Women and Getting New Business
By T S • November 02, 2014
When many women attorneys think on challenges facing women in new business client acquisition into law firms, they consider largely on the big things, but also on subtle issues that are involved. For example, confidence among women or men is absolutely necessary to initiate relationships and business in order to request and solicit work. One attorney Sheryl Sandberg who wrote largely on the subject holds that women attorneys have a greater amount of doubting themselves than male attorneys. One article by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay which was entitled Confidence Gap in The Atlantic, analyzed the actual roots involved with women having lower…
Like a Physician, Attorney Has Duty to Protect and Do No Harm
By T S • November 01, 2014
We Wonder, How Could She Do That? Well, it is No Wonder She Changed Her Mind. While Some Debate the Question of Whether Physician-Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal, I Emphatically State That There is No Dignity in Suicide. [Righteous-Indignation] 29-year-old Brittany Maynard is the famous woman with terminal cancer who announced on YouTube her own suicide and quickly was heralded as a hero for her noble and sweet demeanor. Now, on Suicide's eve (ironically Hollow’s eve,) she announced fortunately for all of us who are sick of hearing about her choosing to kill herself that she has postponed the physician-assisted death. This week decided…
Abovethelaw.com’s Halloween Costume Contest, and the Winner Is…
By T S • November 01, 2014
This year readers on abovethelaw.com voted and there was a winner. But was there really another winner? The editors seem to think so. At the last minute, this blind justice Barbie was hinted as being the rightful winner of the crown, but the winner really did deserve to win as well, because, well, she’s a baby. The pun of the costume came when it became clear that this winner didn’t “run away” with the win, but rather “crawled,” as our winner was precious little baby Ruth Ginsberg. The abovethelaw.com editors hope that this year the stakes just get raised one…
Being a Mom and an Attorney
By T S • October 09, 2014
I feel that being an attorney and a mother is nothing that people would consider an easy job. Well, I guess some people would think it was easy. I remember a comment from a younger female student after my daughter was born. She naively said to me: “Oh it must be nice not having a job and going to school.” Did she think that somehow going to law school with a baby was easy? Well, anyhow, it wasn’t! Since then I have learned a lot about this, but I still struggle daily finding balance between motherhood and work. But yet,…