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Those informal agreements are paving the way for official policies, particularly as more women move into protocol-setting positions. While working as the executive director of her state?s trial lawyer???s association earlier in her career, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius took her two infant sons to the office and has been an advocate for workplace parenting ever since. Today, 21 state agencies in Kansas allow parenting in the office. "We live in a society where too many people make workers choose--do you want to be a good parent, or do you want to be a good worker?" says...
...original version of this story incorrectly stated that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius worked as an attorney early in her career. In fact, Governor Sebelius served as the executive director of the Kansas Trial Lawyer???s Association, but was not an attorney herself...
DELAY. Thanks to overcrowded, harried courts, lawyers can often find ways to protract a shaky case indefinitely. Postponements, recesses, objections, motions, depositions, unavailability of client or lawyer???the list of stalling techniques is endless. Sometimes the intent is to squeeze a cash-starved opponent into a disadvantageous settlement. Or it can be even more pernicious. In Chicago, an attorney for a notorious dope dealer won 72 postponements over four years on the ground that he had trials elsewhere. A judge finally tired of that game and ordered the trial to proceed; the jury needed only 30 minutes to return with...
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