10-20-94 Women in Law Conference

                         NEWS ADVISORY:
          OHIO WOMEN IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION CONFERENCE

     The image of women in the legal profession will be the focus
of the third annual "Ohio Women in the Legal Profession"
conference on Friday, Oct. 28, and Saturday, Oct. 29, at the
Fawcett Center for Tomorrow, 2400 Olentangy River Road.

     The one-and-a-half day professional development conference
is designed for attorneys, the judiciary, and academe and will
focus on the positive image of women in the profession.

     The keynote speaker is Lynn Hecht Schafran, director of the
National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women
and Men in the Courts.  Her address, "Women and the Law: Are We
Having Fun Yet?" will start Friday at 12 noon in the Fawcett
Center Banquet Hall.

     The opening session, Friday at 10:15 a.m. in the Assembly
Hall, looks at the "Status of Women in the Professions."  The
session features Kathleen B. Burke, immediate past president of
the Ohio State Bar Association; Laurel Bellows, chair of the
American Bar Association Commission on Women; and Claire V.
Wolfe, M.D., president of the Ohio State Medical Association.

     Reporters are welcome to cover the opening session and the
keynote address.

     Other highlights of the conference include sessions titled:
"Trial Techniques: Opening Statements in a Gender Discrimination
Case,"  "Women as Rainmakers," "Creating Gender Equity in Law
Firms," and "Gender Bias: Recent Developments in Federal
Employment Law."

     The event is co-sponsored by the Ohio Women's Bar
Association, The Ohio State University Office of Continuing
Education and The Ohio State University College of Law.

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Contact: Jean Morris, Program Director, Office of Continuing
Education, 292-8571.


[Submitted by: GERSTNER  (gerstner@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
Thu, 20 Oct 1994 10:04:01 -0500 (EST)]
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