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.

Aracely Muñoz

Aracely is an equity-centered nonprofit leader and attorney with more than two decades of experience advancing gender justice, racial equity, and access to justice in the law and the legal profession. Most recently, she served as Director of the Lawyers Network and operational head of the Washington, D.C. Office at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she built and led a national network of more than 1,300 legal professionals working to advance reproductive rights. In this role, she also coordinated amicus briefs in landmark reproductive rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, mobilizing legal leaders and partner organizations to inform critical jurisprudence.

Throughout her career, Aracely has led initiatives that bridge advocacy, policy, and organizational strategy to strengthen access to justice and expand leadership opportunities for women and underrepresented lawyers. She chaired the Center’s global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force, and has directed national programs at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and the American Bar Association focused on equity in the legal profession.

Aracely currently serves on the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense, the Council of the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, and as Board Secretary of the MALDEF Property Management Corporation. She previously chaired the HNBA Latina Commission and served as a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Women.

She holds a J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law and graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Chicago.

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.

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