Sentences with phrase «women lawyers often»

My own observation is that women lawyers often leave without giving their firm an opportunity to even consider more flexible changes.

Not exact matches

«Often, you need to tell these women to bank as much money as they can because it's going to be a very short payday,» says Schwartz, the California paternity lawyer.

Senior male advocates and lawyers are often recognised and respected, but women, for example, are still not recognised as such and are majorly undermined.

Too often, the focus is on how law firms are aiming to boost inclusivity for women, LGBT lawyers or black and ethnic minorities.

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.

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.

Phyllis Horn Epstein, published 2004, 392 pages Discover how women lawyers in a wide variety of practice settings are meeting the challenges of competing in an often all - consuming profession without sacrificing their desire for a multidimensional life.

While both women and men need to exercise, get sufficient sleep, and eat well, women often need to pay attention to three other important elements to gain sufficient energy to lead demanding lives as lawyers.

A concern that I hear frequently from women lawyers is the lack of recognition and compensation for those partners — often women — who devote time to building up the human capital in their law firms.

(Of course, it was also a time when law firms often didn't hire Jewish lawyers or marginalized Jewish firms and when women and minority lawyers were also excluded, though some might argue that still hasn't changed.)

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).

Women lawyers will often look to mentoring as another way to develop more supportive relationships in the office.

With women comprising half of all law school graduates, law firms can not ignore the fact that these lawyers» career paths often differ from the traditional linear model.

Since lawyers are often asked to serve on community and corporate boards, the WLMP advocates for promoting the inclusion and promotion of women on board.

MCC: We recently ran an interview with a senior in - house lawyer at ConAgra who discussed the value of «authentic storytelling» for women navigating the often bumpy path to leadership in law.

«Women are still working to be taken seriously in this profession and being a racialized woman means that you often have even more to prove,» one female lawyer said.

For women lawyers, who often have young children during the early building years of a legal career, the traditional law firm «up or out» promotion system may not work out well.

[107] See Waits, supra note 31, at 1033 - 34 (explaining that family lawyers of both sexes often believe the myths that battered women enjoy being beaten or that they could leave the relationship if they wanted).