The battle between skirt suit and pant suit is fierce, one that pits traditional values against comfort. Here is my personal list of pros and cons.


What Women Wear to Court

Ladies' Night
The latest strange legal news from the Bitter Lawyer newsroom, from attorney Doug Stephan

Halloween is for Restocking the Stable
This Halloween I planned to do the same exact thing I do every Halloween: spend four days lying to random girls and picking up digits for the winter.

Shut Your Mouth (And Your Legs)
For reasons somewhat unclear to me, women in the workplace get a free pass to talk about their sex lives. For reasons even less clear to me, the women who take advantage of this double standard are never the ones you actually want to hear talk about their sex lives. Exhibit A: My boss. I’ll…

Your Women’s Initiative Sucks
Of all the things about this firm that make me writhe with discomfort and despair, perhaps the most notable is the Women’s Initiative. I can say with great conviction that I would rather trade places with a paralegal, and spend my days doing whatever the hell it is paralegals do, than join that miserable group. …

Who Says Women Are Bad at Math?
Ladies, where have you gone? A new report circulated by the American Bar Association has the legal world asking why women lawyers are “still underrepresented at firms,” according to the Legal Blog Watch. As the report indicates, the “number of female lawyers serving as partners at large firms continues to stagnate,” with women representing only…