Sentences with phrase «when women lawyers»

When women lawyers make sure they take care of themselves, the whole profession benefits.

After studying the schedules and billing records of 670 lawyers in Alberta, Canada, researchers Jean Wallace and Marisa Young found that when women lawyers have children, their productivity (or at least hours worked) decreases.

When a woman lawyer quits, it can easily be rationalized by the firm as a «life - style» choice unrelated to anything they have done or could have done.

Not exact matches

Our first woman Premier, young, a human rights lawyer with international experience, and yet a reputation for sternness when needed.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

There is no balance when women are raised from day one to be married and men don't find out what it's all about until it's too late to change course without the expense of a lawyer.

They are thrown out on grounds as simple as «the womans lawyer wasn't paid as much as the man's when the prenup was made»; which apparently makes it unfair and invalid.

«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.

Embattled Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, 88, has no plans to resign amid allegations that the congressman sexually harassed several women when they worked on his staff, his lawyer said.

Manny Alicandro, a Wall Street lawyer and former stand - up comedian, was munching on salad at an Amsterdam, N.Y., steakhouse Monday when he learned that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had been accused of physical abuse by four women in a New Yorker article.

I had to smile, knowing what you mean, when in the ebook you mentioned a website you found which reviews dating sites, where the woman reviewer joked about all of the doctors, lawyers, and engineers found on the Russian bride sites.

When you go to Asiandatenet.com dating site, there are thousands of Asian women signed up online to find men who are engineers, doctors, or lawyers.

«Penthouse» tells the story of a lawyer who loses his job and then his fiancé because he defended a gangster, but who then gets called it to help the same woman when her new boyfriend is framed for murder by a rival gang.

When a black man (Sterling K. Brown) is wrongfully accused by a white woman, a black lawyer named Thurgood Marshall (played by Chadwick Boseman) steps in to defend him.

The entertainment industry has slipped into a multi-polar catharsis of emboldened women, nervous men, threatening lawyers, broken deals, spoiled careers and the uncertainty that comes when cracks run like lightning through facades.

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system.

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

The Woman (Director: Lucky McKee; Screenwriters: Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee)-- When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to «civilize» the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

When that green lawyer woman talks about arraigning you and me before the European Court of Justice, she may be mad, or bad, but she's acting in character, since environmentalists, as newcomers on the scene, have the privilege of defining their own role in society.

While firms are far less male - orientated than they used to be, women might still be somewhat under represented at senior level, a fact that's unlikely to fill young female lawyers with confidence when it comes to speaking out about their discomfort.

When, in 2015, LAO lawyers launched a Charter challenge in regards to their bargaining rights, former legal aid CEO Bob Ward submitted a sworn affidavit in which he «bragged» that by the end of 2015, two - thirds of LAO lawyers were women, says Barrett.

Defense lawyers have accused the investigator of perjury when questioned about his interviews with the woman.

And finally, how much should we care that women haven't cracked the glass ceiling at Biglaw when female lawyers are finding success in virtually every other area (e.g., politics, solo practice, judgeships, in - house and government) outside of large firms?

One hundred and thirty - four female lawyers have been made up to partner at the 28 UK top 30 law firms to have announced their 2017 promotions so far this year — 23 % down on 2015, when 173 women were promoted across the same group of firms.

When a group of women decided DRI needed a women's committee, a Lightfoot lawyer was a founding member and later became its Chair.

Now, in 2011, when presented with Forbes» salary statistics, some would still assume that women lawyers are earning less than their male counterparts due to family obligations.

In 2004, when asked what she would like her legacy to be, Marty answered, «That women lawyers associated with Women Rainmakers pass on that learning to others.&rwomen lawyers associated with Women Rainmakers pass on that learning to others.&rWomen Rainmakers pass on that learning to others.»

One of my favourites, I heard from a woman lawyer who found that people's eyes glazed over when she described herself as a strata - counsel lawyer.

