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The SDCBA's Disability Justice Group’s 2024 mission focuses on disability justice in the legal field.
Do you remember having to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school? Upon becoming one of the few Arab American women in San Diego County practicing law, that Pledge holds more weight than ever before. To me, helping women advance in law and society has been a massive step towards liberty and justice for all.
Did you know …?
Adults spend an average of seven hours online per day, and teenagers can spend up to nine hours. Even subtracting schoolwork, homework, and communicating with their caregivers, teenagers spend a considerable part of their day in front of a screen, often unsupervised. Every. Single. Day.
I have a request. No, I have a demand: Stop using the phrase “you guys” . . .
Not surprisingly, as programmers’ salaries rose and the computer industry grew lucrative, the industry pushed women out or excluded us by using a tragically flawed “programmer aptitude test” developed by two male psychologists who “determined” that good programmers 1) like to solve puzzles and 2) dislike people!
We talk about successes in our profession, which is, of course, a good thing. For me, as a type A overachiever, setbacks and challenges are particularly difficult. I am sure many of you can relate. They create fears and self-doubt. Instead, we should normalize that setbacks and failure are inevitable, and what is important is getting up again and moving forward.
I am using my weekly President’s Message to shamelessly plug and personally invite you to the Lawyers Club Annual Dinner on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. We are thrilled that Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, Co-Founder of Supermajority, and author of Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead, will be the keynote speaker.
Equal Pay Day represents the day in the current year that women must work to earn the same amount that their white male counterpart earned the year before. Over a lifetime, a woman stands to lose over $1 million dollars in pay. The numbers are even more grim for women of color.
Currently, of the 266 sculptures in the U.S. Capitol that commemorate notable historical figures, just 14 represent women. Bipartisan legislation approved by the House seeks to add statues of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg—the first and second women on the Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, March 22, Justice Patricia Guerrero made history when she became the first Latina and the first Lawyers Club member confirmed to the California Supreme Court.
