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LWOB, with the help, of several lawyers from the private sector and longtime volunteers from around the world, launched LWOB's 5th annual event at the CSW (Committee on Status of Women) as part of the 54th Special Session at the United Nations. This year LWOB strayed from its usual panel-style event and presented an interactive workshop to showcase a community outreach program using a "game" developed by LWOB, entitled "RECORD IT!" to emphasize the economic and social benefits to birth recordation and registration.
The event was attended by lawyers from Kenya and Nigeria, FIDA lawyers, and prosecutors and defense counsel from around the world. The LWOB event creates possibly one of the only opportunities that practicing lawyers have to exchange ideas and examine challenges on very nuanced legal topics that affect their everyday practices in estate, land and family litigation on the civil side and prosecution of sexual crimes on the criminal side.
The LWOB workshop represented launch of the first concrete outreach mechanism which builds upon years of research by lawyers from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, White & Case LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP on the topic of inheritance and succession in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Mozambique. Work has just launched with in-house counsel on succession and inheritance in Kenya.
Just under 100 lawyers have taken advantage of LWOB's consultative status at the United Nations to register for and attend two weeks of programming focused on global gender issues--including environmental, gender based violence, trafficking, HIV AIDS and heath and economic, social and legal empowerment.
LWOB is especially appreciative for the efforts of the lawyers from Linklaters, Freshfields and in-house counsel at AXA Equitable for their help preparing the materials and assisting with the conduct and launch of the workshop. | 
