The Baltimore Sun has a blog entry titled “Female Trouble” by the assistant managing editor for the copy desk about the outdated use of placing the word female/women/lady before her occupation or title when it is unnecessary to specify gender.
Interesting. Although with that title, I thought it was about something else entirely. Ha!
Categories: Politics
New York Daily News has an article on these ladies who rep some of the biggest names in showbiz. I always thought that entertainment law was fun. Oh, if I could be a fly on the wall of these lawyer’s offices! The stories I would hear! (Or maybe it’s just like any other law office? “Please do a memo to opposing counsel. The letter to read as follows…blah, blah, blah.”)
I’ll be keeping my eye out for these lawyers because their cases probably involve big messes that their clients have gotten themselves into and are probably trying to hush up — that means juicy gossip!
Categories: Entertainment/Fiction · Lawyers and Law Firms
For those of you who are interested in the results, clink on this link for Google News’ compilation of news stories on the election coverage or copy and past this in your browser: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ned=us&q=argentina+election
Here’s a fast read- http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-10-29T031528Z_01_N28392428_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ARGENTINA-ELECTION-EXIT-COL.XML&archived=False
“Fernandez, a glamorous lawyer and center-left senator, will take over from President Nestor Kirchner in December in a rare power handover between democratically elected spouses.”
Ahhh…”a glamorous lawyer”…on a personal note, if anyone ever writes about me as a lawyer one day, I hope that I would be called a “good lawyer” –with my poor fashion sense, I know I’ll never be a ‘glamorous’ lawyer, haha!
Categories: Politics
In the past, many people thought that science and the law were two old boys clubs.
Fast forward to the present day and female patent lawyers are quickly showing that those are two myths that they destroy by being living-proof contradictions of those old stereotypes/misconceptions.
I was inspired to think about patent lawyers by this story about Kate Murashige. And she is so talented, she has an international reputation, you say? Even more interesting!
Categories: Lawyers and Law Firms
From First Lady to the Presidency? Sen. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina and Sen. Hillary Clinton may have something in common in the future! The Christian Science Monitor has an article with the rather cute headline “Argentina gets set to elect its ‘Hillary’” profiling Sen. Fernández. Sen. Fernández comes from the Peronist Party, named after Juan Perón, whose second wife was Eva Perón, another famous Argentine female leader.
A quick glance at wiki: Sen. Fernández studied law at the School of Legal and Social Sciences of the University of La Plata.
Categories: Politics
It’s daring. It’s brave. It’s admirable.
But according to this article from Lawyers Weekly in Canada, there aren’t that many solo female lawyers in practice.
Categories: Lawyers and Law Firms · Reports/Studies
She was the only female in her graduating law school class at Yale in 1948. Wow!
There’s loneliness at the top, I would bet. But according to this Courant.com article, Catherine Rorabeck seemed to be able to handle anything and she must have had to work hard to be taken seriously by the ol’boys. It’s always inspires me to read about these courageous women who went to law school at a time when it just wasn’t a popular option for women at all.
Categories: Lawyers and Law Firms · W.I.L.D. Women
I’m sure most lawyers practicing in the US have heard of Ann Oldfather. If you haven’t, you may want to read this profile. She just won a $6.1 million verdict for Louise Ogborn in the highly publicized McDonald’s strip-search trial. She’s aggressive –to use one of the nicer words to describe her.
Her defenders say she came by her bruising style in the 1970s, when many male lawyers didn’t take her seriously.
“She had to make them understand she was not one to be messed around with,” said Bob Ewald, who was her partner when she practiced at Wyatt Tarrant & Combs.
Others say that the pejoratives thrown at her show she is still the target of prejudice today.
“They call her a bitch,” said her friend Franklin, “but if she were a man, they’d call her ‘hard charging.’ “
Sadly, it’s 2007 and some of my female friends who are lawyers tell me that some older male lawyers still have trouble taking them seriously and are quite condescending. And the natural reflex is to be harsher and more abrasive.
Categories: W.I.L.D. Women
The New York Post has a blurb (with photos!) about a “lawyer bride” who was not happy with her flowers. (No, it’s not me, I loved mine! I had red roses which were pretty and fresh! I wish I could get married again. To my husband for the second time, I mean, not to a different person, haha!)
[The defendant florist] blamed the “completely unwarranted” suit on Glatt’s lawyer bride, Elana.
“She’s being a Bridezilla,” he fumed, claiming that Elana would order elaborate arrangements that her future mother-in-law, who was paying for the flowers, would then trim down.
Read both the first and second pages and then ask yourself: would you spend $27,000+ on flowers?!?
Categories: Lawsuits and Settlements · Lawyers and Law Firms
As we are still living in the age of “firsts,” I present my readers with this Daily Times article about Sayeeda Warsi joining the House of Lords:
Human rights lawyer Sayeeda Warsi has become the first Muslim woman to take a front-bench post at cabinet level in the British parliament.
The 36-year old mother of one took her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Warsi. She is also the youngest member of Britain’s upper parliamentary chamber and the first female Muslim for the opposition Conservative Party.
I did a little more digging and found this older BBC article describing how she and her husband had an arranged marriage. Also, she stepped away from a £130,000/yr salary to go into policits. She sounds really interesting!
Categories: Politics · W.I.L.D. Women
