Committees - About the Committees
The Section’s Steering Committee has established eight substantive
and procedural standing committees to carry out the objectives of the
Section. All active, inactive, and judicial members of the D.C. Bar
who are members of the Section, and all section subscribers, are eligible
to serve on any of the section’s standing committees. Membership
on a standing committee is free. While nonmembers of the D.C. Bar who
are Section subscribers are eligible to join any of the section’s
standing committees. a subscriber may not serve as a standing committee
chair or vice chair. In July, the Section cochairs, with the advice
and consent of the Section Steering Committee, appoints new or returning
members of the Section to serve as chair or vice chairs of each standing
committee.
- Class Actions
- Christine Webber, Chair
Cohen Milstein Hansfeld & Toll
1100 New York Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, DC 20005-3934
Phone: 202-408-4108
Fax: 202-408-4699
E-mail: cwebber@cmht.com -
- Community Outreach Committee
- Jennifer Abruzzo, Chair
National Labor Relations Board
1099 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20570
Phone: 202-273-2722
E–mail: jennifer.burgess-solomon@nlrb.gov
Ralph C. Conte
CSOSA
633 Indiana Avenue NW
Suite 1228
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: 202-220-5722
Fax: 202-220-5315
E-mail: Ralph.Conte@csosa.gov -
- Employee Benefits Committee
- Mark Hanna, Chair
Davis Cowell & Bowe LLP
1701 K Street NW
Suite 210
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-223-2620
Fax: 202-223-8651
E–mail: mhanna@dcbwash.com
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- Equal Employment Opportunity and Individual Rights Committee
- Kevin M Kraham, Chair
Ford & Harrison LLP
1300 19th Street NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-719-2016
Fax: 202-719-2077
E–mail: kkraham@fordharrison.com
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- In-House Practice Committee
- Lily M Garcia, Chair
Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive
Phone: 202-412-4605
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- Labor and Health Standards Committee
- To be determined
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- Labor Relations
- Peter J. Ford, Chair
United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
1775 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-466-1523
Fax: 202-728-1803
E–mail: pford@ufcw.org
Deirdre Hamilton, Vice Chair
Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO
501 3rd Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202 434-1128
E-Mail: dhamilton@afanet.org -
- Whistleblowing
- Jason M. Zuckerman, Chair
Law Office of Jason Zuckerman PLLC
2109 1/2 O Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: 202-262-8959
Fax: 202-403-3222
E-mail: jzuckerman@zuckermanlaw.com - About the Committees
- The section’s steering committee has established eight substantive and procedural standing committees to carry out the objectives of the section. All active, inactive, and judicial members of the D.C. Bar and section subscribers are eligible to serve on any of the section’s standing committees. Membership on a standing committee is free. Nonmembers of the D.C. Bar also are eligible to join any of the section’s standing committees, so long as they are subscribers of the section. However, a subscriber may not serve as a standing committee chair or vice chair. In July, section cochairs, with the advice and consent of the section steering committee, appointed the following new or returning members of the section to serve as chairs or vice chairs of each standing committee.
- Meetings
- The section’s standing committees meet at least four times per year. Contact the relevant standing committee chair to find out about the section standing committee meetings.
- Additional Section Posts
- Other than standing committees, the steering committee may create and appoint members of the section, subscribers, and interested persons to task forces or working groups with specific purposes. In addition, the steering committee or the chairs of any section standing committee may appoint members, subscribers, or interested persons to serve as program coordinators for specific section programs. Contact a member of the steering committee or a standing committee chair to volunteer to serve the section.
