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    The Equalizer - Summer 2017

    Volume 2 No. 1   June 2017

    Diversity & Inclusion

    Section of Litigation Hosts Inaugural ABA LGBT Forum

    The Section of Litigation made ABA history this past May in San Francisco when it hosted the Inaugural ABA LGBT Forum. The Section leaders began planning the Forum and then realized that this would be an ABA first

    Articles

    Diversity & Inclusion

    Using the Power of SOGI for the Good of the Profession

    I joined the SOGI Commission in 2013. I had long been an active leader in the Section of Civil Rights & Social Justice (CRSJ) and was involved in its SOGI committee long before the ABA created the SOGI Commission. But upon joining the SOGI Commission, I quickly learned that the Goal III diversity commissions have a lot of influence in the ABA and that SOGI was eager and willing to use that power for the good of the profession.