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Other than volunteer lawyers like Smith and Lynum, who interviewed 67 families about their asylum cases in one afternoon, migrants have no access to counsel. "Everything is changing, almost every minute", says Ruby Powers, founder and managing attorney at Powers Law Group, P.C., in Houston, Texas, who volunteered with Al Otro Lado in December 2018. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on the low percentage of women in leadership positions, particularly in the legal professions. A research conducted by McKinsey & Co. found that women leaders bring different elements to the table, as compared to men. Examples of women in the profession, like Angela Bradstreet of Carroll, Burdick and McDonough LLP, and Amy Schulman of Pfizer Inc., are discussed.

The article offers information on the women in the American Bar Association (ABA) leadership. It stated about Bayo Callender who joined the committee of ABA and other women lawyer including Laurel Bellows, Lynn Hecht Schafran and Bader Ginsburg. It also discussed on the Goal III Report published in February 2012 by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession (CWP) and about the upward trend of women in leadership.

The article reports on a daylong series of panel discussions titled "Day of the Woman" at the American Bar Association's Annual Meeting in August 2013. Mary B. Cranston, a retired senior partner and chair emeritus of San Francisco, California-based law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, said that the legal profession has evolved from the days when women were about 13 percent of the lawyer population. Other lawyers at the discussion included Margaret (Peggy) Foran and Kathleen Blanchard.

The article focuses on the survey project "Focus on Women in Law: Building and Strengthening Client Relationships," started by lawyers, Amy Sommers, Priti Suri and Beth Bunnell, to help women legal professionals in developing awareness about approaches being used in other communities. The survey revealed that women face almost same challenges across geographies. It is observed that fee pressure, time constraints and access to clients are barriers for women to build client relationships.

The article discusses various issues pertaining to courtroom presentations by women lawyers. It is stated that women lawyers have less room for error while appearing in the court. Different yardsticks are applied while perceiving courtroom presentations of male and female lawyers. Women lawyers' hesitation during presentation is often considered as hesitation.

The article presents the professional opportunities for women lawyers in the international banking industry. Topics include the evolving financial compliance statutes as with cybercrime or money laundering, cross-border legal practice alluded to by Georgetown University Law Center law professor Anna Gelpern as well as international finance offerings. Also mentioned are mortgage fraud persecution against a Hells Angels member, cyber currency investigations and digital currency crimes.

The article discusses career opportunities for women lawyers in the U.S. public sector. Topics discussed include the benefits of engaging in public sector law, a brief profile of female lawyers working in the public sector which include Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Supervising Attorney Karen Cacace, and their opinion on the leadership opportunities in the public sector.

The article focuses on Pamela Carter, Indiana governor and leader of one of four business units at Cummins Inc. who is to retire in April 2015. It is noted that Carter had been in private practice with Cummins as her client before becoming general counsel for Cummins in 1997. It is mentioned that with a goal to hold people accountable, Carter helped write model securities law.

The article focuses on difficulties experienced by women lawyers who tries to find work after a voluntary timeout. It is noted that an employer's hesitancy to embrace a candidate with a nontraditional career path is experienced while overcoming the personal obstacles inherent in any career. It is mentioned that the idea of opting out or transitioning back has been never firmly blueprinted for many women.

The article discusses perceptions of success in Generation X and Generation Y women. Stephanie McCoy Loquvam, a lawyer at the Phoenix, Arizona, firm of Aiken Schenk Hawkins & Ricciardi PC, says the job market for any graduate is particularly stark and poses difficult challenges. A survey by Chicago, Illinois-based National Association of Women Lawyers found that women were leaving big-firm practices early, and that the rate accelerated over time.

The article announces the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the American Bar Association (ABA) Women in the Profession.

The article focuses on the response to using conferences to make public the study "New Millennium, Same Glass Ceiling? The Impact of Law Firm Compensation Systems on Women" released by the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession (CWP) in 2010. This report has been discussed at a number of conferences including ones in San Francisco, California, New York, and Washington, D.C. The study focuses on women in law firms and the issues found within their existing compensation systems, particularly in dealing with origination credit and succession.

The article reports that a survey conducted by the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), based in Chicago, indicates that the low percentage of women equity partners in law firms remains unchanged at about 15 percent. The study highlighted the lack of women and minorities on compensation committees. More than half the women reported being denied their fair share of origination credit.

The article discusses the issue of diversity fatigue in the law firms which means, people get tired of bringing diversity in the workforce after a point of time. The article shows how due to diversity fatigue even after so many efforts of law firms and their clients to increase the number of women and minorities in the legal profession, progress has been slow. According to Janet Love, partner at Lord, Bissell and Brook LLP, new approaches are required to deal with the diversity fatigue.