Attorneys Across America: Featuring Christina L. Martini
By Shira Baratz • November 03, 2015
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Christina Martini who is a partner at DLA Piper in Chicago, Illinois: Where do you practice law? I practice at DLA Piper, in its Chicago office. I have been at the firm since 1994, and I am Chair of the Chicago Intellectual Property Practice Group. Describe your legal market. What is the size of the market? How…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Elizabeth Lash
By Shira Baratz • October 22, 2015
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Elizabeth R. Lash, Esq. who is the Assistant General Counsel at Kroll Associates, Inc. in New York, NY: DISCLAIMER: These answers are provided by Ms. Lash in her personal capacity; the opinions are the author’s own, and do not reflect the view of Kroll Associates, Inc. or of its affiliates. Where do you practice law? I work in midtown…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Paula Kruchowski
By Shira Baratz • October 15, 2015
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Paula Kruchowski who practices law out of Minneapolis, Minnesota: Where do you practice law? I’ve practiced law in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 18 years. Describe your legal market. What is the size of the market? How would you describe the culture? Our legal market is mid-sized. Since I’ve only practiced criminal law, I’d say that our criminal bar is…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Sarah Davis
By Shira Baratz • October 08, 2015
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Sarah Davis who practices law out of St. Louis, Missouri: Where do you practice law? I am in-house counsel for Clayco, a full-service, turnkey real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build and construction firm with offices in St. Louis and Chicago. I work in the St. Louis office. Describe your legal market. What is the size of the…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Leslie Copeland
By Shira Baratz • October 01, 2015 •Ms. JD
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Leslie Copeland who practices law out of Springdale, Arkansas: 1. Where do you practice law? I practice law in Springdale, Arkansas. It's a medium-sized town of about 70,000 people. I work on the quaint downtown strip, full of historic buildings and undergoing a historic renovation at the moment. Springdale is part of a larger network of…
Attorneys Across America: Featuring Amanda Fisher
By Shira Baratz • August 14, 2015 •Ms. JD, Careers
From a tiny office in rural Alaska to a skyscraper in Manhattan, from The Sunshine State to The Prairie State, Ms. JD seeks to capture snapshots of successful women attorneys practicing law from sea to shining sea. Ms. JD had a few questions for Amanda Fisher who works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1. Where do you practice law? I am an attorney for the United Steelworkers International Union (“USW”), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While my office is in Pittsburgh, the USW has members across the country and so my cases come from all over the country. In addition, I am assigned as the point…