Law Students

Myth: Law School Leaves No Time for a Healthy Lifestyle

Posted on July 31, 2008
Ed Note: This summer, Ms. JD solicited lessons learned from law students across the country.  Several law students mentioned the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle while in law school, including weekly exercise, nutritious meals, and plenty of sleep...

Ms. JD Summer Book Series: The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book

Posted on June 16, 2008
Ed. Note: KHernan881, a regular contributor to Ms. JD, has agreed to sub-in for the regular Ms. JD Summer Book Series writer this week with the following review of The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book. Ms. JD's regular series should be back next week...

Seeking A Just Balance: Law Students Weigh In On Work and Family

Posted on June 15, 2008
A Better Balance: The Work & Family Legal Center is publishing a study, Seeking A Just Balance: Law Students Weigh In On Work and Family.  The study is a survey of NYU law students and their expectations around work/life balance.  Generation-Y lawyers ? American men and women born between 1978 and 1998 ? are extremely worried about these issues and are willing to trade money for time...

Why I decided to go on my first real diet while studying for the Bar.

Posted on June 10, 2008
All advice I received for bar study strategy said that you eliminate all obligations, responsibilities, and distractions from your life before BarBri starts.  Bar study, I was told, will demand every brain cell and every free minute of your life.  On the first day of BarBri a rep from the company even told us that we shouldn?t take time to grocery shop or get hair cuts and that we should basically outsource every aspect of our lives to our personal support system of friends and family...

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Ms. JD Summer Book Series: Sandra Day O'Connor, By: Joan Biskupic

Posted on June 08, 2008
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice, By: Joan Biskupic In this biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, author Joan Biskupic takes the reader through the life of O'Connor, from her early days on the Lazy B Ranch through her time on the Supreme Court...

My Life at a Big Firm: The First Three Weeks

Posted on June 06, 2008
My name is Laura, and I recently started at Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis, Missouri.  Bryan Cave has over 800 attorneys in 15 offices worldwide, the largest office being in St. Louis with around 275 attorneys.  My summer class consists of 22 other summer associates from a variety of schools...

Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending June 6th, 2009

Posted on June 05, 2008
Pakistani Female Lawyers Happy with Quota for Female Judges in Constitutional Package Bar Examines Dress Code Issue:  Cocktail Shoes Appropriate? Thorp Reed & Armstrong Partner Kimberly A. Brown Receives 2008 Lynette Norton Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association San Francisco Bar Association Seminar to Focus on Mentoring Women of Color Commentary: A Win-Win Alternative Work Policy ABA's Predatory Feminist Lawyers Poll: How Often do you Dryclean Suits? read more

Ms. JD Leadership Summit '08 - Video of Chief Judge Kaye

Posted on June 03, 2008
At the Ms. JD Leadership Summit April 4-5 in New York City, attendees were delighted by Chief Judge Judith Kaye's opening remarks. Judge Kaye, who sits on the New York Court of Appeals, inspired the student delegates with reflections on the advancement of women in the legal profession and the challenges female lawyers still face...

Ms. JD Summer Book Series: The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle, by: Carol Off

Posted on June 02, 2008
The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle, By: Carol Off After the failure of peacekeeping missions in both Sarajevo and Rwanda in the 1990s, Louise Arbour, a Canadian judge, was tasked with the mission of bringing the perpetrators of these international crimes to justice...

The Giggle Monster

Posted on June 02, 2008
In my continual search to find the newest advice for professional women, I randomly came across this old post at On Phara entitled Channeling Barbie: Career Advice for Professional Women, and then immediately googled John McKee, the guy who is cited heavily in the post...

Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 30, 2008

Posted on May 30, 2008
Leading N.Y. Women Partners Meet at the Kate Stoneman Project Power Breakfast Study Finds that Female Lawyers are More Likely to Practice in Firms and Less Likely to Make Partner Report on Retaining Women Lawyers Approved by the Ontario Law Society Commentary: Legal Profession Need to Evaluate and Overhaul Itself to Retain Women Andrews Kurth LLP Partner Kathleen J...

First Day of Work 5.26

Posted on May 27, 2008
            Today was my first day of work. Once again I didn?t really have expectactions, but I was nervous and excited to see what was in store for us. Our supervisor, TP had indicated to the other students that he would be taking Susan and I to court to get us oriented and to give us an experience as a sort of running start for the summer...

Ms. JD Summer Book Series: The Majesty of the Law, By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Posted on May 26, 2008
The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice, By: Sandra Day O'Connor In this book, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor employs anecdotes, personal advice and Supreme Court cases to analyze the evolution of the law, the functioning of the Court, and her life as a Justice...

First Couple of Days- Created 5/24

Posted on May 26, 2008
            I have now been in Durban for three days. I have yet to start working, so these first days have been my adjustment period. At first I was somewhat hesitant to put off en starting work, but I am glad that I took this time to get things figured out a little bit and get settled...

Are Women Judges The Meanest?

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Las Vegas Review Journal's "Judging the Judges" survey asked lawyers who practiced before Clark County District Court judges to rate the judges' courtesy. Of the attorneys surveyed, two-thirds were male. The results ranked female judges as significantly less courteous than their male counterparts with even the highest-ranked female judge still scoring lower in courtesy than "all but two of the male judges...

Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 23, 2008

Posted on May 22, 2008
London Times Reports that the Gender Pay Gap is Still a Huge Problem in the Legal Profession Are Successful Woman Avoiding Motherhood? General Mills' Roderick Palmore Brings GCs and Law Firms Together To Discuss Diversity and Retention of Women in the Workplace Lawyers Rate Female Jurists as Less Courteous Than Men Women's Bar Association Honors Justice Ginsburg and Mary Kennard Human Rights Lawyer Professor Catharine MacKinnon to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew University  Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff Fails read more

Shoes, Clothes, and Law, Oh My

Posted on May 22, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has joined the hoary conversation on women?s professional apparel with a trifeca of articles/blog posts: first, with a profile of Lehman Brother?s CFO Erin Callan; next, with a follow-up post on The Juggle blog that specifically commented on Callan?s choice of shoes in the photo accompanying the profile; and now on the Law Blog, which picked up on comments that split on whether female lawyers indeed need to wear uncomfortable professional outfits in the courtroom...

No formal vacation means, well, no formal vacation

Posted on May 20, 2008
Recently, as I was contemplating taking a couple of days off work when the school year ends for my kids in June and I got to remembering when I first started as a biglaw associate.  In a session on one of the first days, we met with junior associates who were supposed to answer all of our questions that we didn't want to ask in more formal sessions...

Clippings: Words of Wisdom from the Lady Lawyers Who Came Before Us

Posted on May 20, 2008
I came across the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession's Oral Histories of Women Trailblazers in the Law and thought I'd share the link. The project "prepares the oral histories of women pioneers in the legal profession nationwide" and includes contributors to Ms...

05/19/08- Day Before Departure to Durban

Posted on May 19, 2008
[Ed. comment: Over the course of the summer, Ms. JD will be featuring updates from a blogger's work with the Legal Aid Board of South Africa in Durban.  This is the first post in a series of posts that will track this work.] So Susan and I leave for South Africa tomorrow...

Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 16, 2008

Posted on May 16, 2008
Women in Small Firms are Leaving the Law Over Lack of Maternity Leave Nigerian Governor Peter Obi Tasks the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) to Assume More Responsibilities in the Present Effort to Change Society Work-Life Balance for Lawyers - Sullivan and Cromwell Achieves Top Adoption-Friendly Workplace Ranking Ethiopian Lawyer Meaza Ashenafi Builds Strong Foundation for Women's Rights Brunswick County Women's Bar Association Promotes Women Working for Women 250 Delegates Attend the Second World Meeting on Women, Gender and the Law in Havana read more

Explore Your Options, Be Happy

Posted on May 15, 2008
Wendi Adelson serves as program director for the Human Rights and Immigration Law Project at the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University.  Prior to joining FSU's faculty in 2007, Ms. Adelson was a Clinical Fellow and lecturer in clinical education and immigration and a staff attorney in the University of Miami School of Law's Children and Youth Law and Community Health Rights Education Clinics...

Reminder: Register for free NYC networking event by MAY 15 (the event will be on June 4th)

Posted on May 14, 2008
If you'll be in New York next month and you haven't yet registered, consider attending the free networking reception & presentation at White & Case on June 4th with Debbie Epstein Henry talking about the Best Law Firms for Women ranking she undertook with Working Mother Magazine last year...

Coming Soon: Ms. JD's Summer Book Series

Posted on May 13, 2008
Ms. JD is pleased to announce its Summer Book Series!  The series will begin Monday, May 19th, and will continue weekly for the remainder of the summer.  Visit Ms. JD every Monday to learn about books highlighting women in the law.  Next Monday's Featured Book: Pinstripes and Pearls: The Women of the Harvard Law Class of '64 Who Forged an Old Girl Network and Paved the Way for Future, by: Judith Richards Hope.

Loving what you are doing

Posted on May 12, 2008
I stumbled across a great little article about successful women attorneys today, here.  (Okay, so I am a few weeks behind on my reading!).  This article in New York Magazine is, for once, all about successful women lawyers and talks to many to find out their secret to success...

Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 9, 2008

Posted on May 08, 2008
Retired San Diego Court Judge Patricia A. Yim Cowette Awarded the Joan Dempsey Klein Distinguished Jurist Award Secretary of the Employment Lawyers Association Reports that Employers Need to Implement Policies to Prevent Women Being Discriminated Against at Work Cindy Weber Named One of D...

Southern Ms. Part V: The Good Life

Posted on May 07, 2008
So lately I've been thinking that this is a really good place to live. Good people, good work, good culture. Especially when you're a young professional and the cost of living is a fraction of what it is in New York or California. Lawyers here make six figure salaries but live like millionaires would in the bigger legal markets because the cost of housing is so low that they have much more disposible income...

NAWL's Ready to On-Ramp program, for those of us who haven't even graduated yet.

Posted on May 06, 2008
I attended NAWL?s Ready to On-Ramp? program at Jenner & Block in Chicago, which was ?designed to help lawyers develop their own personal strategy to re-entering the workforce? after taking time off, usually for raising children. Not having graduated from law school yet (one more week!), I was the youngest person there...

Why Do We Need Women's Bar Associations?

Posted on May 02, 2008
Elizabeth K. Peck is President and Co-Founder of the Finger Lakes Women?s Bar Association and the Director of Career Services at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY   Why Do We Need Women?s Bar Associations? I asked myself this very question 18 months ago...

Ms. JD Weekly Round-up: Week Ending May 2, 2008

Posted on May 01, 2008
Iranian Rights Lawyer Defiant Despite Threats Bella Abzug, 1920-1998: Activist for Women?s Rights Was Known for Her Large Hats and Strong Opinions What if women ran things in Chicago? Nigeria: Akande, First Female Law Professor, Dies Brunswick County Women's Bar Association promotes women working for women Q and A with Follow the Women tour participant Colleen McGuireBuffalo lawyer named 2008 Athena Award winnerCedar Crest introduces new president       read more

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