APABA-PA 39th Anniversary Banquet - October 6, 2023
Virtual and In Person
Sheraton University City Hotel, 3549 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Our Annual Banquet supports APABA-PA’s William M. Marutani Fellowship, established in 2003 to honor Judge Marutani’s legacy as a civil rights advocate, jurist, and pioneer in the law. Each year a first-year law student who exhibits the same commitment to social justice as Judge Marutani is selected to receive this financial award in support of summer employment with a public interest organization or government agency. A significant portion of the proceeds from the Annual Banquet will go towards funding the Marutani Fellowship. The 2023 Marutani Fellows will be presented at the Banquet.
Keynote Speaker: Janet Lee
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of ANSYS, Inc.
Janet Lee brings over 25 years of legal experience in international technology, software licensing transactions, corporate governance and risk management. She currently serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary for ANSYS, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed industry leader in engineering simulation software and services. From 2010 to 2017 she was Vice President, Legal & Intellectual Property for HERE Technologies. From 2007 to 2010 she was the Director of Nokia Research Center, Legal & Intellectual Property. She served as Assistant General Counsel for America Online, Inc., from 1999 to 2007. Lee was an attorney at Cooley Godward LLP from 1996 to 1999. From 1995 to 1996 she was General Counsel to the Renaissance Capital Group. She was an attorney in the Moscow office of Clifford Chance from 1993 to 1995, and for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1991 to 1993. Janet is a graduate of Stanford Law School, the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the University of Michigan.
2023 Marutani Fellowship scholars
Neeraja Aravindan, Rutgers Law School
Guozhen Xiao, Penn State Dickinson Law
2023 Attorney of the Year
Sophia Lee
Chief Administrative and Engagement Officer
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania (GSEP)
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Your donation to APABA-PA supports important work, including paying for professionally translated and proofed materials so that our limited English proficient community members can access vital information, as well as funding our legal seminars for our diverse communities. Your donation also supports our operating costs and APABA-PA’s support of the Judge William M. Marutani Fellowship Fund, which provides a financial award to support a select number of Pennsylvania law students who have summer employment in the government or public interest sector.
Suggested Amounts:
- $10: Committed even when it’s rough
- $25: Dumplings = Instant Happiness
- $50: No camera = pajamas
- $100: Haven’t met a bowl of rice I didn’t like
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