Morgan, Brown & Joy’s Amy Carlin Co-Chairs NUSL’s Women in the Law Conference
Morgan, Brown & Joy attorney Amy Carlin is co-chairing an abbreviated version of Northeastern University School of Law’s (NUSL) 12th Annual Women in the Law Annual Conference on September 25, 2020. The event was rescheduled from May 15, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next in-person Women in the Law Conference will take place on May 21, 2021.
This year’s conference theme is “All In: Reimagining Inclusive Workplaces,” and the September 25th virtual event will feature:
- Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library (keynote speaker)
- Shana Knizhnik, Attorney and Author, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Tracey Lukes, Vice President of Hollister Institute
- Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson, Co-founder of the Disruptive Equity Education Project
To view the full schedule, click here.
Carlin is a trusted employment advisor to business owners, C-level executives, entrepreneurs, human resources professionals and company managers. As an experienced lawyer, she plays an important role as a daily resource on legal topics relating to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. Carlin is a proactive counselor, adeptly guiding clients through employment issues that affect businesses of all shapes and sizes. Her advice is applicable across all industries, but her clients tend to come from the retail, restaurant and food services, wellness and fitness, and technology industries. She applies a distinctive human touch to her legal advice, helping clients handle any scenario, including how to deliver difficult conversations. A member of the NUSL Class of 2000, Carlin is a longtime supporter of the Women in the Law Conference and was a 2019 speaker on the panel, “#MeToo in the Workplace.”
NUSL’s Women in the Law Annual Conference provides career guidance and professional development growth to female attorneys and other professionals at all stages of their careers and brings together powerful decision-makers from Boston and beyond. More than half of their graduates are women, practicing in every conceivable setting — from private practice to public service, from the bench to business — as well as a host of non-legal fields. Past speakers include Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Board President and Co-founder of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute; Martha Coakley, Former Massachusetts Attorney General; and Debra S. Katz, civil rights and employment lawyer who represented Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexual misconduct matter.
About Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP
Morgan, Brown & Joy is among the largest management-side employment law firms in New England, representing a wide range of Fortune 100 corporations, educational and health care institutions and small businesses across all sectors of the economy. The firm’s attorneys are known for anticipating and finding solutions to the ever-expanding range of employment-related legal issues in order to avoid the time and cost of litigation. When litigation becomes necessary, the firm aggressively defends its clients and has a proven record of success.