Women in Law
Author | : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein |
Publisher | : Quid Pro Books |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2012-03-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1610271017 |
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Author | : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein |
Publisher | : Quid Pro Books |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2012-03-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1610271017 |
Author | : Virginia G. Drachman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674006942 |
Ranging from the 1860s when women first sought entrance into law to the 1930s when most institutional barriers had crumbled, this book defines the contours of women's integration into the most rigidly gendered profession.
Author | : Ulrike Schultz |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2003-04-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1847312071 |
Women lawyers,less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key questions asked in this first comprehensive study of women in the world's legal professions. Answers are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, using a variety of conceptual frameworks. 26 contributions by 25 authors present and evaluate the situation of women in the legal profession in both common and civil law countries in the developed world. 15 countries from four continents are covered: the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea, and Japan. The focus ranges from judges and public prosecutors, to law professors, lawyers (attorneys), notaries and company lawyers. National differences are clearly in evidence, but so are common features cutting across national boundaries. Experience of glass ceilings and revolving doors is as widespread and as real as success stories of women lawyers pursuing their own projects.
Author | : Jill Norgren |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1479835358 |
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Law |
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Includes lists of members of the association.
Author | : Mona Harrington |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780394580258 |
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, Harrington pinpoints the barriers women face when they claim equal professional authority--among them the "men's club" ambience, the focus on billable hours, distorted media images, and sexual harassment.
Author | : Patricia E. Salkin |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781590319840 |
Albany Law School has hosted an annual Kate Stoneman Day since 1994 to celebrate the first woman admitted to the Bar in New York, who was also the first woman to attend Albany Law School. This important book shares the inspiration, advice and experiences of pioneering women in the legal profession who continue to pave the way for others. Their speeches, delivered at Kate Stoneman Day and published here, are from our leading women lawyers-many of them active members of the American Bar Association as well as judges, professors and partners in major law firms. Book jacket.
Author | : Lani Guinier |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1997-12-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807044056 |
"The challenge, then, is not to invent new victims or new scapegoats but to mobilize America for the future. What would it take to ensure that all of us can succeed at getting the job done, the problem solved, and the future more secure?" As a student at Yale Law School in 1974, Lani Guinier attended a class with a white male professor who addressed all the students, male and female, as "gentlemen." To him the greeting was a form of honorific, evoking the values of traditional legal education. To her it was profoundly alienating. Years later Guinier began a study of female law students with her colleagues, Michelle Fine and Jane Balin, to try to understand the frustrations of women law students in male-dominated schools. Women are now entering law schools in large numbers, but too often many still do not feel welcome. As one says, "I used to be very driven, competitive. Then I started to realize that all my effort was getting me nowhere. I just stopped caring. I am scarred forever." After interviewing hundreds of women with similar stories, the authors conclude that conventional one-size-fits-all approaches to legal education discourage many women who could otherwise succeed and, even more, fail to help all students realize their full potential as legal problem-solvers. In Becoming Gentlemen Guinier, Fine, and Balin dare us to question what it means to become qualified, what a fair goal in education might be, and what we can learn from the experience of women law students about teaching and evaluating students in general. Including the authors' original study and two essays and a personal afterword by Lani Guinier, the book challenges us to work toward a more just society, based on ideals of cooperation, the resources of diversity, and the values of teamwork.
Author | : Angela Han |
Publisher | : Women Lawyers Book LLC |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2022-02-27 |
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Meet 23 women lawyers who are designing their own path and defining success on their terms! And they want you to do the same. Women in Law Discovering the True Meaning of Success chronicles the stories of 23 women lawyers as each one embarks on her own personal journey of self-love, self-reflection, and self-awareness to define for herself what success means in law-and in life. THIS IS THE PERFECT BOOK FOR PRELAW STUDENTS, LAW STUDENTS, AND NEW LAWYERS! Each story is as unique as the author, expressing the trials and tribulations leading up to a defining moment in each author's life. Some women share heartbreaking stories of challenges they have overcome, while others share stories of how they gained the strength to make the choice, in some cases, to follow a different path. Women in Law provides uplifting and triumphant recollections with words of encouragement for those considering a career in law. Pre-law students, law students, and new lawyers will find these stories particularly poignant and helpful. In fact, women in any profession will find this book uplifting and encouraging as they embark on their own path toward defining success for themselves. Each story depicts a particularly evocative discovery of what is meaningful and how defining success is a personal endeavor. The authors are confident that Women in Law will help dispel the myths surrounding the practice of law and its traditional definition of "success" while honoring the sacrifices that many women have made, and feel they must continue to make, to reach the pinnacle. Proceeds from Women in Law are being donated to the charity, Ms. JD, https: //ms-jd.org/, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the success of women in law school and the legal profession. Women in Law contains a foreword written by Heidi K. Brown, author of The Introverted Lawyer, who says, "The authors in this book aspire to inspire the next generation of lawyers to realize: The law is a new language." The accomplished women lawyers behind Women in Law hail from BigLaw, small law, and everything in between, including alternative careers to traditional law practice. They are: Michelle Banks Bellina Barrow Jennifer Belmont Jennings Jenn Deal Rebecca Evans Bhavna Fatnani Pat Gillette Zeynep Goral Tatia Gordon-Troy Angela Han Talar Herculian Coursey Marta Keller Elena Kohn Maja Larson Nhu-Y Le Krista Lynn Lisa Quinn O'Flaherty Christine Payne Suzie Smith Jamie Sternberg Heather Stevenson Jamie Szal Lauren Tetenbaum PRAISE for Women in Law: "This book is an indispensable guide to help you navigate through any challenge or obstacle you may encounter during your career." --Roberta "Bobbi" Liebenberg, former Chair, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and Senior Partner, Fine, Kaplan and Black "This is a book about women who are lawyers; but its message is important for all lawyers and even for all professionals working during this time when how we work and why we work is changing." --Dr. Catherine McGregor MCMI ChMC, Management Consultant and author "The rich, diverse voices of women attorneys beckon the reader to reflect on the many experiences shared, and then seem to invite the reader to write their own unique story ..." --Michele Mayes, General Counsel, New York Public Library "There are countless ways to use the skills that accompany a legal education. The stories in this book demonstrate that you can create your own definition of success. As these women share, the first step is to silence your fears." --Lauren Rikleen, President, Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership, and author of The Shield of Silence
Author | : Herma Hill Kay |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520976460 |
The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage they set for American democracy. When it comes to breaking down barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name speaks volumes for itself—but, as she clarifies in the foreword to this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do not know. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and Ginsburg’s closest professional colleague, wrote Paving the Way to tell the stories of the first fourteen female law professors at ABA- and AALS-accredited law schools in the United States. Kay, who became the fifteenth such professor, labored over the stories of these women in order to provide an essential history of their path for the more than 2,000 women working as law professors today and all of their feminist colleagues. Because Herma Hill Kay, who died in 2017, was able to obtain so much first-hand information about the fourteen women who preceded her, Paving the Way is filled with details, quiet and loud, of each of their lives and careers from their own perspectives. Kay wraps each story in rich historical context, lest we forget the extraordinarily difficult times in which these women lived. Paving the Way is not just a collection of individual stories of remarkable women but also a well-crafted interweaving of law and society during a historical period when women’s voices were often not heard and sometimes actively muted. The final chapter connects these first fourteen women to the “second wave” of women law professors who achieved tenure-track appointments in the 1960s and 1970s, carrying on the torch and analogous challenges. This is a decidedly feminist project, one that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for tirelessly and admired publicly in the years before her death.