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Member Spotlight: Sonia Murphy

WBA celebrates Black History Month by celebrating the Black members of our community. Sonia Williams Murphy is a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was WBA president in the 2016-2017 bar year, and presided over the Association’s Centennial Celebration. Sonia joined Justice after over a decade in large, international law firms. Sonia [...]

By |2024-02-14T17:05:34+00:00February 14th, 2024|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Sonia Murphy

Member Spotlight: Sonia Murphy

WBA celebrates Black History Month by celebrating the Black members of our community. Sonia Williams Murphy is a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was WBA president in the 2016-2017 bar year, and presided over the Association’s Centennial Celebration. Sonia joined Justice after over a decade in large, international law firms. Sonia [...]

By |2024-02-14T17:04:49+00:00February 13th, 2024|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Sonia Murphy

Member Spotlight: Marcia McCree

WBA celebrates Black History Month by celebrating the Black members of our community. Marcia McCree is a Brooklyn native who graduated from George Washington University College of Law. She began her legal career representing plaintiff's side anti-trust and consumer protection class action suits. She then pivoted to real property and real property taxation and zoning [...]

By |2024-01-23T21:12:20+00:00February 1st, 2024|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Marcia McCree

WBA Announces 2024 Woman Lawyer of the Year: Ellen Jakovic

The Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (WBA) will recognize the Ellen Jakovic as the 2024 WBA Woman Lawyer of the Year. Ms. Jakovic is Of Counsel in the Antitrust Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. The Woman Lawyer of the Year Award recognizes a leader who has championed change in the profession by [...]

By |2024-01-24T20:32:14+00:00January 19th, 2024|Blog, News|Comments Off on WBA Announces 2024 Woman Lawyer of the Year: Ellen Jakovic

Member Spotlight: Ethel Badawi

Ethel Badawi is Co-Founder & Principal of Pollack Badawi Group LLC. She is a current member of the WBA Board of Directors. She is an active member and past president of APABA-DC, the largest and oldest association of Asian Pacific American legal professionals in the DC area. She also serves on the Board of Directors [...]

By |2024-01-16T05:16:37+00:00December 13th, 2023|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Ethel Badawi

Member Spotlight: Mary Blatch

Mary Blatch is Senior Counsel, Privacy at StockX, an online marketplace that sells limited edition and high demand sneakers, streetwear, collectibles, handbags, and watches. Mary tells us, “I’ve bounced around in my legal career, always following my curiosity.” She clerked in the Eastern District of Virginia, then spent some time litigating at big firms. She [...]

By |2023-10-30T23:25:43+00:00November 8th, 2023|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Mary Blatch

Member Spotlight: Tamara Kraljic

Tamara Kraljic is Counsel at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP where she works principally with the Arbitration and the Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice groups. Tamara considers this question: “How can we re-think the corporate law firm model to create a space that works for women, mothers, caretakers and generally people – of any gender, [...]

By |2023-10-30T23:29:37+00:00November 1st, 2023|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Tamara Kraljic

Member Spotlight: Serafina Concannon

Serafina Concannon is Of Counsel at Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered and an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center (her alma mater. She has been in private practice since she graduated from law school. She specializes in mass tort bankruptcy litigation. At Georgetown, she teaches Civil Discovery in Federal Courts, Privilege in the Context [...]

By |2023-10-17T14:55:48+00:00October 18th, 2023|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Serafina Concannon

Member Spotlight: Paulette Pagán

WBA celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month by celebrating the Latinx members of our community. "Dedicating this time each year to highlight the immense value we bring to the world is not only important but also serves as a powerful reminder that we are embraced and welcomed, no matter where we choose to sit at the table." [...]

By |2023-09-25T04:14:54+00:00October 4th, 2023|Blog, Member Spotlight|Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Paulette Pagán

A Pandemic Lesson in Pausing and Reevaluating Our Priorities

By Daniela de la Piedra First published in American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, The Woman Advocate on August 30, 2022. For 13 years, I worked as an attorney representing low-income seniors in Washington, D.C. When I started practicing law, I was single, had no kids, and was ready to dive into this new legal [...]

By |2023-10-02T03:33:44+00:00October 2nd, 2023|Blog|Comments Off on A Pandemic Lesson in Pausing and Reevaluating Our Priorities
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