Resources
Resources for Women Attorneys
Articles of Interest
- New Millennium, Same Glass Ceiling?
- The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR)
- Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)
- NCWBA February 2012 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
- February 2011 ABA Commission on Women – program on Women and Ambition
Books of Interest
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
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
- Partnership for Youth Development
- Blueprint Louisiana
- Plessy and Ferguson Foundation
- Second Harvest
- Pro Bono Project