Sentences with phrase «more women lawyers»

When society finds a way to make it financially feasible to have a family or personal life without killing yourself on the job, we'll see more women lawyers having a long career.

By Ellen Ostrow — People in law firms and legal departments keep telling me that they wish they had more women lawyers in leadership but they can't find enough interested women.

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Currently they release information on the number of women in their total workforce and in their leadership roles and publish more detailed information about gender balance internally, but are still working with lawyers to navigate the stricter data collection and protection measures in Germany, where the company is based, and other countries where their employees work, SAP's chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenberg told Fortune.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»

«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.

Women, and Generation X and Y lawyers more generally, are pushing for these changes on the supply side; clients determined to reduce legal fees and increase flexible service are pulling on the demand side.

The day that Islam advocates all freedom for all women I will have no problem with more Mosques, in the meantime, because this belief / Creed / Religion as it is now (and has been over thousands of years under the world's noses) women are still not allowed to vote, women are not doctors, they do not study to become lawyers, owners of companies, presidents of countries.

Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children than does the average American woman, female faculty are almost half as likely as female physicians and slightly less likely than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours than the average law firm or hospital.

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.

After a report showed a low percentage of women as lead lawyers, Judge Jack Weinstein has urged for more substantive roles for junior female lawyers in his courtroom.

It features toned arms, slinky outfits, a cat fight, titillating e-mails, a military more consumed with sex than violence, a plot with more inconceivable twists than «Homeland,» and a Twitter's - delight lexicon: an «embedded» mistress named Broadwell, a biography called «All In,» an other - other woman of Middle East ancestry who was a «social liaison» to the military, a shirtless F.B.I. agent crushing on the losing - her - shirt - to - debt Tampa socialite, a pair of generals helping the socialite's twin sister with a custody case, and lawyers and crisis - management experts linked to Monica Lewinsky, John Edwards and the ABC show «Scandal...»

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.

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.

While talks with lawyers for Lopez and the women accusing him of harassment were ongoing, Lopez was able to hire three more aides, two of whom later accused the Brooklyn Democrat of harassment as well.

More New Releases: «Woodshock,» about a woman who falls deeper into paranoia after taking a deadly drug, starring Kirsten Dunst; «Acts of Vengeance,» about a lawyer who transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge, starring Antonio Banderas; and «The Defiant Ones,» documentary about the partnership and cultural influence of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre.

Now that the franchise is behind him, Radcliffe has been busy working on his post Potter career with recent roles as a lawyer in «The Woman in Black», the Mullet kid in «Robot Chicken», the TV series «A Young Doctor's Notebook», and more recently «Kill Your Darlings» that is currently in circulation at the Sundance Film Festival.

These girls were lawyers and accountants and now they are living life in a bikini, surfing every day, and helping women across the world to become a more empowered version of themselves.

A recent analysis of invoices from more than 3,000 law firms demonstrated that no matter what tier firm women work at, female lawyers are billed at 10 % less than male lawyers per hour.

MacEwen believes that the Jewish experience bodes well for women or other minorities at large firms, and as someone who doesn't have the «either or option» (being both Jewish and female), I'd have to agree: There have never been more options for female or minority lawyers than there are now.

The second, more troubling reason is that a justice's political ideology is a measure of his responsiveness to women lawyers.

Despite recruiting more women straight out of law school, 80 % of the lawyers are male by the senior partner level.

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.

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.

From the descriptions I have heard, it very much seems like an «every man / woman for his / herself» situation with panicked lawyers desperately calling around for a job while support staff were left to watch... [more]

For a laundry list of lawyers who have pursued alternative legal careers (typically ones that leverage a treasured, but long dormant talent), more fulfilling angles within the law, or stress - relieving pasttimes, head on over to JD Bliss (starting with a post last week on alternative careers pursued by several women lawyers).

Last year, the firm achieved an unprecedented 50 verdicts and settlements of $ 1 million dollars or more, as compiled and reported by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly — including the largest verdict of the year in Massachusetts: $ 35.4 million on behalf of a woman paralyzed after childbirth.

Even more generally, more of the people with whom lawyers will engage at their clients» offices are likely to be women.

Study Links Depo - Provera to Greater Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 16, 2012 Israeli Court Awards Highest - Ever Compensation in Class - Action Suit against Drug Company, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, July 10, 2012 There have reportedly been more than 200 reports of people sustaining serious health complications from taking Pradaxa.

I conducted focused interviews with male and female lawyers throughout the firm to obtain more specific data about their attitudes, perceptions, and experiences toward or as women.

Unlike the more familiar divorce proceedings where parties hire gunslinger lawyers and have their dirty laundry aired in public courthouses, these women each retained a collaboratively - trained attorney (Ellen Ware and myself) who are experienced in respectful and interest - based negotiations.

The profession has changed: more than 50 % of new lawyers are women and more than 20 % are racialized It is exciting that lawyers now more closely reflects the community they serve.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

If so, check out the article «BigLaw lawyer's public - speaking tips for women (lose the quirky mannerisms, don't giggle) cause stir» on the ABAJournal site, and then look at the more than 50 comments on the piece.

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.

That said, the success of women's support organizations depends on women, especially senior women, being genuine about what their challenges have been, and listening to the current experience of more junior lawyers.

I'm guessing that some more conservative lawyers might believe that while flexible schedules are «alright for women,» that they're not appropriate for men.

Women lawyers have more difficulty finding mentors and sponsors partly because men often gravitate to working with younger male associates whose challenges they relate to more easily.

By contrast with other government lawyers who the Ontario government has voluntarily recognized, more than two - thirds of LAO lawyers are women.

Loretta Merritt is one of the few lawyers in Ontario who has more than 25 years of experience representing men, women and children in sexual assault and abuse lawsuits.

More recently, the Equality Commission has issued the MIT Workplace Center report, «Women Lawyers and Obstacles to Leadership,» that begins to tell the story: «The loss of women to leadership in the law follows directly from a failure in the profession to respond imaginatively to a dual need for time — time for work and time for families.&rWomen Lawyers and Obstacles to Leadership,» that begins to tell the story: «The loss of women to leadership in the law follows directly from a failure in the profession to respond imaginatively to a dual need for time — time for work and time for families.&rwomen to leadership in the law follows directly from a failure in the profession to respond imaginatively to a dual need for time — time for work and time for families.»

Attorney Pelletier has been selected to the Super Lawyers list for more than ten consecutive years and also has been selected to the 2017 Massachusetts Top 50 Women list, the 2017 New England Top 50 Women list and the 2017 Massachusetts Top 100 list.

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Holmes, an African - American female, may be the first black woman to lead a national law firm of more than 50 lawyers that is not women - or minority - owned, according to a press release.

Simmons has made up nine lawyers to its partnership, with women making up more than 40 % of the intake for the first time in the firm's history.

I'd be curious to see, for example, whether women lawyers manage to complete tasks more quickly precisely because they have less time.

According to the National Association of Women Lawyers, since the mid-1980s, more than 40 percent of law school graduates have been wWomen Lawyers, since the mid-1980s, more than 40 percent of law school graduates have been womenwomen.

Not only is assisting junior lawyers personally rewarding but mentoring also creates a more welcoming and collegial community within the firm — the kind of work environment these women want to foster.

Many lawyers — both women and men — would happily trade money for more time.