Tickets on sale for Mentor Breakfast with The Hon Linda Burney MP

WLA ACT is pleased to invite you to our October Mentor Breakfast with guest speaker The Hon Linda Burney MP. Tickets are now available to be purchased online. 

Mentor breakfasts provide our members with the opportunity to hear from a prominent woman in the community and to celebrate and learn from their achievements.

Following her election to the Federal House of Representatives she was immediately appointed as Shadow Minister for Human Services.

As a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation, Linda was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to the NSW Parliament and the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the Australian House of Representatives.  Linda’s commitment to Indigenous issues spans more than 30 years.

Linda has a long held commitment the prevention of domestic violence and family violence and has detailed publically her personal experience with it. 

We note, all WLA ACT events are child friendly. 

This event is proudly sponsored by Maddocks.

Event Details

Date and time: Friday 20 October, 7.30am for a 7:45am start. 

Location: Members Dining Room 3, Old Parliament House, Canberra

Tickets: $30 for WLA ACT Members, $40 for Non-members. Includes hot breakfast. 

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.

Mentor Breakfast with Noor Blumer

Mentor Breakfast with Noor Blumer

WLA ACT is pleased to invite you to our first Mentor Breakfast of 2017, with guest speaker Noor Blumer, Director of Blumers Personal Injury Lawyers and 2016 Woman Lawyer of the Year.

Noor Blumer is currently Director of Blumers Personal Injury Lawyers. She moved to Canberra in 2000 and, with her husband Mark Blumer, established the successful and widely-recognised personal injury firm.

Noor finished school at age 16, and later studied law remotely from Griffith, NSW, while at the same time working full time and caring for her children. When she was admitted to practice, she was the only woman lawyer in Griffith and later became the first woman to be a law partner in the entire Riverina district. 

She has served as President of the ACT Law Society, when she was only the second woman to be elected in the Society's history. Her selection as WLA ACT's inaugural Woman Lawyer of the Year 2016 was a surprise to no one, being a leader and inspiration to her peers and the women lawyers who come after her. 

Mentor breakfasts provide our members with the opportunity to hear from a prominent woman in the legal profession and to celebrate and learn from their achievements.

Noor will share her insights on her fascinating career at our first mentor breakfast of the year.

Event Details

Date and time: Wednesday 15 February 2017, 7.45am. 

Venue: National Ballroom 4, Hotel Realm, Canberra. 

Cost: $45 for members and $50 for non-members.

Attendees will be able to claim 1 CPD point in Core Area 3. 

Please click here to purchase tickets.

Women Lawyers Awards Gala Dinner Tickets On Sale

WLA ACT is pleased to announce tickets for the inaugural Women Lawyers Awards Gala Dinner are now on sale.

Gather your friends and colleagues and join us in celebrating the winners of the inaugural ACT Women Lawyers Awards 2016.

We are delighted that our guest speaker for the evening will be author, journalist and broadcaster Annabel Crabb. 

One of Australia's most popular political commentators, Annabel Crabb is the presenter of Kitchen Cabinet. She has worked extensively in newspapers, radio and television and has appeared on Insiders, The Drum, Gruen Nation, Q&A and as stand-in host for 7:30. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degrees. She is the author of several books, including the 2014 non-fiction bestseller 'The Wife Drought', and won a Walkley Award for her Quarterly Essay 'Stop At Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull'.

The Gala Dinner will include a three course meal and drinks.

Event details

Time and Date: 6.30pm for 7pm, Thursday November 3

Location: Kings Hall, Old Parliament House

Dress: After five

Cost: $90 for members

          $110 for non-members

          $900 for tables of 10

Tickets are available for purchase online. 

There are a limited number of tickets available so we encourage you to get in early.

March Newsletter

We are pleased to circulate our newsletter for this quarter.

Items this issue include:

• report on our successful Family Day & High Tea
• the next of our 'Working Flexibly' stories
• Gillian Beaumont Legal & WLA ACT Award - last day for applications today!
• meet a member
• Gender Equity Insights 2016 report from Workplace Gender Equality Agency