Sentences with phrase «powerful women lawyers»

Understanding powerful women lawyers as necessary outsiders may be an important first step to bringing them into the community.

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• 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.»

Bloom, a lawyer who built a reputation on representing women in high - profile sexual harassment cases against powerful men, came under fire from critics.

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.

Farmida has collected many accolades for her work and has twice been awarded «Best in Banking and Finance» at IFLR's European Women in Business Law Awards; named one of the five most powerful Muslim women in the UK at the inaugural Muslim Women Power List published by The Times; and named Commercial Lawyer of the Year by the Society of Asian LawWomen in Business Law Awards; named one of the five most powerful Muslim women in the UK at the inaugural Muslim Women Power List published by The Times; and named Commercial Lawyer of the Year by the Society of Asian Lawwomen in the UK at the inaugural Muslim Women Power List published by The Times; and named Commercial Lawyer of the Year by the Society of Asian LawWomen Power List published by The Times; and named Commercial Lawyer of the Year by the Society of Asian Lawyers.

I spend every day coaching and consulting with lawyers on strategies for branding and business development and from where I sit... Sheryl Sandberg has words of wisdom that are particularly powerful for women lawyers.

She also has been named by Fortune as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business, by Chambers USA as a «star individual» in the area of products liability, by Crain's New York Business as one of the 25 most influential women in New York business and by Lawdragon Magazine as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the country.

Melissa Kennedy, executive vice president, chief legal officer and public affairs, is one of 13 lawyers on the list of Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 for 2016.