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Inside: We’ve Come So Far… Or Have We?
Generally speaking, the only thing that can derail my naturally optimistic outlook on life is uncertainty. Even bad news can beat the uncertainties of “what if?” “when?” and “how long?” While optimism is certainly a part of my DNA, it is also the by-product of starting my own law firm and managing it through a...
Read ArticleThe Problem with Dobbs
Fundamental rights should be analyzed in the context of where the country stands at a particular point in time. When advances in medicine have made abortion far safer than carrying a pregnancy to term, contraceptive failure and human error result in unwanted pregnancies, and women and their families have made life decisions based on the ability to control if and when to have children, abortion should be preserved as a constitutional right.
Read ArticleIn Support of Dobbs
The hope was that the Dobbs opinion would finally represent an end to the contentious politics of abortion. Rather, it has signaled the beginning of a new and likely much more intense phase of bitter controversy. While Justice Samuel Alito may hope that Dobbs will lower the temperature of the issue by removing it from...
Read ArticleYou Come on Too Strong for a Woman, Bernice Sandler, Godmother of Title IX
My mother, Dr. Bernice Sandler (“Bunny”), was a crusader for women’s rights. By the time she died in 2019, she was known as “The Godmother of Title IX,” a small but mighty piece of legislation that revolutionized how girls and women were treated in academe, and in athletics. Although she never became a lawyer, her...
Read ArticleConfronting Systemic Pay Bias in the Legal Community with New Legislation
Women with law degrees earn $0.89 for every dollar earned by men with a law degree.9 Women hold the majority of legal occupations at 52% women and 48% men. However, legal had the largest uncontrolled gender wage gap in the study at $0.63.
Read ArticleFragile Balancing Act: Juggling Motherhood and a Career in a Post COVID World
When I was approached to write this article, my initial reaction was “no, thank you.” I did not want my colleagues to see behind the curtain of my life as a mother. At work, I am organized, confident, and highly caffeinated. At home, toys are strewn about, my hair is almost always in a mom-bun,...
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