CWIL Leader-in-Residence Roberta Liebenberg has been named one of the Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award honorees. This prestigious award honors lawyers who have helped shape the law in Pennsylvania, and have had a distinct impact on the legal profession in the state.
The listing is comprised of the “best of the best” of Black lawyers that are partners within leading national law firms and also corporate counsel from Fortune 1000 corporations.
CWIL Founding Member Claudia Wilson Frost, a partner in DLA Piper’s Houston office and US co-chair of the firm’s Patent Litigation practice, has received the “Women at the Pinnacle” award from the Houston Association of Women Attorneys (AWA).
CWIL Founding Member Sandra L. Phillips has been promoted to General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Toyota Motor North America. Sandra will be responsible for legal operations, legal technology and managing the representation of Toyota’s affiliates in North America.
Justice Fernande (Nan) R.V. Duffly, has been named as a recipient of the prestigious Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession.
Toyota's Sandra Phillips on crucial traits for in-house counsel, the importance of mentors, and more.
Texas Law students Lisa Elizondo and Emily Fitzgerald worked on this case that resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that home buyers don’t have to file a lawsuit when confronting a mortgage lender with an alleged violation of the federal Truth in Lending Act.
In the article, Bobbi Liebenberg, from Fine, Kaplan and Black, argues for CEOs and companies to make gender diversity on their boards a priority and to expand their searches beyond “the old boys network.”
CWIL Founding Members Melanie Gray and Christine LaFollette will be inducted into the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce’s Hall of Fame.
In October 2014, Center for Women in Law hosted a four-part lunch series that showcased accomplished and influential women at the top of their careers: Arianna Huffington, Linda L. Addison, Susan L. Blount, and Arleas Upton Kea.