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Female Trial Lawyers: The Trailblazing Women of Guerra LLP Part Three

Posted on March 21, 2022December 10, 2024 by Schuyler Donaldson

In case you haven’t quite noticed, we love bragging about our staff here at Watts Guerra, especially our women during Women’s History Month every March. One of our yearly traditions is to ask our female attorneys questions about their unique experiences in this profession. They provide us with wisdom and advice based on what they have encountered, and we turn it into an article which is one of our most-read items on our website each year.

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Guerra LLP Female Attorneys

Posted on February 28, 2022March 19, 2026 by Schuyler Donaldson

Every March we celebrate all the amazing women who work at our firm for Women’s History Month. These females at our firm are shattering stereotypes, forging new paths, and lifting their fellow peers up with them along the way. Although they are celebrated all year, we dedicate the entire month to shouting them out because they deserve all the recognition they can get!

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How Guerra LLP Women Lawyers Successfully Balance Being a Mother While Paying Attention to Upward Mobility

Posted on July 14, 2021December 10, 2024 by Schuyler Donaldson

It has been proven that women work harder and are more productive than their male counterparts in the workforce.1 Yet still, women continue to fight gender gaps and glass ceilings to achieve their positions and when asking for promotions, women do not receive the same outcomes as their male counterparts.²

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A Response to the ABA Journal by Shelly Sanford

Posted on July 14, 2021December 10, 2024 by Schuyler Donaldson

The American Bar Association Journal recently published an opinion article by Susan Smith Blakely based upon the thesis that being a lawyer-mom has significant impacts on a woman’s professional upward mobility in a law firm. In it, the author colors the lawyer-mom as a perfectionist who cannot help but “sacrifice good performance on the altar of perfectionists,” is a mediocre team player, skips lunches, and fails to idle the day away by conversing with colleagues, developing clients, or attending firm social functions, all of which could propel her to the coveted equity-partner position.

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Guerra LLP Women in Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Leadership

Posted on July 12, 2021December 10, 2024 by Schuyler Donaldson

When a Defendant faces thousands of lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions for the same product or alleged negligent act, the Defendant will typically request that the Multidistrict Litigation Panel consolidate those cases into one Multidistrict Litigation Court (MDL). MDLs are used to manage discovery and sometimes even trials for lawsuits that involve drugs, defective products, negligent acts, and other claims that involve thousands of people whose allegations of harm involve the same basic actions by the Defendant.

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