Faculty Awareness Bulletin

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law will be hosting this conference on Friday, February 29, 2008.  For more details, go here.

 Topics: Women & The Law; Conferences & Symposia

The Minority Law Journal recently released information about minority associates in their Minority Experience Study.  For more details, go here. 

Topics: Legal Education, Women & The Law

A recent National Law Journal article found that, “Since 2002, the percentage of women in law schools has declined each year, according to the American Bar Association (ABA). Five years ago, women made up 49% of law school enrollment. This year, 46.9% of law school students are women. And while the number of applicants overall has dropped in the past two years, the percentage decline in the number of women has been greater. Although observers say a variety of factors contributed to the dip, the prevailing message is that fewer women want a lawyer’s life.”  To read the full article, go here. 

Topics: Women & The Law; Legal Education

New Legal Realism Meets Feminism & Legal Theory II: Empirical Perspectives on the Place of Law in Women’s Work and Family Lives will be held on October 5 - 6, 2007 in Madison, Wisconsin and will be co-sponsored by The Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Emory University and the New Legal Realism Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

If you’d like more information on paper submission deadlines or general conference information, go here.

Topics: Women & the Law, Calls for Papers, Conferences & Symposia

According to a recent study conducted by the MIT Workplace Center, “for every woman who leaves a law firm to stay at home with her children or otherwise remain unemployed, there are nearly three who move to nonfirm law jobs and one who takes her skills to a nonlawyer job.”  The study also showed that female attorneys leave firms in larger numbers than their male counterparts at both associate and partner levels.  For more details, read this article that ran in the National Law Journal on July 18, 2007: “Exit, Women: As Firms Struggle to Keep Them, Women Lawyers Find Their Own Paths.” 

Topics: Women & The Law

According to a recently released study, “Female lawyers continue to face intractable challenges in their attempts to become partners, causing them to abandon law firm careers — and the legal profession entirely — at a dramatically higher rate than men.”  For more details, take a look at this May 2nd Boston Globe article.

Topics: Women & The Law

A group of female law students from some of the top law schools in the country recently got together and established a blog for female lawyers and law students called Ms. JD.  The forum is a direct response to concerns many women in the legal profession have regarding the low numbers of female judges, the role of gender in legal careers, the high number of women that leave the profession and many other issues that effect  women law students and lawyers. 

Topics: Women & The Law

Thomas Jefferson School of Law announces its Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference, Virtual Women - Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law, to be held at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, on Friday, February 9, 2007.

Topics: Women & The Law; Conferences & Symposia, Winter 2007