Annual BBQ Sponsorship Opportunities | |
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Young Lawyer LA Resume Bank Program | |
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Greetings Young Attorneys,
Langston’s Young Lawyers Committee hereby invites you to submit your resume in hopes we can assist you with growth and opportunities to advance your legal career. This program is designed to allow us to confidentially collect resumes of young lawyers who are either looking for employment or are simply interested in keeping your options open.
Via this Program, our Committee – led by the Young Lawyers Committee Chairs Oluwatobi Agbelemose, Candice Green, and Ameer Wafer – will manage a resume bank wherein we will collect resumes, provide tips on improving the resumes, and then pass them to Langston sponsors who are seeking young attorneys for hire.
All submitted resumes will be held privately and shared only with sponsors of the events put on this year by the Young Lawyers Committee. For further inquiries, please contact Oluwatobi (oagbelemose@sandersroberts.com), Ameer (awafer44@gmail.com), or Candice (cgreen2894@yahoo.com).
Disclaimer: In no way, is this Langston Bar Association, endorsing your candidacy for any future potential position, nor is it a promise by the Young Lawyers Committee to find or secure employment for any program participant. This program is a first of its kind and, accordingly, our Committee asks for grace with expected turnaround times for all inquiries.
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Every month of 2024, the John M. Langston Bar Association will highlight one of its esteemed Hall of Fame members. We thank them for their significant contributions to the legal profession and their commitment to excellence. This month, we highlight the Nina L. Shaw, who was inducted into the John M. Langston Bar Association Hall of Fame on November 4, 2017. Ms. Shaw is a founding partner of Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano. She specializes in the television, motion picture, and live stage areas. Among her clients are successful and award winning actors, writers, producers and directors as well as entrepreneurs and entertainment executives. | |
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Ms. Shaw began her legal career in the Entertainment department of the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers. Nina is a Variety Dealmaker Impact honoree and has been named repeatedly to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment Power 100” list. She is a recipient of the Women In Film Crystal Award, and in 2013 was named Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Essence Magazine awarded Ms. Shaw with its 2016 Black Women in Hollywood Power Award, and in 2016 she was also profiled in the New York Times: “She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice.”
In recognition of Ms. Shaw’s professional, social and educational activists’ contributions, her alma mater Columbia Law School in 2019 awarded her their prestigious Medal for Excellence Award; later that year she was awarded with the Athena Award at the Athena Film Festival and the NAACP LDF National Equal Justice Award.
As a notable voice for minority representation in the entertainment community, Ms. Shaw’s more recent accomplishments include successfully representing Nikole Hannah-Jones in the adaptation of her New York Times Magazine, Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project as well as the overall and first look deals for her clients Ava DuVernay, John Legend, Lena Waithe, and Gina-Prince Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood. Ms. Shaw has also successfully negotiated and closed talent deals for her clients Andra Day, Golden Globe winner for The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Lupita Nyong’o for Black Panther – Wakanda Forever, and Misha Green and Jurnee Smollett, the creator and star, respectively, for Lovecraft Country.
Most recently, Ms. Shaw was featured in Harper’s Bazaar August 2020 issue among changemakers who are reshaping the way we think about art, identity, and progress.
A native New Yorker, Ms. Shaw was born and raised in Harlem and The Bronx, educated in the New York City public school system and is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School. Ms. Shaw is a board member of the Motion Picture & Television Fund and is among the founding organizers of Time’s Up.
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Aligned with Langston’s Mission of promoting the administration of justice in the Black community, Langston will feature a Black-Owned business each month in 2024. Please consider patronizing, supporting, and publicizing these businesses.
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This Month Featuring: Sip & Sonder
Established in 2017, Sip & Sonder is a global Black women-owned specialty coffee roastery and holding company whose portfolio includes the renowned Sip & Sonder-branded coffeehouses, specialty coffee products, and digital content spaces. 'Sonder' is the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Our coffeehouses are entrepreneurial and creative hubs where creatives, entrepreneurs, freelancers, curators, and everyone in between can simply exist, grab a cup of coffee, connect, create, and put sonder into action. As a manufacturer, Sip & Sonder intentionally curates specialty coffee products that originate from communities of color around the world with processes that are sustainable, traceable, and direct. By centering Black diasporic experiences and telling the stories of stakeholders at origin, we invite the world to “Come for the coffee, stay for the culture!
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As a manufacturer, Sip & Sonder intentionally curates specialty coffee products that originate from communities of color around the world with processes that are sustainable, traceable, and direct. By centering Black diasporic experiences and telling the stories of stakeholders at origin, we invite the world to “Come for the coffee, stay for the culture!
Langston discount: 10% (in-store) to folks who show the newsletter to their barista at our Inglewood and DTLA locations.
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A Call To Black Academia
April 11, 2024
Langston hosted Black law professors for a panel discussion designed to support Black lawyers and legal professionals in academia. The panel explored the importance of the unique viewpoints and experiences Black academia offer to the legal profession, including adding insights into the intersections of race, law, and justice across social, economic, and political contexts.
To view all photos for this event, click →Here
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Entertainment & Sports Law Speed Mentoring Mixer
April 16, 2024
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Other Organization Programs | |
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LAFLA Empowerment & Anti-Harassment Clinic (In Person)
Date/Time of Clinic: Wednesday, May 29th, from 2:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: SAJE Community office, 152 W 32nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (Near USC)
Activity: LAFLA and community partners operate monthly Tenant Empowerment and Anti-Harassment Project (TEAP) legal clinics, which provide anti-harassment assistance to residents of South Los Angeles and the downtown area. The project leverages the City of Los Angeles’ June 2021 Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance (TAHO) to help the most vulnerable tenants with issues related to eviction, homelessness, and displacement through the City’s TAHO complaint and investigation process. Volunteer assistance is requested to identify and assess tenant’s legal issues, review evidence, provide brief information and advice, and help draft TAHO complaints. A LAFLA Supervisor is present at all clinics to provide substantive support and assist volunteers.
To Volunteer: Email your name and contact information to Neesa Sethi of LAFLA at nsethi@lafla.org and say you are volunteering on behalf of the John M. Langston Bar Association. Also fill out the new LAFLA clinic volunteer form: http://www.bit.ly/laflaclinics.
PLEASE SIGN UP ASAP BECAUSE SPACE IS LIMITED.
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Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative Program,
US District Court, Central District of California
Apply To Become A Ninth Circuit
Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative
The United States District Court, Central District of California, is currently accepting applications from qualified individuals interested in serving as Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Lawyer Representatives. The selected Lawyer Representatives will be representative of the entire district and reflect the diversity of lawyers practicing before the Court.
Interested persons should complete the application, which can be found on the Court’s website under the Lawyer Representatives section located in the “Attorneys” tab of the Court’s homepage. Additional information about serving as a Lawyer Representative can be found on the Ninth Circuit’s website at https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/lawyer-representatives/.
Please send completed applications no later than June 14, 2024, to LawyerReps_CACD@cacd.uscourts.gov.
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