Today is International Womens' Day and on Thursday I co-hosted UBC Law's 32nd Annual Women and the Law Dinner. It was held downtown at the Inns of Court and the view was spectacular. Also spectacular was meeting so many viable and notable women working in the legal field. I met the first Aboriginal woman named to the bench in Saskatchewan (also a Cambridge and Harvard Law grad) and we discussed the Hillary campaign. I was surprised at myself for getting over my nerves so easily and debating the merits of the campaign with this nationally recognized judge.
Hosting duties went smoothly and I'm so looking forward to planning this dinner next year. I also met the woman who started the dinner when she was a young law student. We discussed modern feminism and the surprising backlash we've experienced in the media of late against feminism. We are making plans to get together for coffee soon.
Leaving that dinner, for the very first time since I began law school I started to believe I have a place in the legal profession.
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