Odd couple: Durbin holds his fire as Kirk rips lawyers
A question about a Democratic pay equity bill that failed in the Senate last week triggered a tirade from Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., against Democratic trial lawyers while Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sitting next to him, silently stared at his hands, mute as a result of their non-aggression pact.
A Woman’s Work: Blazing the Trail
On March 26, 1930, the first female United States Supreme Court Justice was born. Today is her eighty-fourth birthday. Sandra Day O’Connor was born into a ranching family in her native Arizona.
A Court’s All-Hands Approach Aids Girls Most at Risk
Toni J., an effervescent 16-year-old who talks on speed-dial, lives with 11 family members in West Oakland, on a street buffeted by gang activity and poverty. Her mother died of an overdose, her father in a revenge shooting.
November 25,2013, Laurel Bellows Speaks in Philadelphia at the Chancellor’s Leadership Institute
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Laurel Bellows to attend Philadelphia Bar Association’s Chancellor’s Forum, 2013
Join us for this special Chancellor’s Forum as we welcome American Bar Association Immediate-Past President Laurel G. Bellows, who will discuss how she became the leader of the country’s largest bar association, offer leadership advice and talk about solutions for eliminating gender bias in the legal profession.
Stepping up! Bar leaders for gender equity in the legal profession
Laurel G. Bellows, founder of The Bellows Law Group, P.C., is an experienced business lawyer and mediator counseling senior executives and corporations, in the U.S. and internationally, on employment matters, severance agreements, incentive compensation, and workplace disputes.