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The Minnesota Lavender Bar Association board is seeking YOUR input and feedback regarding MLBA’s educational efforts, bar association work, law student support, and more! Think we’re doing a good job? Not a good job? Missing some important areas? Please let us know! The survey takes only a few minutes to complete. Thank you to those who have already done so!

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MLBA returns to Twin Cities Pride: June 28-29!

After taking a few years off, MLBA will once again have a booth at Twin Cities Pride, on Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 in Loring Park near downtown Minneapolis! MLBA is proud of its accomplishments within the Minnesota legal community and hopes YOU could be a part of getting the word out to lawyers, law students, and the general GLBT population. This year, MLBA is also partnering with Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund to share volunteers for Pride. We are looking for people who would be willing to staff the tent for two-hour shifts (not during the Parade on Sunday) and are happy to work around volunteers’ schedules as much as possible. Can you help? Please contact Jenny Ryan at jennyryan@gmail.com for more information or to stake your claim to a time slot!

MSBA votes to create “unmarried-couples” task force

On April 24, the Minnesota State Bar Association Assembly unanimously voted to authorize the creation of a task force to examine the current legal rights (or lack thereof) available to unmarried couples, including same-sex couples, in order to recommend reform to state laws to extend meaningful legal protections to them. MLBA was the lead organizer of the effort, and enlisted the support of ten other bar committees, sections, and affiliated organizations.  We are proud that the MSBA took this step. For more information, please contact MLBA at info@mnlavbar.org.

Lambda Legal and Faegre & Benson LLP invite you to a cocktail reception and a legal update by Camilla Taylor, Lambda Legal Senior Staff Attorney

Thursday, May 15
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served

The Lambda Legal Community Leader Award presented to volunteer Daniel J. Sheehan and remarks by Camilla Taylor at 6:15 p.m. at the offices of Faegre & Benson LLP Wells Fargo Center 21st Floor, Century Room 90 South Seventh Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 RSVP to Chau Pham at cpham@faegre.com.

For more information please contact Williard Dumas at wdumas@lambdalegal.org or 312-663-4307, ext. 329.

Camilla Taylor has litigated matters spanning family law, employment discrimination and criminal law and is a tireless advocate for clients. She meets frequently with community groups and helps lesbians, gay men, bisexual, transgender people and those with HIV better understand their legal rights. Taylor is a regional point person on the Marriage Project and is representing couples in a marriage equality lawsuit in Iowa.

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Looking for a chance to get word out to MLBA members and friends? At its June meeting, the MLBA Board approved an advertising” policy for use on a trial (six-month) basis. For now, the policy contemplates free announcements of such things as job openings, available office space, and other law-related matters other than simple advertisements of services. This opportunity is available to MLBA members only. For more information, click here: http://www.mnlavbar.org/membership.htm

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