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The Bar is governed by a Board of Governors composed of 20 lawyers selected by the active membership and three members of the public appointed by the Bar itself as nonvoting members. The D.C. Bar registers lawyers, operates a lawyer disciplinary system, [6] maintains a Clients’ Security Fund, and performs other administrative, educational and ...
Amit P. Mehta (1997): [15] First Asian Pacific American male serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2013) Sri Srinivasan (1995): [16] [17] [18] First South Asian American male serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2013) and serve as its chief judge (2020)
The Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (WBA or Association) is a voluntary bar association in metropolitan Washington, D.C. The WBA has more than 800 members and was founded in 1917.
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1914): [1] [2] First Native American female student to graduate from Washington College of Law; Renee Grosshandler Baum, Helen Marie Chambers, Patricia Anna Collier, Mary Gertrude Henseler, Katherine Rutherford, Agnes Anne Neill Williams, and Helen Elsie Steinbinder: [3] First female students to enroll at the Georgetown University School of Law (1951).
Headquartered in Washington, DC, the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) is an organization for the bar of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. It functions as a forum for dialogue between bar members and the court and between government counsel and private practitioners.
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Headquarters of the District of Columbia Bar. A mandatory or integrated bar association is one to which a state delegates the authority to regulate the admission of attorneys to practice in that state; typically these require membership in that bar association to practice in that state. Mandatory bars derive their power from legislative statute ...
Supported by a bipartisan letter of support signed by more than 150 members of the District of Columbia Bar—including White House counsels Lloyd Cutler, C. Boyden Gray, and Solicitor General Seth Waxman—the Judiciary Committee recommended Roberts by a vote of 16 to 3, [f] and the Senate confirmed him unanimously by voice vote on May 8, 2003 ...