Sexism
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Courts
Judge Nixes Boeing Plea Deal Because Parties Had Agreed NOT To Discriminate Against Black People
Almost like he doesn't care about the victims as much as he cares about generating a headline... -
Courts, Law Schools
Seventh Circuit Judge Discusses The Stunning Sexism She Faced At Her T14 Law School
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Law Schools
Law Professor Responds To All-Female Bar Leadership Team With 'Where Are The Men?'
Maybe don't post every ironic quip you come up with.
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Didn't Take Summer Associates To A Strip Club, Yet Somehow The Story Is... Worse?
This wasn't some senior associates going rogue with an after party... the firm put this on the schedule! -
Biglaw
Strip Club Summer Associate Outing?
Don't take summer associates to strip clubs... or any place even vaguely approaching the category of strip club. -
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Biglaw
New White & Case Leader Reduced To Nameless 'Female Litigator' In Media Coverage
This almost certainly wasn't intentional... which is the problem. -
Law Schools
Woke Mob Rewriting The Bar Exam Or Something, According To Judge
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Biglaw
Sexism Continues To Thrive In Biglaw, With Women Facing Undue Bias
Will things ever change? Not while women ‘face a much tougher path to advance and succeed.’ -
Law Schools
Elite Law School Shows Legal Academia How *Not* To React To A Sexist Controversy On Campus
Law schools can do better than this. -
Law Schools
Students At Top Law School Decide Ranking Their Female Classmates By Their Attractiveness Is Acceptable
This is wildly inappropriate behavior from law school students. -
Small Law Firms
Firm Parts Ways With Lawyer Who Called Maternity Leave 'Sitting On Your Ass'
There's still a lot of work to be done. -
Small Law Firms
After Text Calling Maternity Leave 'Sitting On Your Ass,' Law Firm Looks To Sit On Its Ass In Response
Firm statement offers vague, confusing take on the allegations.
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Small Law Firms
'Collecting Salary From The Firm While Sitting On Your Ass' Is Certainly ONE Way For A Senior Lawyer To Describe Maternity Leave
But not so much a good or professional way to describe it. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.22.21
* Law prof who oopsied a sexism and a racism on his final exam has to get schooled before he can return to his post. Looks like the law is a profession of continuous learning after all. [ABA Journal]
* The Kellogg’s strike is over and a contract has been agreed to. That’s Grrrreat! [Kiro7]
* Go Army, Beat COVID! The Army is finishing up on a vaccine that should cover current and future variants of the Rona and its SARS cousins. [Defenceone]
* Lincoln County in Georgia is down to just one polling station. If only there were some sort of federal law that existed that would have prevented something like this from happening. Maybe like a voting rights… action? [Truthout]
* Folks sentenced to house arrest due to COVID may be moving around their homes freely quicker than was expected. [NPR]
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Law Schools
Law School Prof Rants About Women And Minorities And Their Pesky Insistence On 'Rights' And 'Equality'
It's a logical fallacy issue-spotter! -
Law Schools
Sexism Drove Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Always Be Prepared In Law School
In a class of 500 men, RBG was always ready to be cold-called. -
Biglaw
U.S. Soccer HAS To Pay Men More, Because Playing For A Crowd Of Hooligans Is A Big 'Responsibility'
And they said it with a straight face! -
Courts
An Awesome Appellate Benchslap Calling Out Sexism In The Legal Profession
Sexist comments have no place in legal briefs, and these judges are doing something about it. -
Biglaw
Lawyers Called Out For Casual Sexism That You Mistakenly Thought We'd Handled By 2019
This shouldn't be so difficult.