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By Angela Morris (law.com, Feb. 4, 2019) In her day job, Dallas lawyer Chasity Henry works in-house at Kimberly Clark-Corp., but when she’s not tending to the global giant’s transactions, she’s extending her hand to pull other black woman lawyers up the career ladder. It started when Henry and former law school friends, all black …
To read more about lawyers and their childcare struggles, read my story, Women Lawyers Deploy Tactical Maneuvers to Handle Child Care, originally published on law.com on Jan. 23, 2019.
By Angela Morris (law.com, Jan. 23, 2019) Jeanene Jobst, senior counsel at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, was at work when a phone call sent her into a panic. The babysitter who was scheduled to pick up her young daughter at her school bus stop was canceling at the last minute. With just 10 minutes until …
by Angela Morris (law.com, Nov. 29, 2018) Purvi Shah has a vision that law should serve society as a building block for equality and an architect for justice. But the deep-rooted societal problems of racism and inequality surfacing in U.S. culture—including police shootings and sexual harassment—have made Shah see that lawyers must do more to …
by Angela Morris (Law.com, Oct. 31, 2018, Link or download PDF) The old saying, “Don’t crying over spilled milk,” doesn’t apply when you’re a nursing lawyer-mom, using a toilet as a table while pumping your breast milk during your practice group’s annual retreat. Utilizing the bathroom as a makeshift baby-food kitchen wasn’t labor and employment litigator …
After having her second child, Southern California litigator Erin Giglia worked part-time for law firm Snell & Wilmer, but fellow associate Laurie Rowen had different plans for work when her baby girl was born 16 days after Giglia’s daughter. Rowen always knew she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, while continuing to do legal work …
It’s a well-known fact that lawyers suffer at high numbers from mental health and substance abuse problems, and a new book on lawyer wellness drives home a point that might motivate many attorneys to take action. When wellness permeates an attorney’s life, there’s a positive impact on his law practice, clients, judges and juries, said …
On a three-week family vacation to Greece and Croatia, Andrew Giacomini left his phone in his room to disconnect from his litigation practice. Although Giacomini, the managing partner at Hanson Bridgett in San Francisco, checked emails, his colleagues probably didn’t know—because Giacomini never responded. He billed zero hours during his 21-day trip and focused on …
Being an openly LGBT judge in Texas has its challenges, but also benefits. At a panel discussion at the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting in Houston, four LGBT judges—from municipal court to district court benches—talked about their pathways to the bench, how they can be role models and help other LGBT lawyers and litigants, …
It’s poetic coincidence that the biggest U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the LGBT civil rights movement bore the date June 26, said high court litigator Paul Smith, who argued the landmark case that laid the foundation for same-sex marriage equality. In Lawrence v. Texas, John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested in Lawrence’s Houston home …