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Check out featured photos from the 2019 Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair held in Philadelphia, PA on August 7-9, 2019.
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LGBT Bar 2019 Annual Report

This annual report describes the LGBT Bar’s efforts over the past year to provide our members and our community the resources, actions, and support needed to promote LGBTQ+ equality across the legal profession in the fiscal year of 2019.

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Since 1989, we have been the legal voice of the LGBTQ+ community. With over 1700 members,
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Bar Talk

September 18, 2019

D.C. Councilmembers Introduce Legislation Banning LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Strategies

September 17, 2019

“Wedlocked:” Using Mediation for Same-Sex Divorce

May 17, 2019

Nevada Just Banned Gay and Trans ‘Panic’ Defenses – Which state will be next?

Success Story

Brian Rice

Brian P. Rice is a prime example of what it means to be a success in the legal field.  He attended our 2003 Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair as a rising 3L, hoping to network with a handful of firms. Little did he know, the connections he made at Lavender Law would spur him […]

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Member Spotlight

Chris Czerwonka

What does a lawyer look like?  Chris Czerwonka is an adjunct professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and an advocate of LGBT and disability rights, but he doesn’t necessarily fit everyone’s image of a lawyer.  “I have a walker, I’m five feet, I move slowly,” he says. “Someone like […]

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