Thanking Our Fantastic Sponsors and Supporters of Military Spouse Attorneys

MSJDN would like to take a moment to extend our heartfelt thanks to this year’s Making the Right Moves sponsors. We appreciate so very much the support for our organization and its events.

Bracewell & Guiliani

Military Spouse JD Foundation Board Member Erin Hennessey is a partner with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP‘s New York Office, but the Army life has taken her through their Seattle and DC offices as well. Bracewell not only supports Erin’s military spouse attorney career; they are hosting this year’s Making the Right Moves conference in their Seattle office. Bracewell is an international law firm with 485 lawyers in Texas, New York, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Seattle, Dubai, and London, serving Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, leading private investment funds, governmental entities and individuals concentrated in the energy, technology and financial services sectors worldwide. Thank you to Bracewell for your support of military spouse attorneys!

Wittenberg Weiner

Founder and CEO of Wittenberg Weiner Consulting, Lauren Weiner is a military spouse with expertise in high-levels of government management. Co-owner and COO of WWC, Donna Honeycutt is an attorney, MSJDN member, and a guest lecturer on our webinar series. Through their work at WWC, they have emphasized the importance of providing rewarding career opportunities to highly qualified military spouse professionals both in the United States and OCONUS. To further that purpose, Donna and Lauren founded In Gear Career and co-created Homefront Rising with MSJDN. In addition to joining us on MRM panels, we’d like to thank Lauren, Donna, and WWC for their continued support of MSJDN and MRM 2015.

Microsoft Vets Legal

In addition to Microsoft legal counsel participating as panelists throughout the day, Microsoft Vet Legal is also sponsoring Making the Right Moves. Microsoft hires more than 125 veterans per year in the U.S., many through its Software & Systems Academy, a 16 week program that prepares active duty services members with job skills in the IT industry. Microsoft is committed to supporting military personnel and their families, and especially military spouse attorneys. Thank you, Microsoft!

The Milspo Project

MSJDN is grateful for the Milspo Project’s support of MRM 2015. A growing community of hard working, military spouse entrepreneurs, the Milspo Project provides practical and achievable career advice for military spouses and all women through live leadership events. Many MSJDN members are entrepreneurs themselves, starting their own law practice, or advise small and start-up business including other military spouse businesses

Ms. JD

Through Ms. JD’s consistent support and sponsorship, MSJDN progra
mming and events have been shared with women legal leaders across the country, including information about MRM 2015. We hope to see some Ms. JDers on October 23rd! Ms. JD is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the success of aspiring and early career women lawyers.

ABA Leverage

A limited number of discounted hotel rooms are available thanks to the American Bar Association’s Leverage program. Reserve your room only blocks away from the conference site. With over $16 million in annual meeting spend, contracting 325 legal meetings a year and over 82,000 hotel rooms worldwide, the ABA uses their volume buying power to secure discounted hotel rates and added concessions for ABA members. MSJDN discounts end at midnight today so don’t wait to book!