Kenyon's gender woes; like some others, this IP firm hasn't named many women partners
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Intellectual property law firm Kenyon and Kenyon has by tradition been a stratified, white-male firm, and the 1997 promotion to partner of Donna Praiss seemed to signal a change, but in 1008 three female partner candidates were passed over for promotion, Deborah A Somerville, Suzanne M Parker, and Maria Lisa Palmese. When Kenyon and Kenyon has an equal number of men and women up for partnership, none of the women are promoted, while two-thirds of the men are. Kenyon and rivals defend themselves with the argument that women with degrees in the applied sciences are few and far between.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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'Tark the Shark' has a shark of his own; $2.5M deal for hoop coach Tarkanian is just latest win
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Attorney Terry M. Giles boasts different and high-profile clients, among them basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, Southern California televangelist Robert Schuller and the drama teacher who admitted to being ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky's ex-lover. Before these well-known clients, though, Giles resigned from his criminal defense practice after a clients for whom he had won an acquittal murdered two women. Giles quite lawyering in 1983 and had a second career in business, returning to the law after two years to win a large defense verdict for the owner of a computer company.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Women having it all; they're mothers and partners in New York - you got a problem with that?
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Women attorneys must be expert time managers of their personal and professional lives to juggle high-level jobs in large law firms with the demands of small children, but this can be done and the stories of many women across the US show this to be a fact. That is why attorney Alice Hector's loss of custody of her two small children is so upsetting.. The all-male judicial panel who reached this decision felt that Hector's demanding job meant she would not have enough time for her children.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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