Category: Comment
Her Justice elects three new members to Board of Directors
11/05/2019
Members of the Her Justice Board of Directors unanimously approved the election of Monica Arora, Partner, Private Funds Group, Proskauer; Faith Gay, founding partner of Selendy & Gay, a majority women-owned litigation firm in New York; and Lisa Vicens, Partner at Cleary Gottlieb, as the organization’s newest board members.
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The Real-World Implications of #MeToo-Transforming the Legal Ecosystem (Part VI)
05/07/2019
Read takeaways from the sixth roundtable discussion in the highly successful series “The Real-World Implications of #MeToo—Transforming the Legal Ecosystem”, hosted in San Francisco by Uber Technologies Inc., and organized by FiscalNote, Her Justice, Thomson Reuters.
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Justice for Mothers in the “Fifth Trimester”
03/18/2019
A conversation between Her Justice and Lauren Smith Brody on how employers, elected officials, and colleagues can champion mothers at all income levels and across all industries, especially during the Fifth Trimester when, in Lauren’s words, ‘the working mother is born.’
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The Real-World Implications of #MeToo — Transforming the Legal Ecosystem: A Roundtable Discussion of How Lawyers Can Mitigate Workplace Sexual Harassment
12/13/2018
Tim Nixon, Head of Sustainability Thought Leadership at Thomson Reuters and Managing Editor of the Thomson Reuters Sustainability site, presents a summary of the third roundtable discussion in the ongoing series ‘The Real-World Implications of #MeToo – Transforming the Legal Ecosystem,’ hosted by Her Justice, FiscalNote and Thomson Reuters.
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Bringing #MeToo Home
11/14/2018
Read a new piece from Her Justice Executive Director Amy Barasch on the similarities between what domestic violence survivors have told us for years, and what #MeToo has been telling us recently.
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Statement on the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Hawaii
06/28/2018
We at Her Justice join immigrant communities, business leaders, and many people across the United States in expressing disappointment at this week’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Hawaii, one of the legal challenges to President Trump’s executive order that severely restricts travel from several majority Muslim countries to the United States.
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Statement on Family Separation
06/20/2018
Her Justice stands for getting and keeping immigrant parents and their children together. We have embraced this priority since the founding of our immigration program over a decade ago. We abhor and condemn the policy of separating parents and children at the border as a clear human rights abuse.
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Our Response to Sessions’ Decision in the Matter of A-B-
06/13/2018
Her Justice strongly denounces the recent decision In the Matter of A-B- written by Attorney General Jeffrey Sessions. The decision sharply limits the ability of survivors of domestic violence to flee their abusers when their home countries cannot or will not protect them from abuse in order to seek safe haven in the United States.
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Susanna Saul graduates as a CORO Fellow in the Immigrant Civic Leadership Program
05/07/2018
Her Justice Managing Attorney, Immigration, Susanna Saul recently graduated from the Immigrant Civic Leadership program at CORO, a New York-based leadership training organization that builds skills to lead change within New York’s diverse immigrant communities.
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