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Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending June 13, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • June 12, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Headlines Theatre & the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law Showcase a New Performance: "WOMEN IN LAW: An Interactive Theatre Event About Culture, Gender & Law"Betty Roberts, Oregon's First Female Court Justice, Shares Her Story in a New Book (Ed. Note: Watch for this book to be featured in the Ms. JD Summer Book Series.)All-Female Buffalo Law Firm Accentuates the Feminine in its AdsActivist Lawyer Jean King Saluted by the Veteran Feminists of AmericaVeteran Feminists of America Honors Feminist Lawyers Featuring Justice GinsburgEl Paso Attorney Kathleen Walker to Join Council on Foreign Relations Task ForceCreating Domestic Labor Equality: "When…
Ms. JD Summer Book Series: Sandra Day O’Connor, By: Joan Biskupic
By Ms. JD Summer Book Series • June 08, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Book Reviews
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice, By: Joan BiskupicIn this biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, author Joan Biskupic takes the reader through the life of O'Connor, from her early days on the Lazy B Ranch through her time on the Supreme Court. Biskupic portrays O'Connor as a sharp-witted, intelligent, and lively member of the Supreme Court. As a longtime court observer and journalist, Biskpuic is able to reveal much about O'Connor's life due to the use of the justices' once private papers. The author specifically pays attention to O'Connor as…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending June 6th, 2009
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • June 05, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Pakistani Female Lawyers Happy with Quota for Female Judges in Constitutional PackageBar Examines Dress Code Issue: Cocktail Shoes Appropriate?Thorp Reed & Armstrong Partner Kimberly A. Brown Receives 2008 Lynette Norton Award from the Pennsylvania Bar AssociationSan Francisco Bar Association Seminar to Focus on Mentoring Women of ColorCommentary: A Win-Win Alternative Work PolicyABA's Predatory Feminist LawyersPoll: How Often do you Dryclean Suits?
Ms. JD Summer Book Series: The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle, by: Carol Off
By Ms. JD Summer Book Series • June 02, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Book Reviews
The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle, By: Carol OffAfter the failure of peacekeeping missions in both Sarajevo and Rwanda in the 1990s, Louise Arbour, a Canadian judge, was tasked with the mission of bringing the perpetrators of these international crimes to justice. She was appointed to the position of Chief Prosecutor for War Crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and undertook the tremendous task of prosecuting international criminals in the United Nations Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Carol Off's book consists of three parts. The first two parts deal with two Canadian generals: Lewis MacKenzie, who…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 30, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • May 30, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Leading N.Y. Women Partners Meet at the Kate Stoneman Project Power BreakfastStudy Finds that Female Lawyers are More Likely to Practice in Firms and Less Likely to Make PartnerReport on Retaining Women Lawyers Approved by the Ontario Law SocietyCommentary: Legal Profession Need to Evaluate and Overhaul Itself to Retain WomenAndrews Kurth LLP Partner Kathleen J. Wu Recognized Among Texas' Most Powerful and Influential WomenScotland Celebrates Its First All-Female Bench
Ms. JD Summer Book Series: The Majesty of the Law, By: Sandra Day O’Connor
By Ms. JD Summer Book Series • May 26, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Book Reviews
The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice, By: Sandra Day O'ConnorIn this book, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor employs anecdotes, personal advice and Supreme Court cases to analyze the evolution of the law, the functioning of the Court, and her life as a Justice. This work is as a much a historical narrative of the American legal tradition, as it is the story of the first female Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.While O'Connor does not focus exclusively on the history of women in the law, she devotes much attention in this book…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 23, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • May 22, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
London Times Reports that the Gender Pay Gap is Still a Huge Problem in the Legal ProfessionAre Successful Woman Avoiding Motherhood?General Mills' Roderick Palmore Brings GCs and Law Firms Together To Discuss Diversity and Retention of Women in the WorkplaceLawyers Rate Female Jurists as Less Courteous Than MenWomen's Bar Association Honors Justice Ginsburg and Mary KennardHuman Rights Lawyer Professor Catharine MacKinnon to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew University Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff Fails
Ms. JD Summer Book Series: Pinstripes & Pearls, By: Judith Richards Hope
By Ms. JD Summer Book Series • May 18, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Book Reviews
Pinstripes & Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of '64 Who Forged an Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future GenerationsAuthor Judith Richards Hope, a member of the Harvard Law Class of '64, states in the introduction to her book:"[W]e didn't fully understand what we were getting into - what obstacles we would encounter, what trails we would blaze.... We just knew, from an early age, that we wanted both to serve our country, help make our world a little better and a little safer - and to marry; rear honest, happy children; and lead fulfilling…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 16, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • May 16, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Women in Small Firms are Leaving the Law Over Lack of Maternity LeaveNigerian Governor Peter Obi Tasks the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) to Assume More Responsibilities in the Present Effort to Change SocietyWork-Life Balance for Lawyers - Sullivan and Cromwell Achieves Top Adoption-Friendly Workplace RankingEthiopian Lawyer Meaza Ashenafi Builds Strong Foundation for Women's RightsBrunswick County Women's Bar Association Promotes Women Working for Women250 Delegates Attend the Second World Meeting on Women, Gender and the Law in Havana