{"id":11709,"date":"2025-10-22T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11709\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:46:16","slug":"brooklyn-womens-bar-uses-great-pizza-to-attract-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11709\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Women\u2019s Bar uses great pizza to attract new members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTIC AVENUE \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/articles\/tag\/brooklyn-womens-bar-association-bwba-brooklyn-womens-bar-association\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Women\u2019s Bar Association<\/a>\u00a0recently held its annual membership party at an Atlantic Avenue eatery that takes thin-crust <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/articles\/tag\/pizza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pizza<\/a> to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>Comprising women lawyers and judges, the BWBA endeavors to promote equality, professional development and community service within the legal field.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the event, which took place the evening of Oct. 16, was to recruit new members, serve as a conduit for networking and simply have a good time, according to BWBA Vice President Hon. Connie Mallafre-Melendez.<\/p>\n<p>Strength in numbers<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year we try to increase our membership numbers, as there is strength in numbers,\u201d Mallafre-Melendez underscored, noting that social media, word of mouth and various events that the BWBA spearheads, including many in coordination with other bar associations, help significantly in that regard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, Mallafre-Melendez sees the organization significantly growing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more members we have, the more we can do on a state level,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that becomes very important because so much is about legislation and lobbying.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked what first attracted her to the BWBA, without missing a beat, she said, \u201ccamaraderie,\u201d noting the association\u2019s ability to connect lawyers and judges, \u201cAnd Brado on Atlantic Avenue is a great place to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mallafre-Melendez noted that the BWBA also has a good number of male members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all about equal opportunity and are very accepting,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are some men who wish to support women\u2019s issues, such as domestic violence and the like, and feel strongly and passionately about those things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTIC AVENUE \u2014 The Brooklyn Women\u2019s Bar Association\u00a0recently held its annual membership party at an Atlantic Avenue eatery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9343,98,100,99,9344,3308,9345,9,24,63,343],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-atlantic-ave","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-womens-bar-association-bwba-brooklyn-womens-bar-association","tag-daily-bulletin","tag-gender-equality-gender-inequality-gender-equity","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pizza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}