WELCOME TO THE FELLOWS WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Email announcements are sent to Fellows every Tuesday afternoon and feature program news and information, professional opportunities, and alerts of upcoming events to help you get the most out of your participation in the LCLD Fellows Program. These announcements will be archived on the website.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
2014 Fellow Marcus A. Christian was featured in Law360's Minority Powerbroker series. Read his profile here.
2014 Fellow Ernesto Rafael Palomo was featured in Law360's Minority Powerbroker series. Read his profile here.
2014 Fellow Erika R. Royal was featured in Law360's Minority Powerbrokers series. Read her profile here.
FELLOWS EVENTS
FELLOWS ALUMNI MONTHLY CALL: Dec. 3, 2014
Please join the Fellows Alumni Monthly call, which is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3, at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The call-in number is 1.866.285.2458 and the passcode is 213.430.7828.
MIDWEST REGION FELLOWS HOLIDAY PARTY - Chicago, IL: Dec. 3, 2014
Midwest Fellows are invited to meet for drinks on Wednesday, December 3, from 5-8 p.m. at The Berkshire Room inside the ACME Hotel at 15 E. Ohio St., Chicago, IL 60611. Fellows are also invited to donate toys to the children of LYDIA Home in Chicago. If you or your firm would like to volunteer, you will receive the wish list of one child and are asked to bring the wrapped toy to this event. To volunteer and to RSVP, please contact Diane Webster, Gerard Gregoire, or Craig Jeffrey.
MINNESOTA FELLOWS HAPPY HOUR - St. Louis Park, MN: Dec. 9, 2014
The Minnesota Fellows will be meeting for happy hour on December 9 at 6 p.m. at Yardhouse in the Shops at West End (1667 Park Place Blvd., St. Louis Park). Please RSVP to 2013 Fellow Caryn Boisen at cboisen@larsonking.com if you are able to make it.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
WEBINAR - WOMEN GCS: THE BEST ADVICE I EVER RECEIVED: Dec. 16, 2014
On Tuesday, December 16, at 10 a.m. (CST) Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. will be launching the next program in the firm’s webinar series, "Women GCs: The Best Advice I Ever Received." Stacey Slaughter and Denise Rahne will discuss some of the experiences of women leaders in positions of influence in the legal industry, along with candid advice on how women can achieve success within the profession. Click here to register.
CORPORATE COUNSEL INTENSIVE INSTITUTE - Boulder, CO: Jan. 5-6, 2015
The University of Colorado Law School will host the first-ever Corporate Counsel Intensive Institute (CCII) Jan. 5-9, 2015, at the Wolf Law Building in Boulder, Colorado. CCII is an intensive one-week course designed to immerse prospective or new in-house counsel in the best practices of being an effective and strategic in-house counsel. Four LCLD Members are leading the course: Susan Blount, Kim Rivera, Mark Roellig and Laura Stein. Please click here for more information.
NBA COMMERCIAL LAW SECTION 28TH ANNUAL CORPORATE COUNSEL CONFERENCE - Naples, FL: Feb. 26-28, 2015
The 28th Annual Corporate Counsel Conference is scheduled for Feb. 26-28, 2015, at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Florida. The conference is expected to be sold out again this year. Registration must be received by Nov. 30, 2014, in order to take advantage of the lowest early bird registration rates. Review the registration brochure here. Corporate Counsel with Home Depot, GEICO, Target, The Coca-Cola Company, Diageo, Microsoft, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual, Dex Media, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Rockwell Automation, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, and Showtime Network have already committed to attend the conference. Contact 2012 Fellow Roger Goode at roger.goode@walmartlegal.com if you are planning to attend.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Littler Mendelson is looking for the best and brightest to join its ever-growing and thriving team. For more information about specific associate openings, please visit the Careers section of its website: http://www.littler.com/careers. Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice with more than 1,000 attorneys in over 60 offices worldwide. Littler represents management in all aspects of employment and labor law and serves as a single source solution provider to the global employer community. Consistently recognized in the industry as a leading and innovative law practice, Littler has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 70 years. Littler is the collective trade name for an international legal practice, the practicing entities of which are separate and distinct professional firms. For more information visit: www.littler.com. Littler offers a generous benefits package to all full-time employees. Littler Mendelson is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Wells Fargo & Company is currently hiring for several legal positions. To view available positions and apply online, please visit https://www.wellsfargo.com/careers.
Pitney Bowes Inc. seeks a General Counsel for Inlet LLC, a technology platform owned by Pitney Bowes. For more information on the position, click here. Please contact Caroline Coit at caroline.coit@pb.com with any questions about the role. Please click here to apply.
Winston & Strawn has two Pro Bono attorney positions open in Los Angeles and New York. Please click here for the Los Angeles opportunity and here for the New York opportunity.
Frost Brown Todd LLC seeks an Associate with 3-5 years of general litigation experience, business and commercial litigation preferred, in its Lexington, Kentucky, office. Applicants must be licensed to practice law in Virginia and have a strong academic record and excellent written and oral communication skills. Please click on the link below to use the “self-apply” feature http://www.frostbrowntodd.com/careers-openings-attorneys.html to submit an application for either position.
