Meet Gloria Allred, an Attorney Some Love to Hate

An attorney some love to hate, Gloria Allred sees herself as a voice for the powerless—albeit, very often these days, in high-profile cases. She so angered a California legislator, by handing him a chastity belt in response to his effort to obtain a ban on abortion decades ago, that he…

Oct 26, 2010 12:04 AM CDT

Ms.JD’s Education Fund to Help Two Ugandan Women Pursue Law Degrees

Ms.JD, a nonprofit dedicated to helping women advance in the legal profession, has created a Global Education Fund and awarded its first scholarships. The fund is intended to help women in developing nations pursue law degrees. Ms.JD will spend about $5,000 per year for five years to send Monica Athieno…

Oct 25, 2010 5:32 PM CDT

Review: Hilary Swank Shines as Sis Who Got JD to Free Sib, But Movie of True Tale Lacks Fire

Hilary Swank shines and Juliette Lewis is thrilling in a much-anticipated movie about a high-school dropout who went to college and earned a juris doctor degree in a successful effort to overturn her brother’s wrongful murder conviction. But the new film is otherwise duller than it should have been, writes…

Oct 15, 2010 1:07 PM CDT

Meet Marilyn Church, Courtroom Artist Who Depicted Woody Allen and John Gotti

For over 35 years Marilyn Church has sketched the courtroom personas of celebrities such as Woody Allen and well-known criminal defendants including Dapper Don John J. Gotti. And she still finds the work interesting. “It’s people’s lives on the line,” she tells the New York Times. “The lawyers get intense,…

Oct 12, 2010 10:25 PM CDT

Meet Michelle Paver, Ex-Partner Whose Solo Treks Led to Best-Selling Children’s Series

Michelle Paver is still renowned for her work ethic. But now she produces on her own initiative, as the author of a critically acclaimed, best-selling series of children’s books, more than a decade after she left her job as a partner at a London law firm to try her hand…

Oct 9, 2010 12:19 AM CDT

Israeli Attorney Is 1st Foreign Law School Grad to Become Wis. Lawyer, Under New Rule

An Israeli attorney who earned her law degree from Bar Ilan University Law School in her home country is the first graduate of a foreign law school to win admission to the Wisconsin bar under a new rule that no longer requires graduation from an American Bar Association-accredited institution. Deborah…

Oct 6, 2010 12:00 AM CDT

Family Ties

The private and public lives of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Oct 1, 2010 9:50 AM CDT

A Changing Landscape

In first court with three women, all eyes are on Justice Kagan

Oct 1, 2010 7:40 AM CDT

‘Scary Yelling’ Lawyer on Apprentice Show Quits Asst. Brooklyn DA Day Job

A woman who took a two-month leave of absence from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office to film episodes on The Apprentice with Donald Trump is quitting her $50,000-a-year day job. But Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy says she is doing so because her new-found celebrity is making it difficult for her to prosecute…

Sep 30, 2010 9:15 PM CDT

Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Wife, Mother & Gender Equity Advocate

It’s ironic that being a parent was what made law school easier for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. For a woman in 1950s America, motherhood was held out as the reason that she shouldn’t even have been there. “I think my life was more balanced,” says Justice Ginsburg of her years as…

Sep 24, 2010 9:21 PM CDT

Justice Ginsburg Chats About Balancing Career & Family When Her Children Were Small (Podcast)

Sep 21, 2010 5:54 PM CDT

Pillsbury Winthrop Tax Attorney May Have Been Victim of Domestic Murder-Suicide, Authorities Say

A 35-year-old tax associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has been found slain, apparently shot to death, in her Washington, D.C.-area home. Authorities are saying she may have been a victim of domestic violence. Clare Lenore Stoudt, a mother of five who graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008,…

Sep 14, 2010 6:08 PM CDT

Repeat Performance: Four Law Firms Make Working Mother’s Top 100 List

Four law firms are once again on Working Mother magazine’s list of the 100 best companies for work-life balance. Law firms on the list are: • Arnold & Porter, which also made Working Mother’s “best in class” list of the best companies for parental leave. New moms at the firm…

Sep 14, 2010 2:32 PM CDT

Family-Friendly Policies May Be ‘Double-Edged Sword’

Do family-friendly policies interfere with women’s ascent to equity partnership? That’s the question raised by the Careerist blog and an American Lawyer article on women equity partners in the country’s largest law firms. The Careerist notes a “big irony”: Some law firms with two-tier, family friendly policies had fewer female…

Sep 14, 2010 12:23 PM CDT

After 1-Year Wait, Judge Jane Stranch Is Confirmed by Senate for 6th Circuit Seat

After a record-breaking wait of more than one year, a Nashville, Tenn., attorney was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today for a seat on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate voted 71 to 21 in favor of Jane Branstetter Stranch, who has waited longer than any…

Sep 13, 2010 10:52 PM CDT