Community, Networking, & Education for Women Attorneys in the U.S.
From Career Contessa authored by Kathleen McAuliffe:
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From National Geographic authored by Mary Beth McAndrews:
“Coffee filters. Monopoly. Windshield wipers. Wireless tech. These very different inventions share one thing in common: they were created by women. Despite their significant contributions, many of these female inventors have gone unrecognized.
In honor of International Women’s Day, take a moment to appreciate these six inventions we wouldn’t have without women.”
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From CNN authored by Holly Yan and Madeleine Stix:
“Craig Troxell steps precariously across a customer’s roof, marking hail damage from yet another Oklahoma storm. He still smells of the freshly cut grass from the swanky side of town, where he had just mowed lawns to make a few extra dollars.
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From CNN authored by Isabella Gomez and Justin Lear:
School closings in Oklahoma are a big concern for parents, so a group of mom lawyers decided to take matters into their own hands.
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From CNBC authored by Zameena Mejia:
“When Stanford neurosurgeon Odette Harris was preparing to head into the operating room to treat a patient one morning, someone confused her for the cleaning staff and told her, “I need you to go clean room six.”
“Okay,” Harris said, fully dressed in a surgical mask, hat and scrubs, “when I’m done with this case.” She joined her two residents around the operating table, where her brain injury patient lay under anesthesia, ready for surgery.
Harris recently made history for becoming America’s first black female tenured neurosurgery professor. Her promotion from associate professor to full professor, first reported by the Stanford Daily, is a win as companies and institutions nationwide fail to promote and retain women, especially women of color, in the workforce.”
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From The American Lawyer authored by Angela Morris:
“Say the word “flextime” and most people think of reduced hours for working mothers. But a small, yet growing number of male lawyers are using lighter job schedules to strike the right work-life balance.
More law firms in recent years have incorporated flextime policies—especially reduced-hour schedules—to help with attorney retention. And women, more than men, have used the policies to balance their jobs with raising kids.
But more widespread adoption by male attorneys of the benefit is expected to lift all boats—helping women lawyers juggle demands and attracting millennial attorneys less interested in working a constant grind.”
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From Fast Company authored by Lydia Dishman:
“For Maneesha Mukhi, the American dream was elusive but compelling.
Mukhi is officially a citizen of India but never really lived there. She grew up nomadically because her father was a diplomat for India, so the family was stationed to a new country every three years. But none of those places ever felt like home. Until she landed in the U.S. as a freshman at Gettysburg College.
But her desire to stay and make it official would mean a years-long journey through the U.S. immigration system.
Although it can be challenging to make the transition from legal resident alien status to naturalized citizen, the U.S. has been the destination of choice for millions like Mukhi since about 1960. As of 2017, the U.S. is home to one-fifth of the world’s immigrants, according to American Community Survey (ACS) data.
For Mukhi, it would take a full array of visas. She spent four years on an F1 (for studying in the U.S.), one year on OPT (basically a work permit for those with student visas), had four H1 transfers (the specialty work visa) over nine years, and then went through three separate green card applications at three different companies as EB3 twice, and finally EB2 (both of which are for skilled graduate workers, but the difference in processing times is significant and varies by application). More than a decade later, she was awarded a green card and is still waiting for citizenship.
Her experiences often prompted questions from friends and strangers navigating their own immigration journey. As Mukhi came to realize, expertise of navigating the system was expensive and information was woefully scarce, even on the web. That formed the basis for her startup ImmiGo, an online marketplace that helps individuals and businesses find high-quality immigration attorneys in the U.S.”
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From Fast Company authored by Elizabeth Segran:
“Katie Warner Johnson spent her college internship in a blur of boring and unflattering black blazers, pantsuits, and shift dresses.
It was 2006, and working as an analyst on Wall Street, she felt she needed to prove herself in a male-dominated industry, where her colleagues were often men who were much older than her. Dressing professionally and blending into the landscape of the trading floor was one way to do that. But while the garments allowed her to look the part, they weren’t particularly well designed: They wrinkled easily, were covered in sweat stains after long, hot days on the trading floor, and were not designed to flatter the female body.
A few years later, she decided to use those experiences as an opportunity to create a startup that reimagined the way women dress. In 2011, she launched an online store called Carbon38 that curated clothing with technical properties–say, moisture-wicking or temperature-regulating features–once only found in activewear. “I saw Carbon38 as a platform that went way beyond what you wear for your hour at the gym,” Johnson says. “These are clothes designed to take you through your entire day seamlessly and comfortably. We believe this is where the fashion industry is going.”
In 2015, Johnson set her sights on reinventing workwear, hoping to permanently kill off the outfit that she once was forced to wear to work everyday. Since only a smattering of brands at the time were making professional clothes using high-performance fabrics, she decided to design and manufacture her own. These ideas came to life in a collection that including a pencil dress and a blazer that looked trading floor appropriate, but were made from neoprene–a material used in scuba diver’s wetsuits.”
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Authored by Lee Angela Holcomb:
“Law is an art, not a science! But in recent years, the practice of law has become more focused on the science side of things. Many of the services that lawyers have traditionally provided are now automated, think repeatable processes, technology solutions, eDiscovery, and contract coding. Some have argued that this automation will only continue and will eventually eliminate the need for lawyers. My hope is that we will see a renaissance in the legal profession that will allow lawyers to get back to the practice of law as an art.”
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From The New York Times authored by Tara Parker Pope:
“Today’s teenagers have been raised on cellphones and social media. Should we worry about them or just get out of their way?
A recent wave of student protests around the country has provided a close-up view of Generation Z in action, and many adults have been surprised. While there has been much hand-wringing about this cohort, also called iGen or the Post-Millennials, the stereotype of a disengaged, entitled and social-media-addicted generation doesn’t match the poised, media-savvy and inclusive young people leading the protests and gracing magazine covers.”
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