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Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending April 25, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • April 24, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
A Lawyer of One's OwnNobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi shares her passion for peace with BarnardO'Connor reflects on how law professor helped shape her lifeIN THE NEWS / Woman lawyer to fight for women's rights at U.N.Texas Attorney Jailed For Obscene Gesture In CourtThe joy of not practicing lawJealous attack lands judge and her husband in hot waterThe gender issue
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending April 18, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • April 18, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Ashby Jones Asks Why There are So Few Women Atop the Law-Firm PyramidThe Globe and Mail Reports that Women Lawyers Face Unique Challenges in Sole Practices and Small FirmsThe Bangladesh National Woman Lawyers' Association Advocate for More Women to be Nominated in ElectionsWith Only 8 Percent of Firm Head Positions Filled by Women, Female Law Firm Leaders Remain SparseReport on Participation in the Women Rainmakes Roundtable - A Program to Help Successful Women Lawyers Become Successful Business DevelopersAttorney Anna Barbara "Bobbie" Hantz, a Partner at Nashua-based Gottesman & Hollis, P.A., Selected as One of the "Top 10 General Practice Lawyers"…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending April 11, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • April 11, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Kenya's Federation of Women Lawyers Advocate for More Women to be Trained on Court Procedure so that They Can Represent Themselves in CourtSusan Levy Becomes the First Woman to Run Jenner & Block - Only 8% of Managing Parnters at the Nation's Top 200 Firms are Now WomenClifford Chance Partner Kathy Honeywood Comments on Her Mission to Increase the Number of Women at the Top of Her FirmAcademic Linda Duxbury Concludes that Law Firms are Generally the Worst-Practice Everywhere When it Comes to Work-Life Balance 6 out of 8 of Offshore Firm Appleby's New Partners This Year are Women -…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending April 4, 2008
By Erin • April 03, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Firms Are Increasingly Seeking to Develop Programs to Help Female Lawyers Return to the Work ForceWomen Attorneys Debate One Firm's Ban of Fishnet Stockings at WorkNew Theory to Explain the Growing Pay Gap Between Male and Female JDs?National Democratic Congress Presidential Candidate of Ghana Pushes for a Female Lawyer, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, to Serve as his Running MateThis Year's Partnership Promotions in the United Kingdom are Shaping Up to be the Best Ever for Female LawyersPhilippines Bar Association Announces that More Women are Topping the BarUnited Arab Emirates Appoints its First Female Judge
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending March 28, 2008
By Erin • March 27, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Chicago Firm Beermann Swerdlove Finds a Unique Approach to Schedules for Working Mothers Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno Addresses the Coastal Bend Women Lawyers Association with a Message that there must be a Balance between Ensuring the Country’s Safety while Keeping Basic Civil Liberties Intact As Women’s History Month draws to a close, Chronicle Careers Tracks Indicators of What Women Lawyers Really Want for Themselves in the Legal ProfessionThe Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia Advocates for a Special Court to Deal with the Growing Number of Rape Cases and Other Forms of Violence Against Women Barbara Moss, an…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending January 18, 2008
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • January 17, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Supreme Court First: A Female Special MasterKristin Linsley Myles, a Justice Scalia's former law clerk, becomes the first woman to hold the position of Supreme Court special master.The Coming American MatriarchyAccording to projections by the National Center for Education Statistics, there is a "new educational gender gap . . . favoring women," with a "22 percent increase in female college enrollment between 2005 and 2016, compared with only a 10 percent increase for men."Mother-Daughter Jurists: They're Part of a Nationwide TrendAfter following her mother's footsteps to the bench, Phyllis Beck's daughter says that her mother, the first woman appointed to…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending January 11
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • January 10, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
Justice Ginsburg Talks About Significance of the Supreme Court in the US Political System Even Justice Ginsburg experiences "men of a certain age" who "tune [her] out," refusing to "listen to a woman's voice," even if that woman is on the Supreme Court. Women’s Support for Clinton Rises in Wake of Perceived Sexism The effect of sexist reactions to and comments about Clinton affects voters.Carson City Attorney Caren Jenkins to run for district judge Carson City, Nevada may get its first woman judge. Men’s verdict: No women judgesMale lawyers in Qatar aruge that "a woman is emotionally and physiologically not…
Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending January 3
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • January 02, 2008 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
State's oldest lawyer dies at 104 Sallie Ruperti Springmeyer, one of the first women lawyers in Nevada and the oldest of the state's lawyers, dies at the age of 104.Lady litigator: Hicks first female lawyer at Goddard & GambleDiane M. Hicks becomes the first woman attorney to be hired in that capacity with the all-male law firm of Goddard & Gamble. Houston lawyer `able to defy long odds'Linda Addison, one of only 17 women to make the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" list, is profiled.Cynthia Lummis announces she will run for CongressLawyer Cynthia Lummis, a former Wyoming state treasurer…
Ms. JD Weekly Roundup: Week Ending December 21
By Ms. JD Weekly Roundup • December 20, 2007 •Ms. JD, Ms. JD Weekly Roundup
USC alumna became a lawyer in the 1930s despite gender biasPhyllis Norton Cooper, a woman who attended law school in the 1930s, is remembered for her many achievements.Women Setting New Records as State Supreme Court JudgesLeah Ward Sears, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Patricia Timmons-Goodson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina; and Carol Hunstein, Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia discuss their paths to the judiciary.Former Qwest CEO's attorney has made winning a habitMaureen Mahoney, a Latham Watkins attorney who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 18 times, is praised for…