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South Carolina Women Lawyers Association - April President’s Message
By Marguerite Willis • April 13, 2015 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector, Legal Academia, Nonprofits and the Public Interest, Politics and Government, Other Career Issues, Law School, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, •Internships and Clerkships, Issues, Balancing Private and Professional Life, Mentoring and Networking, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Other Forms of Discrimination, Women and Law in the Media, Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law, •Myths & Truths, First Women, Superwomen JDs and What You Can Learn From Them
April 14, 2015 is Equal Pay Day. Here are the reasons why this day should matter to everyone reading this letter. The History. Prior to 1963, it was legal for employers in the United States to pay women less than men for the same job. In 1963, women were earning 59% of what men were paid. Congress enacted the Equal Pay Act to eliminate this inequality. The Present. It has been over 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act and women still do not have pay equality. In 2013, among full-time, year-round workers, women were paid only…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Kate Rayne
By Janet Wallace • March 18, 2015 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD's Attorneys Across America series seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Kate Rayne who founded a boutique law firm in Portland, Maine: Where do you practice law? I practice in Portland, Maine. Describe your legal market. What is the size of the market? How would you describe the culture? The legal market here is small, but full of attorneys. I've heard that we have…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Lacey Corona
By Janet Wallace • March 17, 2015 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD's Attorneys Across America series seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Lacey Corona who is practicing law in Destin, Florida. Where do you practice law? I practice law in Destin, Florida for Broad and Cassel. Destin is located in Northwest Florida. Describe your legal market. What is the size of the market? How would you describe the culture? The legal market in this area…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Cyndie Chang
By Janet Wallace • March 17, 2015 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, this new series seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Cyndie M. Chang is the managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Duane Morris LLP. Where do you practice law? I’m the managing partner of Duane Morris LLP in Los Angeles, California. Describe your legal market. What is the size of the market? How would you describe the culture? I’m in large urban market, Los Angeles, California. There are a significant number of lawyers…
To JD or not to JD?
By Melanie Kiremitciyan • March 17, 2015 •Ms. JD, Law School, Pre-Law, Other Law School Issues, Issues, Balancing Private and Professional Life, Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock… It is as undeniable as it is unfortunate. Integral to the female experience is the biological clock. Not that every woman wants to bear children. However, for women who do dream of one day having a family of their own, timing how far into your career to start a family means considering a multitude of factors including age and career level. Let us examine the predicament of women in law, specifically. The average tertiary educated woman now delays the starting of her family until her early 30s. This begs an important question: For how…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Katie Woods
By Janet Wallace • March 17, 2015 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, this new series seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Today, we are interviewing Katie Woods, a native of St. George Utah who is practicing at Barney McKenna. You can learn more about Katie here. Where do you practice law? St. George, Utah Describe your legal market. What is the size of the market? How would you describe the culture? The legal market here is good. There are many attorneys, but there do not seem…
Why we need More Women in the Criminal Justice System
By Christina Ross • March 12, 2015 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
Women face a variety of problems and in modern day life. Although women have fought for their rights in the past to overcome social stipulations, discrimination still remains, and one aspect of women's rights that is grossly overlooked is the criminal justice system. With the addition of more women in power in the criminal justice system, women can begin to overcome these problems. Read on to find out the myriad ways women are discriminated against, the problems they face in the criminal justice system, and how women can get involved to fix them. Growing Incarcerations – Especially for Women of…
The Credit Card Law can Boost Your Credit Score
By Tracy Vides • March 03, 2015 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
Repairing bad credit score is often like trying to lose weight. You have probably tried out everything and nothing worked, unless you are doing the right thing. Here’s one thing you must understand. Just like losing weight, repairing bad credit score takes time. Besides, there is no quick way to fix it and such efforts are most likely to backfire. A better option is to manage your credit responsibly over time. The first step for rebuilding credit begins with repairing your credit history and your credit score will improve automatically. But before discussing that, let’s consider what credit score is…
Leadership, Partnership and Women in the Law: How this Firm Got it Right
By Nadia Zaidi • February 24, 2015 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector, Other Career Issues, Law School, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, Issues, Balancing Private and Professional Life, Features, •Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law, Superwomen JDs and What You Can Learn From Them
At the close of 2014, O’Melveny & Myers LLP promoted a partnership class comprised of 40% women. Ms. JD wanted to hear from the firm to learn about the types of initiatives or values the firm fosters to ensure that gender is not a determining factor in whether an attorney excels or advances at the firm. We also wanted some advice on how women attorneys starting their legal careers should approach the daunting idea of making partner one day. It’s a topic that continues to loom at the forefront of discussions on motherhood and the law. Can women really manage…