Since we all receive numerous invitations to join a variety of organizations, committees and groups, you may wonder why you should join The Woman Advocate Committee. There are many tangible and intangible benefits you can obtain from membership in this Committee; for example:

1. The Committee sponsors programs which feature talented, effective women trial lawyers demonstrating trial and advocacy skills and styles;
2. The Committee offers programs on rainmaking for women, emphasizing how women can effectively attract and retain clients;
3. The Committee offers the opportunity to network with other women trial lawyers and exchange information, questions or ideas on a wide variety of professional and personal issues confronting women lawyers, particularly those in a litigation practice; including alternative work styles, balancing trial work and motherhood, mentoring and perceptions of women advocates.
4. The Committee publishes a newsletter four times a year on a variety of topics that are of interest to women advocates.

We encourage you to join the Committee and benefit from all of the advantages the Committee has to offer. Through an active participating membership, we can create an even stronger Committee that will help all of us.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and currently the only female justice, said that she and Justice O’Connor, who preceded her, brought a distinct perspective to the court. But Justice Ginsburg said her own influence in all sorts of cases at the justices’ conferences was uncertain: 'it isn’t until somebody else says it that everyone will focus on the point,' Ginsburg said.

Findings from the Minority Law Journal's survey of Am Law 200 and NLJ 250 firms about their minority head counts.

Women lawyers in New Jersey are more likely to quit if their law firm does not have flexible work arrangements, and they are gravitating toward firms that do, says a new survey of women lawyers across New Jersey.