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Category Archives: Legal Profession
Does A Recent Article In The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part Deceptively Conflate Record Keeping And Censorship Intentionally?
A recent article in the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part does an insidious job of conflating a law requiring record keeping with government censorship in the context of pornography. Is the falsity intentional? The analysis certainly seems driven by a … Continue reading
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“Women Lawyers—Back on Track”
Nicole Black’s blog by this name is fantastic. Rather than cherry picking a few links, let me just recommend you go there and browse. –Ann Bartow
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Alison Stein on “Women Lawyers Blog for Workplace Equality: Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method”
Alison I. Stein (J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted to ssrn her article, “Women Lawyers Blog for Workplace Equality: Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method.” Here is the abstract: Legal scholars and academic commentators have … Continue reading
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“The Progress of Women Lawyers at Big Firms: Steadied or Simply Studied?”
The report by Judith S. Kaye & Anne C. Reddy’s paper is available here. It is a good resource for students and scholars who are beginning or updating studies about women in the legal profession. -Bridget Crawford
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Robin Fretwell Wilson, “Keeping Women in Business (and Family)”
Abstract: Work and family have become either/or propositions for a growing segment of young professionals in business, law, and medicine. A well documented opt-out revolution is underway, in which women professionals are leaving the workplace in droves. Less appreciated is … Continue reading
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Feminist Jurisprudence Day at Hamline, April 11, 2008!
Hamline University Klas Center St. Paul, Minnesota A day of dialogue on gender and the state. Students, legal practitioners, and community advocates encouraged to attend. Our list of panelists continues to grow. See the list below for details. Morning Panels … Continue reading
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There are seventeen different types of lawyers…
…at least according to the Legal Underground.
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What Women Lawyers Want Is For You To Stop Asking What We Want (and Do Your Own Laundry)
The New York State Bar Association has an on-line magazine called “The Complete Lawyer.” The most recent issue (available here) devotes plenty of megabytes to the question, “What Do Women Lawyers Really Want?” My first reaction to seeing … Continue reading
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New Law Firm Partners Are Mostly Male
Story at “Above the Law” (which happily seems to have stopped with the “hotties” contests), and see also.
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Law Firm Produces Sexual Harassment “Emergency Reaction” Flash Card.
Somehow it makes me want to Heimlich.
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“Hammer time for the Screwdriver”
I’m pretty sure this is satire.
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Wear Black in Support of Rule of Law in Pakistan
From the FLP mailbox, this message from our colleagues at the blog achievingourcountry. We are asking you to support and promote international solidarity for Black Flag Week, March 9 –15, in Pakistan. Aitzaz Ahsan, the President of the Supreme Court … Continue reading
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The SC Bar Exam Scandal: Still No Independent Investigation
Background information, if you don’t remember the details, is here. The reasons the official version of events seems utterly implausible are laid out pretty well here. The bad actors may get away with this, but their actions will not be … Continue reading
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Is This Commercial For A Law Firm Odd, Or Do I Only Think That Because I Don’t Watch Enough Television?
Watch it here.
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“Women Lawyers–Back on Track”
That’s the name of an excellent new blog written and administered by Nicole Black. Recent posts of interest include: Study: Gender gap in law students’ goals and Closing the LSAT Gender Gap. Check it out!
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Profile of Annie Coker, California’s First African-American Woman Lawyer
This month’s California Bar Journal contains an interesting profile of Annie Coker, who was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the practice of law in California. Coker received her law degree from Boalt in 1929 and was admitted … Continue reading
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Ask Female Lawyers Under 40
The February 2008 issue of ABA Journal reports these stats on the perceptions of women under 40. I’ve heard female lawyers who went to law school in the 1990’s and afterwards say that they find their senior female colleagues “more … Continue reading
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“For now the fun is over.”
From The American Lawyer: Who’s the hottest young woman lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom? Last week that question sent the New York firm into a bit of a tizzy. On February 4, Skadden Insider, a blog written … Continue reading
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In Florida you can advertise your law firm with panthers and lions, but not with space aliens, pit bulls, sharks, wolves, crocodiles, or piranhas.
So says this WSJ article, which also notes: … Searcy Denney is well aware of the Florida bar’s reach. In 2005, the personal-injury firm produced a series of TV spots with scenes including children running and lawyers at work in … Continue reading
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“Attorney General Reverses Curbs On Gay Group at Justice Department”
From the WaPo: Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued … Continue reading
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“Judge Reprimanded for Calling Three Black Female PDs ‘The Supremes'”
Jeebus, I thought that was a headline from an Onion article but it wasn’t. Here’s the ABA Journal account: A Maryland judge has been reprimanded for calling three black female public defenders”The Supremes”and telling a defendant to get”an experienced male … Continue reading
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The United Arab Emirates May Allow Female Judges
According to the this article in the Middle East Times, women in the UAE will soon be allowed to become judges. According to UAE official Mohammed bin Nakhira al-Dhaheri, “at present the law states that only a Muslim man … Continue reading
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“on being a public defender: reasons prosecutors make me scream”
Interesting if depressing post with this title at Woman of the Law.
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“Supreme Court First: A Female Special Master”
From The Blog of Legal Times: The Supreme Court today quietly helped shatter a glass ceiling you may not have known existed by appointing the first female special master in the Supreme Court’s history. She’s Kristin Linsley Myles of San … Continue reading
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Anyone see a problem with the South Carolina Attorney General enforcing election laws while working as co-chair of John McCain’s state campaign?
Read more here.
