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March, 2013

Ms. JD President Katie Larkin Wong is featured on Forbes.com article, Young Women Thriving in Biglaw.

February, 2013

Ms. JD event "Build Her Power Base: A Conversation with ABA President Laurel Bellows on Leadership and Entrepreneurship" was featured in ABA News

November, 2012

Host of Ms. JD's Fifth Annual Conference, American University Washington College of Law, reports that She Leads was a "dynamic, full-day conference."

New York Law School Law Review Issues Second Annual Report 
Examining Diversity on Law Reviews Nationwide based on research conducted in collaboration with Ms. JD.

October, 2012

Lee Burgess reports on the "Fun and Inspiration at the Ms. JD Conference – She Leads!"

Ms. JD's Women on Law Review study featured in the National Law Journal artcle, "Women lag in top law review jobs"

Ms. JD's 2011-2012 Women on Law Review study featured on Above the Law

September, 2012

Munger, Tolles & Olson announces partner Maria Seferian will speak at the Ms. JD: She Leads conference on Oct. 5 in Washington, D.C.

August, 2012

Ms. JD's Global Education Fund featured on The Glass Hammer

Ms. JD's Jessie Kornberg is quoted in the New York Times article "When the Work Life Scales are Unequal"

July, 2012

Ms. JD Announces the First Annual Cocktail Benefit for the Global Education Fund to take Place in San Francisco August 3, 2012

June, 2012

Ms. JD Founder, Elizabeth Pederson, and Writer in Residence, Carolyn Ramos are featured in the May/June issue of Minority Corporate Counsel's Diversity and the Bar.  (See p. 42)

May, 2012

Ms. JD's President, Katie Larkin-Wong is quoted in Today's Chicago Woman on how well law schools are training students

April, 2012

Ms. JD featured on Above the Law's Non-Sequiturs: 04.17.12

Ms. JD Joins Levo League in First Ask For More Day!, Forbes

March, 2012

Ms. JD President, Katie Larkin-Wong, is profiled as an International Women's Day "Legalista"

Ms. JD Celebrates Six Years with a New Generation of Leadership

Ms. JD Founder, Elizabeth Pederson, and Ms. JD Founding CEO Karen Deschaine Hernandez are quoted in Forbes.

January, 2012

Golden Gate University School of Law interviews board member and Ms. JD Fellow Tanya Falleiro; Reprinted from the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of Golden Gate Lawyer with permission from Golden Gate University School of Law. All rights reserved.

The San Luis Obispo County Bar Association introduces board member Janet Wallace; Reprinted from the January/February 2012 issue of the Bar Bulletin with the permission of the San Luis Obispo County Bar Association.  All rights reserved.

November, 2011

New York Law School compiles addendum to Ms. JD’s Law Review Research

The National Law Journal discusses Ms. JD's Law Review Research 

September, 2011

SD Metro Magazine names Ms. JD board member Karen Hernandez to the "40 Under 40 Class of 2011"

August, 2011

California Lawyer names Ms.JD as one of "The Best Blogs Around"

June, 2011

The Glass Hammer spotlights Ms.JD's Global Education Fund 

Vault's Law Blog Celebrate's Ms. JD's Global Education Fund

Executive Director Amanda Gonzalez Guest Post on the Global Education Fund for Feminist Law Professors 

May, 2011 

The Careerist Quotes Ms.JD's Executive Director Jessie Kornberg on Dropping Enrollment Among Women in the Nation's Top Law Schools

February, 2011

Lawyerist.com Columnist Staci Zaretsy Quotes Ms. JD's Executive Director Jessie Kornberg on Female Students' Classroom Participation

November, 2010

Lauren Stiller Rikleen Cites Ms. JD's Women on Law Review Report and Quotes Ms. JD's Executive Director Jessie Kornberg in new book, Success Strategies for Women Lawyers

National Law Journal Quotes Ms. JD's Executive Director Jessie Kornberg on Declining Number of Women in Large Firms

Law.com Quotes Ms. JD's Executive Director Jessie Kornberg on Declining Number of Women in Large Firms

Stanford Lawyer Celebrates the Global Education Fund

October, 2010

National Law Journal Highlights the Work of Ms. JD's Global Education Fund

ABA Journal Covers Ms. JD's GEF Launch

The Careerist Applauds Ms. JD's GEF Work

Ms. JD Announces Global Education Fund

Fall 2010 

Perspectives Magazine "Voices" Column Features Ms. JD Executive Director Jessie Kornberg, "Turning a 'Mad as Hell' Moment into Action," Perspectives: A Magazine for and about Women Lawyers, Vol. 19, No. 2

August, 2010

Ms. JD Executive Director Jessie Kornberg Quoted in Legal Intelligencer Article on Dewey's New Diversity Pitch to Potential Clients

Ms. JD Finds Women Dramatically Under-Represented Among Ranks of Law Review Editors-in-Chief

Coverage of the Report in the National Law Journal

Coverage of the Report on Above the Law

June, 2010

Ms. JD Announces 2010 Fellowship Winners

Spring 2010

Perspectives Magazine interviews Ms. JD Executive Director Jessie Kornberg, "Are Young Women Turning Their Backs on Law School?" Perspectives: A Magazine for and about Women Lawyers, Vol. 18, No. 4

Winter 2010

Chicago Alliance for Women Profiles Ms. JD's Third Annual Conference for Women in Law: Avenues to Advancement

300 Women Gather for Ms. JD's Third Annual Conference for Women in Law: Avenues to Advancement

March, 2010

Executive Director, Jessie Kornberg quoted in Law360 coverage of Law Firm Diversity Reporting Controversy

February, 2010

UC Davis Law School Announces Writers in Residence

Law School Podcaster Features Ms. JD

January, 2010

Anapata & Ms. JD partner, Forbes.com

Anapata & Ms. JD partnership Announced, CNN.com

December, 2009

Ms. JD Named Top 50 Legal Career Blog, Justice e-Learning

November, 2009

Avenues to Advancement Student Workshop Reviewed, The Glass Hammer

April, 2008

Work/Life Balance Blog ‘Ms. JD’ Spawns Nat’l Law Student Org., Molly McDonough, ABA Journal

PAR and Ms. JD Announce Essay Contest Winners, The Project for Attorney Retention 

March, 2008

Women Lawyers Blog for Workplace Equality: Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method, Alison I. Stein, University of Pennsylvania Law School

February, 2007

Yale Law Women Host “Legally Female” Conference; Dean Koh Gives Opening Remarks, Yale Law School

Fall 2007

Women in Law: A Changing Landscape?, Stanford Lawyer

April, 2007

'Legally Female' Conference Adresses Gender in Law, Law.com

Legally Female Conference Coverage, New York Lawyer (Registration Required)

Panel heralds new ‘Ms. J.D.’ Web log, Yale Daily News

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