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Meeting the Moment: Focus on LGBTQ+ Rights

29Apr2025
Hosting Organization: 
Philadelphia Bar Foundation
When: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
9:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Where: 
Hybrid
Via Zoom or in-person at Ballard Spahr LLP, 1735 Market St, 51st floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103,
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Join the Philadelphia Bar Association as they continue their series on topics affecting their clients and the community, this time focusing on LGBTQ+ rights. With the rollback of legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community, education, collaboration, and advocacy will be critical to charting a path forward.

Panelists will discuss top-of-mind issues and impacts due to recent policy changes at the federal level, the critical state and federal court cases on the horizon, and what the legal community can do to help.

Welcome: Peter V. Michaud, Chair, Ballard Spahr

Introduction: Chancellor Katayun Jaffari

Keynote Speaker: Philadelphia City Councilmember At Large Rue Landau

Panelists: 

  • Ronda B. Goldfein, Executive Director, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
  • Kae Greenberg (he/him), Staff Attorney, Center for HIV Law and Policy
  • Bonnie Kaplan (she/her), PA State Leader, Free Mom Hugs
  • Jasper Liem (they/he), Executive Director, The Attic Youth Center
  • Eli Segal, Business Litigator, Stapleton Segal Cochran LLC
  • Zach Strassburger (they/them), Deputy City Solicitor, City of Philadelphia
  • Elizabeth Weissert (she/her), Associate, Ballard Spahr, and President, Philadelphia LGBTQ Bar Association

Moderators: 

  • Maureen Holland (she/her), Member, Cozen O'Connor and Co-Chair, LGBTQ+ Rights Committee
  • Krystal Kane (she/her), Pro Bono Attorney Blank Rome, and Co-Chair, LGBTQ+ Rights Committee
How to Register/RSVP: 

This event is free, but advanced registration is required.

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