Leadership

  • Law School,  Leadership,  Legal Practice,  Work Life Balance

    A Survival Framework: The Magic is in the Balance

    At this point, I am resigned to the fact that life will continue to be “unprecedented,” with extreme highs and lows. I guess such is life, and we have to figure out how to not just survive it but overcome it and find joy, hope, resiliency–all the good things.  Again, I don’t want to come off as polly-anna–things are rough, to say the least, and it’s only day two. But I was an immigration attorney, on the ground, during the first term and I practiced for a long time prior to that. I am old enough to have a plan and also wise enough to know that I don’t know…

  • Issues,  Leadership

    Latina Leadership: Unleashing Power and Potential

    Happy New Year! It’s been a while since we’ve hit publish on this site, but I’m excited to get back to it especially as we enter our second decade (can you believe it?)!  As we kick off the new year, I want to share some shifts in content that I hope will make you just as excited as I am. Over the past ten years, we have discussed the need to increase Latina representation within the legal industry. When I first started writing, we were at 2% of all US attorneys. Recently, a study came out, and imagine my surprise that we’re now at 3%. …a 1 percent increase in…

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