Request for Evaluation for Elective Office

Request or Evaluation for Elective Office

A. Position Sought

B. Current public office, if any

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D. References: Please list a minimum of thirty-five references (with names, addresses and telephone numbers) that we may contact with respect to your legal ability and qualifications for the office or position you are seeking. (NOTE: These people may be contacted by WLALA in its evaluation, however our inquiries are not limited to those persons listed.)

E. Other Information: Please attach a copy of your resume and any other biographical information that you may wish to submit to help us evaluate your candidacy. Please provide us with any supplemental information you believe useful, including responses to the following items.

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1. If you presently hold any public office, identify any bar associations and community activities with which you have been involved since holding office, and for at least two years prior to holding office. If you presently do not hold a public office, identify any bar association and community activities with which you have been involved in the last five years.

2. Describe the nature and extent of any free legal services that you provide or if you hold public office, that your office provides to non-profit organizations, indigent individuals and others, including the names and addresses of such organizations and/or individuals, where appropriate. )

3. Describe the most important issues facing women today and explain briefly your position with respect to such issues.

4. Outline anything you have done while in public office, or will do if elected to public office, that you believe demonstrates your concern for equality for all people and a recognition by you of the societal prejudices often suffered by women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians and the economically disadvantaged.

5. What do you see as the role of a person who holds the public office you seek in resolving any of the problems you have described above?

6. Please list all additional activities or qualifications which you feel especially qualify you for a favorable rating from WLALA.

7. State whether you are a member of any club or organization that discriminates against any persons on the basis of race, national origin, ethnic background, physical handicap, marital status, age, sex or sexual orientation. Membership in discriminatory clubs absolutely disqualifies a candidate for a favorable rating by WLALA.

8. Please state your position on affirmative action:

9. What policies or procedures do you feel should be instituted in the office that you seek to benefit women, ethnic minorities and gays and lesbians who are members of that office’s staff and what outreach should be made to affirmatively recruit women, ethnic minorities and gays and lesbians onto your office staff? If you presently hold a public office, have you instituted those policies and procedures and do you feel those efforts have been successful, and why?

F. Please state the name and telephone number of the person in your campaign or current office whom we should contact should we require further information.

G. CONFIDENTIALITY: All deliberations of the WLALA Appointive Office Committee and Board of Governors will be held in strict confidence. We will contact your references, however, which may impair the confidentiality surrounding your request for our endorsement.

By clicking the submit button you are specifically authorizing the Appointive Office Committee to contact the references you have provided and any others who may have information concerning this application and to verify the information contained herein; that you have read and understand the definitions of the ratings (to review the ratings, please go to http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/wlala.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/imported/TAB%2018%20-%20Rule%201.pdf) of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA); you agree that the rating given by WLALA shall not constitute the basis for any claim or suit for defamation, libel or slander and that by consenting to the evaluation process of WLALA you agree to waive any such claims and the right to pursue any such claims in any court proceeding; and you are aware that by clicking the submit button you will not be permitted to withdraw your Request once a completed Request has been received by WLALA and that WLALA will rate the Applicant based upon the information contained in the Request and based upon any references or evaluations received by WLALA. I am aware that WLALA reserves the right not to issue an evaluation if the required number of thirty (30) evaluations, including five (5) from opposing counsel, if applicable to the employment of the Applicant, are not received by WLALA, and/or if I do not participate in the required interview before the Committee.

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