About MWELAMWELA has been selected as the 2025 winner of the DC Bar's Voluntary Bar Association of the Year Award. As the DC Bar noted, “this award is given in recognition of the extraordinary achievements of your voluntary bar association in serving your members, the legal profession, and the D.C. community.” MWELA was recognized for its many successes in 2024, including its lobbying efforts, its educational programming, its amicus work, and other programming and events. MWELA is one of 30+ voluntary bar associations recognized by the DC Bar. The award will be formally presented at the DC Bar’s Celebration of Leadership Annual Meeting and Awards Presentation in June. Special thanks to our recent past President Lauren Khouri, as well as MWELA’s Board and committees, for their hard work and outstanding leadership during 2024. On our vibrant and active listserve, MWELA members share strategies, tips, and responses to queries regarding both routine and novel employment law issues. The listserve is also available as an on-line searchable database, a powerful research tool. MWELA holds monthly Brown Bag gatherings featuring presentations on trial strategies and techniques, emerging employment law issues, use of new courtroom technologies, successful litigation efforts, and other matters critical to a successful employment law practice. Our Moot Court Committee regularly prepares our members for oral argument before appellate courts. MWELA's Amicus Committee produces thoughtful and excellent briefs on important policy matters before the courts of appeals, lending a powerful persuasive voice for the plaintiff and for employees generally. MWELA produces a monthly Newsletter covering member news, victories, and key decisions. At our all-day Annual Conference, MWELA presents local and federal judges, colleagues, and outside experts on topics concerning all aspects of the plaintiff's employment practice. We also present our annual Lawyer of the Year award. MWELA maintains an on-line Brief Bank, with ready arguments, briefs, and pleadings. MWELA works toward changes in public policy through the lobbying efforts of our members, to strengthen anti-discrimination and related workplace laws. MWELA Case Evaluation service offers two programs to both MWELA members and non-members. One is a Three-member Clinic Panel, which reviews a lawyer’s case either before it is filed or after it is pending and possibly encountering difficulties. The other is a Single Evalulator Consultation where an experienced MWELA attorney provides advice and tips on a particular topic to a less experienced lawyer. Topics may include areas of substantive law and procedure, litigation and trial practice, appeals, settlement agreements, and particular Court and administrative forums with which a lawyer may be unfamiliar. |
