From Business Insider authored by Mark Joseph Stern: “Throughout Tuesday’s oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Supreme Court’s left-leaning justices grilled Wisconsin’s attorneys with tough questions that suggest a majority of the court is prepared to impose constitutional limits on political redistricting. The highlight of the hour came when Justice Sonia Sotomayor posed […]
Category Archives: Lawyers
7 Things To Do (And Not Do) Before Giving Notice
From Above the Law authored by Richard Cohen: “Thinking of quitting? Of moving on to greener pastures? Good for you – you deserve it! Thinking of grabbing a folder of sample documents, walking out the door, and giving the finger to the boss and all of your miserable co-workers? Not such a good idea. In […]
How Design Taught Me to Be a ‘Human-Centered’ Lawyer
From Medium authored by Rochael Soper Adranly: “Not long after I began working with IDEO, I had the privilege of taking part in IDEO’s project to design how its new internal legal group would operate. For those unfamiliar with IDEO’s process, each project begins with a “looking in” phase in which the design team interviews project stakeholders […]
Why the Best Attorneys Are So Hard on Themselves and Others
From BCG Attorney Search authored by Harrison Barnes: The first job I ever had was as an asphalt contractor in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Grosse Pointe is an area of about 25,000 people that is socially stratified between middle class and very wealthy people. The city is built along the shores of Lake St. Claire. The […]
Kansas Attorney MaKenzi D. Higgins Receives American Bar Association Recognition
From The Kansas City Star authored by PRWeb: Attorney MaKenzi D. Higgins, a founding partner of Higgins & Corder, LLC, was recently nominated as an Associate Judge for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Awards and Subgrants Committee. The committee is responsible for judging the awards of achievement applications, judging the general subgrant applications, and […]
Office Politics: A Skill Women Should Lean Into
From Harvard Business Review authored by Kathryn Heath: “Who says women don’t like office politics? Just about everyone: My clients. My colleagues. My mother. The sommelier at the French restaurant I ate lunch at last weekend. They’ve all complained about office politics. Some women claim they are not good at it, while others simply avoid certain […]
‘Flaming feminist litigator’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg sets up Supreme Court term
From CNN Politics authored by Ariane de Vogue: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg looked out at the first year law class she was about to address at Georgetown Law on Wednesday and smiled broadly after being told the majority of the class were women. “To look out a class like this is exhilarating,” the 84-year-old justice […]
Jordan just appointed its first-ever female Supreme Court judge
From Step Feed authored by Rayana Khalaf: “Jordanian Judge Ihsan Zuhdi Barakat has broken the glass ceiling as the first-ever female judge in the kingdom’s Supreme Court, Jordanian news agency Petra reported on Thursday. In the Judicial Council’s recently-announced promotions, the Amman Court of Appeal judge has been promoted to the Supreme court, becoming the first Jordanian woman to ever reach […]
Female Trial Attorneys in U.K. Notch a Win for Equality
From Bloomberg Law authored by Suzi Ring: “London’s female trial lawyers have scored a small but symbolic victory: access to the men’s locker room. The new unisex space at Southwark Crown Court, one of London’s most famous courthouses and the stage for prosecutions in Libor, came after female barristers complained about being left out of conversations […]
Courtroom Study Finds Women Lawyers Eclipsed in Complex Cases
From Law.com authored by Christine Simmons: “A study of New York courtrooms shows women attorneys account for only 25 percent of lead counsel roles. The study’s findings were released Thursday in a report by the commercial and federal litigation section of the New York State Bar Association. Results were similar in commercial and criminal cases within the private sector, […]
