Ms. JD Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending March 14, 2008

Submitted by Erin on 13 March 2008 - 12:57pm.

Evelyn Baker, Missouri's first black female circuit judge, plans to retire from the St. Louis court at the end of March.

Profile: Pat Butler, the third woman to attend Emory University's School of Law, and pioneer in the Department of Justice, reflects on her legal career.

U.K. law firm Dickinson Dees has set up a female wealth management team, made up of women lawyers and financial advisors, to cater to the rising number of independently wealthy women.

The Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association forms a human chain demanding proper investigation into the murder of housewife Nurunnahar Runa.

Paula Llewellyn, known as "a fierce competitor and a formidable opponent" in the courtroom, has been appointed as Jamaica's first female director of public prosecutions.

Patricia Menendez-Cambo, Greenberg Traurig attorney, has been appointed to the Univeristy of Pennsylvania Law School's Board of Overseers.

Top female lawyer, driven out of her job after being subjected to 18 months of secual discrimination and harassment, to receive a record payout of 13 million pounds.

Canadian Bar Association convention told that women at modern-day law firms are so petrified of appearing unproductive that they sometimes conceal cancer or heart attackes to avoid being marginalized.

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