We received this e-mail notice of a new on-line community concerned with gender issues in legal education and the legal profession:
This past year, a group of women from law schools across the country met to discuss gender issues both at law school and in the legal profession. This conversation led to the idea to start an online community that law students and professionals across the country could use to explore and receive information about the state of women in the profession. At this time, the website, entitled Ms. JD, is ready to emerge as the only online forum of its kind.
Ms. JD is poised to unite female law students and professionals, and we would like to invite students from your school to join our efforts to promote gender equality in law school and the legal profession. If you are interested in interviewing women legal professionals, writing about your own experience in law school, or assisting Ms. JD to gather content and promote its agenda of increasing the representation of women in law, then we invite you to visit our website, ms-jd.org, to learn more about us, or to contact outreach@ms-jd.org for more information. In addition, Ms. JD and Yale Law Women are hosting a launch conference for Ms. JD on March 31 at Yale Law School entitled “Legally Female.” More information about the conference is available at legallyfemale.org. We hope that many of you will be able to attend! The Ms. JD Board of Directors.
-Posted by Bridget Crawford
this is an excelent example of how the net can be used to unite and inform us on important matters. fun is fun but all forms of a tools use must be realized. good luck and good attendance.