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Category Archives: Legal Profession
Advising Students Who Want to Practice Feminist Law
Of the professors on the blogroll here, I’m still one of the newer ones. So I’m looking to those who have been doing this for a longer time for some advice. A regular part of our job is … Continue reading
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Yolanda Young, “What Eric Holder’s Tenure at Covington & Burling Says About Blacks and BigLaw”
Op-Ed here at the HuffPo.
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Blaw Review at “On Being A Black Lawyer”
Here, and it’s full of great links.
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The Murders of Mexican Lawyers Linked to Murders of Women?
According to this blog: Two unidentified gunmen executed Mario Escobedo Salazar and his son Edgar Escobedo Anaya, also a lawyer, in their Juarez office on Tuesday, January 6. The double homicide comes nearly seven years after Chihuahua State Judicial Police … Continue reading
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“Fashion Advice for Lawyers”
Rebecca Bratspies has some here! Many women thought the normative right to wear pants to work had been thoroughly embedded in the culture well over thirty years ago. This might be a situation in which collective action by all women … Continue reading
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A Global First: Openly Gay Appointee to a Nation’s Highest Court
In a genuinely pathbreaking act, South African President Mothlanthe has appointed Edwin Cameron, a justice on the Supreme Court of Appeal, as a judge of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. Judge Cameron becomes the first openly … Continue reading
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Part-Time Lawyers Overwhelmingly Female
From the National Law Journal (here): Working part-time is an option few attorneys take, and the vast majority of those who do are women. According to figures compiled by the National Association for Law Placement, 5.6 percent of U.S. attorneys … Continue reading
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New coverage of the study which shows that “mothers” earn less than other lawyers.
Lawyers Weekly reports: “In a study of over 700 graduates of the University of Michigan Law School who graduated between 1970 and 1996 my statistical tests indicated that fathers earn 15 to 20 percent more than lawyers without children (a … Continue reading
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Women at the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm have reportedly been advised to wear high heels with skirts rather than trousers to”embrace their femininity.”
According to the WSJ Law Blog, anyway, which cites to the Daily Mail, so take that for what it is worth. Via Ms. JD.
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10 Things You May Not Have Learned In Law School
“10 things I didn’t learn in law school” is here, at A Public Defender. Don’t miss the Kingsfield clip at the end! Via Law Ingenue.
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Sue Magazine
One of the feature articles in the first issue is titled: Where are the Female Litigation Blawgers? Avoiding the omnipresent Bully Boys of the Blawgosphere, probably. The Sue Magazine homepage is here. –Ann Bartow
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Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s Legacy
The first part of a series at the New York Law Journal celebrating C.J. Kaye’s career is accessible here.
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“Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, was accused in a complaint by a retired court executive of breaking into a judicial computer security system in 2001 to restore access to pornographic Web sites.”
Detailed account by Cynthia Cotts at Bloomberg News here. Below is an excerpt: Ralph Mecham, who headed the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in Washington for 21 years until retiring in 2006, made the allegations in a Nov. 24 … Continue reading
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Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law
From the Program’s homepage: Lawyers need to be knowledgeable participants in the cultural and social debates such films provoke about the significance of our roles in the creation and maintenance of a just, democratic society. To fulfill this role, we … Continue reading
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New Blog: On Being A Black Lawyer
Text of post adapted from a promotional e-mail: Yolanda Young has launched the blog www.onbeingablacklawyer.com. You might remember her as the former Covington & Burling staff attorney who chronicled her experience as a minority attorney there in The Huffington Post … Continue reading
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Women and Intellectual Property law, a dialogue
An account of a fabulous round table discussion I took part in last week in Toronto, sponsored by Osgood Hall Law School (more precisely IP Osgoode, the Institute For Feminist Legal Studies, and Putting Theory To Practice (An International Speakers … Continue reading
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“As More Male Lawyers Use Flextime, its Acceptance Increases”
That’s this title of this article in the ABA Journal, below is an excerpt: More men are using flextime, even though it started as an accommodation for working mothers, according to Jennifer Halliday, the head of human resources at Arent … Continue reading
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Feminist Law Profs Among New ALI Members
The ALI has announced the names (here) of its newly-elected members, including Feminist Law Profs Ann Bartow (South Carolina), Miriam Cherry (McGeorge), Tony Infanti (Pitt), Margaret Russell (Santa Clara) and Margaret Taylor (Wake Forest). Congratulations! -Bridget Crawford
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Remember When Kozinski Called For The Investigation Into His Porn Site? Looks Like Something Fishy Is Going Down.
