Anyone reading this blog ever throw up at work due to nausea from pregnancy? Anyone have the experience of telling their boss the “great news” and asking the senior partner for maternity leave? Anyone have tips on how to juggle preparing for an arbitration, drafting a statement of defence, and holding a plastic throw-up bag in your hand, all at the same time?
Pregnant lawyers and working mommies everywhere, please comment with tips and stories!!!
Categories: Home-work balance · Lawyers and Law Firms
Some ideas are just brilliant. Even me, critic of the year, can’t say bad things about this idea:
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=682&rssid=4
Lawyers going on mat leave is a popular topic around the water cooler in law firms big and small. Let’s bring the issue out into the forefront and make things easier for the mommies!
Categories: Home-work balance · Lawyers and Law Firms
Do you think you would make a good judge? What are the qualities that a judge should have? What skills are needed? Do female candidates have what it takes.
Here is a great commentary in The Herald by Alistair Bonnington, a soliciter advocate in Scotland. Don’t always believe it when people tell you that there just aren’t enough qualified candidates.
Categories: Judiciary
