D.C. Bar to Install New Leaders, Honor Award Winners in Virtual Celebration
July 01, 2020
To ensure everyone’s safety during the pandemic, the D.C. Bar will hold its 2020 Celebration of Leadership virtually on July 30, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. EST. The evening’s highlights include the installation of the Bar’s new leadership and recognition of its annual award winners.
Virtual doors will open at 5:15 p.m. ET. Click here to register.
Susan M. Hoffman of Crowell & Moring LLP will preside over her last meeting as D.C. Bar president. Attending Bar members will approve the minutes from the 2019 Annual Meeting and review the Bar’s accomplishments of the 2019–2020 fiscal year. Hoffman will pass the gavel of leadership to Geoffrey M. Klineberg of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C. during the virtual swearing-in ceremony, which will be presided over by D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby.
The D.C. Bar will also present its 2020 Beatrice Rosenberg Award for Excellence in Government Service to Douglas N. Letter, general counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, and its 2020 Thurgood Marshall Award to Katherine “Shelley” Broderick, dean emerita at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, for her initiative in pursuing equal justice and opportunity for all Americans.
Other winners to be honored during the 2020 Celebration of Leadership include Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson LLP, Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year Award; Stephanie Hales of Sidley Austin LLP, Laura N. Rinaldi Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award; the South Asian Bar Association of Washington, D.C., Voluntary Bar Association of the Year Award; D.C. Bar International Law Community, Community of the Year Award; and the D.C. Bar Law Student Community’s “Let’s Brief It” podcast, Frederick B. Abramson Award.
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