Glenn
The Minutes from the March 20, 2012 Board Meeting were presented for approval. Nicole Knox moved that
the minutes be approved, and Dena DeNooyer Stroh seconded the motion, which carried unanimously.
6.
New Business
Nicole Knox reported that Legacy Counseling Center has written us requesting a contribution and asking
that a representative attend a conference in September, the Grace Project for HIV-positive women.
7.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 11:37 a.m.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012
5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
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DALLAS WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Sponsorship Form – 2012 Judicial Reception and Presentation of the
Louise B. Raggio Award
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The Stoneleigh Hotel, Dallas, Texas
5:30 P.M. TO 7:30 P.M.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____ Trailblazer Sponsor $4,000
Sponsorship Appreciation Plaque
Attendance for 10 to Reception
Recognition on Dallas Women Lawyers Association website
Recognition at Event
2013 DWLA Memberships for 10 (list names, firm names, phone numbers, and email addresses on back)
____ Platinum Sponsor $2,500
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Recognition on Dallas Women Lawyers Association website
Recognition at Event
2013 DWLA Memberships for 10 (list names, firm names, phone numbers, and email addresses on back)
____ Gold Sponsor
$1,500
Attendance for 5 to Reception
Recognition on Dallas Women Lawyers Association website
Recognition at Event
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____ Silver Sponsor
$1,000
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Recognition on Dallas Women Lawyers Association website
Recognition at Event
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____ Bronze Sponsor
$500
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____ No, I cannot attend. However, please find enclosed my contribution of $_______ to support this worthwhile event and
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Please mail this form along with your check made payable to "Dallas Women Lawyers Association" to: Lynn Javier, Treasurer, 18712
Mapletree Lane, Dallas, Texas 75252 by September 17, 2012.
For more information, contact Alyson Vrana at
avrana@graukoen.com or (214) 521-4145.
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please join us
For an in-house and outside
counsel happy hour on
September 19, 2012
TIMES TEN CELLARS
6324 Prospect Avenue Dallas, Texas 75214
The Barrel Room | 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Wine and Hors D’oeuvres will be served
Sponsored by: Alston + Bird LLP and Jackson Walker LLP
Hosted by the Corporate Counsel and Social Committees of the
Dallas Asian American Bar Association
The Dallas Hispanic Bar Association
Dallas Women Lawyers Association
J.L. Turner Legal Association
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The National Association of Women Lawyers® presents
The Pipeline to Equity Partnership:
The Skills, Strategies and Stumbling Blocks Women
Lawyers Encounter on Their Path to Reach Equity Status.
Thursday, September 20, 2012 | Magnolia Hotel, Dallas, TX
MORE INFORMATION at nawl.org
REGISTER at http://nawl.timberlakepublishing.com//calendar_day.asp?date=9/20/2012
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Dallas Women Lawyers
Association 2012
Board of Directors
SAVE THE DATE
President « Christina Jump
President-Elect « Michelle Hartmann
Vice President - Membership « Nicole Knox
Vice President - Publicity « Paula Walsh
Vice President - Judicial Reception « Alyson Vrana
Secretary & Website « Staci Glenn
Treasurer « Lynn Javier
Historian « Kay Goggin
CLE & Newsletter Editor « Dena DeNooyer Stroh
Judicial Profiles « Lisa Hasday
Social Directors « Ayesha Rafi and Sarita Smithee
DAYL Liaison « Joan Ballard
Immediate Past President « Krisi Kastl
Directors-at-Large:
Jenny L. Womack « Jill Pollak
Stephanie Osteen « Sherry Meyer
Nicole Collier « Nida Nadir
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Location to be determined
Advisory Board:
Susan Steger « The Honorable Gena Slaughter
The Honorable Liz Lang-Miers
The Honorable Sally Montgomery
Karen McCloud « Kathryn Veech « Linda Szuhy
A happy hour with DWLA, DAABA,
DHBA, J.L. Turner and DAYL
DWLA’s participation has been
generously sponsored by
Jackson Walker Women
DWLA’s newsletter is published four times per year
on our website, http://www.dallaswomenlawyers.org. If
you would like to contribute, please contact Newsletter
Editor Dena DeNooyer Stroh at denadstroh@gmail.com.
Social Media Panel to Present CLE on September 11
On September 11, 2012, the Dallas Women
Lawyers Association will present a panel discussion
on “Social Media: New Media, New Threats, New
Opportunities,” at its next meeting at noon at the
Belo Mansion. One hour of CLE is approved, and
this program is free.
The panel will include Angelina LaPenotiere,
Bhaveeni Parmar, Amanda Ellis, and Renae Zappa.
Ms. LaPenotiere is a partner in Carrington
Coleman’s employment section. Ms. Parmar with
Law Office of Bhaveeni Parmar PLLC develops social
media policies & systems for technology and ecommerce based companies, and is a frequent
speaker on the intersection of IP and social media.
Ms. Ellis is Vice President of Search for Special
Counsel and Immediate Past President of the Texas
Women Lawyers. She frequently speaks on social
media legal issues and hosts a blog on using social
networking to get hired. Renae Zappa is a legal
specialist with Ricoh Americas Corp. who assists her
clients in developing the most efficient document
strategies.
Christy Jump, DWLA President and Senior
Counsel in the Labor and Employment Section at
Jackson Walker LLP, will moderate the panel.
Christy is board certified in Labor and Employment
by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
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