Fired on Friday from her plum position as an associate in the Moscow office of a major London-based law firm, Deidre Dare spent the weekend recuperating.
Women and minorities are still underrepresented on the state trial and appellate court bench, regardless whether the judges are elected or appointed to their positions.
While working as a fifth-year associate at a BigLaw firm in New York, Tracey Batt thought her black leather ankle boots, black leather trench coat and dark-colored “mannish” pantsuits with…
Felicia Klein Fisher grew up in the New York City suburbs, hoping and expecting to be a lawyer. After graduating from St. John’s University School of Law in 1995 and…
An upstate congresswoman from New York who once worked at two different well-known law firms is expected to be appointed to replace former Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Citing the need to focus on health concerns regarding her uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy reportedly has decided not to seek appointment to a U.S. Senate seat.
Updated: A senior associate at Allen & Overy has stopped publishing her online novel after the London-based magic circle firm apparently told her that it was too racy.
As the longest-serving member of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Justice Catherine “Kitty” Kimball is set to make history today when she becomes the state’s first female chief justice.
When Chere Estrin, the publisher of Know, a magazine for paralegals, was doing research for a story she came across innumerable statistics and articles about female lawyers.
Put your best professional foot forward by wearing a skirt and stilettos, not pantsuits, a renowned London-based international law firm reportedly is telling its women lawyers and other female staffers.
Latina Alston freely admits that she has made some mistakes in life, and, at not quite 30 years old, she is raising three children although she has never been married.
Corporate midcareer women are in big trouble, and that includes female attorneys, says a career and life coach who specializes in women’s empowerment issues.
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