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Ethics & Professionalism CLE

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AWA Summer Family Night at the Zephyrs

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New Millennium, Same Glass Ceiling?

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Helpful Legal Links

The AWA has compiled a listing of helpful legal web links. As a starting point for general legal searches on the Internet, the AWA suggests using Findlaw or Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research

WOMEN-FOCUSED

Articles of Interest

  • New Millennium, Same Glass Ceiling?
  • The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR)
  • Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)
  • NCWBA Winter 2009 newsletter
  • We Still Need Women’s Bar Associations by HELEN PERRY GRIMWOOD
  • Womens’ Health Report by the National Women’s Law Center and Oregon Health and Science University.
  • Best Law Firms for Women by Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers
  • Women Lawyers Force Big Rights Gains in Uganda:The Christian Science Monitor
  • 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:Georgia Assn. for Women Lawyers
  • Beating the Firm Boys at their Own Game
  • Texas Women Lawyers - Maternity Leave Survey of Texas law firms
  • Yale Law School:  Top Ten Family Friendly Firms
  • From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful: Success Strategies for Law Firms and Women of Color in Law Firms
  • Are Mid-Career Female Attorneys in Crisis?
  • Lack of Self Promotion hurts Women Lawyers in Big Firms
  • Too Many Women Lawyers are Like Oz’s Dorothy

  • Books of Interest

  • Pioneering Women Lawyers: From Kate Stoneman to the Present, by Patricia E. Salkin


  • STATE

    Louisiana - General

  • New Orleans Public Libraries
  • City of New Orleans
  • Secretary of State (can check on corporation status)
  • City of New Orleans Service of Process Information (can check on service of process information, case numbers by litigants, etc.)
  • Louisiana Clerks of Court Directory
  • Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board
  • Louisiana State Departments
  • The Law Library of Louisiana
  • Louisiana State University School of Law
  • Loyola School of Law
  • Southern University School of Law
  • Tulane University School of Law

  • Louisiana - Courts

  • Supreme Court of Louisiana
  • Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal
  • Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal
  • Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal
  • Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
  • Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal
  • Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans
  • Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans
  • 24th JDC Parish of Jefferson
  • St. Tammany Parish
  • 19th JDC Parish of East Baton Rouge
  • Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court

  • Rules

  • Louisiana Supreme Court Rules
  • Rules for Louisiana Appellate Courts
  • Rules for Louisiana District Courts
  • Louisiana Administrative Code


  • FEDERAL

    Courts

  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
  • United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

  • Rules

  • Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
  • Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Federal Rules of Evidence

  • General

  • U.S. Code (Searchable)
  • U.S. Tax Code On-line (Searchable)
  • National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations
  • National Association of Women Lawyers
  • ABA Commission on Women in the Profession


  • CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION

  • Louisiana Bar Association Seminar Schedule
  • Loyola University New Orleans - Institute for Continuing Legal Education
  • Tulane University School of Law - CLE
  • CLE Requirements for Individual States
  • Lorman offers CLE progams


  • OTHER HELPFUL LINKS

  • American Bar Association Career Resource Center 
  • Women of Wisdom, Inc.:
  • AWA Membership Directory
  • Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness

    COMMUNITY OUTREACH

  • Grace House of New Orleans
  • Dress for Success Clean out Your Closet Program
  • Afterschool Partnership for Greater New Orleans
  • Blueprint Louisiana
  • Plessy and Ferguson Foundation