Our Expertise

Cory Amron

Recently retired as an intellectual property partner from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cory Amron was head of the IP practice group at Vorys, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and lives in Arlington VA. She has actively worked on women’s and diversity issues as well as education of the public on the law and legal issues throughout her nearly 40 year legal career.

She was the second Chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, a member of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence, the MacCrate Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession, ABA President’s Advisory Council on Diversity, the Standing Committee on Public Education and a recent Chair of the ABA Gavel Awards Committee. She is a Past Chair of the American Bar Foundation Fellows, D.C. Chapter and has held numerous positions in the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She was named a Star of the Bar by the WBA in 2003 and received the WBA’s Women Lawyer of the Year Award in 2004.

Corrine Propas Parver

Corrine Propas Parver is a former partner and head of the Health Law Services Practice at the Washington, D.C., law firm Dickstein Shapiro. After retiring from the law firm in 2004, she designed the health law specialization for American University Washington College of Law’s LL.M. Program on Law and Government, and expanded the health law curriculum so that AU Washington College of Law now offers from 15-20 health law-related courses each academic year, including the annual summer Health Law and Policy Institute, which she established in 2008.

She has extensively published, testified before Congressional Committees, and lectured in the United States and Canada on health care topics during her career.

Deborah Barron

Deborah Barron is Founder and Executive Director of New Left Accelerator which empowers progressive leaders to transform their ideas into impact.

Ms. Barron previously was a commercial litigator who represented businesses and individuals at both the trial and appellate levels and focused on litigating appeals and dispositive motions for her clients. She has significant experience in breach of contract claims, consumer and employment class actions, product liability and other high-stakes commercial disputes on behalf of clients in the technology, manufacturing, food labeling and financial services industries. Ms. Barron clerked for the Hon. Ronald Gilman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and was an extern for the Hon. Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Before entering law school, Ms. Barron worked as a journalist and a strategic communications and planning consultant for foundations, nonprofit organizations and candidates for office at the local, state and federal levels.

Paulette Chapman

Paulette Chapman is a personal injury lawyer at Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis and Lightfoot in Washington, DC where she has represented several high profile, catastrophically injured clients.   She graduated from George Washington University School of Law in 1988 with honors and has served as President of the Bar Association of DC, the Women’s Bar Association of DC, and the Barristers. She has also served on the Board of Governors of the DC Bar and the Executive Committee of the Council for Court Excellence.  

She has won numerous awards, including Star of the Bar from the WBA, Lawyer of the Year from the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington DC, and she has been named to Washington’s Top Lawyers for numerous years by Washingtonian Magazine.

Norma Hutcheson

Norma B. Hutcheson is Chair of the District of Columbia Board of Ethics and Government Accountability. She retired from the position of Deputy Managing Counsel for the Capital Metro Law Office of the United States Postal Service Law Department after 36 years of service in the federal government, 35 of which were with the Postal Service at Postal Service Headquarters, and the Eastern Regional and Mid-Atlantic Field Law Offices.

Ms. Hutcheson has extensive leadership experience in volunteer bar and community activities, including: YMCA for Metropolitan Washington; National Bar Association (NBA); past President of the Greater Washington Area Chapter – Women Lawyers Division (GWAC); past Chair, GWAC Foundation; The Links, Incorporated; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; Ivy Vine Charities, and as past Chair of the Social Justice and Human Rights Committee for Theta Omega Omega Chapter.

Ms. Hutcheson is a deacon at Zion Baptist Church in northwest Washington, DC where she serves as Church Attorney and sits on Zion’s Board of Church Administration. She also has been an active participant in the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law and past Secretary of the Women’s Bar Association Foundation and past board member of the Women’s Bar Association of DC.

A native Washingtonian, Ms. Hutcheson holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Bucknell University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia (active) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (inactive).

Michelle Kallen

Michelle Kallen is a partner at Jenner & Block’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice. She represents clients in state and federal courts in high-stakes litigation. Michelle served as the seventh Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In that role, she was lead counsel in litigation to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. She also represented the Commonwealth in its election matters, and she defended the Commonwealth against challenges to its COVID-19 response.

Michelle’s past public service includes serving as Special Litigation Counsel in the US House of Representatives, representing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in litigation. She successfully defended the Committee against attempts to block subpoenas for phone records and an effort to compel testimony from 16 lawmakers and congressional staffers.

Lorelie S. Masters

Lorie is a partner in the insurance coverage practice of Hunton, Andrews, Kurth resident in the DC Office, handling all aspects of complex, commercial litigation and arbitration.  In addition to her legal practice, she is active in diversity and inclusion matters and has represented many individuals and groups pro bono, including policyholders denied health care coverage and victims of human trafficking. She was a candidate for Attorney General of the District of Columbia in 2014.