From Bloomberg News: San Francisco Court Puts Kozinski Complaint on Hold (Update1) By Cynthia Cotts Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — An ethics committee of the federal appeals court in San Francisco issued an order to stop an investigation of a lawyer’s … Continue reading
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The “Opt Out Revolution” 5 Years Later
On Friday, October 24, 2008, Lisa Belkin was the keynote speaker at a conference at Pace Law School on “Women and the Law: How Far We’ve Come and Where We Need to Go.” I was a fan of Belkin’s “Life’s … Continue reading
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Lawyers’ Salaries: Mommy Penalties, Daddy Bonuses, and Pure Gender Effects
Even among highly educated professionals, there is a persistent difference in the salaries of men and women. Untangling the reasons for that difference is quite difficult, and it involves as a threshold matter trying to figure out whether there are … Continue reading
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“Number of women, minority attorneys at big firms ticks up : but not in partnership ranks”
The National Law Journal Reports: The number of women and minority attorneys at major U.S. law firms is creeping up, but those groups remain significantly underrepresented in the partner ranks. That finding comes from a new report by the National … Continue reading
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“U.S. Judge Kozinski Accused of Ethics Breach by Lawyer Critic”
This article is a fairly detailed overview of the Kozinski porn story, written by Cynthia Cotts of Bloomberg News. And I am quoted in it. Cotts contacted me and asked if I would give her my opinion about some of … Continue reading
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How to get the ABA Journal to broadcast your claim that your estranged spouse gave you an STD.
Mention it in divorce filings. Or in any lawsuit, probably, since the increasingly ATL-like ABA Journal thinks this is newsworthy. (Yes I know that by linking to the report I increase the exposure somewhat but it is already a “most … Continue reading
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Kozinski Porn Site Update
Back in July Karen Gullo of Bloomberg News reported: Five federal judges will probe possible ethics violations by U.S. Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, head of a San Francisco-based appeals court, related to the posting of sexually explicit photos on the … Continue reading
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“A lawyer was suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him.”
Yeesh… The linked article also notes: “While she agreed to the performances, the client contended he touched her inappropriately during those dances, and she went to police in 2002 with sexual assault allegations.” I can guess why he was never … Continue reading
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Gender and Wage Disparity in the Legal Profession
From the ABA Journal, and blogged already by Ann (here): The highest earners in 2007 were men in legal occupations, who earned a median salary in 2007 of $105,233, according to a Census Bureau report. The online report issued in … Continue reading
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Anthony V. Alfieri, “Prosecuting the Jena Six”
Available here. These are the first two sentences: This Essay explores the racial norms animating the prosecution of the Jena Six in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, a set of norms I will call Jim Crow legal ethics. By Jim Crow legal … Continue reading
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“Being a Lawyer and Male Makes You a Top Earner, Census Report Shows”
Being a lawyer and female, not so much. From the ABA Journal: The highest earners in 2007 were men in legal occupations, who earned a median salary in 2007 of $105,233, according to a Census Bureau report. The online report … Continue reading
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“Space is Still Available! Register TODAY! Hotel Room Block Deadline is September 15!”
That’s the headline of an e-mail I received today from the ABA’s Section on Law Practice Management. It looks like that section is trying to fill seats at its Women Rainmakers Mid-Career Workshop to be held in Tucson, Arizona, … Continue reading
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If I ever exchange law for economics…
…I know what kind of economist I want to be. Via.
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Erika Abner, ““Situated Learning and the Role of Relationships: A Study of Mentoring in Law Firms”
Abstract: This article examines the multiple workplace influences, including mentors and other developmental relationships, on the growth and development of young lawyers from law school through the first few years of practice. Eleven lawyers in six different large multi-service law … Continue reading
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“Restoring Human Dignity: Women Lawyers Push Back Against Human Trafficking”
That’s the title of this article, with a short excerpt below: Every lawyer who works on the issue of human trafficking has a powerful memory of someone like Katya, whose life has been torn asunder by what is seen as … Continue reading
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“Perspectives, a Magazine For and About Women Lawyers”
Here. Via Bill Slomanson.
