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: Ms. JDA Code of Ethics for Female Attorneys
By jessie
Recently, I heard Adrienne Suarez deliver her Code of Ethics for Female Attorneys. Favorite excepts include:
Number 4: Given the choice of being a mentor or a tormentor to a younger, less experienced female attorney, I actively choose to be a mentor.
Number 7: I recognize that even though we may be of the same sex, I will not like every female attorney I meet. I pledge, however, not to call her a ?bitch,? or any other name powerful because of its misogynist origins.
The Code represents a perspective probably not shared by everyone that there are inter-generational issues among female attorneys that prevent them from helping one another succeed. Suarez takes a proactive, sometimes snarky, and thoroughly thoughtful approach to the problem.
Suarez's explanation and the full list of pledges follow after the jump...
Full post as published by Ms. JD on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).
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