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Sandra Day O’Connor: Once Unwanted
For those unemployed law school graduates out there, fear not, even esteemed lawyers have trouble finding a job sometimes. Some lucky Montrealers were treated to a lunch hour session with 3 Canadian...
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Do you have difficulty managing work/life balance?
Another day, another study: A survey conducted on the issue by Catalyst, a legal services consulting firm based in Toronto, found that roughly 50 per cent of lawyers reported work/life conflict and...
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Programs helping lawyers return to work
New York Times has a helpful article about a few programs that help women and men who take time off from the law to return to the workplace. The article mentions a few programs, such as the one at Pace...
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How far have we come since Carrie Morrison, the first female solicitor, was...
I was struck again by the progress that women lawyers have made in the short time that we have been permitted to practice after reading this article describing recent celebrations of the 85th...
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Lawyers and Maternity Leave
Very interesting article about maternity leave at the Financial Post website today. I completely understand the difficulty in deciding when to have children. Most of the lawyers in my age group are...
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Young women finding work-life balance early in their careers
Law.com has an article this week about female lawyers making decisions to have the work-life balance they want earlier in their careers rather than forcing themselves to compete with the workaholics at...
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Women lawyers and their “dating quotient”
I’m reading a piece about a food editor/columnist who is being analyzed by “The Truth About Dating” columnist and author Steve Penner to determine her “dating quotient.” They talk about her age, her...
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How many hours constitutes “full time” now?
The Blawgshere is abuzz with comments on this American Lawyer article “On Life Support.” Here is the passage that caught my eye: “In the 1970s, my dad, who was a partner at a respected California firm,...
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Funding for maternity leave for small 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...
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Working Women And Pregnancy
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?...
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