by WomenLawyersOnGuard | Jan 24, 2025 | Amicus Briefs
Would you want your child attending a school where the teachers were censored from speaking about “divisive concepts”? Who would get to define “divisive concepts?” How would teachers navigate exactly what that meant? Some teachers have just stopped speaking about certain topics; think gender and race, even civics and democracy. Others have been forced to self-censor even when talking about major literary works. Think “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
New Hampshire has enacted this law – chilling and censoring teachers,
Women Lawyers On Guard has signed onto an amicus brief in the 1st Circuit, in Local 8027 v Edelblut, drafted by the National Women’s Law Center, advocating that this law is just an attempt to purge certain views about gender and race and other important issues in our society. The cost to the students is immense.
Here’s a link to the brief.
by WomenLawyersOnGuard | Jan 22, 2025 | Issues
Dear Women Lawyers On Guard,
Did you know that only 15% of federal employees work in the DC area? Now that they and our democracy are under attack, do you need help navigating ways to help them, yourselves, or to protect and strengthen democracy itself?
Following up our Dec 16th email, here are some additional resources. The first two are specifically focused on federal employees, the others are about how you can help strengthen democracy through your own small (or large) measures, by volunteering or just taking individual action.
Resources and Guides for Civil Servants
Other Resources for Protecting and Strengthening Democracy
Please forward this to your networks.
Cory Amron, President
Photo by Isabella Fischer, Unsplash
by WomenLawyersOnGuard | Jan 5, 2025 | Issues
The legal profession is self-regulating. The rules of professional conduct set forth actions that a lawyer is prohibited from taking in connection with the practice of law, or else be subject to professional discipline. The DC Bar recently recommended to the DC Court of Appeals (the regulatory authority of the practice of law) that Rule 8.4 of the DC Rules of Professional Conduct be amended to prohibit lawyers from engaging in harassing and discriminatory conduct in the practice of law. We note that the proposed rule would address three recommendations in WLG’s Still Broken report: holding perpetrators individually accountable, implementing more effective reporting and independent investigation mechanisms, and providing for more transparency in the process of addressing sexual harassment.
Here’s the link to our comments
by WomenLawyersOnGuard | Dec 16, 2024 | Democracy, Issues, Women's Rights
Almost 900,000 women work in the Federal Workforce. And, as you probably are aware, Federal Employees are in the cross hairs of the incoming administration. Here are some possible sources of information that we have found (not legal advice!) for these employees (Feel free to send us additional resources.).
We urge folks to make an informed decision.
Feel free to forward this to your networks.
Cory Amron, President
by WomenLawyersOnGuard | May 26, 2023 | Issues, Litigation, Women's Rights
With the $5 Million verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case in New York, we now know that even a prominent person who sexually abused someone many years ago can be brought to justice. And, additionally, that defaming the plaintiff can have significant consequences. (Slate article here.)
This was not the situation for the 86% of respondents to Women Lawyers On Guard’s nationwide sexual harassment survey (in the legal profession) who felt that they could not, or would not, report their abuse, or the 50% of those perpetrators who were reported who faced no consequences for their actions. See Still Broken.
With this verdict, not only was Ms. Carroll vindicated, but perhaps it may give others the courage to stand up against their abusers. We can hope that, with this public example, the times they are a changin’.
See Women Lawyers On Guard Action Network’s letter to Ms. Carroll here: WLGAN-Letterhead-E. Jean Carroll -5-19-2023 -pdf