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ABA Video/Essay Competition, “Gender Diversity: Have We Solved the Problem?”
The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession has announced its Video/Essay Competition on the topic, “Gender Diversity: Have we solved the problem? If not, where do we go from here?” The competition is open to law students and … Continue reading
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Imagining Sadie ~ Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
“Imagining Sadie”is a short film produced by Penn Law students Haley Goldman, J.D. 2009; B.B. Liu, J.D. 2008; and Melissa Mao, J.D. 2009. It tells the story of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander as she exists in the imaginations of … Continue reading
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On Dressing for Judges
Nicole Black says: I’ve never heard a guy appearing before a women judge say: * “I tried to downplay my alpha-maleness by wearing a pink tie so she wouldn’t feel that I was trying to challenge her.” * “I tried … Continue reading
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Centennial Events at New England School of Law
This year the New England School of Law celebrates its centennial. It was founded in 1908 as a women’s law school. The school’s website (here) lists some of the great events planned to mark the occasion, including … Continue reading
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What Makes a Feminist Law Firm?
An article in today’s New York Lawyer, entitled Forming A “Feminist Law Practice,” describes an unusual Canadian law firm: While more women may be starting their own firms, Galldin Liew of Ottawa has taken the unique step of calling … Continue reading
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James Grimmelmann, “Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law”
An Opinionated Primer that provides an excellent overview of current copyright issues concerning access to laws for intelligent people who have inexplicably failed to devote their lives to the study of copyright law. Via Laboratorium, via Froomkin. –Ann Bartow
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Looks Like It Was Never About The Porn: Kozinski Accused By Lawyer Of Lying To Court
Many men in power seem to agree that there is nothing wrong with a judge enjoying porn that degrades women. As some Kozinski PR shill noted in a comment here, Larry Lessig tells us it’s all harmless fun. Bizarrely enough, … Continue reading
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Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Is Running A Misogynist Porn Site
As David Cohen noted below. Details here. He is not ethically competent to hear obscenity cases, I don’t think. He is trying to get his son to take the rap, apparently, and shift responsibility. I don’t buy it and I … Continue reading
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Ruining a Law Student’s Life for Fun and Profit?
Paul Gowder is right.
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When Defending an Unpopular Client Means Losing a Law License
From today’s NYTimes: Two prominent human rights lawyers have lost their licenses after volunteering to defend Tibetans charged in the violent anti-China protests that erupted in March. The decision comes as Chinese authorities are tightening scrutiny over dissidents in advance … Continue reading
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“Firm’s ‘Ever Argue With a Woman?’ Ad Provokes Debate on Stereotypes”
From the ABA Journal: Do men and women argue differently? And does that make a difference in the way they work as lawyers? That’s the suggestion of an ad by a women-owned Buffalo, N.Y., law firm that is attracting notice. … Continue reading
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“Justices Favor Workers in Cases of Bias Retaliation”
Linda Greenhouse report in the NYT: The Supreme Court on Tuesday adopted a broad reading of two federal civil rights laws to protect employees from retaliation when they complain about discrimination in the workplace. By margins of 7 to 2 … Continue reading
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“When All Efforts Fail to Retain Them, Unintentional Biases May Be at Work”
That’s the title of a recent article in the New York Law Journal by Ellen Ostrow. Below is an excerpt: … I strongly suspect that cultural assumptions – normative in law firms and in the larger social structure in which … Continue reading
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“Video From Conference on Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and Social Justice”
From the ACS Blog: ACS and the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities co-hosted a day-long conference on civil rights, civil liberties and social justice. Video from the morning plenary session on the impact of the upcoming election on … Continue reading
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Pregnancy Discrimination At Law Firms
Posts at Law and Letters, Concurring Opinions and at Workplace Prof Blog all discuss different aspects of a purported departure memo written by an associate at the San Francisco office of Paul, Hastings. The memo was initially posted at Above … Continue reading
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Book by Judi Craig: Women Attorneys Speak Out!
I really dislike book reviews like this one in “The Compleat Lawyer”: What is it like to be a female attorney in today’s world, particularly in comparison to being a male attorney? How are women lawyers treated–by clients, male attorneys, … Continue reading
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