British Columbia's Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, looking at suspected multiple murders, has four new lawyers on board to help special interest groups, after First Nations and women's groups threatened to drop out of participating when government refused to fund legal assistWomen Commission of Inquiry, looking at suspected multiple murders, has four new lawyers on board to help special interest groups, after First Nations and women's groups threatened to drop out of participating when government refused to fund legal assistwomen's groups threatened to drop out of participating when government refused to fund legal assistance.

While there have clearly been tremendous improvements in the attitude of the clients and the profession towards women from when I started 23 years ago, true equality will not exist until we stop thinking about the gender of the lawyer, and focusing instead on the quality of the lawyer.

Maslanka says that when he is explaining to a corporate client in New York why it needs another lawyer in state court in Texas, he relates a story of a woman with a squeaky floor:

Prior to 1975, when women started to attend law school in greater numbers, women lawyers formed less that 5 % of the legal profession.

When Christine M. Netski, a partner at Sugarman Rogers Barshak & Cohen PC in Boston and named one of the «Top Women of Law» by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, was interviewed by Law360 and asked «Outside your firm, name an attorney you admire and tell us why,» her reply was:

100 % support community work, but if that is the sole purpose of that women lawyer group, we've again created this group that is not able to effectively advocate for change for women for the whole firm and so I think when we have these women lawyers groups, let's really give them the opportunity to have a seat at the table.

Like as you were talking, a couple things that came to mind was, when somebody goes to an event and they see that the lawyer named Ruth is coming to speak, they tend to assume that I'm an old, stuffy Jewish woman.

When McCoy was a young woman, she said she didn't know what she wanted to be but an older male lawyer suggested she go to law school.

Sam Glover: Yeah, I'm a big fan of trying to find win wins when it comes to anything but often when you're trying to control for diversity or inclusion, when you're trying to make sure that your firm is friendly to disabled clients and lawyers or women lawyers or mom lawyers, one of the first things to look for is things that are not just going to make it better for moms but everyone and that toxic environment of competition in publishing hours and fostering competition among associates probably isn't healthy for anyone.

Though Kopf (rightly) took heat for his weird «I'm a dirty old man so let me talk about how women lawyers dress» post and his defense of the poorly - behaved Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt, the straw that broke the law blogging world's back seemed to be when he called Senator Ted Cruz unfit to become president.

When I think about these men and women who took an oath saying that they would die for our country in defense of our liberty, we as lawyers are going to need to answer our own oath, our own calls as a profession and help these veterans.

Interestingly, women lawyers» assertive behaviour is acceptable, or is subjected to less backlash, when it is seen as advocating for others.

We know that popular films portray women lawyers as mad women, monstrous, or at the very least, less positively than men lawyers, and research demonstrates that women negotiators have less success than men negotiators when they are acting in their own interests.

At a time when increased liability makes board membership less attractive to lawyers, male or female, DirectWomen hopes that the decline in popularity of board membership will open up positions for women who are up for the challenge.

«At this time, when there is a growing understanding that change is not only inevitable but coming at an accelerating rate, when there is a call for innovative approaches that better meet the needs of both clients and their lawyers, there is also an incredible opportunity for women lawyers to step forward to drive and lead this process,» she says.

(Of course, it was also a time when law firms often didn't hire Jewish lawyers or marginalized Jewish firms and when women and minority lawyers were also excluded, though some might argue that still hasn't changed.)

This story demonstrates another common reason that women (and not just women lawyers) are paid less than men — they fail to negotiate a high enough salary when they start out in practice or when they switch firms.

She's an expert on issues affecting women in the legal profession, so I asked her about challenges women lawyers face when developing business.

* When «the only way to be successful [as a first - year associate] is to go into the role expecting to be treated poorly,» it's no wonder that Biglaw firms continue to fail their women lawyers.

When you picture a lawyer, an image of extremely wealthy men and women in power - suits, liaising with clients in expensive restaurants and being chauffeured to their next corporate meeting, may come to mind.

When a female lawyer files a public complaint against her firm alleging gender discrimination, the firm's response tends to fit a standard model: a denial of any discrimination and a confirmation of the firm's commitment to advancing women lawyers.