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CLEs
Lorman CLEs
IOWA has partnered with Lorman Education Services to provide continuing legal education at a discount. Members receive a 15% discount on all orders; IOWA receives $25 toward our service projects for each registration made using our unique priority code. Contact the IOWA President for member code details. You may register online or call Lorman at 866-352-9539.
For upcoming seminars, teleconferences, and on-demand webinars, visit the IOWA page on Lorman's site: http://www.lorman.com/training/IOWA
Meetings
IOWA Board meetings are held the 3rd Thursday of each month, at 12 noon via teleconference. IOWA members are welcome to attend. Contact the IOWA President prior to the meeting for call-in details.
Announcements
The ABA Rule of Law Initiative is currently recruiting Legal Specialists on various topics for ongoing and future programs in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Recruitment is for short- and long-term positions in countries throughout the region, both paid and volunteer positions.
Potential duties may include one or more of the following: trainings of attorneys, judges, police and other justice sector operators in oral trial skills, due process, and the application of human rights standards; design of training curricula for justice sector operators including prosecutors, defense attorneys, and police; design of law school curricula; and institutional strengthening to bar associations and law schools.
Applicants must have a law degree and relevant legal experience, as well as professional fluency in Spanish and English.
Application: To apply for the Legal Specialist Program please fill out the Online Participant Registration Form.
Health Study Participation Requested:
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, and her colleagues are conducting a NIH/NINR funded study to explore ethnic differences in midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity.
You are eligible to participate in this study if you are a midlife woman aged 40 to 60 years old who does not have any mobility problems; who can read and write English; who is online; and whose self-reported ethnic identity is Hispanic, non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African American, or N-H Asian.
Data will be collected through the Internet through May 31, 2011. Methods for the data collection include an Internet survey among 500 midlife women in the U.S. on the Internet and four ethnic-specific online forum discussions among about 30 midlife women per ethnic group recruited among the Internet survey participants.
Your involvement will consist of the following: (a) about 30 minutes are usually needed to complete the Internet survey questionnaire; and (b) the online forums will be conducted for 6 months, should you agree to participate in the additional online forum discussion. Your participation is asynchronous (you can visit the online forum site and read and post messages at your convenience).
You will receive a gift certificate of $10 for filling out the Internet survey, and an additional gift certificate of $50 for participating in the additional online forum (only those who participate in the additional online forum for 6 months will be provided with this additional gift certificate). To get reimbursed for the online forums, you have to post at least one message per topic. For more information, please visit their website (http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu).
ListServ
Do you want to keep up with news and other information of interest to women attorneys and law students? Join the I.O.W.A. e-mail listserv! I.O.W.A. members are automatically added when they join.
Listserv subscribers:
- will receive messages on somewhat regular basis
- may post messages of interest to other women attorneys and law students
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If you are an I.O.W.A. member and haven't been receiving e-mail messages lately, please contact Emily Chafa at emilychafa@msn.com to be added to the list. The listserv recognizes e-mail addresses, so a change of e-mail address may unintentionally remove you from the list. Contact Emily Chafa with any questions or comments.
Newsletter Archive
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