Kenyon's gender woes; like some others, this IP firm hasn't named many women partners

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Intellectual property law firm Kenyon and Kenyon has by tradition been a stratified, white-male firm, and the 1997 promotion to partner of Donna Praiss seemed to signal a change, but in 1008 three female partner candidates were passed over for promotion, Deborah A Somerville, Suzanne M Parker, and Maria Lisa Palmese. When Kenyon and Kenyon has an equal number of men and women up for partnership, none of the women are promoted, while two-thirds of the men are. Kenyon and rivals defend themselves with the argument that women with degrees in the applied sciences are few and far between.

New York, Analysis, Officials and employees, Sex discrimination against women, Employment discrimination, Kenyon and Kenyon

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'Tark the Shark' has a shark of his own; $2.5M deal for hoop coach Tarkanian is just latest win

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Attorney Terry M. Giles boasts different and high-profile clients, among them basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, Southern California televangelist Robert Schuller and the drama teacher who admitted to being ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky's ex-lover. Before these well-known clients, though, Giles resigned from his criminal defense practice after a clients for whom he had won an acquittal murdered two women. Giles quite lawyering in 1983 and had a second career in business, returning to the law after two years to win a large defense verdict for the owner of a computer company.

Management, Tarkanian, Jerry, Giles, Terry M.

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Women having it all; they're mothers and partners in New York - you got a problem with that?

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Women attorneys must be expert time managers of their personal and professional lives to juggle high-level jobs in large law firms with the demands of small children, but this can be done and the stories of many women across the US show this to be a fact. That is why attorney Alice Hector's loss of custody of her two small children is so upsetting.. The all-male judicial panel who reached this decision felt that Hector's demanding job meant she would not have enough time for her children.

Behavior, Women attorneys, Women lawyers

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