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365Gay.com
Lesbian Attorney To
Receive LGBT Law Award
by 365Gay.com from
the Web, August 28, 2007
New York City -- Attorney
Patricia M. Logue will receive national recognition for work in LGBT law from
the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association.
Logue spent 14 years as an attorney with Lambda Legal and worked on a number of
high profile U.S. Supreme Court cases.
She was one of the lead attorneys in the Lawrence v. Texas case, the
landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down all remaining state sodomy
laws across the country.
Logue also shaped legal arguments in Lambda Legal's friend-of-the-court brief in
Troxel v. Granville, a U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning the rights
of those who parent children to decide who may have contact with their children
and the authority of the courts to intervene.
In addition Logue helped win, for Wisconsin teenager Jamie Nabozny, the first
federal appellate case guaranteeing lesbian and gay students equal protection
from harassment and violence in public schools, and guided numerous
precedent-setting family and adoption law matters across the country.
She began her career by opening Lambda Legal's Midwest Regional Office in
Chicago in 1993 as Managing Attorney. She also served as Interim Legal
Director and Senior Counsel, as well as Director of Constitutional Litigation.
Logue left Lambda earlier this year to become an associate judge for the Circuit
Court of Cook County in Illinois.
She will receive the NLGLA's Dan Bradley Award on September 6 during the
organization's annual Lavender Law Conference in Chicago.
The award recognizes efforts by a member of the LGBT legal community who has led
the way for equality under the law. It will be presented by Jon Davidson,
Legal Director of Lambda Legal
The conference will feature extensive workshops and panel discussions that touch
on a variety of topics such as the benefit of domestic partnerships, job search
strategies for law students and ethics in immigration law.
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