Careers For Women In The Legal Profession

Author : Susan Smith Blakely
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454804680

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Best Friends at the Bar by Susan Smith Blakely Pdf

Best Friends at the Bar: What Women Need to Know about a Career in the Law addresses the realities of law firm practice, especially in large firms, and gives pre-law students, law students, and new attorneys a realistic view of the opportunities and challenges most often encountered by women lawyers. Drawing on her many years of practicing law and mentoring young lawyers and with the help of other women in all areas of the legal profession, her "best friends at the bar", Susan Smith Blakely strives to help young women entering the legal profession begin their careers with open eyes and a more level playing field than women lawyers of past generations. This concise paperback, which is written in a direct, personal tone that instantly engages the reader Explores the experiences of the author and more than 60 private and public sector attorneys, judges, law school career counselors, and law firm managing partners who address a wide variety of issues as trustworthy mentors Candidly speaks to the issues women face in law firm practice and provides invaluable advice for planning enduring and satisfying careers in the law Critically addresses business, cultural, and personal conditions and offers strategies for dealing with them, including how to manage expectations in the context of actual job conditions and the dynamics of personal/professional life struggles Full of helpful advice from attorneys, judges, law school career counselors, and law firm managing partners with wide and varied experiences, this book will be an invaluable resource to any woman planning a career in the law.

Author : Juvenal Londoño Angel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Women lawyers
ISBN : UIUC:30112022913773

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Careers for Women in the Legal Profession by Juvenal Londoño Angel Pdf

Author : Jean McKenzie Leiper
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sex role in the work environment
ISBN : UCSC:32106018813961

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Bar Codes by Jean McKenzie Leiper Pdf

Bar Codes documents twelve years in the lives of a group of Ontario women lawyers. Shakespeare’s Portia provides an overarching metaphor, reminding readers of women’s attempts to enter into an unfamiliar culture. Sometimes the simple act of robing can enhance a woman lawyer’s identity and grant her legitimacy. Like Portia, she is transformed from "unlessoned girl" to wise counsel. However, women also face a countervailing image, that of the powerful professional gentleman symbolizing excellence. Women encounter the norms of the legal culture when they enter law school and repeatedly throughout their careers -- in institutions anchored in masculine customs. Because competing work and family responsibilities continue to burden professional women, time is a strong theme in this book. Temporal stress reflects concerns about family and friends, periodic sleep deprivation, and the constant pressure of overloaded schedules. Time is a form of social capital, a gendered resource that favors men in the profession. Professional practices affect women’s career paths, and this book examines ways in which careers are sometimes broken, twisted, or attenuated, adding to mounting evidence of marked gender differences in opportunities for advancement. Bar Codes will appeal to scholars in gender, law and society, the sociology of work, not to mention women lawyers.

Author : Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841133195

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Women in the World's Legal Professions by Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw Pdf

Based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this is the first comprehensive study of women in the world's legal professions.

Author : Sheila McIntyre,Elizabeth Sheehy
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780776618593

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Calling for Change by Sheila McIntyre,Elizabeth Sheehy Pdf

Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only reflect critically on the gains, losses, and barriers to change of the past decade, but also provide blueprints for political action. Academics, community activists, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff explore how egalitarian change is occurring and/or being impeded in their particular contexts. Each of these unique voices offers lessons from their individual, collective, and institutional efforts to confront and counter the interrelated forms of systemic inequality that compromise women's access to education and employment equity within legal institutions and, ultimately, to equal justice in Canada.

Author : Ailey Bosch,Rachel Brushfield,Yolanda Cartusciello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1783583665

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Career Development for Women Lawyers by Ailey Bosch,Rachel Brushfield,Yolanda Cartusciello Pdf

For women, by women - to help female lawyers progress their careers in an industry still struggling with gender equality.

