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The District of Columbia Bar (DCB) is the mandatory bar association of the District of Columbia. [2] It administers the admissions, licensing, and discipline functions for lawyers licensed to practice in the District. It is to be distinguished from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, [3] which is a voluntary bar.
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 Stars of the Bar Fall Networking Reception hosts more than 300 people. During the event the WBA honors stars of the legal community and provides an opportunity for learning about WBA programs and services, with networking stations for each committee and forum to discuss upcoming programming in various attorney interests and fields of law.
Marilla Ricker (1882): [6] First female appointed as a United States Commissioner in Washington, D.C. (1891) Mary O'Toole (1914): [7] First female judge appointed to the municipal court of Washington, D.C. (1921) Burnita Shelton Matthews (1919): [8] First female to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1949) in ...
The Washington Bar Association (WBA) is a voluntary bar association located in the Washington, District of Columbia area, whose members are predominantly African-American attorneys. The Washington Bar Association was founded in 1925 by a group of prominent African-American attorneys, including Charles Hamilton Houston, George E.C. Hayes, and J ...
Cobb supervised incoming attorneys and was a member of the Forensic Practice Group. [4] Cobb also taught law at the Washington College of Law and Harvard Law School . She worked as a legal partner at Relman Colfax, a national plaintiff-side civil rights law firm from 2012 to 2021. [ 5 ]
The acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., has initiated a "review" into the office's prosecutions of the more than 1500 rioters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S ...
From 2002 and 2009, she served as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and from 2009 to 2023, she was an assistant United States attorney serving as deputy chief of the Major Crimes Section in 2022, [ 3 ] and assistant attorney ...