About the AWA

Since 1976, the Association for Women Attorneys has been a resource for information, networking and camaraderie in the metropolitan legal community of New Orleans and its environs. Our membership consists of every sector of the legal community--public and private practitioners in civil and criminal law; judges; professors; corporate counsel; law clerks; and law students--who regularly gather and share common experiences and goals. Generally, meetings are conducted during monthly luncheons at area resturants and include a short address by a guest speaker, CLE seminars, or judicial forums. However, discussions are not limited to legal matters, and, as the pictures show, we have a lot of fun when we get together.

Since this site is designed as a vehicle to foster communication and to act as a resource, we invite the membership to forward submissions and ideas for our organization including wit and wisdom submissions, links of interest to our membership, and suggestions for making our organization even better. We are particularly interested in highlighting our members and their achievements and participation in the New Orleans community. Any suggestions for this site should be directed to .

We look to extend the resources of the AWA to everyone who visits this website by providing a chronicle of all the AWA activities throughout the year and regularly updated information on events and issues of legal, social and economic interest. We hope you will use - and contribute to - this website often.

AWA Mission Statement

The Association for Women Attorneys is a non-profit corporation whose membership includes both women and men and represents every sector of the legal community, including private practitioners from firms of every size and specialty, professors, judges, law clerks, corporate counsel, prosecutors, government lawyers and law students.

Through monthly membership luncheons, CLE seminars and quarterly newsletters, as well as membership in the League of Women Voters, the National Women’s Law Center, the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations and the Louisiana Center for Women in Government, the goals of the AWA are threefold:

1. to foster the exchange of information among our members;
2. to encourage and facilitate the participation of women in economic, social and political decision-making in the community; and,
3. to advance the interests and improve the status of women in the legal profession and the status of women in our society.

AWA BY-LAWS

• AWA By-Laws

WANT TO JOIN THE AWA?

• Click here for a 2008 membership application.
• If you have any questions, please contact Board President Kelly Barbier.

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The AWA is a Louisiana nonprofit corporation that is organized and operates exclusively for eduational purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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