TRACY A. CAMPBELL

2011 - 2012 BWLA PRESIDENT

CHAIR - 2012 NATIONAL SUMMIT OF BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS

PARTNER, SCHIFF HARDIN LLP

On behalf of the Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA), it is my great privilege to introduce you to BWLA's recently re-designed website.  As our many members hail from all over the country, it was important that we invested in a website that could provide up to date information to our members on our extensive programming, our exclusive professional development resources, an on-line job repository and membership directory. 

BWLA has been able to further its mission through the generous contributions from our members and our sponsors.  Without the financial support of our community, we would be unable to offer the wide array of programming to our members.  In just the bar year, 2011-2012, BWLA has already hosted numerous educational, professional devolepment, networkng and mentoring programming to our members. 

A sampling of our 2011-2112 programming includes:

October 2011

- Young Lawyers Committee Happy Hour to Celebrate Newly-Admittted Attorneys

- Roundtable Luncheon Series - Employment Law Update

- National Summit Cocktail Reception featuring Prof. Richard Banks, author of "Is Marriage for White People?"

November 2011

- Black Women Lawyers' Association, Illinois Judicial Council and the Cook County Bar Association Joint Dinner honoring Justice Charles Freeman, Former Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

- State of Illinois New Lawyer Admittee Reception

- Roundtable Luncheon - Property Tax Appeals

December 2011

- Roundtable Luncheon - Strategies to Propel Your Career: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional Development

- Judicial Breakfast Series

- Illinois Bar Associations Unity Dinner honoring Patricia Brown Holmes, past president of BWLA

January 2012

- Roundtable Luncheon: Social Media - Police Use of Social Media to Fight Crime versus the Fourth Amendment Right Against Unlawful Search and Seizure

 2012 National Summit of Black Women Lawyers in April 2012

Click here for more information on how you can be a part of the largest assemblage of black women lawyers from across the country and from every sphere of practice to date.  We look forward to seeing you in Chicago in April 2012. 

Warmest regards,

Tracy A. Campbell

President@bwla.org