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‘My Mother, the Lawyer’ explores ladies’s work and private lives via the eyes of their kids
As Michelle Browning Coughlin, of counsel at ND Galli Legislation in Louisville, Kentucky, was elevating her two daughters, she wished her children to know what legal professionals do. She apprehensive that kids solely knew the kind of legal professionals who generally appeared in courtrooms on tv reveals.
One sleepless night time, she turned impressed, sketching out the concept for the kids’s guide My Mother, the Lawyer. It’s advised from the factors of view of a number of kids whose mothers work in varied capacities—starting from company legal professionals to judges to politicians to navy attorneys. The vignettes clarify what Mother does, together with offering function fashions.
On this episode of The Trendy Legislation Library podcast, the ABA Journal’s Julianne Hill talks with Browning Coughlin, who’s a member of the ABA Fee on Ladies within the Occupation and is the founding father of MothersEsquire, a nonprofit that advocates for gender fairness, motherhood and caregiver points.
Browning Coughlin discusses her course of in writing and designing the image guide and talks about her inventive selection to make use of pictures with out distinct facial options.
Whereas directed at younger kids, Browning Coughlin says the guide additionally speaks to legal professionals who’re mothers, letting them know that being each could be a busy however fulfilling life.
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Michelle Browning Coughlin
Michelle Browning Coughlin works as of counsel at ND Galli Legislation in Louisville, Kentucky, a woman-owned IP legislation agency. Browning Coughlin is the founding father of MothersEsquire, a nonprofit that advocates for gender fairness, motherhood and caregiver points. In November 2019, she authored the kids’s guide My Mother, the Lawyer and donated all proceeds of the guide to MothersEsquire to assist its advocacy initiatives. In 2020, Browning Coughlin was appointed to the ABA Fee on Ladies within the Occupation, and he or she has additionally labored as an adjunct professor of gender legislation and coverage on the College of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis Faculty of Legislation and the Northern Kentucky College Salmon P. Chase faculty of legislation. She and her husband, Craig, together with their two teenage daughters, reside in Louisville, Kentucky.
