From The American Lawyer authored by Lizzy McLellan: “Few would deny the stresses and pressures that come with being a lawyer. Yet few feel comfortable admitting when those pressures become too much. One result? Loneliness. “It’s beautiful to overtly name the emotion,” said Rebecca Simon, a law professor and a co-founder of the Mindfulness, Stress Management […]
Category Archives: Lawyers
Women, Alcohol and Perceived ‘Sexual Availability’
From The New York Times authored by Maya Salam: “When Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who was found guilty in 2016 of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus, appealed his conviction, he and his lawyers devoted 60 pages to how intoxicated the victim seemed. He lost the appeal. Last year, a Yale student, Saifullah Khan, was […]
Obsess About The Dress (Suit)
From Above the Law authored by Ladylawyerdiaries and Lawprofblawg: “Today, we discuss the dress. But, in the spirit of Twitter and short blog posts, we’re going to save time and only talk about what WOMEN should wear to court. We cannot and will not talk about what men wear into court, except briefly to affirm you’re […]
What Do You Do When You Become The Statistic You Desperately Hoped To Avoid?
From Above the Law authored by Amy D. Cubbage: “When I got out of law school, freshly minted as an attorney, I was prepared to change the world for women lawyers. My law school class in the mid-1990s was only 30 percent women, and we felt it. We were told in ways both subtle and […]
What’s Keeping More Women From Board Seats: Little Turnover
From The Wall Street Journal authored by Vanessa Fuhrmans: “A stubborn paradox reigns across U.S. boardrooms: Companies are appointing more women to board seats than ever, yet the overall share of female directors is barely budging. The reason isn’t the pipeline, say recruiters and researchers. It is that board seats rarely become available in the […]
A high-ranking lawyer says she was told to serve the cake. She complained, then she was fired.
From The Washington Post authored by Deanna Paul: “In 2014, as a lawyer with two decades of experience, Nancy Saltzman joined ExlService Holdings as its general counsel. At the time, she was the most senior female executive at the publicly traded consulting firm, whose leadership team was dominated by men. But rather than empower Saltzman, […]
Pretty Can Hurt Women’s Careers
From The New York Times authored by Maya Salam: “Beautiful women sail through life with all the advantages in the world, right? That’s what many of us have been conditioned to believe, but of course, it’s not true. And now there’s research to prove it — when it comes to the workplace, at least. According […]
Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes
From Women in the World authored by WITW STAFF: “After two trials described by Amnesty International as “grossly unfair,” Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, who has dedicated her life to defending Iranian women prosecuted for removing their hijabs in public, […]
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
From The New York Times authored by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries: “When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold. The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the […]
What Do Women Want? Law Firms Are Clueless.
From The American Lawyer authored by Viva Chen: “Memo to all you well-meaning law firms out there trying your darnedest to retain and promote women: You are doing it all wrong. All those marvelous initiatives you’ve been touting—flexible work arrangements, mentoring programs, affinity groups, transition coaching for new moms and the like—are not getting women […]
