Helen B. Kim, a securities litigation partner in Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP?s Los Angeles and New York offices, is the new president of the Women Lawyers of Los Angeles.
Kim assumes the WLALA presidency less than a year after the end of her term as president of the 40,000-member National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
Founded in 1919, WLALA is the oldest and largest local women?s bar association in California. Its members include federal and state court judges as well as lawyers from every sector of the legal profession.
According to its mission statement, the group is ?dedicated to promoting the full participation of women lawyers and judges in the legal profession, maintaining the integrity of our legal system by advocating principles of fairness and equality, improving the status of women in our society including their exercise of equal rights and reproductive choice, and actively working towards the furtherance of these goals through WLALA?s committees, sections and activities.?
Kim said that she was ?deeply honored to serve? as the group?s next president and ?particularly proud to be the first Asian-American to lead the organization.?
