WOMEN IN LAW SYMPOSIUM MARKS 75 YEARS
OF WOMEN'S LEGAL EDUCATION AT U.VA. 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 4-- The University of Virginia
School of Law is marking the first 75 years of women in legal
education at U.Va. In celebration of that tradition, an Oct. 12
symposium on "Women in Law" will focus on current issues facing
women lawyers and strategies for professional development.
	Some 100 U.Va. law alumnae from around the country are
expected to return to attend the event in Caplin Auditorium at the
law school. Speakers will include numerous prominent U.Va. law
graduates and faculty from a variety of specialties.
	Among topics to be discussed are women's involvement in
legal education and in particular U.Va.'s tradition, which began in
1920 when the law school opened its doors to women.
Three women enrolled in law in 1920. Today, mirroring national
figures, approximately 40 percent of U.Va.'s 1,150 law students are
women.
	The law school has approximately 3,000 alumnae, many of whom
have decided to use their checkbooks to increase the visibility of
women in their still male-dominated profession.  As a part of the
law school's current $75 million capital campaign, alumnae have
donated $570,000 to fund a prominent Alumnae Lobby in the school's
soon-to-be-renovated and expanded Law Grounds complex.  Viewing of
the lobby will be included in a post-lunch tour of the Law Grounds
on the day of the symposium. 
	Other panels at the symposium will focus on such subjects as
women in the "rainmaking and dealmaking" business side of the legal
profession; law as an avenue to other professions; juggling career
and family; working in public-interest law; and gender and sex
stereotyping. 
	Among many well known speakers will be law professors
Lillian R. BeVier and Mary Anne Case, both authorities on
constitutional law and women's rights issues; Scottye Hedstrom, a
Disney company vice president; Penelope W. Kyle, director of the
Virginia Lottery; and Judge Diana G. Moltz of the Fourth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals. 
	Former Virginia attorney general and former gubernatorial
candidate Mary Sue Terry, 1973 U.Va. law graduate, will speak at a
private dinner concluding the event.
	Gene Dahmen, an alumna on the law school's capital campaign
executive committee and a partner in the firm of Hamilton, Dahmen &
Randall in Boston, is chair of the symposium.
	The symposium is open to the public.  The buffet lunch costs
$10.
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October 3, 1996
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