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

Gender Rather Than Productivity Explains Lower Pay for Women Partners, Study Suggests

Women partners are no less productive than their male counterparts when it comes to generating revenue per lawyer, but the women partners are paid less, a new study says. The study looked at gross revenues and profits at America’s 200 largest law firms from 2002 and 2007, using numbers from…

Sep 13, 2010 5:14 PM CDT

Meet Julia Morris, Sole Female Associate at Conn. Firm Who Became Its Managing Partner

When Julia Morris started work at O’Connell, Flaherty & Attmore in 1994, there were 16 lawyers at the Hartford, Conn., firm. But she was the only woman among them. Six years later, she became the firm’s first female partner. And in 2008 she became its managing partner, recounts the Connecticut…

Sep 10, 2010 7:19 PM CDT

Lunch Conversation Led Two Lawyers to Form Their Own Firm

A lunch conversation at a trial lawyers conference in 2008 led two female attorneys to form their own firm. Leslie McPadden makes a point of sitting with people she doesn’t know at such events, and she struck up a conversation with Rosa Rebimbas, recounts the Connecticut Law Tribune. It turned…

Sep 7, 2010 4:38 PM CDT

Gail Koff, Ex-Skadden Lawyer Who Pioneered Discount Legal Services, Dies at 65

Gail Koff, a onetime corporate lawyer who wound up serving as the public face of a pioneering consumer law firm has died of complications from leukemia treatment. She was 65 years old. After growing up in upscale Scarsdale, N.Y., she put herself through law school, as one of the few…

Sep 2, 2010 5:05 PM CDT

Study Finds Declining Lawyer Revenues, Gender Pay Gap at Small and Midsize Firms

Revenue per lawyer at small and midsize firms has dropped two years in a row, according to a new survey. In 2008, revenue per lawyer dropped by an average of almost 5 percent, and in 2009 it dropped by less than 1 percent, according to the survey by ALM Legal…

Sep 1, 2010 4:00 PM CDT

Justice Ginsburg: Confirmations Should Be Less Contentious

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appearing 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. “May the Senate one day return to the collegial and bipartisan spirit that Justice [Stephen G.] Breyer and I had the…

Sep 1, 2010 6:00 AM CDT