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Women Lawyers On Guard is a national non-partisan organization harnessing the power of lawyers and the law in coordination with other organizations to preserve, protect, and defend the democratic values of equality, justice, and opportunity for all.
A Four Step Plan to Fight the Lies
As basic facts come under assault by the current administration, Women Lawyers On Guard Action Network, Inc. found this plan on how to fight the lies to be very instructive:...
read moreWLG Signs Onto Amicus Brief in Broad Exemption to Coverage for Contraception Case
Women Lawyers On Guard, Inc. has signed on to an Amicus brief in State of California et. al. v. Health and Human Services, et. al. supporting the preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court, N.Dist. California, halting the implementation of the...
read more#MeToo in the Boardroom
For an instructive read on how to ensure sexual harassment is on the boardroom agenda, see MIT's Boardroom article...
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Soccer Star’s Powerful Graduation Remarks
Abby Wambach's Barnard graduation remarks will inspire us all: Greetings to President Beilock, Barnard faculty, trustees, and honorees: Katherine Johnson, Anna Quindlen, and Rhea Suh. And to each of the 619 bad-ass women of the Barnard graduating class of 2018:...
read moreIllinois Approves Equal Rights Amendment
Illinois has recently ratified the Equal Rights Amendment -- 36 years after the deadline! Still, we are crossing our fingers for one more state so that (if Congress can see its way to extending the deadline) the ERA may finally become enshrined in the Constitution!...
read moreUsing #OurVoices in the #MeToo World: Tina Tchen on Changing Law Firm Culture
Women Lawyers On Guard is co-sponsoring, with the Women’s Bar Association of DC, a program on sexual harassment and Changing Law firm Culture. “Impossible,” you say? Come hear Tina Tchen, co-founder of #TimesUp’s Legal Defense Fund and a partner at Buckley Sandler,...
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