The Gender Equity Task Force's Virtual March for Gender Equity

The Gender Equity Task Force's 
Virtual March for Gender Equity

The ABA Gender Equity Task Force needs your organization's participation and promotion of our virtual march for gender equity.

How You Can Help:

Participating is as simple as clicking your heels three times.  Click here to the link to the website.

Click the vote button next to the red shoes and click the submit button.  Then you have "Clicked" your heels for gender equity.

Why is this important and what is the point?

The visual of hundreds of thousands of people descending on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the sea of people coming together for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 has become an iconic representation of people standing in concert to effect change.  While nothing can ever replace the historic transcendence of that day, in this new millennium a virtual voice carries the same power and ability to effect change as a physical presence.

Like in 1963, people of today still struggle with the ability to be treated equally in the work place. What is gender equity?  It is equal pay for equal work.  It is paternity leave without stigma.  It is flexible time to meet personal and family needs, while still being able to participate and make a productive contribution to the work place.  It is the recognition of the differences between men and women without diminishing the value and contribution each provide.  In a word, it is "fairness."

March with us starting on Equal Pay Day on April 9th through 
the ABA's Day of the Woman on August 10th 2013.

Please share this opportunity to "march" for equality with your friends and colleagues.

http://www.americanbar.org/groups/women/gender_equity_task_force/click_your_heels.html.html

Don't miss other great CWL Events:

Northern California Judicial Reception

California Women Lawyers

925 L St, Suite 110, Sacramento, CA 95814

info@cwl.org

(916) 930-9020

WLVC 2013 Scholarship Application

Women Lawyers of Ventura County's Mary Sullivan Scholarship Application Deadline: July 31, 2013

For more information, please contact Jodi Prior via email: Jodi.Prior@ventura.courts.ca.gov

Download the application here.

 

Legal Fair @ El Concilio - June 1

MABA will host a legal fair with El Concilio on June 1st, 2013 at El Concilio Family Services on 301 South C. Street in Oxnard.

We are looking for attorneys and other professionals to donate their time from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m (lunch to be provided) to meet with individuals from the community who are looking for some guidance on legal and financial issues.

We will meet with individuals who have pre-registered with El Concilio. (El Concilio will take care of all of the set up and planning - We just need you to show up and share your knowledge!)

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the attached Volunteer Application so that we know what areas you can provide guidance - and email it to vcba.maba@gmail.com.

"This is a great opportunity for MABA to get involved with the local community and assist many individuals who have basic questions and who can benefit from general legal guidance. Thank you for considering this opportunity and please sign up!"  - VC MABA Past President, Rennee R. Dehesa

Download the Application here.

Student Discipline MCLE on May 2 at Noon

School discipline disproportionately affects minority students, according to federal, state and local studies. In a victory for civil rights advocates, new laws went into effect this year addressing educational fairness in California schools.

On Thursday, May 2 at noon, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. and the Mexican American Bar Association of Ventura County will provide a CLE presentation on school discipline. 

($15 fee; BYO brown bag lunch.) 

This training will be geared for advocates and local attorneys and law students, regarding education law generally and student discipline.  The training will help to prepare attorneys and law students issue spot and provide basic advice to Ventura County K-12 students and parents in need of help navigating the student discipline process. VAs of January 1, the following new laws address suspension, expulsion and conduct manifestation determinations, and broaden school districts’ obligations:

• AB 1729 amends Education Code sections 48900 and 48900.5 to strengthen the alternatives to suspension or expulsion and clarify that school removals should only happen after other means of correction fail to bring about proper conduct:

• AB 2537 amends Education Code section 48915 to provide additional discretion to school administrators to use alternative means of correction in lieu of expulsion and further clarifies that possessing an imitation firearm, over-the-counter medicine or student’s prescription medicines are not “zero tolerance” offenses that automatically require expulsion. It also eliminates an existing $500 fine imposed on a principal who fail to notify law enforcement of certain crimes allegedly committed by students.
• AB 2616 amends Education Code section 48260 to focus truancy reduction efforts on solutions with schools, students and parents that are shown to work, so that law enforcement and courts are used only as a last resort.

• AB 1909 amends Education Code section 48853.5 to ensure that school districts notify social workers or other county child welfare designees and the court appointed attorney for the foster youth when a foster youth is pending expulsion.

• SB 1088 amends Education Code section 48645.5 to help ensure that children who have had contact with the juvenile justice system are not barred from re-enrollment and are immediately re-enrolled in school.

For more information, contact Andres Garcia agarcia@crla.org or Franchesca Gonzalez fgonzalez@crla.org 

Andres Garcia is a staff attorney at California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. in Oxnard. A second-generation attorney, he obtained his undergraduate degree from UCLA, but went across for law school at USC. Though he earned his law degree at SC, Garcia says “my heart will always remain in Westwood with my undergrad, UCLA.”