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Third
Annual Lighting the Path to Legal Education
September 17, 2008 at 7:00p.m. |
Belo Mansion
The event is now SOLD
OUT.
Thank you to everyone wgo is supporting this year's event.
Please mark your calendars for the Third
Annual Lighting the Path to Legal Education event that will
take place on September 17, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Belo
Mansion.
This year’s event will honor
Regina Montoya for her career accomplishments and, more
importantly, her commitment to the professional advancement
of the Latino community. Ms. Montoya is the CEO of
New America Alliance, a nonprofit organization comprised
of successful American Latino business leaders, whose mission
is to promote the economic advancement of the Latino community. In
2007, the Hispanic National Bar Association named Ms. Montoya
the “Latina Lawyer of the Year.” She
was one of the first Latinas to earn partnership in a national
law firm in the US, served in the Clinton Administration
as an Assistant to the President as Director of Intergovernmental
Affairs, and was a US public delegate to the United Nations.
The Event sells out every year, so make
sure to reserve your seat as early as possible. Last
year, the event raised over $65,0000 for the Dallas Hispanic
Bar Association Scholarship Foundation, which supports the
Foundation¹s scholarship initiatives. The DHBA wants
to surpass that amount this year. If you are interested
in serving as
a sponsor, please contact Aaron Ramirez at aaron@texemploymentlaw.com.
The DHBA will also honor American Airlines'
corporate legal department with its Corporate Counsel Diversity
Award in recognition of its efforts in demonstrating a commitment
to the goal of increasing diversity both within its corporate
legal department and through its utilization of outside legal
counsel that are themselves committed to diversity. DHBA
established the Corporate Counsel Diversity to recognize
a corporate counsel who has shown through his or her leadership
a commitment to increasing and supporting diversity within
the legal profession. Specifically, the Award recognizes
a corporate counsel who has made the following efforts:
(1) to recruit and maintain minority attorneys;
(2) to promote minority attorneys;
(3) to ensure that outside counsel hire and promote minority
attorneys; and
(4) to directly hire minority attorneys.
Past company award recipients include Affiliated
Computer Services, Inc. (2007) and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Platinum
Sponsor
Angel L. Reyes
Gilbert Aranza
McKool Smith
Gold Sponsors
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, LLP
American Airlines
Baker Botts, LLP
Baker & McKenzie
Fish & Richardson, PC
GodwinRonquillo, PC
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Sommerman & Quesada, LLP
Vinson & Elkins
Wal-Mart, Inc.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Silver Sponsors
AT&T
The Bassett Firm
Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
Jones Day
Hunton & Williams, LLP
Law Office of Domingo
Garcia, PC
Littler Mendelson, PC
Locke Lord Bissell &
Liddell, LLP
Mary Kay, Inc.
Regina & Paul Coggins
Bronze Sponsors
Alcon Laboratories
Carrington, Coleman,
Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP
Cowles & Thompson
Dallas Bar Association
Gruber Hurst Johansen & Hail, LLP
Jackson Walker, LLP
K&L Gates
Linebarger Goggan Blair &
Sampson, LLP
Ophelia Camina
Sorrels, Udashen & Anton Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara, PLLC
Susman Godfrey, LLP
Thompson & Knight, LLP
Small Firm/Solo Practitioner Sponsors
Almanza Financial Services
Badmus Immigration
Law Firm, PC
Friedman & Feiger, LLP
Gerstle, Minissale &
Snelson, LLP
Koons, Fuller, Vanden Eykel
& Robertson
Ramirez Siewczynski
Law Firm PLLC
Miller Curtis & Weisbrod, LLP
Ramirez & Associates, PC
Reception Sponsor
K&L Gates
Corporate Counsel Sponsors
Frito-Lay
KBA Group, LLP
Public Officials Sponsors
Judge Anne Ashby
Judge Tena Callahan
Judge Roberto Canas
Judge Carlos Cortez
Judge Elizabeth Crowder
Judge King Fifer
Judge Elizabeth David Frizzell
Judge Carl Ginsberg
Judge Martin Hoffman
Judge Angela King
Judge Martin Lowy
Judge Aurora Madrigal
Judge Sally Montgomery Judge Mary Murphy
Judge Doug Skemp
Judge Gena Slaughter
Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson
Judge Emily Tobolowsky
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