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The conference keynote speaker is Justice Joan Dempsey Klein, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three.

To raise awareness of the continuing wage disparity, on Equal Pay Day, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, CWL encourages your CWL affiliate or other women’s group, organization, or club to host an Unhappy Hour to emphasize your dissatisfaction with the continuing wage disparity between men and women.

President-Elect Patricia Sturdevant of Sacramento was sworn in as CWL President on January 29, 2011 at a meeting of the CWL Board of Governors in Orange County.  

Join CWL in recognizing Equal Pay Day.  This date symbolizes how far into 2011 women must work to earn what men earned in 2010.  The next Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 12, 2011.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages.

CWL Supports Food From the Bar.  Food From the Bar is a community program established in San Francisco as the legal community’s response to child hunger. It’s a four-week (April 18-May 13, 2011) effort among law firms and legal offices to contribute money, donate food and/or volunteer.

CWL is a supporting organization of the California Women's State Appointment Project.  The mission of this nonpartisan project is to encourage and recruit women s

On September 23, 2010 at CWL's 36th Annual Dinner, we honored Victoria Jacobs, Managing Director of the Sacramento Bar Association's Voluntary Legal Services Program, as the 2010 recipient of the Fay Stender Award.

The CWL Annual Dinner was a historic event! Chief Justice George and Justice Cantil Sakauye spent the evening with us.

In what has become tradition, Chief Justice Ronald George administered the Oath of Office to the incoming Board of Governors of CWL at our Annual Dinner.

On Sunday, August 8, 2010, CWL Life-Member Elizabeth Cabraser accepted the ABA's 's highest honor for a woman attorney-The Margaret Brent Award.  

CWL President Nancy O'Malley calls all CWL members to attend the National Conference of Women Bar Associations' Summit on August 6, 2010 in San Francisco: