Washington, D.C. Lawyer Chapter Launches Brown Bag Lunch Series with Featured Guest Jamie Gorelick

On Tuesday, April 28, 2009, the Washington, D.C. Lawyer Chapter kicked-off a monthly brown bag lunch series featuring former Deputy Attorney General and 9/11 Commissioner Jamie S. Gorelick. The discussion was co-sponsored by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr and held at their D.C. office. The event inaugurated a series of brown bag lunches that will be held on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m., at various D.C. locations.

L to R: Adisa Muse, Rokey W. Suleman II, Alex Blakemore, Jonah Goldman, Elizabeth Westfall, and Ami Sanchez

On March 5, 2009, the Washington, D.C. Lawyer Chapter, which represents the Greater D.C. area, hosted an “Election Protection Review: A Case Study of Virginia 2008 and Preparing for the Future.” The event was co-sponsored by the George Mason University School of Law Student Chapter of ACS and was held on their campus in Arlington, Virginia. The event represented a first for the lawyer chapter, which had never before sponsored a Virginia-focused program and had only once co-sponsored a program in the state.

On Sept. 25, 2008, over fifty DC lawyers - both recent grads and seasoned practitioners - gathered at Tonic in Foggy Bottom to celebrate the arrival of a new class of Washington lawyers to the DC chapter of ACS. The event gave participants an opportunity to greet many new members, who are entering both private practice and the government, and to discuss the work of ACS lawyer chapters. These new members will prove pivotal to organizing upcoming ACS events in DC, including a career panel and networking event both taking place in November.

On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, the Washington, DC Lawyer Chapter hosted an event entitled “Progressive Careers Panel Discussion”. The event was co-sponsored with the George Washington University Law School Student Chapter. The discussion featured panelists Marc E. Elias, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP; Angela Kelley, Director, Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation; Seema Mahini, Attorney, USDA Office of General Counsel; Edward J. Palmieri, Counsel, Sprint-Nextel Corp., Office of Privacy; Corey W. Roush, Partner, Hogan & Hartson; Courtney Spivey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia; and was moderated by Elliot Williams, Counsel to Senator Charles Schumer, Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

 

On March 23, 2006, ACS's Washington DC Lawyer Chapter hosted a panel discussion on the criminal and civil liability of journalists who reveale classified information relating to government activities -- on the same day that The Washington Post's lead editorial warned of such "Dangerous Prosecution". The panel was moderated by Lillie Coney, Associate Director of the Electronic Information Privacy Center, and featured Walter Pincus, staff writer for The Washington Post; David Rivkin, partner at Baker Hostetler and former official in the George H.W. Bush Justice Department; and Lee Levine, partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P. and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.