A laid-off Eversheds associate who says he should have been rated higher than a colleague on maternity leave has won a bias judgment against the British law firm.
When 53-year-old Robin Wood begins law school this fall at the University of Maryland, she’ll have a mentor waiting: her 25-year-old daughter, Portia, who will be a 3L.
After this morning’s announcement by President Barack Obama that he had selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court…
The embarrassing deposition was apparently worthwhile: A Duke University law graduate now serving as Connecticut’s secretary of state has won a court ruling that she has sufficient legal experience to…
A new survey of women partners at regional and international law firms finds that it’s difficult to be directly promoted into equity partnership and hard to hang on to it.
As a successful New York attorney, it was the rule, rather than the exception, for her to work both Saturday and Sunday every week, writes an attorney identified only as…
Professional women with advanced degrees in medicine, law and business will earn on average $2 million less in their lifetimes than men in their same graduating classes.
The economy seems to be on the upswing again for a number of women associates who were promoted to partner this year at major law firms: More than one-third of…
Sara Smith had been in practice only three years after earning her law degree from the University of Houston in 1988 before she decided to pursue a different career—the ministry.
As one of the top trial lawyers in California, partner Linda Smith of O’Melveny & Myers was an obvious choice to work on a major antitrust case against Intel Corp.…
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