Community, Networking, & Education for Women Attorneys in the U.S.
From Detroit Free Press authored by Mary Chartier:
“I believe in the Constitution, which is why I support Shannon Smith, the attorney who was criticized for doing her job in the Larry Nassar case.
It is unpopular to be a criminal defense attorney, especially one who represents people accused of serious and often heinous crimes. I know. I do this for a living.”
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From New York Daily News authored by John Marzulli:
“A Manhattan investment banker and his wife are suing their lawyer, whose email account was hacked, causing the couple to wire a $1.9 million down payment to an account controlled by cyber crooks.
Robert and Bethany Millard learned of the scam before their lawyer did, and were able to recover all but $196,000 of their transferred funds.
But the Millards allege that Long Island real estate lawyer Patricia Doran was computer negligent in failing to protect her email account from hackers.”
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From Time authored by Charlotte Alter:
“Erin Zwiener returned to Texas to settle down. At 32, she had published a children’s book, won Jeopardy! three times and ridden roughly 1,400 miles from the Mexico border up the Continental Divide on a mule. In 2016, she moved with her husband to a small house in a rural enclave southwest of Austin with simpler plans: write another book, tend her horses, paint her new home blue.
One day last February, she changed those plans. Zwiener was surfing Facebook after finalizing color samples for her living room–sea foam, navy, cornflower–when she saw a picture of her state representative, Jason Isaac, smiling at a local chamber of commerce gala. “Glad you’re having a good time,” she commented. “What’s your position on SB4?” After a tense back-and-forth about the Lone Star State’s controversial immigration law, Isaac accused her of “trolling” and blocked her. That’s when she decided to run for his seat. Zwiener never got around to painting her living room. She’s trying to turn her Texas district blue instead.”
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From ABA Journal authored by Debra Cassens Weiss:
“Rachael Denhollander was a lawyer and stay-at-home mom living in Kentucky when she contacted the Indianapolis Star in August 2016 and told the newspaper that Dr. Larry Nassar had sexually assaulted her in 2000 when she was a 15-year-old gymnast seeking treatment for back pain.
Denhollander was the first woman to go on the record to publicly accuse Nassar. The week after the newspaper interview, Denhollander filed a complaint with police in Michigan detailing abuse by Nassar at Michigan State University where he was a faculty member and treating doctor for university gymnasts.
He was also the team physician for USA Gymnastics.
The Star published its story in September 2016. The newspaper also spoke with a second woman who alleged abuse by Nassar, but she remained anonymous. Denhollander initially explained why she was contacting the newspaper in an email published by the Star on Wednesday.”
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From Huffington Post authored by Ann Brenoff :
“Wouldn’t it be nice to kick off 2018 with a raise?
We asked employment experts and coaches for some tips on how to ask for, negotiate, and actually get yourself a nice fat addition to your paycheck.
Most annual raises are between 1 percent and 5 percent of your salary. A survey by human resources consultancy Aon Hewitt found that many companies plan to set annual raises at 3 percent of base salaries in 2018, according to The Washington Post, giving low performers a smaller bump and star performers more of a hike.
Nobody’s life is going to change dramatically due to their annual raise alone ― it basically keeps up with inflation.”
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From Attorney at Work authored by Ryan McPherson:
“Congratulations! You survived law school, passed the bar and got a job. By now you’re somewhat settled in. Some partners have learned your name, and you’ve received a few paychecks.
So, what will you do with the steady earnings?
Since it is far easier to start your financial life on the right foot than be forced to adjust bad habits decades later, here’s a checklist covering what to do and what to avoid as a new attorney.
Before we dive in, please note that the following items are presented for educational purposes only. Nothing here is or should be considered specific financial advice for you. As your situation is undoubtedly nuanced, you should seek the advice of financial and tax professionals before using the strategies mentioned.”
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From Above the Law authored by Jake Heller :
“As the CEO of an artificial intelligence legal technology company, the most common question I’m asked – often, nervously – is whether technology will replace lawyers. The fear is understandable. Computers have “learned” how to assist in tasks that used to be attorneys’ jobs, like due diligence, eDiscovery, and legal research, to name just a few. After enough tasks are taken away, what will be left for attorneys to do?
It is now beyond question that technology will take tasks from you. But that doesn’t mean it will necessarily take your job. Markets react to technology in unexpected ways. Many people thought ATMs would all but eliminate non-automated (human) bank tellers, but there are twice as many tellers today as there were before ATMs. Technology automated many accounting tasks (imagine the pain of accounting before Excel), but now the Big Four accounting firms make more in revenues and employ more people than the entire Am Law 100 combined. After garment work was automated in the 19th century, the numbers of employed garment workers only climbed. Often, technology creates more jobs in precisely the industries that fret the most about losing them.”
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From She Knows authored by Christina Marfice:
“Updated Jan. 17, 2018, 8:00 a.m. PT: Well, we knew Ann Curry’s first interview in five years was going to be revealing. We just didn’t know how deep she would actually go.
On CBS Good Morning today, Jan. 17, Curry finally opened up about her ouster from NBC in 2012. But what she didn’t seem to want to talk too much about was her former coanchor, Matt Lauer, who was fired from Today in late November over allegations of sexual misconduct.
When asked if Lauer abused his power at the network, Curry skirted around the question, saying she was “trying to do no harm in these conversations.” What she did say, though, was that the allegations against Lauer didn’t surprise her.
“But I can say, because you’re asking me a very direct question, I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed,” she said about her time at NBC. ‘I think it would be surprising if someone said that they didn’t see that. Verbal sexual harassment was pervasive.'”
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From The Guardian authored by Katie Bethell:
“While the gruesome details vary – massages in hotel rooms, the button under the desk, men literally just showing their penises in the office – every #MeToo story has something in common: powerful men working in industries with very few women in top leadership positions.
As the #MeToo conversation begins to turn towards solutions, we need to implement policies that address the barriers to women leading. While women and men launch careers in equal numbers, starting at around 30 their upward trajectories to leadership start to seriously and increasingly diverge, with women falling behind and men moving ahead. There are, of course, many confluent factors – bias, rampant harassment, lack of mentorship – that contribute to this widening gap, but one stands out: caregiving.”
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From Above the Law authored by Staci Zaretsky :
“America’s most beloved Supreme Court justice will be on a speaking tour of sorts across several law schools in the
Northeast in the coming weeks this winter.
Is your law school one of them?
On January 30, Justice Ginsburg will make an appearance at Roger Williams University School of Law for a “fireside chat”
On February 5, Justice Ginsburg will head to the NYU School of Law
On February 6, Justice Ginsburg will travel across town to New York Law School
On February 12, Justice Ginsburg will be honored at a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.”
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