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Marc Bousquet, “How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation”
From this site: As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it’s like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees : including … Continue reading
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Lawyers Behaving Badly
Cripes: … A lawyer representing Ms. Hill in her bankruptcy case, Kenneth Steidl, of Steidl and Steinberg in Pittsburgh, wrote Countrywide a few weeks later stating that Ms. Hill had been deemed current on her mortgage during the period in … Continue reading
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Marina Angel, “Women Lawyers of All Colors Steered to Contingent Positions in Law Schools and Law Firms”
Abstract: This article examines the drastic organizational changes that have taken place in law firms and law schools in the last thirty years and how they have seriously disadvantaged women. Women have been almost 50% of law school graduating classes … Continue reading
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N.Y. judge finds lawyer’s ‘objectionable conduct’ toward opposing counsel reflected gender bias”
From the NY Law Journal: A New York judge has ordered court supervision of a lawyer for “objectionable conduct” toward a female opposing counsel who he said had a “cute little thing going on” during a deposition. According to transcripts … Continue reading
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As One Might Have Expected By Now…
The SCSC has scrubbed its website to obfuscate the names of the “secondary bar passers.” Meanwhile, Jim Chen has another post about this scandal here. Below is an excerpt: There really are two South Carolinas. In one, good people urge … Continue reading
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SC Supreme Court “not off the hook”
New article about the SC Bar scandal here. It notes: … In reversing the grades, the court apparently violated its own order in March banning re-grading after the scores were released by the S.C. Board of Law Examiners, which administers … Continue reading
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All Too Rare Judicial Decency
After Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga postponed a hearing on four defense motions in the same case, she explained that she needed”a lot more time”to get ready. Three weeks later, when Zuniga again had to postpone a hearing … Continue reading
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Jim Chen’s South Carolina Bar Exam Scandal Trilogy of Posts
Part One Part Two Part Three May I take this opportunity to congratulate everyone who passed the most recent SC bar examination on the merits, through hard work, and offer encouragement to those who failed the exam but accepted this … Continue reading
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The SC Supreme Court Explains Its Actions With Respect To The Bar Exam
Here. UPDATE: A local newspaper seems to retain some doubts.
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More on the SC Bar Scandal
Yes, I think “scandal” is probably the correct word. The latest is here. For still more background, see this. –Ann Bartow
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More About The South Carolina Bar Examination Situation
As noted previously, circumstances related to the grading of the recent South Carolina Bar are troubling, as reported recently by the ABA Journal. One blog provides a sourced chronology of events here. Self described “ethics watchdogs” have not publicly taken … Continue reading
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A Six-Pack of Bar Exam Disaster Brewing in New York
Today the New York State Board of Law Examiners issued this press release: The Board examined a record 10,907 candidates during two days of testing conducted on July 24-25, 2007. *** Over 5,000 candidates chose to take the essay portion … Continue reading
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“1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available.”
“Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will … Continue reading
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South Carolina Bar Examination Weirdness
Five days after releasing the results of last July’s Bar Exam results, the South Carolina Judicial Department decided that 20 additional bar takers should pass. This was the first time that graduates of the new Charleston School of Law could … Continue reading
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Scary…
This and this. Via Eric Muller, who would be an excellent lawyer to have during tough times. –Ann Bartow
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New and Good Things Happening at Ms. JD
From the FLP mailbox: Ms. JD wants you to help us promote women in the legal profession! Male or female, 1L or 3L, we hope that you’ll turn to Ms. JD to find and ask questions on interviewing, taking the … Continue reading
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Buliding A Better Profession: Ranking Law Firms On Diversity
From this site: building a better legal profession is a national grassroots movement that seeks market-based workplace reforms in large private law firms. by publicizing firms’ self-reported data on billable hours, pro bono participation, and demographic diversity, we draw attention … Continue reading
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“More than a year has passed since a black lawyer in private practice stood at the lectern in the elegant courtroom and spoke the traditional opening line, “Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court.””
That’s a sentence from this article, which also notes: … Several factors account for the dearth of minorities at the court: continuing problems in recruiting and retaining blacks and other minorities at the top law firms; the rise of a … Continue reading
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Elizabeth M. Glazer, “When Obscenity Discriminates”
The abstract: When public indecency statutes outlaw gender nonconformity, obscenity discriminates; when movie ratings censor representations of sexual minorities, obscenity discriminates, and discriminates on the basis of their status as sexual minorities. This Article addresses obscenity doctrine’s infliction of first … Continue reading
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Federal Loan Forgiveness Bill Signed Into Law
I blogged about this bill last month. President Bush signed it into law last Thursday. Equal Justice Works has a good summary of the bill here and the ABA has an editorial about the bill and the importance of public … Continue reading
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Above The Law Finds Hilarity In Law Firm Lactation Rooms
Yep, more humorless feminism. The jokey and idiotic ATL post is here, and naturally many of the comments are hideous. You are probably expecting the sexism, but maybe not the racism. I think lactation rooms are great and also important … Continue reading
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Federal Loan Forgiveness Bill
Great news for current or aspiring public interest lawyers. A federal loan forgiveness bill has been approved by veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress. Here’s the notice from the ABA: The unattractive-sounding “income-contingent repayment option” is to be amended … Continue reading
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Where Are You Ms. JD?
Remember the “Ms. JD” website (logo below), launched with great fanfare last academic year? (Ann previously blogged it here.) The site describes itself as a service to “women in law school and the legal profession”: Concerned by the … Continue reading
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Anyone spot any possible ethical or impending career difficulties?
Follow the comments of the “Criminal Defense Lawyer” at the NY Robing Room and you will notice the trend to opine negatively regarding women judges. Here is a sample: Hon. Diane Kiesel (Bronx) The nicest thing I can say is … Continue reading
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Wonder What Might Give A Male Criminal Defense Attorney A Laugh?
This apparently did.
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