Parents Who Practice
Mom Owned Law Firm Interview with Summer Nichols
We continue with our third installment of the MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms — where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Up this week is Summer Nichols, owner of Law Offices of Summer Nichols, a thriving family law practice in Jacksonville, Florida which she started when her…
Read MoreMom Owned Law Firm Interview with Rennee Dehesa
This week, the MyShingle profile series continues with two more Mom-Owned Law Firms, as we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, we’ll hear from Rennee Dehesa, a partner in a small trusts and estates practice. The Money Quote: DO IT (start a firm) and don’t look back! What is…
Read MoreMom Owned Law Firm Interview with Theresa Skaine
The MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms continues. Join us this week as we celebrate more mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, we’ll hear from Theresa Skaine, owner of Skaine & Associates, a Sarasota Springs, New York law firm handling corporate, not-for profit and commercial real estate matters. …
Read MoreMom Law Firm Owners: Let’s Take Back the Legal Profession By Taking Our Seat at the Table
Women-owned law firms, particularly those owned by moms, have become the proverbial invisible man of the legal profession. Mom lawyers are excluded from the conversation about retaining women in the legal profession, and we don’t even rank on the ABA Reports drawn from NALP on women in the profession. But just like the tiny whos…
Read MoreMom Owned Law Firm Timeout with Cathleen Cooper Moran
Welcome to the MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. One of our two inaugural profiles comes from Cathleen Cooper Moran, a seasoned bankruptcy attorney who has been running her own law firm for 40 years. The money quote: “Ownership has…
Read MoreMom Owned Law Firm Timeout With Christine L Matus
Welcome to the MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. One of our two inaugural profiles comes from Christine Matus, a New Jersey-based estate planning attorney, who will celebrate 15 years of law firm ownership. The Money Quote: “I always wanted…
Read MoreALM Columnist Says Women Aren’t In the Top Echelons of the Legal Profession Because They Don’t Rule at Big Law.
ALM Columnist Vivia Chen’s recent rant on the latest “Best Law Firms for Women” lists starts out promisingly enough as Chen questions why the lists reward law firms for effort, rather than result. As Chen points out, many of the law firms on the four different lists focus on child-friendly policies like part time availability…
Read MoreGoodbye to All That
The last days went down just as I imagined. Packed up the rented Jeep Cherokee and drove up to Massachusetts alone, a half hour behind my daughters who navigated the Prius that they’ll have with them at college. Unpacked my younger daughter – the freshman – then walked around campus while she took care of…
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