Atlanta lawyer Linda A. Klein began her two-year term as chair of the ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates at the conclusion of the House’s session on…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appearing Monday before the ABA House of Delegates, called for a return to the less contentious U.S. Supreme Court confirmations that she experienced 17 years ago.
The same weekend Elena Kagan was sworn in as the fourth female justice ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, five other female lawyers were honored at the ABA’s…
The last three women nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court—Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Harriet Miers—have more than one thing in common. They are all single and childless.
When Judith Sheindlin agreed in 1993 to allow a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to sit quietly in the back of the New York courtroom in which she worked…
With 23 years of legal experience, Laurie-Allen Shumaker thought she would soon find another job when she was laid off in January 2009 from her position as a shopping center…
As hot weather encourages everyone to shed some clothing, it’s easier than usual for young women in law offices to become fashion victims. (Men have the advantage of a customary…
A 63-year-old security guard being sought for questioning as a person of interest in the slaying of his ex-wife over the weekend has been charged with making terroristic threats several…
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