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Women and Leadership Conference Friday, March 8, 2002 Stanford Law School and the  ABA Commission on Women in the Profession

• Keynote Address: The Difference 'Difference' Makes
  
  • Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, and Chair, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
  
  
• Plenary Session I:  The Unfinished Agenda: Women and the Legal Profession (Streaming Video)
• Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate

Center, City University of New York, and Visiting Fellow, Stanford Law School
• Gail Block Harris '77 (AB '74), Of Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and

Chair, Stanford Law Fund
• Roberta D. Liebenberg, Partner, Liebenberg & White (moderator)
• Hon. Fern M. Smith '75 (AB '72), Judge, United States District Court for the

Northern District of California, and Director, Federal Judicial Center


• Plenary Session II:  "Would You Rather Sleep or Win?"  The Struggle for Balanced Lives (Streaming Video)
• Mark D. Chandler '81, Vice President, Legal Services and General Counsel,

Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Ann M. Courtney, Assistant Vice President and Litigation Counsel,

UnumProvident Corporation
• Charles E. Koob '69, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (moderator)

Peter Langrock, Partner, Langrock, Sperry & Wool
• Hon. Christina A. Snyder '72, Judge, United States District Court for the

Central District of California


• Discussion Sessions:
  
  
• Strategies for Improving Evaluation Structures and Leadership Opportunities(Streaming Video)
• Hon. Lee Smalley Edmon, Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court
• Amelia Rea Maguire, Partner-in-Charge of National Client Development and

Partnering, Holland & Knight LLP (moderator)
• Joanne Martin, Fred H. Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford

Graduate School of Business, and Professor of Sociology, by courtesy,
Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences


• Institutionalizing Mentoring Programs and Women's Networks(Streaming Video)
• Pamela A. Bresnahan, Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP
• Deborah Willard Coogan '71, Attorney at Law
• Sara L. Peterson '87, Partner, McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen (moderator)
• Angela F. Williams, Counsel, Bryan Cave LLP
  
  
• Rainmakers Roundtable:  The Art of Business Development(Streaming Video)
• Mary B. Cranston '75 (AB '70), Firm Chair, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, and

Chair, Stanford Law School Board of Visitors (moderator)
• Stephen C. Neal '73, Chairman & CEO, Cooley Godward, LLP
• Barbara Paul Robinson, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
  
  
• Strategies for Reform:  Commitment, Flexibility and Accountability(Streaming Video)
• Julie Matlof Kennedy '91 (AB '87), Partner, Folger Levin & Kahn LLP
• Debra E. Meyerson, (PhD '89), Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior,

Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations, Stanford School of
Engineering (moderator)
• Pamela J. Roberts, Partner, Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard
  
  
• The Pro Bono Policy-Practice Gap(Streaming Video)
• Michael S. Greco, Partner, Hill & Barlow (moderator)
• Cheryl D. Mills '90, Former Senior Vice President, Oxygen Media, and former

White House Deputy Counsel
• Sheila Thomas, Director of Litigation, Equal Rights Advocates 
  
  
  
• Closing Session:  Where Do We Go From Here?(Streaming Video)
• Mary B. Cranston '75 (AB '70), Firm Chair, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP,

and Chair, Stanford Law School Board of Visitors
• Gail Block Harris '77 (AB '74), Of Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and

Chair, Stanford Law Fund
• Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law

School, and Chair, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
• Barbara Paul Robinson, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
• Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School (moderator)

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