“An ethical rule makes us accountable,” said Drucilla S. Ramey, a former executive director of the San Francisco Bar Association. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyLeslie Richards-Yellen, president of the National Association of Women Lawyers, described what she said had happened to a young African-American associate at a firm where she once practiced. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“People make comments every day on everything, from what women lawyers are wearing or whether they are smiling or can take a joke,” she said. Women were dominant — 66 percent — only as trial lawyers for government entities. Lawyers, they say, use such behavior as a tactic to fluster or intimidate opposing counsel.

Source: New York Times August 04, 2016 22:21 UTC