Sentences with phrase «for young women lawyers»

Kimber Russell: There's no question it's better today for young women lawyers than back then.

According to Martha W. Barnett, Past President, American Bar Association, Epstein has written «the ultimate insider's handbook for young women lawyers and «lawyers to be,» while offering the rare opportunity for seasoned lawyers to read about their peers, connect, and recognize that they are not alone.»

Susan Smith Blakely's Best Friends at the Bar: the New Balance for Today's Woman Lawyer offers practical guidance and helpful solutions for young women lawyers.

Roberta also created a fellowship program with Ms JD, an organization for young women lawyers and female law students.

Susan Smith Blakely's books are THE books for young women lawyers, but it is just the beginning.

Not exact matches

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

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

«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 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.

Galvin's pal, a lawyer named Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden) has drummed up a little work for him: An open - and - shut malpractice suit against a Catholic hospital in Boston where a young woman was carelessly turned into a vegetable because of a medical oversight.

Finally, there's Jamie (Lily Gladstone, Winter in the Blood)-- whose name we never even hear — a young and lonely Native - American woman tending horses on a ranch who develops an infatuation for another young woman, Beth (Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria), a just - graduated lawyer who drives four hours from the city, twice a week, to teach a class on school law.

He likes to spend time in a chat room for lawyers and legal advice, where he meets a younger woman named Charlene, and soon the two chatters form a sort - of online romantic relationship.

The largest salary divide between men and women in - house in Canada exists in the most senior roles for equivalent work and diversity remains a challenge, but as more young lawyers make the switch from private practice sooner in their career that gap should close, according to a recent survey.

She is a dynamic public speaker on the issues challenging young women in law practice today, she counsels young women lawyers and law firm partners on issues of retaining talent, and she provides individual and small group career counseling for young women law students and lawyers.

Professional Associations The Florida Bar, Family Law Section — Executive Council, Member — Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Member — Equitable Distribution Committee, Member — Legislation Committee, Member — Publications Committee, Chair — Support Issues Committee, Member — CLE Committee, Former Co-Chair, 2011 - 2013 Palm Beach County Bar Association — Board of Directors, Member — Young Lawyers Section, Past President, 2013 - 2014 South Palm Beach County Bar Association Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Palm Beach County Chapter South Palm Beach County Collaborative Law Group Broward County Matrimonial Lawyers

She is also a member of the Broward County Matrimonial Lawyers, the South Palm Beach County Collaborative Law Group, the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, the South Palm Beach County Bar Association, and the Palm Beach County Bar Association, where she served as President of the Young Lawyers Section from 2013 - 2014 and currently serves on the Board of Directors.

Anna is actively involved in the legal community, including as a member of the Lawyers» Association for Women (LAW), the Nashville Bar Association and its Young Lawyer's Division, the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.

She is the American Association for Justice President, was featured in the Top 20 Women In Law, and in a recent interview conducted by the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar, she told the world what it's like to be a woman in trial law.

She has served as Chair of Communications for the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) and on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division.

In 2006, women accounted for nearly 60 per cent of the youngest lawyers and 38 per cent of all lawyers in Ontario.

In it, John describes how a five - lawyer Toronto firm, Bennett Gastle, established Cambodian Legal Education for Women (CLEW), a charity that gives full four - year scholarships to young women from rural areas who would otherwise be unable to obtain a university educaWomen (CLEW), a charity that gives full four - year scholarships to young women from rural areas who would otherwise be unable to obtain a university educawomen from rural areas who would otherwise be unable to obtain a university education.

Egeland is also involved with the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers and serves on the Commercial Litigation and Women in the Law committees for the Defense Research Institute.

She served as the Co-President of the Women's Law Association, Vice-Justice of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, and Mentor Recruitment Coordinator for the Young Lawyers Program in which she helped organize mock trials for high school students in low income communities.

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Young Women in Law (YWL) is a not for profit organization for women lawyers in their early stages of pracWomen in Law (YWL) is a not for profit organization for women lawyers in their early stages of pracwomen lawyers in their early stages of practice.

Professional Affiliations Association for Women Lawyers Canadian Bar Association The Advocates Society Young Women in Energy

As women, lawyers of color, and especially female lawyers of color disappear from the legal profession, there has never been a more important time for lawyers to take an interest in mentoring young diverse attorneys.

Attorney Wolf is also a member of the American Bar Association, Milford Bar Association, West Haven Bar Association, and Connecticut Bar Association, including Family Law, Estates and Probate and Young Lawyers Sections, as well as serving as co-chair for the Children in the Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee and the National Academy of Jurisprudence Family Law Trial Attorneys Association Kristen Wolf is also a participating attorney for the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and serves as Assigned Counsel for the Office of the Chief Public Defender at the Bristol and Hartford Geographical Area (GA) courts and he Hartford Juvenile court for child protection and delinquency matters, as well as guardian ad litem in the Meriden and Middlesex Judicial Districts.

Young Women in Law is a not for profit organization dedicated to advancing the interests of women lawyers in the early stages of their careers, and strives to meet the diverse needs of its roughly 275 memWomen in Law is a not for profit organization dedicated to advancing the interests of women lawyers in the early stages of their careers, and strives to meet the diverse needs of its roughly 275 memwomen lawyers in the early stages of their careers, and strives to meet the diverse needs of its roughly 275 members.

For women lawyers, who often have young children during the early building years of a legal career, the traditional law firm «up or out» promotion system may not work out well.

In fact, both Monique Mercier and Andrea Wood of Telus, chief legal officer and senior vice president of legal services, respectively, are prime examples of women who have flourished in their careers and serve as strong role models for young female lawyers like myself.

Perhaps they included the pregnant woman to legitimately win over this young lawyer who may eventually want children herself and would therefore be looking for an accommodating employer.