Author: Jill Norgren
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805998
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Author: Jill Norgren
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805998
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479805998
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Law Stories
Author: Gary Bellow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085194
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085194
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
The Law and the Lawyers
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 1869-1948
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 1869-1948
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Home Court Advantage
Author: N. M. Silber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989598439
Category : Legal stories
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Once upon a time, two lawyers fell in love across a courtroom ... Gabrielle and Braden have fallen in love and face a bright future together if they can just survive all of the crazy people they encounter, like anonymous napkin droppers, UFO enthusiasts, crooked businessmen, nude drunk drivers, and a woman who tries to break into jail. When the gavel falls will the verdict be happily ever after? Come join the fun as the sexiest couple in the Philadelphia Criminal Court System shares more witty banter and red hot lovin' with a dash of mystery thrown in. The story that began with The Law of Attraction concludes with lots of love and laughter in The Home Court Advantage. "The hilarious and lovable ensemble is back " Cindy Meyer, The Book Enthusiast "The perfect mix of intensity and hilarity." Lori Lockie, 50 Shades of Gabriel's Crossfire Unscripted Destiny Book Club "This is a MUST read." Mayas Sanders, Reading by the Book NOTICE: This book is intended for readers over the age of eighteen.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989598439
Category : Legal stories
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Once upon a time, two lawyers fell in love across a courtroom ... Gabrielle and Braden have fallen in love and face a bright future together if they can just survive all of the crazy people they encounter, like anonymous napkin droppers, UFO enthusiasts, crooked businessmen, nude drunk drivers, and a woman who tries to break into jail. When the gavel falls will the verdict be happily ever after? Come join the fun as the sexiest couple in the Philadelphia Criminal Court System shares more witty banter and red hot lovin' with a dash of mystery thrown in. The story that began with The Law of Attraction concludes with lots of love and laughter in The Home Court Advantage. "The hilarious and lovable ensemble is back " Cindy Meyer, The Book Enthusiast "The perfect mix of intensity and hilarity." Lori Lockie, 50 Shades of Gabriel's Crossfire Unscripted Destiny Book Club "This is a MUST read." Mayas Sanders, Reading by the Book NOTICE: This book is intended for readers over the age of eighteen.
Law Stories
Author: Gary Bellow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472085190
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472085190
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Legal Fictions
Author: Jay Wishengrad
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780879515409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Essential reading for literary lawyers as well as the general reader, Legal Fictions is a comprehensive and entertaining literary look at a perennially fascinating and controversial subject - lawyers and the law.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780879515409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Essential reading for literary lawyers as well as the general reader, Legal Fictions is a comprehensive and entertaining literary look at a perennially fascinating and controversial subject - lawyers and the law.
Her Story
Author: Teresa Beck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634257596
Category : Women lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634257596
Category : Women lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
STORIES OF THE LAW AND LAWYERS
Author: JOKE-UPON-LITTLETON. JOKE-UPON-LITTLETON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033500385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033500385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Life in the Law
Author: William S. Duffey
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781604425963
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This book offers a unique opportunity to sit down with a diverse gathering of lawyers to share their perspectives on being a lawyer. In this compelling collection of essays, the contributors write about the values of the profession, a lawyers responsibility to their communities, their duty of service to clients, and to the public and to each other. This book can provide the guidance you need should you ever feel that you are losing your way.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781604425963
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This book offers a unique opportunity to sit down with a diverse gathering of lawyers to share their perspectives on being a lawyer. In this compelling collection of essays, the contributors write about the values of the profession, a lawyers responsibility to their communities, their duty of service to clients, and to the public and to each other. This book can provide the guidance you need should you ever feel that you are losing your way.
The Trouble with Lawyers
Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190217227
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A broad, comprehensive foray into the debate about the legal crisis, written by one of the most respected and authoritative scholars of the legal profession.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190217227
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A broad, comprehensive foray into the debate about the legal crisis, written by one of the most respected and authoritative scholars of the legal profession.