Sentences with phrase «just women lawyers»

Of course, it is not just women lawyers feeling the increased pressure to record higher hours.

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.

It is not just women lawyers crying out for relief from higher and higher billable targets and increased pressure to work longer in the office.

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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?

«Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say «No», having it respected.»

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.

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?

«We are so happy our lawyers were able to secure the bail, we are just waiting for him to come out so we will hail him,» a middle - aged woman said.

If you search your neighbor places, you can easily find some quality pubs and coffee bars where you can meet many wealthy women dating just like lawyers, investors, entrepreneurs, stock brokers, etc..

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.

Without idealizing these men and women — doctors and lawyers, artists and advocates — France documents the energies of civil society, the forces of organization and resistance that lie just beneath the surface.

Kindle Nation readers have already helped to make Maryland lawyer Stephanie Ann «Sam» McRae one of the hottest hard - boiled fictional women in the Kindle Store by sending Debbi Mack's debut novel Identity Crisis — still just 99 cents!

At just nineteen years old, the law Hulett drafted and pushed through the legislature in 1870 also enabled her to become the first female lawyer in Illinois — and one of the first women licensed to practice law in the country.

«I was just so pissed off,» Avvy Yao - Yao Go, a well - known social justice activist and lawyer, wrote in the Toronto Star after Justice Minister Peter MacKay made comments at a recent Ontario Bar Association meeting that women and visible minorities aren't applying for judge jobs and that's why they're under - represented on the bench.

, asks whether good lawyers just sit on the sidelines rather than doing something bold to become a great man — or woman.

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

ON LAW AND LIFE JUSTICE ELEANORE A. CRONK: One of the reasons I went into law was not just because of the father who wanted to be a trial lawyer, it was because of the mother who was very accomplished in her own right, but believed strongly in women being autonomous, having an independent source of money, not being dependent on the men in their lives for their financial security, for having something that would give them a sense of self - worth that was very personal, and that was encouraged in the family environment that I lived in and grew up in.

However, with women now forming approximately 37 % of the lawyers in Canada, the percentage of female judges is falling quickly behind not only the profession but also what many Canadians expect — a judiciary that reflects Canadian reality and not just the legal profession.

For two Ontario lawyers, playing softball on the same competitive team headed for the Women's Fast Pitch Canadian Championship isn't just a hobby — it is a means of building relationships, relieving stress and networking.

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.

Just days after Chicago injury lawyers at Abels & Annes settled a very similar case, 2 women were badly injured in a single car accident in Plainfield, Illinois.

Accounting for just five per cent of Ontario lawyers in 1971, growth in the number of women lawyers has continued unabated for 35 years.

Moreover, the corporations don't just want trophy diversity lawyers; they now insist that women and minority lawyers function as part of the team.

This was not as bad as the gap between female and male lawyers, where women earned a median of $ 93,600, just 77.8 percent of the median salary for men of $ 120,400.

According to the report, racialized women account for 16 per cent of all lawyers under 30, compared to just 5 per cent of lawyers 30 and older.

Racialized women account for no less than 16 percent of all lawyers under 30, compared to just 5 percent of lawyers 30 and older; racialized men account for 7 percent of lawyers under 30, compared to 6 percent of lawyers 30 and older.

Change will be driven more by economic forces brought not just from women leaving law firms but from clients, younger male lawyers, increasing global competition, rising costs in both housing and commercial space, technology — and a host of other societal and business factors that we can not even imagine.

This includes the Florida Justice Association's Women's Caucus, Tampa Bay Inn of Court, Hillsborough Association of Women Lawyers and the Florida Bar Editorial Board of the Florida Bar News and Florida Bar Journal, just to name a few.

Of the lawyers in the study who went solo, just a third were women.

A lawyer is blogging, and it's just vile, insulting everybody from Hispanics to women to «midgets.»

Just one of three women listed in Connecticut, Ms. Morkan dedicates her practice to appellate advocacy and is a member is the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

This book is not just for lawyers but for men in any organization, and the advice it offers will be helpful to all men who are in positions to actively support and sponsor women.

Many women lawyers share the same dream as you do of combining a satisfying career with a meaningful family life, and many of them are realizing that dream, in part because many large law firms have woken up to the reality that it is not just a matter of being decent and sensitive, but also good business to accommodate the needs of working lawyer moms.

I felt very fortunate that when I was in New York working as a lawyer I never felt treated differently for being a woman, and in fact, it just didn't occur to me.

Meaningful access to justice requires more than just providing women and children with access to any lawyer, or any judge.

I had just left a safe, small firm to start a new firm with two other women lawyers who practiced in different but complementary areas.

I recently heard Allan Fineblit, CEO of The Law Society of Manitoba say that half of women lawyers are not in private practice in Manitoba after just 5 years at the Bar.

The girl, Scout, learns this truth from her father, Atticus Finch, a just man and upstanding lawyer who in the course of the book defends a black man who has been wrongfully accused of raping a white woman.

And just in case you imagine that there really are no options for variety in appearance for the lawyer of today, take a look at a similar, but briefer, array I did of women lawyers» photos.

However, Craft cautions, while the pool of indigenous lawyers may be growing, law firms are still falling short in retaining them, just as firms are having trouble keeping other minorities and women.

Nicole was just named one the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Illinois by Illinois Super Lawyers.