She received her JD in 1981 from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Elaine Metlin

Elaine Metlin was a litigation partner at Dickstein Shapiro LLP and Blank Rome LLP. She focused her civil litigation practice on complex antitrust opt-out lawsuits and general commercial litigation. She also was a white collar criminal defense attorney, who defended individuals and businesses investigated by the Department of Justice, Congress, and other state and federal authorities. For many years, Ms. Metlin represented the National Abortion Federation, filing numerous amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and co-authoring two handbooks for abortion providers on litigating against anti-abortion activists. She chaired Dickstein Shapiro’s Women’s Leadership Initiative for more than a decade. She also served on Dickstein Shapiro’s Executive Committee, chaired its Hiring Committee, co-chaired its Professional Development Committee and served on its Compensation Advisory Committee.

Currently, Ms. Metlin is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Resource Board of the National Association of Women Judges, which she co-chaired for many years. Prior to retirement, she was a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Antitrust and the ABA Section of International Law, where she served as co-chair of the International Litigation Committee. She served on the Board and as a Trustee of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. She was a founding member of the DC Chapter of WLMA (the Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Alliance). She was also a member of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, the Lawyers Club of Washington, DC, the DC Women’s Bar and NAWL. She currently volunteers with the Fairfax County Master Gardener Association and is an Ambassador with the Audubon at Home Program. She previously chaired the Board of the Sheridan School in Washington, D.C., and served as a volunteer rape crisis counselor for the Fairfax County Rape Crisis Program.

Ms. Metlin received her JD from the University of Virginia Law School in 1983 and was a law clerk for The Honorable Susan Black and other judges in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Nicole Revenaugh

Nicole M. Revenaugh is a partner at Irigonegaray, Turney, & Revenaugh, L.L.P. in Topeka, Kansas, where she maintains a civil litigation practice specializing in personal injury and wrongful death. She and her partners have had the privilege to represent Planned Parenthood, litigate against hate groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church, represent victims of sexual assault in religious institutions, and advocate for the expansion of voting rights in Kansas.

In 2017, Nicole joined millions of women around the world and marched for women’s rights in Washington, D.C. Since that time, she has consulted for and managed several political campaigns promoting the election of women and minorities, most recently serving as the Chair of a U.S. Congressional Campaign in the 2nd  District of Kansas.

In addition to her role for Women Lawyers On Guard, Ms. Revenaugh currently serves on the Washburn University School of Law Alumni Board of Governors and the Dean’s Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  She is a member of the Kansas Women Attorneys Association and Kansas Women Attorneys for Freedom, and a past president of the Topeka Women Attorneys Association. Ms. Revenaugh also serves on the steering committee of Keep Kansas Courts Impartial, which advocates for the retention of appellate judges, and participates in the political action and legislative committees for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association.

Nicole received her JD from Washburn University School of Law, where she graduated with honors in 2012.

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Ashley Steinberg

Ashley Steinberg previously served as senior associate in the International Trade and Investment group at Hogan Lovells US LLP in Washington, DC where her practice was focused on compliance with economic sanctions against Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, and North Korea, as well as with anti-money laundering / counterterrorist financing laws.

She also represents victims of domestic violence in immigration proceedings, and has been recognized by Tahirih Justice Center for her pro bono efforts.

Ms. Steinberg is a graduate of Stanford Law School.

Karen Subler

Karen is a legal innovator, evangelist and advisor with more than 25 years of experience in M&A, corporate governance, corporate finance and corporate strategy. While working in the legal industry, she has developed a passion for problem-solving and enhancing business and legal operations through technology innovation.

Karen is the Co-Founder of Attune Capital Group, a principal investment of which is a transaction analytics tech platform. Karen also founded Frontier of the Law (www.frontierofthelaw.com), a forward-thinking blog that serves as a forum for open discussions about innovation and creativity in the legal profession and beyond.

Karen has more than a decade of legal experience in large law firms, and she has worked on a wide variety of M&A and other commercial transactions, which led to her founding Attune Capital Group in February 2018. By September 2018, Attune Capital Group was selected to be part of the Third Cohort of the LexisNexis® / LexMachina® Silicon Valley Legal Tech Accelerator program. She also serves on the Board of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association of New York.

Karen is the author of Portrait of the 21st Century Lawyer, a book providing insights into the varied set of attributes and innovative strategies that lawyers will need to thrive and be successful. Portrait was published by Legal Business World in spring 2019. Karen is also the author of “The Irony of Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession and What We Can Do About It,” which was published in November 2019. Karen holds a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, a Masters of Applied Economics from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Alma College.

Joy Anastasia Thompson

Joy Anastasia Thompson is an Impartial Hearing Officer with the Special Education
Hearings Division of the New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.

During her tenure as president of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (2020-2021), she worked hard to ensure that the voices of members from all 20 chapters of the association throughout the state of New York were represented and that the association’s committee leadership reflected the state’s regional, racial, and ethnic diversity. She is a Board Member and Trustee of the Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA), and she has chaired the BBA’s Diversity Committee since its creation in 2019. She is a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness for the 2nd, 10th, 11 th , and 13th Districts (Appellate Division, 2nd Judicial Department), and the Grievance Committee for the 2nd, 11th, and 13th Judicial Districts.

A former newspaper journalist, Ms. Thompson received her J.D. from William & Mary Law School and her B.A. in English and Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey.

Courtney Toomath-West

Pilar Velasquez McLaughlin