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NCAWA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 4 - 5, 2013Four Points by Sheraton Downtown | Asheville, North Carolina

Promoting the participation of women in the legal profession and advancing the rights and welfare of women under the law since 1978.

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The NCAWA is about women helping women. Our membership includes women of all ages and back-grounds across North Carolina – judges and new attorneys, women in private practice and legal aid, educators and clerks. Members join us fresh out of law school or have been part of the NCAWA for decades. At this year’s conference, we attempt to bridge the gap between members old and new, and between those who broke the glass ceiling and those who are sweeping out the pieces. To that end, this year’s conference features programs that will help you connect with other members, improve your legal knowledge and skills, and be inspired by the leaders in our legal community.

2013 GWYNETH B. DAVIS PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDHarriett Jean Twiggs Smalls

Harriett Jean Twiggs Smalls is both an actively practicing attorney and neonatal nurse practitioner in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her solo practice focuses primarily on health-related consultations regard-ing issues such as medical malpractice, workers compensation, nursing home negligence, and personal injury. Additionally, Harriett provides legal assistance to professionals with professional licensure issues, and clients with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security issues. When she works at Women’s Hospital of Greensboro, Harriett is responsible for the medical management of patients including performing complete neonatal physical assessments, ordering and interpreting required tests, performing advanced procedures, and initiating treatment programs.

Harriett has served on the North Carolina State Bar Disciplinary Hearing Commission since 2008, and has been a member of the Strategic Planning and Emerging Trends Committee since 2009. Harriett also serves on the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys Board of Directors. Her numerous volunteer efforts and leadership roles traverse civic organizations of all types. At present, Harriet serves on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law Foundation Board of Directors, and has recently assumed the role of president; UNC-Greensboro Board of Trustees; Cone Health Foundation Board of Directors; Triad March of Dimes Board of Directors; and North Carolina Public Health Founda-tion Board of Directors. Even while regularly publishing articles and presenting at conferences, she finds time to be a member of the inspirational choir at Genesis Baptist Church.

Harriett earned an associate degree in Nursing from Augusta College in Georgia before receiving a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Certificate from West Virginia University. She majored in nursing at the University of South Carolina and earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro in 1995. A few years later, Harriett traveled down the road to Chapel Hill, receiv-ing her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1999. Harriett is the proud mother of one daughter, Kimberly who resides in Tallahassee, FL with her husband, DeMarrio. She loves tea and tea parties in particular. Currently she hosts tea parties and event planning and decorating. Her plan upon retiring is to open a tearoom. Among her many activities she also finds time to look for antiques and read an occasional good book.

Harriett attributes her success to the many people who have believed in and supported her over the years. She thanks Wanda Bracks-Daughtry, Lynne Albert, Janice Cole and Justice Timmons-Goodson for their support and encouragement and Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP for providing her with the op-portunity, time and support to be involved. She particularly thanks her parents, Freddie Twiggs, Ruth and Henry Newson; her sister, Jacque Twiggs; her daughter and the special man in her life, Randy Holt, for being the “wind beneath her wings”.

NCAWA presents the public service award in memory and honor of Gwyneth B. Davis, for the promotion of the participation of women attorneys in the legal profession and the rights of women under the law.

2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKERThe Honorable Patricia Timmons-Goodson

Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson was the first African-American woman to sit on the North Carolina Supreme Court, serving from 2006-2012. Justice Timmons-Goodson’s entire career has been to serve justice in North Carolina, from her work as an Assistant District Attorney in Cumberland County to her service on the bench to her continued recognition as a leader in the legal community. Among Justice Timmons-Goodson’s many awards and honors are the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the Gwyneth B. Davis Award, member of the ABA Jour-nal Board of Editors, and 2013 Liberty Bell Award presented by the YLD of the North Carolina Bar Association.

In 2006, Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson turned a page in our state’s history by becoming the first Afri-can-American woman and the fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Upon her retirement from the court on December 17, 2012, this perpetual trailblazer ended her twenty-eight year service in the state judiciary.

