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Women in the Legal Profession: Model Policies and Reports

Model Policies and Reports

Alternative Work Schedules | Attrition | Careers & Compensation | Diversity | Family

Gender Bias in the Courts | General |  Quality of Life | Sexual | Harassment | Sexual Orientation

ABA Commission on Women in the Profession: Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice Prepared for the Commission by Deborah L. Rhode (October 22, 2001)

Alternative Work Schedules

  • Equity Initiatives: Alternative Work Schedules: Guidelines for Law Firms (Equity Committee of the Law Society, Canada)
  • It's About Time II: Examining Flexible Work Arrangements from the Attorney's and the Firm's Perspectives - A Study of Part-Time Policies in Georgia Law Firms, by Penelope M. Huang, Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (March 3, 2008)
  • Model Policies on Sexual Harassment and Alternative Work Arrangements (October 1994) [from the Task Force on women  in the Law of the Indiana State Bar Association]
  • More Than Part-Time: The Effect of Reduced-Hours Arrangements on the Retention, Recruitment and Success of Women Attorneys in Law Firms, Report of Employment Issues Committee of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts (2000). 
  • The MWL Life Balance Initiative (including Life Balance Resource Guide) (Minnesota Women Lawyers, Fall 2000)
  • Report and Sample Policy on Alternative Work Arrangements (New York. State Bar Association, June 1995)  
  • Report of the Task Force on Lawyers’ Quality of Life (Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1996)  
  • Resolution of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association Endorsing Model Employer Policies 1999 for Parenting Lawyers (December 20, 1999)  
  • Manual of Model Policies and Programs to Achieve Equality of Opportunity in the Legal Profession (Bar Association of San Francisco, August 1994)  
  • Guidelines and Model Policy on Alternative Work Schedules (Law Society of Manitoba, September 1999).   
  • Making Work Flexible: Policy to Practice (Catalyst)

Attrition

  • Beyond the Bidding Wars: A Survey of Associate Attrition, Departure Destinations and Workplace Incentives (NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education, 2000)
  • Keeping the Keepers II: Mobility and Management of Associates (NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education, 2003)
  • Keeping Good Lawyers: Best Practice to Create Career Satisfaction (ABA, November 2000)

Careers & Compensation

  • Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice, by Deborah L. Rhode (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, October 2001)
  • Beyond the Bidding Wars: A Survey of Associate Attrition, Departure Destinations and Workplace Incentives (NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education, 2000)
  • Options and Obstacles: A Survey of the Studies of the Careers of Women Lawyers, Prepared for the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession by Marilyn Tucker & Georgia A. Niedzielko (July 1994)
  • No Glass Ceiling Task Force (Bar Association of San Francisco) San Francisco Bar Association (May 2002)

Diversity

Family

  • Facing the Grail: Confronting the Cost of Work-Family Imbalance Report of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Professional Challenges and Family Needs (1999)
  • The MWL Life Balance Initiative (including Life Balance Resource Guide) (Minnesota Women Lawyers, Fall 2000)
  • Project for Attorney Retention, an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings College of the Law
  • Childbirth and Parenting Leave: A Report and Model Policy (New York, State Bar Association, 1990)
  • Resolution of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association Endorsing Model Employer Policies 1999 for Parenting Lawyers (December 20, 1999)  

Gender Bias in the Courts

  • Gender Fairness in the Courts: Action in the New Millennium, (by Lynn Hecht Schafran and Norma J. Wikler, National Judicial Education Program, A Project of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges, 2001)
  • Gender Fairness Strategies Project: Implementation Resources Directory, Compiled by Lynn Hecht Schafran, with Norma J. Wikler and Jill Crawford. (A Project of the National Judicial Education Program of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges, 1998)
  • Learning From The New Jersey Supreme Court Task Force On Women In The Courts: Evaluation, Recommendations And Implications For Other States, (By Juliet Wikler and Lynn Hecht Schafran, Women's Rights Law Reporter 12 No. 4 pp. 313-385, 1991).
  • Operating a Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts a Manual for Actions (by, Lynn Hecht Schafran, Esq. and Norma J. Wikler, Ph.D., The Foundation for Women Judges, Washington, DC 1986)
  • Planning for Evaluation: Guidelines for Task Forces on Gender Bias in the Courts (by Lynn Hecht Schafran, Women Judges' Fund for Justice, 1989)

General

  • Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice, by Deborah L. Rhode (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, October 2001)
  • Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Women in Management (International Labour Organization, Bureau for Gender Equality)
  • Expectations, Reality and Recommendations for Change, Boston Bar Association Taskforce on Professional Fulfillment (1997)
  • Manual of Model Policies and Programs to Achieve Equality of Opportunity in the Legal Profession, Bar Association of San Francisco, August 1994
  • Options and Obstacles: A Survey of the Studies of the Careers of Women Lawyers, Prepared for the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession by Marilyn Tucker & Georgia A. Niedzielko. July 1994.
  • Ginsburg and ARPS Lectures, The Record, 61 No.1, pp.1-133, 2006.
  • The Unfinished Agenda, by Deborah L. Rhode (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, April 2001)
  • Women in Law: Making the Case (Executive Summary) (Catalyst, 2001)
  • A Current Glance at Women in the Law (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, 2001)
  • A Snapshot of Women in the Law (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, 2000)
  • Goal III (Formerly Goal IX) Report Card (on full and equal participation in the legal profession)(ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, 2001)
  • Women and the Law: Women in the Justice System (From Facts About Women and the Law, American Bar Association, 1998)

Quality of Life

  • Manual of Model Policies and Programs to Achieve Equality of Opportunity in the Legal Profession (Bar Association of San Francisco, August 1994)
  • Model Policies on Sexual Harassment and Alternative Work Arrangements (October 1994) [from the Task Force on women  in the Law of the Indiana State Bar Association]

Sexual Harassment

  • Model Policies on Sexual Harassment and Alternative Work Arrangements (August 1996) [Res Gestae article, policies taken from Task Force on women  in the Law of the Indiana State Bar Association, 1994.]

Sexual Orientation

  • Employment Policies for Gay/Lesbian Attorneys, Bar Association of San Francisco, Committee on Sexual Orientation Issues