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2020 Margaret A. Gannon Legal Education Stipend Application
2020 Margaret A. Gannon Legal Education Stipend Application Purpose. Women Lawyers of Alameda County (WLAC) established the Margaret A. Gannon legal education stipend fund to provide financial assistance to help offset some of the costs of a bar review course (or...
9th Circuit: Panel Discussion – What Judges Can and Can’t Say
The Courts: Press Coverage/Pressing Concerns Please join us for the rare opportunity to hear two former judges, a veteran journalist, and an esteemed Stanford Law professor speak forthrightly about how news coverage impacts both public confidence in the Courts and...
Judge Mock Trial 11/2 or 11/3
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Nominations Open for 2020 WLAC Board
The Women Lawyers of Alameda County Nominating Committee is developing the slate for the 2020 Board of Directors. Anyone who has been a voting member of the organization for at least one year is eligible to hold office. Deadline: August 15, 2019.
Are you a target on Twitter?
Are you a target on Twitter? The Amnesty International Troll Patrol project revealed the scale and nature of online abuse faced by women. And it is frightening but not surprising. It was a joint effort by human rights researchers, technical experts and thousands of...
Big Law Must Report Pay Data Broken Down by Race and Gender
A Federal Judge, in response to a suit filed by the National Women's Law Center among others, revived an Obama-era rule that requires larger companies (over 100 employees) to report workers’ pay data broken down by gender and race, This means that Big Law will have...
IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Achieving Equality for Women Attorneys in the Courtroom and in ADR
This is a publication of the NY State Bar Assn that followed a study of women's status in the law. While its conclusion about the continued existence of inequality is not surprising, the study is interesting and contains suggestions for change....
Houston’s Commitment to Gender Equity in Law Firms
The Houston Bar Association’s Gender Fairness Committee wants law firms and in-house legal departments to do more to improve gender equality. More than 60 law firms have signed on to a commitment to increase the number of women partners and firm leaders by next...
A change at the top?
A record number of women have been appointed law dean this semester. The number of women occupying the dean suites has been on the rise for years, but this year’s new batch of leaders is particularly diverse in both gender and race.
Which Six Countries Have Equal Rights for Women? Hint: The US is Not One of Them
In the last decade, we’ve moved the needle from zero to six countries that afford women full equality under the law, according to a World Bank report entitled: Women Business and the Law 2019.