Sentences with phrase «number of women lawyers»

The start - up was launched in response to the increasing number of women lawyers striking out as sole practitioners and who also wanted to embrace flexible working conditions.

Leading the transformation is an extraordinary increase in the percentage and number of women lawyers.

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

The Law Society of British Columbia today is launching its Justicia Project aimed at increasing the number of women lawyers in private practice.

For TBD3, we switched to an open application process and saw the number of women lawyer applicants jump.

Not exact matches

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.

Washington also turned in powerful performances in a number of other films, such as Mississippi Masala (1991), as a man in love with an Indian woman; Philadelphia (1993), as a slightly homophobic lawyer who takes on the cause of an AIDS - stricken litigator (Tom Hanks); and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), as a 1940s private detective, Easy Rawlins.

She has served in leadership roles in a number of civic and professional organizations, including as president of the Nashville - chapter of the Lawyers» Association for Women.

[33] At the time Smith was doing research for his book, he visited fourteen cities and met with a many people, including a limited number of women lay lawyers.

While women make up 47 % of all lawyers, this number -LSB-...]

That report looks at the numbers of lawyers in the firm broken down into specific groups such as indigenous black, Mi» kmaq, persons with disabilities, women, and visible minorities.

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.

However, the number of senior women lawyers in private practice is increasing so slowly that it will be a long time to wait for greater female judicial representation if appointments stay locked below the percentage of women in the practice of law.

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

Christopher Stephens, chairman of the JAC, said: «Women are applying and being selected in increasing numbers; black and minority ethnic lawyers are applying in larger numbers and are doing well in entry - level posts and solicitors are performing better in entry and middle ranking posts.

She said while the number of men and women going to school to become criminal lawyers is roughly equal, she's noticed an alarming rate of women leaving the field — and not all are leaving for family reasons.

Nearly 60 per cent of the youngest lawyers in Ontario are women, a significant demographic shift driven in large part by the increasing number of «racialized» women entering the profession, according to a report released by the Law Society of Upper Canada last week.

«We are witnessing a surge in the number of racialized lawyers mirroring the surge of women lawyers that took place 20 years ago.»

According to a 2014 survey by the National Association of Women Lawyers, lack of business development and high attrition rates are the two main reasons the number of female equity partners has not significantly increased.

During my career female lawyers have been over represented in relation to their actual numbers within the practice of family law, for reasons both good (women are typically more interested than men in issues regarding family) and bad (family law is often wrongly perceived of as an unimportant, unserious or disreputable practice area that the power structure — i.e. men — don't mind woman dominating).

She serves as a member of a number of organizations such as the National College of DUI Defense, Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Virginia Women's Attorneys Association, and the Fairfax and Loudoun County Bar Associations.

A second, more far - reaching diversity initiative, «A Call to Action: Diversity in the Legal Profession,» asks corporate law departments to compel law firms to take action to increase the number of women and minority lawyers they hire and retain.

She said while the number of men and women going to school to become criminal lawyers is roughly equal, she's noticed an alarming rate of women leaving the field...

In our larger offices, Hartford, Boston, and Stamford, our women lawyers have hosted a number of networking events, such as wine tastings and a chocolate - making class, to which women contacts and clients from the area are invited; local nonprofit organizations are honored at these events and attendees bring in - kind donations to support the charities.

They target a limited number of experienced women (and sometimes minority lawyers) who are top performers, and they specifically emphasize career advancement activities rather than educational, supportive or advisory aspects of mentoring.

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In the USA the number of businessmen and women who do not use a lawyer and continue on their own reaches 80 %.

Jemma is a member of a number of organisations including the London Criminal Courts Solicitors» Association, the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers» Association, the Extradition Lawyers» Association, the Association of Women Solicitors, the Young Fraud Lawyers Association, JUSTICE and Liberty.

The good news is this: the number of in - house women, lawyers of color and white males committed to diversity is growing and those in - house lawyers are expecting excellent talent that is also diverse.

In 2017, Women lawyers at Weil were recognized for their leadership and success with an impressive number of awards.

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.

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... [more]

Phyllis Jones is featured in this American Lawyer story about women litigators who have developed successful careers despite the low numbers of women trial lawyers.

After many years of underrepresentation, in 2015 visible minority members and women were elected in numbers proportionate to their shares of Ontario lawyers.