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8 Mar 2011, 1:58 pm
Following her husband’s death in 1921, she won election as president of the Colored Bar Association and became the first woman in the nation leading a state bar association that included both male and female members. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 8:14 am
In addition, she is involved in many legal associations, including the Lake County Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and American Association for Justice. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 6:59 am
By 1872, Bradwell was Secretary of the Illinois Women’s Suffrage Association when the state legislature passed with her influence an anti-discrimination bill stating, "No person shall be precluded or debarred from any occupation, profession, or employment (except the military) on account of sex. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 1:29 am
Please read the following, a letter from Illinois State Bar Association President Jack Carey, concerning our most famous Illinois Lawyer, Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 11:40 am
As a result of her extensive advocacy work, Grayson received the Women's Bar Association of Illinois Women with Vision Award in 2009, and the Chicago Bar Association for Women's Alta May Hulett Award, which was named after the first female lawyer in the state, in 2002. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 1:44 pm
Generally, Myra Bradwell is one of the most famous examples, having been the first woman to appeal for admission to both the Illinois state bar and the U.S. [read post]
13 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm
In early August, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession gave five women lawyers its 2015 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 1:40 pm
One of the American Bar Association’s core values is a commitment to diversity, which the Law Practice Division aims to reinforce in the legal tech sector. [read post]
27 Aug 2019, 11:30 am
Practices like these perpetuate the devaluation and compound trauma that most women behind bars are already dealing with. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 9:39 am
It said 83 men and 2 women spent a total of 926 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 8:45 am
Hacer clic para agrandar la imagen La Federal Bar Association (FBA) celebrará su Convención anual 2013 en el Hotel Caribe Hilton del 26 al 28 de septiembre de 2013. [read post]
13 Oct 2021, 3:51 am
Jang has volunteered as a scholarship evaluator for the APIA Scholars program, is an alumnus of the United State of Women’s Galvanize Chicago Program, and has held numerous Board positions in local, state, and national bar associations. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 6:00 am
She is a graduate student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 11:04 am
The Hope Clinic for Women v. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 9:30 pm
Securities and Exchange Commission, and the National Association of Securities Dealers (now FINRA)–from the 1930s to the 2000s. [read post]
17 Jun 2018, 11:59 am
The COIN Act was passed as part of the bipartisan budget agreement that has been signed into law by Governor Rauner.Advancing pay equity for working women.Though women make up nearly half of the workforce in Illinois, they are paid, on average, just 79 cents for every dollar that white men earn; the gap is even worse for women of color. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 7:44 pm
(credit for 2009 photo)On Friday, March 30, meanwhile, Asma Jahangir (below left), of the AGHS Legal Aid Cell and formerly of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, will deliver the keynote address at a luncheon marked her receipt of the 2012 Goler T. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 2:25 pm
Schiller is the past president of the New York Women’s Bar Association and a past vice-president of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 7:00 am
Editor's Note: This post is adapted from remarks delivered to the Standing Committee on Law and National Security of the American Bar Association on January 15, 2020. [read post]
4 Sep 2008, 10:36 am
The number of top women lawyers at Fortune 500 companies has risen to 92 from 44 when the Minority Corporate Counsel Association first started counting nearly 10 years ago. [read post]
