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Female Lawyers in Skimpy Skirts

By Glen Ashman

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From the ABA Journal:

Women lawyers tempted to go to court looking like Ally McBeal should take note: Male judges find the look distracting. Two male judges confessed that they can?t help but look at a panel session during the Seventh Circuit Bar Association. .....That prompted Judge Michael McCuskey, chief judge of the U.S.District Court for the Central District of Illinois, to raise another concern. Some women come to court wearing "skirts so short that there's no way they can sit down and blouses so short there's no way the judges wouldn't look," he said. After laughter erupted, Bankruptcy Judge Benjamin Goldgar of Chicago offered that the matter needs to be addressed because it is "a huge problem." He said sometimes he wishes he could tell the female lawyer before him, "I'd really like to pay attention to your argument." Asked how to solve the problem, some called for law firms to raise the issue and others said law schools need to educate students on appropriate attire.....

http://www.abajournal.com/news/male_judges_advise_women_lawyers_to_lose_the_distracting_ally_mcbeal_look

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).