APABA-DC Tea Time with the Women's Forum

APABA-DC’s Tea Time with the Women’s Forum is a members-only social at Spot of Tea’s Dupont Circle shop - upstairs reserved space, bubble tea from the house, and pastries from Rose Ave bakery. Registration is $5 through Wild Apricot. The bar association is explicit that this is a social, not a marketing floor: no direct business solicitations. That boundary is the quality signal - APA lawyers catching up without a vendor-badge free-for-all.

APABA-DC is the Greater Washington affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Its calendar mixes mentorship circles, book club, picnic, and the annual gala; Women’s Forum programming is one of the clearer gender-and-profession rooms for DC’s legal corridor. Dupont is easy on Metro and walkable for Downtown and Foggy Bottom offices.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 5:30-7:30 PM at Spot of Tea, 2101 P Street NW. Register at apaba-dc.org/event-6780851; membership is required for the $5 ticket path. Spaces were listed as limited on the calendar - confirm status before you block the evening. Arrive ready to talk practice area and career stage, not pitch decks.

This tea is right if you are an APABA-DC member, especially a woman lawyer or Women’s Forum regular, who wants a low-pressure Dupont social. Join first or wait for an open event if you are not a member yet. Govcon BD dinner density and a public startup rooftop are different graphs. Treat it as community maintenance inside the APA bar network.