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Schulman last week retained an attorney, thehigh-profile criminal defense lawyer NancyGertner. Gertner did not return repeated callsyesterday...
...Take Back the Night panel on rape and the law this week, Nancy Gertner, a feminist defense lawyer in Boston who specializes in cases of violence against women, offered a fitting analogy for this debate. Doctors, she said, are not allowed to operate on a person simply because the patient does not say anything. An operation requires a yes. Not similarly requiring a yes for sex somehow implies that an initiator has less responsibility with his or her partner's body...
...courtroom, even "slight innuendos made me feel illegitimate--like I didn't belong there," said Gertner...
...Gertner asked that the audience "not allow stereotypes to remain unchallenged and therefore unchanged...
...Nancy Gertner, a partner in a private Boston law firm, said that the gender bias report's findings confirmed what she had known from personal experience in the state's court system...