Female Lawyers: Reading Society

Female Judges Dept: "We have found out that many female lawyers - while they make up half of the law school class - are leaving within three years of graduating because they can't strike that work-family life balance," said Schiller, who has seen the numbers in an internal study by the Barreau de Montr al as a member of its committee on women in the profession, according to Montreal Gazette. Schiller, the mother of four boys, points to her own career as an example and robin Schiller, the newly elected president of Montreal's Lord Reading Society for lawyers and notaries, at least three times a year matches up female judges and lawyers with female law students in speed-dating-type sessions to tell them it is possible to have it all. The match-up sessions are meant to show that there are alternatives, including working for small law firms, government agencies or as an in-house lawyer for a company. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.