Nominations Open for WLAC Officers & Board of Directors The Women Lawyers of Alameda County Nominating Committee is accepting applications for the 2021 Board of Directors. Anyone who has been a voting member of the organization for at least one year is eligible to...

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...

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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? 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...

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...

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....

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...