Sentences with phrase «woman called to the bar»

I'd been invited by the Women's Legal Forum and Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association to speak at an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first woman called to the bar in Alberta, Lillian Ruby Clements.

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At the bar, women employed as escorts wore numbers and the employees would call the number of the woman they wanted to sit with, according to The Information.

One day during college, she walked into a bakery in Bar Harbor called Morning Glory, and there were all these punk - rock women wearing black, listening to Patti Smith and mixing dough for scones — whatever she had to do to get into that, she would do it.

Deadspin reports that according to witnesses, Jans sexually harassed several women while drunk in a bar, slapping one on the butt, pushing another's head toward his crotch, and calling another a «bitch.»

A 23 - year - old woman was allegedly raped in an Albany man's apartment in early November after her friend called police and told them a man had abducted her moments earlier following a night of drinking at a nearby bar, according to court records and law enforcement sources.

Miner, the first woman to serve as mayor of any of the so - called «Big Five» cities, cruised to re-election in 2013, (without Cuomo's endorsement), but is barred by term limits from running again.

SUN SENTINEL — June 9 — Cable television provider Comcast is trying to woo crowds of singles to area bars and sign them up for a new dating service, called Dating on Demand, that allows men and women to create free video personal ads that will air in households in South Florida.

Many men and women are already tired of what they call the «bar scene» and if they could find quality dating sites then they are willing to give online dating a try.

Unlike before when women used to call on you at your workplace or in bars, your current circumstance may not permit such, and your present friends could be those you have had for years.

There are bars and cleavage, as well as the call to prayer echoing off the rooftops five times a day and women in hijabs.

Paul noted that of the 17 lawyers not in practice at the time of the survey, 12 are women and 11 were called to the Bar in the past 10 years.

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.

She was called to the Alberta Bar 100 years ago and was the first woman lawyer in Alberta.

One recent initiative is the «Call to Action» issued by the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women, which seeks to promote women's leadership in the legal profession by committing firms to increase the number of women in partnership and leadership rWomen, which seeks to promote women's leadership in the legal profession by committing firms to increase the number of women in partnership and leadership rwomen's leadership in the legal profession by committing firms to increase the number of women in partnership and leadership rwomen in partnership and leadership roles.

Called to the Bar of Ontario in 2003, Rebecca works as a lawyer, and has previously researched and published in a variety of areas, including youth criminal justice law, law practice management and equality issues relating to women and members of other historically marginalized groups in the legal profession as well as contributing as author and co-editor to several Demeter Press anthologies.

The Women's Bar Foundation recruits, trains, and mentors volunteer attorneys to respond to more than 2,000 calls for assistance from low - income individuals throughout Massachusetts annually.

To help benchmark our success, the firm is a signatory to the Chicago Bar Association's Call to Action on Women's Leadership in the Legal Profession and to the Statement of Goals of Philadelphia Law Firms and Legal Departments for the Retention and Promotion of WomeTo help benchmark our success, the firm is a signatory to the Chicago Bar Association's Call to Action on Women's Leadership in the Legal Profession and to the Statement of Goals of Philadelphia Law Firms and Legal Departments for the Retention and Promotion of Wometo the Chicago Bar Association's Call to Action on Women's Leadership in the Legal Profession and to the Statement of Goals of Philadelphia Law Firms and Legal Departments for the Retention and Promotion of Wometo Action on Women's Leadership in the Legal Profession and to the Statement of Goals of Philadelphia Law Firms and Legal Departments for the Retention and Promotion of Wometo the Statement of Goals of Philadelphia Law Firms and Legal Departments for the Retention and Promotion of Women.

During the ABA Midyear Meeting in San Diego in February, the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations (NCWBA) and the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession sponsored a program called «Why GOOD Guys — Guys Overcoming Obstacles to Diversity — Are So Important.»

The problem had gotten so bad that last year the New York Bar Association had called for initiatives to address the situation, and they released a scathing report that showed women make up 19.7 percent of the survey - takers» partners and that minority leadership was at 7.1 percent in 2015.

Bertha Wilson 1959 — Called to the Bar in Ontario 1968 — Named first female partner of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt 1975 — Appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal 1982 — First woman appointed to Supreme Court of Canada 1988 — Morgentaler decision on abortion 1990 — Lavallee decision on battered women's syndrome

So it is that whereas we recruit women to the Bar in equal numbers and retain them in equal numbers until they are about twelve to fifteen years» call, thereafter the proportion of women at the Bar drops sharply.

Many of the persons reading my words are women, called to the Bar, who never ever would have had that opportunity under Sharia Law.

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President Trump just doubled down on blocking women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood — calling on Congress to bar Planned Parenthood from participating in ANY health care program, including Medicaid, HIV programs, Zika prevention programs, and our nation's only birth control program.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today commended Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - NY) for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2010 to bar future administrations from reinstituting the so - called Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which blocked access to basic health care for women worldwide.