President's Message
Tanya L. Forsheit
WLALA President 2011-2012
 Last year, WLALA Board Member and luminary Judge Judith Chirlin, Ret., Executive Director of the Western Justice Center, asked me what I would think about her arranging for WLALA to co-sponsor an event on February 24, 2012, at Southwestern Law School with The Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association (where she is the current President). Sure, I said, that would be great. Oh by the way, Judge Chirlin noted, the event will feature Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Ret. What would I think about that?
On July 7, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court. For me, and I suspect for other women lawyers of Generation X, O’Connor is iconic. She was appointed to the Court at a time when I was old enough to appreciate it as a historic moment and realize it was a big deal, but not old enough to understand anything about the nominations process or politics. Therefore, she was, and always will be for me, larger than life. She is to this day living proof of the notion that I can do and be anything in life.
When I first started my own law firm, I taped a few items to my desk, within my direct line of sight: printouts and artwork featuring several inspirational quotes, my favorite Dilbert cartoon about the fiction of work-life balance, and a page I tore out of the July 2008 issue of the ABA Journal regarding O’Connor’s 1981 nomination, including a photo of her sitting with President Reagan. It reminds me that anything is possible.
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Upcoming Events
February 2, 2012 - LACBA's Trailblazers of the Bar Honoring Presiding Justice Joan Dempsey Klein, Y.C. Hong (Posthumously, and Nowland C. Hong
February 6, 2012 - Women in the Federal Criminal Justice System
February 8, 2012 - WLALA Downtown Mentoring Circle Dinner
February 10, 2012 - CAUSE's Women in Power Annual Luncheon
February 15, 2012 - ABA Section of Litigation's Closing Arguments That Rock! How to Move Judges and Juries
February 23, 2012 - LACBA-WLALA Joint Task Force Program: SUCCESS: What is it ... REALLY ... and how to get it, YOUR WAY
February 24, 2012 - The Women at the United States Supreme Court featuring Hon. Sandra Day O'Connor
March 15, 2012 - Litigators Forum Save the Date!
May 10, 2012 - LACBA-WLALA Joint Task Force Program Save the Date!
June 21, 2012 - WLALApalooza Save the Date
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