Sentences with phrase «by women lawyers»

But the number of personal stories told publicly by women lawyers about sexual harassment is small; I am privileged to be senior enough and tenured enough and removed enough from the emotional turmoil of that time to take the risk of telling it.

Are law firms and companies doing enough to remove hurdles faced by women lawyers in the workplace?

It seems to me that «balance» issues in the legal profession are most frequently raised by women lawyers and rarely by their male counterparts.

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In her groundbreaking 1993 report «Touchstones for Change», Canada's first female Supreme Court justice Bertha Wilson stressed the difficulties faced by women lawyers with children, urging the profession to measure a lawyer's performance by standards other than hours billed.

The event, co-sponsored by the Women Lawyers Forum and Equality Issues section focused on providing practical information on the process of seeking an appointment to the provincial or federal bench.

Madam Justice Steel reminded the more junior lawyers in the audience not to become complacent and assume the «battles fought» and won by women lawyers in the past have forever settled the issues.

Not exact matches

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Women walk by a team of volunteer lawyers in their makeshift office working to assist travelers detained as part of Donald Trump's travel ban in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.

«By then, the share of women going into the traditional fields of teaching, nursing, social work and clerical work declined, and more women were becoming doctors, lawyers, managers, and, yes, professors,» Yellen said.

The statement from the woman, Marilou Danley, which was read by her lawyer, Matthew Lombard, came after Ms. Danley went to the Los Angeles offices of the F.B.I. for questioning, according to a law enforcement official.

I am being bomblasted by this woman and can not even find a lawyer to help me as I am poor and they say there isn't enough money in it for them to get involve.

In a letter to Justice Minister Mohammed al - Issa seen by Reuters, eight judges complained about foreign trainers who shave their beards contrary to purist Islam, the minister's meetings with diplomats of «infidel» states and plans to let women practice as lawyers.

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?

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

Again, it is recorded that on one occasion a group of lawyers brought before him a woman detected in adultery, with the hope that he would take the responsibility of pronouncing the ferocious sentence laid down in the Law of Moses (not enforced at that period), or alternatively, would by refusing to do so expose himself as one who condoned immorality.

Mr Courney's lawyers said their client was reported to police by a Muslim woman who claimed she had been branded a member of Islamic State and told to «go back to your country» - claims Mr Courney always denied.

Outdone Legendary courtroom orator William Jennings Bryan, by lawyer Bill Diehl, who in defending Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn against charges that Shinn had sexually assaulted a woman, argued that the alleged oral sex was consensual, saying, «If she ain't bitin», she ain't fightin».»

MSU's OGC lawyers may have violated their ethical responsibilities under MRPC 4.4 by violating the privacy rights of the young woman.

On paper, Mechem, a Yale - educated lawyer with 24 years of experience in the television business, appears to be exactly what the LPGA needs — someone who can persuade corporate sponsors and network executives to give women's golf a bigger slice of the action that is now dominated by the PGA and Senior PGA tours.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

Pam has also been recognized by various industry organizations, including Chambers, and was named to the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Massachusetts List by Massachusetts Super Lawyers.

New York City lawyers said the city had settled a lawsuit by two women claiming they were raped by a guard at Rikers Island, and as a result, a bid for a class action alleging systemic failure to protect female prisoners will be dropped.

Just a quarter of lawyers who have leadership roles in New York state and federal courtrooms are women, according to a new analysis by the New York State Bar Association.

Bill Clinton — who has been accused of sexually abusing women, who has been disbarred as a lawyer, and who was impeached as the President of the United States by the Congress — continues to serve as the hero of the same group that condemns Vito Lopez.»

«As a lawyer, lawmaker and activist, Eric has never wavered in his commitment to protecting consumers, working for quality jobs and taking on tough fights on behalf of the women and men of New York,» Ward continued in a statement released by Schneiderman's campaign.

On Thursday, all of those claims were settled by a $ 580,000 payment, according to the women's lawyer, with the state paying $ 545,000, and Mr. Lopez paying the remaining $ 35,000.

The first two women who brought claims were represented by a team of lawyers that included Gloria Allred, the prominent Los Angeles attorney.

As Trump University was the target of an investigation by then - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman more than four years ago, Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, were told through a Hudson Valley - based attorney that Schneiderman was accused of sexually abusing two women.

Lawyers clashed in a Manhattan courtroom over whether a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who has accused Trump of unwanted sexual advances should be allowed to proceed in state Supreme Court.

«All I can say is it has historically been a very difficult workplace for young women,» said Hillary Richard, a lawyer who represented a woman who alleged in 2003 she had been raped by Michael Boxley, one of Silver's top aides.

The FBI raid on Michael Cohen may have captured information about two women who say they were «sexually victimized» by ousted state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a lawyer claimed Friday...

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.

The mother - of - five was driven away with her lawyer Robert Brown, pursued by press photographers who been camped outside the Category D open jail for women and young offenders.

Assembly officials have said the confidentiality clauses were sought by the women who said they had been harassed, but the report disputes that claim, and says that even after the matter became public, Mr. Collins, the senior Assembly lawyer, called a lawyer for two of the complainants to remind her of the secrecy clause.

Hyer - Spencer's lawyer has confirmed that she is one of two unidentified women referred to as Silver's mistresses by federal prosecutors in a court filing unsealed Friday.

-- Schneiderman lawyer «confident» he won't face criminal charges — New York Daily News» Erin Durkin, Ken Lovett and Larry McShane: «The defense attorney for ex-state attorney general Eric Schneiderman predicted Thursday that her client would avoid prosecution despite the abuse charges leveled by four women.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

Schulz, a retired engineer who is not a lawyer, is suing Silver, contending the speaker shouldn't have used taxpayer dollars to pay more than $ 103,000 to women who were allegedly harassed by former Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

The three aides, all women in their 20s, «were subjected to a hostile and offensive work environment,» according to a legal notice, prepared by their lawyer, that also said they would seek compensation.

The judge's decision to make the documents public, with some redactions, followed a vigorous and ultimately unsuccessful legal fight by lawyers for Mr. Silver and the two women to block the release of the materials.

It could be women and disabled people, according to a summit of scientists, ethicists and lawyers held in Paris last week by the Committee on Human Gene Editing, part of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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«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.

Franco, speaking through his lawyer, Michael Plonsker, denied the allegations being made by the women in the LA Times article.

The woman is Laura Wells (Laura Dern), a lawyer in a small town practice, who turns up at work after her lunchtime assignation — flustered, jumper awkwardly tucked into her skirt — to find that she's still being sought by a persistent client, Fuller (Jared Harris).

The Black Panther star is outstanding as the real - life hotshot lawyer who defended a black man accused of rape by a white woman in 1941

This fascinating documentary shows how the self - possessed jurist, who started as a lawyer for domestic abuse victims, continues to advocate for women by emphasizing rights they possess but of which they might not be aware.