Washington, D.C. Lawyer Nominated to American Bar Association Board of Governors
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11, 2008 – Robert N. Weiner was nominated to serve as a member of the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors during the ABA Midyear Meeting in Los Angeles last month. The election will be held in August by the policy-making ABA House of Delegates when it meets at the 2008 ABA Annual Meeting in New York City. If elected, Weiner will serve a three-year term for District Four, representing the District of Columbia and Virginia, and will be one of 40 representatives who oversee the administration and management of the association.
A current senior partner at the D.C. firm, Arnold & Porter, Weiner has also headed the firm’s litigation and business litigation practice groups. He is an expert trial lawyer and appellate advocate, representing clients such as the State of Israel, the September 11th Commission as well as major pharmaceutical, biotech and electronic companies. He has also represented a variety of public interest organizations, authoring amicus briefs in the Supreme Court for the National Women’s Law Center, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the National Conference of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has also served as senior counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office, dealing with the legal and institutional aspects of major public policy confronting the nation, including affirmative action, presidential powers and immigration.
Throughout his career, Weiner has worked tirelessly to increase pro bono legal services for people with low-incomes. During his tenure as president of the D.C. Bar, he successfully launched an initiative that resulted in a significant expansion of pro bono work in the Washington, D.C. area.
A Yale Law School graduate, Weiner is a member of the American Bar Association where he is currently a council member of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, serves on the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, and represents the D.C. Bar in the policy-making ABA House of Delegates. Weiner is currently president of the D.C. Bar Foundation and has served on the boards of the Hispanic Bar Foundation, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the Council for Court Excellence, the Archdiocesan Legal Network and the District of Columbia Anti-Defamation League. He was the recipient of the 2004 William Reece Smith, Jr., Special Services to Pro Bono Award.
With more than 413,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.