Having earned her undergraduate and law degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her professional quest for justice began as a legal-aid attorney and as an assistant district attorney for the Twelfth Judicial District. At age twenty-nine, she was appointed as a district court judge to serve Cumberland and Hoke Counties, where she remained for twelve years. In 1998, she became the first African-American woman elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Throughout her ascendant legal career, Justice Timmons-Goodson has prioritized community involvement. She mentors students, lawyers, and even judges, and she is nationally regarded as a beacon of inspiration for women and people of color. She is the recipient of the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys’ Gwyneth B. Davis Award, which is presented to persons who promote the participation of women attorneys in the legal profession and the rights of women under the law. She has served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession and as co-chair of the ABA’s Judges Journal. In addi-tion, she remains a regular participant in the Judicial Clerkship Program, an annual conference that encourages minority law students to pursue judicial clerkships.

Justice Timmons-Goodson currently serves on the Guilford College Board of Trustees and holds honorary de-grees from UNC-Chapel Hill, Johnson C. Smith University, and St. Augustine’s College. In recognition of her long and distinguished service to the judiciary and to the people of North Carolina, she was inducted in 2010 into the North Carolina Women’s Hall of Fame. Among Justice Timmons-Goodson’s other awards are the Or-der of the Long Leaf Pine and the Liberty Bell Award from the North Carolina Bar Association.

Her passion outside of the law is young people. Whether mentoring young lawyers or speaking to youth organizations or classes, she seeks to encourage and influence our next generation of leaders. The type of life-altering impact Justice Timmons-Goodson has on others is echoed each time she interacts with students. She knows the important relationship between individual people and sweeping historical achievement, be-tween personal fairness and institutional justice, and between small successes and world change. Justice Timmons-Goodson has devoted her career to living out values that reflect this knowledge.

Justice Timmons-Goodson is married to Ernest Goodson, a Fayetteville orthodontist. They are the proud par-ents of two adult sons.

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10:30am Registration

11:00am-12:00pm President’s TeaMelissa Walker, NCAWA PresidentAll attendees are welcome!

11:30am-12:30pm Annual Silent Auction OpensSponsor Tables Open

12:45-1:00pm PLENARY SESSION Welcome and Opening Remarks

Melissa Walker, NCAWA PresidentKeith Kapp, North Carolina State Bar President

1:00-2:00pm The Challenge of Change: The Careers of Women AttorneysModerator: Hon. Janice McKenzie Cole

• Nicole DuPre, recent law school graduate• Anna Stein, middle career lawyer who took 12 years out for childrearing• Julie Woodmansee -- designing a solo practice to make it all work• Harriett Smalls – combining law with other life interests• Judge Ann McKown – finding the right time to retire

Janice McKenzie Cole will engage our panel and audience members in a discussion about the stages and phases of the careers of women attorneys, from law school through re-tirement. The speakers will share how they have approached critical decision points in their careers, from finding that first job, to facing the need to change jobs, to finding the right balance when children arrive, to returning to the workforce after a period away, to approaching the end of full-time work, to retirement. Personal changes and changes in the legal profession will be addressed.

2:00-2:30pm BREAK2:30-3:30pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Intro to Employment Law (CLE credit) Wolfe RoomPresenter: Sabrina Presnell RockoffAnswers to Ten Common Employment-Law Related Questions Your Clients Are Asking: A practical discussion of basic employment law concepts framed around ten commonly asked questions regarding wage and hour laws, leave laws, discrimination laws, drug

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testing, the protection of confidential information and the Affordable Care Act.

Health Law Update (CLE credit) Vance RoomPresenter: Katherine Marshall, Hill WoodyKatherine Marshall will provide an update on recent developments in Health Law.

