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What is leadership? How should we use it? How do we foster its growth?
These questions will be at the heart of Celebration 55: The Women's Leadership Summit, a historic four-day event honoring fifty-five years of women leaders at Harvard Law School. For a look at our evolving program, scheduled for September 18–21, 2008 at HLS, please click here.
Over the past twenty years, our alumnae Celebrations have drawn HLS women from all over the world from a vast range of fields including law, business, academia, government, politics, non-profit work, and journalism and the arts, to name just a few. Celebration 55 is the first alumnae Celebration since Dean Elena Kagan '86 became the Law School's dean and the first to focus on a particular theme: women and leadership in all its many guises.
The idea for a Women's Leadership Summit at HLS emerged from Dean Kagan's lecture Women and the Legal Profession—A Status Report delivered as the Leslie H. Arps Memorial Lecture at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on November 7, 2005. Whether you're practicing law, taking time out, or have changed fields entirely, you'll find programs that target your interests and concerns. Among our thirty-plus featured panels and workshops:
The Large Law Firm: Leadership Challenges and Opportunities
Leadership in the Corporate World: Pathways to Success
The Entrepreneurial Leader: Launching Your Own Law Firm
Managing Your Career: The Art of Transition
On Ramping: Back to Work on Your Own Terms
The New Girls Club: Forging Friendships, Forging Careers
Finding Our Voices: How to Write Your Book (and How We Wrote Ours)
Five years ago, Celebration 50 became the largest single event in Harvard Law School history, and this year we hope—and expect—to break our own previous record for attendance and engagement. Please plan to join us!
Questions? Please contact C55@law.harvard.edu or call us at 617-384-9523.