Panel Event: Juggling Career and Family, and Making Time for Self Care

WLA ACT invites you to join us for a joint panel event with Mothers Uplift Movement. Join us for a nourishing lunch and attend a discussion on the topic of: Juggling work with family responsibilities and making time for self-care.

Come and hear from our guest speakers about their experiences as working mums in the legal profession. It will also be a great opportunity to share your own anecdotes and tips and ask questions of other mums who are doing the juggle.

We look forward to hearing from the following panellists on this important topic:

• Prue Bindon, Barrister at Blackburn Chambers and WLA ACT President
• Margaret Tregurtha, General Counsel, Department of the Environment and the Energy
• Lindsay Reid, teacher at Daramalan College and formerly a Senior Associate at King & Wood Mallesons

The session will be facilitated by Liz Huang Hughes-Brown and Alicia Prest from Mothers Uplift Movement (MUM) who are also mums working in the law.

Includes a warm two-course lunch with vegetarian option. Tickets can be purchased online.

Australian Women Lawyers 20th Birthday Dinner

Australian Women Lawyers turns 20 this September and to celebrate, AWL is holding a birthday dinner on 15 September 2017 at the Melbourne Town Hall. As well as giving us an opportunity to get together, the birthday dinner will also provide an opportunity for AWL to thank our patron, the Hon. Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Diana Bryant AO QC as she retires from the role, announce AWL's new patron, and ceremonially hand over the Patron’s Brooch.

AWL thanks the Platinum Sponsor of the 20th birthday party, Foley’s List, for their ongoing support.

Tickets are available to purchase online.

Gratis Membership for CLC Lawyers

For the first time, in the 2017-18 membership year the Women Lawyers Association of the ACT will offer free membership to lawyers at Community Legal Centres in the ACT. 

If you are a lawyer at a Community Legal Centre you can register online and become a member today, at no cost. 

This demonstrate's WLA ACT's commitment to the Canberra legal community and to CLC lawyers who work tirelessly to further just and equitable outcomes for members of our community. 

We look forward to working with Canberra CLCs in the future.

Membership 2017-18

WLA ACT memberships for the 2017-18 are now available to be purchased online. 

We are pleased to offer discounted membership prices for individuals who sign up before 1 July 2017. Ordinary Membership is discounted to $65 (rather than $75), and Associate Membership and Ordinary Membership for lawyers working at Legal Aid is discounted to $30 (rather than $40).

WLA ACT is also pleased to announce free membership for lawyers at Community Legal Centres.

Come to the Bar

WLA ACT and the ACT Bar Association are pleased to invite you to our first Come to the Bar event. 

Did you know that women make up less than 10% of barristers at the ACT Bar? Have you thought about going to the Bar one day?

Come along to our informal information evening where you can learn about the practicalities, realities, and rewards of a career at the Bar.

Tickets are available for purchase online.

Proudly sponsored by BarBooks

Tickets now available for Law Week Dinner with Clementine Ford

Tickets for the 2017 Law Week Dinner, with guest speaker Clementine Ford, are now available to purchase online. 

WLA ACT members are able to purchase tickets at a rate $30 cheaper than non-members. 

We look forward to seeing you there. 

WLA ACT is grateful for the ongoing support of Maurice Blackburn, and we thank them for their generous contribution. 

WLA ACT Newsletter - April 2017

WLA ACT is pleased to publish our first newsletter of 2017.

Read about WLA ACT's recent and upcoming events, comments on developments relating to women lawyers, and advocacy on community legal centre funding cuts.

WLA ACT Newsletter - April 2017

Save the Date - Law Week Dinner with Clementine Ford

WLA ACT is pleased to announce Clementine Ford as our speaker at this year's Law Week Dinner. 

We invite you to keep the following details in your diary - tickets will go on sale shortly.

Event details

Date and time: 6:30pm, Wednesday 17 May 2017

Location: The Deck, Regatta Point, Barrine Drive, Parkes

Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and is a regular contributor to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Through her twice weekly columns for Daily Life, Clementine explores issues of gender inequality and pop culture. Her ability to use both humour and distilled fury to lay bare ongoing issues affecting women has earned her a huge and loyal readership amongst both women and men. Clementine’s work has radically challenged the issues of men’s violence against women, rape culture and gender warfare in Australia, while her comedic take on casual sexism and entertainment has earned her a reputation as an accomplished satirist.

Clementine’s work has also appeared in the Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Girlfriend, CLEO, Sunday Life and The Big Issue. Clementine has been a guest on ABC’s Q and A, Channel Nine Mornings and is a frequent contributor to Channel Ten’s The Project.

As a speaker and presenter, Clementine has appeared at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, ACMI, the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Writers Week, the Brisbane Writers Festival, the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, the Newcastle Writers Festival, the National Young Writers Festival, the Reality Bites Literary Festival, Women of Letters, Cherchez La Femme and the City of Melbourne’s Conversations series. Additionally, she is regularly invited to speak at schools and universities.

Clementine’s number one mission is to speak openly and honestly about the state of the world as we live in it. She hopes to give other women the language and confidence to articulate their own feelings of frustration and anger.