Author : Roberta D. Liebenberg,Stephanie A. Scharf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Women lawyers
ISBN : OCLC:1127910952

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Walking Out the Door by Roberta D. Liebenberg,Stephanie A. Scharf Pdf

"Authored by Roberta D. Liebenberg and Stephanie A. Scharf, the report includes input from more than 1,200 big firm lawyers who have been in practice for at least 15 years, and shows that women surveyed were far more likely than men to report factors that blocked their "access to success," including lacking access to business development opportunities, being perceived as less committed to career and being denied or overlooked for promotion."--Publisher's website.

Author : Tsedale M. Melaku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538107935

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You Don't Look Like a Lawyer by Tsedale M. Melaku Pdf

You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism highlights how race and gender create barriers to recruitment, professional development, and advancement to partnership for black women in elite corporate law firms.

Author : Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw,Margaret Thornton,Rosemary Auchmuty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509923137

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Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy by Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw,Margaret Thornton,Rosemary Auchmuty Pdf

In the past fifteen years there has been a marked increase in the international scholarship relating to women in law. The lives and careers of women in legal practice and the judiciary have been extensively documented and critiqued, but the central conundrum remains: Does the presence of women make a difference? What has been largely overlooked in the literature is the position of women in the legal academy, although central to the changing culture. To remedy the oversight, an international network of scholars embarked on a comparative study, which resulted in this path-breaking book. The contributors uncover fascinating accounts of the careers of the academic pioneers as well as exploring broader theoretical issues relating to gender and culture. The provocative question as to whether the presence of women makes a difference informs each contribution.

Author : Marilyn Tucker,Georgia A. Niedzielko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Women lawyers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061126525

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Options and Obstacles by Marilyn Tucker,Georgia A. Niedzielko Pdf

Author : Sheelagh O'Donovan-Polten
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802083927

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The Scales of Success by Sheelagh O'Donovan-Polten Pdf

An unprecedented window into the most private thinking about success of four male and four female middle-aged lawyers, each of whom is widely recognised to be at the apex of the legal profession in Canada.

Author : Liz Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351861472

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Life After Law by Liz Brown Pdf

Written by Harvard-trained ex-law firm partner Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, Life After Law shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how long they have been in or out of practice, to find work they truly love. Brown herself moved from a high-powered partnership into an alternative career and draws from this experience, as well as that of dozens of former practicing attorneys, in the book. She acknowledges that changing careers is hard much harder than it was for most lawyers to get their first legal job after law school but it can ultimately be more fulfilling for many than a life in law. Life After Law offers an alternative framework and valuable analytic tools for potential careers to help launch lawyers into new fields and make them attractive hires for non-legal employers.

Author : Jean McKenzie Leiper
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774840217

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Bar Codes by Jean McKenzie Leiper Pdf

Bar Codes examines women lawyers' attempts to reconcile their professional obligations with other aspects of their lives. It charts the life courses of women who constitute a first wave -- an avant-garde -- in a profession designed by men, for men, where formal codes of conduct and subtle cultural norms promote masculine values. A thorough analysis of women’s encounters with this culture provides some answers and raises more questions about the kinds of stresses that have become extreme in the lives of many Canadian women. This book adds to mounting evidence of marked gender differences in opportunities for advancement, demonstrating that many men still enjoy freedom from domestic responsibilities while women continue to face multiple barriers in their quest for career success. As this study shows, change is under way in the legal profession and women can succeed in reaching high levels within it, but the law remains, in many ways, a masculine institution.

Author : Hannah Brenner Johnson,Renee Knake Jefferson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479811960

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Shortlisted by Hannah Brenner Johnson,Renee Knake Jefferson Pdf

Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women. In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.

Author : Susan Ehrlich Martin,Nancy C. Jurik
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452236667

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Doing Justice, Doing Gender by Susan Ehrlich Martin,Nancy C. Jurik Pdf

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations is a highly readable, sociologically grounded analysis of women working in traditionally male dominant justice occupations of law, policing, and corrections. This Second Edition represents not only a thorough update of research on women in these fields, but a careful reconsideration of changes in justice organizations and occupations and their impact on women's justice work roles over the past 40 years.