Rashida West Moderates Philadelphia Bar Association Career Transitions Panel November 10, 2011 The law school’s Associate Director of Government and Public Interest Law and Adjunct Professor Rashida West moderated the panel, “Career Transitions: Moving Between Private Practice and Public Service” on Nov. 9.The panel featured Shelley R. Smith, Philadelphia city solicitor, Geoffrey D. Bruen, associate at Ballard Spahr, Mary Catherine Roper, staff attorney at the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and Amara Chaudhry, civil rights director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations.The event was held at the Philadelphia Bar Association.