3:30-3:45pm BREAK3:45-4:45pm Intro to Wills & Estates (CLE credit) Vance Room

Presenter: Sarah Sparboe Thornburg, McGuire Wood BissetteSarah has extensive experience assisting individuals with the proper planning of their estates, which covers everything from minimizing taxes to planning for guardianship of young children. She helps individuals plan for death and incapacity by drafting necessary documents (wills, trusts, power of attorney, living will, living trust, etc.) and assists with the administration of estates of deceased or incompetent individuals.

Modern Civil Rights (CLE credit) Wolfe RoomPresenter: Meghann Burke, Cogburn & Brazil and Senior Legal Advisor of the Campaign for Southern EqualityThe Campaign for Southern Equality is at the forefront of LGBT civil rights in North Car-olina. Join Senior Legal Advisor Meghann Burke to learn about CSE’s cutting edge legal advocacy, the effect of the “DOMA” and “Prop 8” decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Meghann incorporates her civil rights work with her day job as a litigation attorney in private practice.

4:45-5:15pm BREAK5:15-6:45pm Reception & Silent Auction Sponsored by Lawyers Mutual

7:00-9:30pm BanquetFeaturing Retired North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Patricia Timmons-GoodsonGwyneth B. Davis Award: Harriett Jean Twiggs SmallsHonoring North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Sarah ParkerSponsored by Thomson Reuters

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Breakfast Sponsored by McGuire Wood & Bissette; Ward & SmithSponsor Tables open

8:00-9:00am PLENARY SESSION Breakfast and 2013 Legislative Update (CLE credit)Presenter: Colleen KochanekThis presentation will cover a summary of legislation considered and approved during the 2013 legislative session, including new laws and changes to current laws that affect

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criminal laws, domestic violence, abortion, environmental issues, the North Carolina bud-get and a variety of other legislation of interest. The presentation will also include some general discussion on the political climate in Raleigh and the inside story behind some of the controversial bills that were discussed and voted on by the General Assembly.

9:00-10:30am NCAWA Annual Meeting of the Membership10:30-10:45am BREAK/VISIT SPONSORS10:45-11:45am BREAKOUT SESSIONS Strategies for Legislative Change Vance Room

Presenters: Current attorney members of the General Assembly, including Angela Bry-ant (D), Deborah Ross (D), and Tara Stevens (R), as well as NCAWA’s lobbyist, Colleen Kochanek.“There ought to be a law . . .” As lawyers, we are deeply aware of how our public policy is developed through legislative choices. Early in the days of NCAWA, our organization provided the leadership that resulted in the enactment of the law of equitable distribution in North Carolina. This session will explore legislative change and how you, as an attorney, can make it happen. Strategies for developing legislative proposals, finding a sponsor, educating members of the General Assembly about the proposal, and seeing it through to a vote will be discussed.

Becoming and Being a Judge Wolfe RoomPresenters: Judge Linda McGee, N.C. Court of Appeals, the first chair of NCAWA’s Judi-cial Division, and Susan Dotson-Smith, District Court Judge in Asheville.Women remain underrepresented in the judiciary in North Carolina. Being a judge can be a challenging and fulfilling career for a lawyer, yet various barriers continue to discourage some women from considering the judiciary as a career choice. This session will explore the need for women judges, the election and appointment process, the Judicial Code of Ethics, practical barriers to women becoming judges, and advice about sustaining a ca-reer in the judiciary.

11:45am-1:15pm PLENARY SESSION Effective Legal Negotiation (CLE credit)

Presenter: Diane Dimond, Professor, Duke University School of Law Can you be cooperative and still effective in legal negotiations? What can you do to count-er an unreasonable opponent? Participate in two exercises and a short negotiation, then see and discuss video clips of the same negotiation done by other attorneys. Compare and contrast styles and tactics. Learn ways to make your negotiations more effective.

1:15pm CLOSING Dee Wallis, NCAWA President-Elect

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* These membership categories are eligible for member-ship for half of a year. Upon joining, you will receive all NCAWA benefits for the remainder of 2013 and will be eligible for the discounted member rate for the conference.

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