Articles 2019

Taking a parental leave as a practicing lawyer is challenging, both emotionally and financially. Deepa Tailor (Tailor Law) highlights potential options for lawyers taking a parental leave and shares a comparison of how parental leave programs for lawyers vary between jurisdictions.

With the mid-semester blues hitting, Julia Chumak provides some tips on how she stays positive and energized through this busy period in law school.

Missed our recent program on salary negotiation? Aarohi Kumar provides a recap.

A note from the 2019/2020 Section Newsletter Editor about plans for the upcoming year, including new sections in the Section Insider newsletter.

Our 2019-2020 Chair, Richa Sandill, welcomes the section and introduces WLF's exciting plans, events and programs for the year.

Our brains are constantly processing the information that bombards us. We need to make sense of the world—and fast—so we use stereotypes to fill any gaps. These stereotypes lead to biases that can affect our judgement and the way we make decisions. Is there something we can do to reduce these biases and prevent them from influencing our choices?

I gave birth to my fourth child on March 9 2019 and when he was barely a month old I did something I wouldn’t have done with any of the babies before: I travelled downtown to attend the Women’s Law Forum’s CLE entitled “Rethinking having it All, a Solo and Small Firm Perspective on Parenting While Lawyering”.

For lawyers looking to become more effective in the workplace, a new study suggests that the answer may be found in a practice not typically covered in law school: mindfulness.

On women supporting women and making space for women to stand on the shoulders of those who came before her.