Our Women’s Rights Committee and Women in the Profession Committee have paved the way for women practicing in Philadelphia to have allies and advocates, highlighting the need for change and illuminating the pathways to that change, even when firms and organizations were reluctant to adapt.

Title IX opened the door for gender equality, and today millions of women and girls are running, dribbling, putting, swimming, serving, and flipping through it.

The basics of the attorney discipline process in Pennsylvania are outlined in the first part of this series.

Submissions from members of the Philadelphia Bar Association

I knew from the first time I appeared in court in opposition to a lawyer of the opposite sex that the law was a profession especially suited to what was often referred to back in the day as ‘the weaker sex.’”