We are proud to announce the following nominees for the upcoming ACT Women Lawyers Awards. All nominees are of an incredibly high calibre and we know the judging panel will have some very difficult decisions ahead of them.
Winner of the inaugural Woman Lawyer of the Year (Government) Award, Helen Curtis, shares what winning meant to her. We encourage ACT lawyers to nominate themselves, their colleagues, employers and friends before the 31 August deadline. More information on how to nominate is available online.
Women Lawyers Association ACT and ANU Women In Law Organisation invite you to join us for a 'Women in Law Career Panel' on Monday 20 August, from 6:30-7:30pm at ANU.
Our panellists come from a range of backgrounds, and aim to show you that there is no one set path following the completion of a law degree.
The Women Lawyers Association of the ACT 2019 Lawyers Pay and Conditions Survey is now open! The survey can be accessed here.
The ACT is a small jurisdiction and information about employment, pay and conditions is often unavailable in the public sphere, making it difficult for lawyers to find an independent benchmark from which to negotiate their entitlements.
WLA ACT recently caught up with current committee members of The Women in Law Organisation (‘WILO’) to learn a bit more about them and to chat about some success stories from the program.
WILO runs a mentoring program which pairs women studying at the ANU’s College of Law with professional women in the legal sector. Tiffany Wilken, Phyllida “Phyllie” Behm, MacCallum Johnson and Amber Barney are the current committee members of WILO, having taken these leadership roles from the creators in 2017. Unfortunately, Amber was unable to join us for the interview.
The full interview can be viewed here.
The Women Lawyers Association of the ACT is pleased to invite members and friends to an event presented by Michael Miller of MLC Advice: How to buy your first home. This seminar, presented by Michael Miller, will take place on Thursday 24 October 2019.
Did you know that WLA ACT offers free student memberships? We recently caught up with Prisca Ochan, Law student and Paralegal at Sparke Helmore Lawyers as part of our #WomenLawyersoftheACT series, to chat about her reasons for signing up as one of our student members, her favourite WLA events so far and her interest in studying law.
