Annual Report 2005

NLGLA In the News

• The St. Louis Post Dispatch extensively covered the founding of the Missouri Lawyers for Equality affiliate and NLGLA Executive Director, D'Arcy Kemnitz was quoted often.
  
  
• Kara Suffredini, now past chair, was included in a photograph in the New York Times of amici at the FAIR v. Rumsfeld oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  
• Laura Maechlen, Chair of the Membership Committee, and Nadine Gartner, NLGLA's liaison to the ABA Law Student Division, were quoted in the Legal Times on issues involving diversity in law firms.
  
  
• D'Arcy Kemnitz wrote an article about lesbian lawyers for the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's publication, Diversity & the Bar.
  
  
• If you know of any references to NLGLA in the press, please forward them to darcy@nlgla.org

Values Statement

NLGLA and its sister organization, NLGLF, values bar associations and the extensive and unique programs they execute.  These bar association become professional homes for our communities, and our homes are strongest when framed by those who are the best and the brightest in our legal community.  The builders must have skills to execute administrative tasks efficiently, they must have good moral character to provide leadership, and they must exhibit the self-confidence to work as a small part of a much larger team.  As a matter of principle and ethics, NLGLA and NLGLF, operate within the code of professional ethics for legal practitioners.  In addition, both organization’s board of directors and staff comports themselves within the standards of good nonprofit governance as expressed by leaders in the field, such as Board Source and the ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership.