Girls within the Legislation
Themis authorized observe group represents feminine purchasers and their allies
The observe group Themis: Trial by Girls, shaped in 2022, is called after Themis, the Greek goddess of justice. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Two Chicago legal professionals have created a observe group with a feminine focus.
The 2 legal professionals, Allyson West and Kelly Olivier, “have constructed a uncommon authorized workforce of their very own—a observe by feminine trial attorneys, solely for feminine purchasers and their allies,” the Chicago Sun-Times stories.
The observe group, shaped in 2022, is called after Themis, the Greek goddess of justice. The group known as Themis: Trial by Girls, and it’s a part of Chicago private damage and civil rights regulation agency Hale & Monico.
West and Olivier are unaware of different trial legal professional teams run by girls and specializing in girls.
Nikia Grey, the manager director of the Nationwide Affiliation for Legislation Placement, stated she has by no means heard of the same group.
“That’s positively distinctive,” Grey informed the Chicago Solar-Occasions. “I can see how an all-women authorized workforce might help a lady really feel extra protected as a consumer, really feel extra understood, particularly in additional delicate instances.”
The Chicago Solar-Occasions cited statistics exhibiting that there are fewer feminine attorneys than male attorneys in management roles and a 2020 study concerning the tendency to low cost the credibility of girls reporting harassment by extra highly effective males.
“We’re not so naive to assume that we’re going to alter the systemic misogyny that’s been in place, particularly within the authorized career, for tons of of years,” Olivier informed the Chicago Solar-Occasions. “That being stated, we are able to make a change in our little nook of the universe and for our purchasers.”
