Her Say! News, Views & Events – March 2015

 

Dear Members and Friends,

The Cocktail Launch of our 2015 Program, with our theme of ‘Engagement’, at the Union University & Schools Club of Sydney, was well attended, with $1500 proceeds from the evening to be donated to The Katrina Dawson Foundation.  

Our guest speaker, Prof Rosalind Croucher AM, President Australian Law Reform Commission, was engaging, informative and entertaining. Please click here for Prof Croucher’s speech, and to download the Lawyers Weekly articles click here: ‘No one  is going to develop your career for you’ 19 February; ‘Setting the legal zeitgeist’ 23 February; and click here for our Press Release. The photo gallery from the event may be viewed by clicking here.

Our Subcommittees for 2015 were also announced at the event. We invite members interested in participating in our following subcommittees for this year to contact our office:

– Newcastle Chapter (based in Newcastle)
– Social Media Subcommittee
– Experiences and Events Subcommittee
– Workplace Practices Subcommittee
– Achievement Awards Subcommittee
– Membership and Sponsorship Subcommittee
– History of WLANSW and Women in the Law Subcommittee
– Website Subcommittee
– Career Intentions Survey Subcommittee

I am pleased to announce our next event on 31st March ‘Women in Taxation and Corporate Law Networking Event‘ with guest speaker, The Hon Justice Jacqueline Gleeson, Federal Court of Australia, hosted by Minter Ellison Lawyers and presented in association with the NSW Bar Association. 

Please see below for further details of the event and registration, and visit our Event Calendar for information on upcoming events as they are confirmed.

Kind regards,

Lee-May Saw
President

 

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Women in Taxation and Corporate Law Networking Event 

Guest Speaker: The Hon Justice Jacqueline Gleeson, Federal Court of Australia6-8pm, Tuesday 31st March 2015
Minter Ellison Lawyers, Level 19 Auror Place, 88 Phillip St, Sydney

Women and men legal practitioners are warmly invited to join us for a great evening of catching up with old colleagues and friends and meeting new ones over some drinks and canapés.

We are delighted that Justice Jacqueline Gleeson will be our guest speaker on the evening. Justice Gleeson was appointed as a Federal Court Judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 2014. Prior to her appointment Justice Gleeson practiced as a barrister at the NSW Bar.

Justice Gleeson was appointed Senior Counsel in 2012. Her practice was focused on administrative law, competition and consumer law, professional liability and taxation law.

Presented in association with:

WLANSW & NSW Bar Association Members free; Non-Members $15 – bookings essential; limited places

Please click here for further details and registration.

On behalf of Salvos Legal we want to take this opportunity to share with you an invitation to attend a special event.  Each six months we put on a special event, where we have very high profile speakers come to The Salvation Army in Sydney CBD and talk on important matters, with a view to helping raise funds from attendances to support our Humanitarian work – we call this the Salvos Legal Lecture Series. On Saturday, 14 March 2015 we will be hosting the 10th such event in this Series.  What’s unique about this one is that each of the speakers we have this time is a woman – the focus of this event, being to promote ‘Women of the Law’. 

We extend an invitation to you as we thought it may be of considerable interest.  A copy of the flyer is attached and the link to registration page: http://www.salvoslegal.com.au/events/show/128

For more information about Salvos Legal and the Humanitarian work we do, please visit our website: http://www.salvoslegal.com.au/our_services/humanitarian 

 

Please find information below about Geoffrey Robertson’s World Premiere event at City Recital Hall this May which we hope you will find of interest. For one night only, Geoffrey Robertson’s first one-man show will feature archival footage as well as personal stories and revelations to provide a rare new insight into one of our most significant national figures.

Dreaming Too Loud – An Evening with Geoffrey Robertson
Saturday 2 May, 8pm,City Recital Hall Angel Place
Tickets from $69 Box Office (02) 8256 2222

http://www.cityrecitalhall.com/events/id/1777/Dreaming-Too-Loud-An-Evening-with-Geoffrey-Robertson/
Mother’s Day Classic – 10 May 2015 

ALL AROUND NSW: Albury-Wodonga, Ballina, Batemans Bay, Bowral, Davistown, Forster, Hay, Kyogle, Long Jetty, Merimbula, Parramatta, Sydney City (The Domain), Tenterfield, Tocumwal, Wagga Wagga, Wollongong and Yamba

Get ready to celebrate a classic Mother’s Day!

Registration opened in December 2014 for Australia’s biggest breast cancer research event, the annual Women in Super Mother’s Day Classic. Every Mother’s Day for the past 17 years, Australians have walked or run to fund research and honour those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.  At the 2014 Mother’s Day Classic more than 135,000 participants in 97 events around the nation and on overseas military bases raised $4.5 million, bringing the overall total raised to $24.3 million. We are looking for support to build corporate and community team participation in 2015. 

Register now at http://www.mothersdayclassic.com.au/  Click here for the flyer.

This year’s event is being held on Sunday 10 May 2015, and is open to all ages and fitness levels, so there is something for everyone, whether you want to participate or simply come along and support. More than a quarter of a million people have participated in past Mother’s Day Classic events, and you can too this year by registering at www.mothersdayclassic.com.au
WIN final season DVD Series 8 or 9 of the hit show FOYLES WAR compliments of NIXCO Email:  executive@womenlawyersnsw.org.au with the subject ‘FOYLES WAR’. Only winners will be contacted.

Australian DVD release date – March 4, 2015:  Michael Kitchen returns to the screen for a final time as Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle, a man of scrupulous integrity who continues to be immersed in the dangerous world of espionage.  Having survived the First World War and solved crime in Hastings during the Second, Foyle works as Senior Intelligence Officer for the secret service MI5 to keep England safe and bring justice to those who deserve it.

Honeysuckle Weeks also returns to her role as Samantha Stewart, Foyle’s trusted associate and ally who successfully navigates the shadowy world of intelligence and dedicatedly assists her former boss as he seeks to uncover the truth of the cases he investigates.

Inspired by real events in the early Cold War, at a time when British political and foreign governmental relationships were delicately balanced, celebrated novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz concludes the acclaimed TV drama with Series 9, the last Foyle’s War ever to be made. Directors Stuart Orme (Jack Taylor: Dramatist, Postcode, Merlin) and Andy Hay (New Tricks, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness) who directed the previous series of Foyle’s War return to direct Series 9. Jill Green and Nicole Finnan (Jane Eyre, Mistresses, Monarch of the Glen) will executive produce the drama on behalf of Eleventh Hour Films.

Who are Australian Women Lawyers (AWL)?

Formed in 1997, AWL is the national body representing and funded by women lawyers associations in Australia. The current AWL Patron is the Honourable Chief Justice Diana Bryant of the Family Court of Australia.

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