Date: 2011-11-23 10:23 pm (UTC)
Conditions seem to be quite a bit different here.

Over the years I've worked with many lawyers who have gone through several pregnancies, all the while working actively as GAL's up to a few days before delivery, and are back in court a few weeks later. Several of our active GAL's are pregnant right now, and wouldn't even consider not continuing their job during their pregnancy, and the Court would have no authority to remove them or not appoint them to cases. That would be a clear case of discrimination.

I've never seen the studies that have proven that pregnant women are statistically more likely to get assaulted - maybe by a domestically violent partner in a relationship, but not by a client, or opposing party in a trial. That reasoning seems rather bizare to me.

Our dress codes are pretty relaxed. If you're in a felony jury trial, you'd better be in a suit, but otherwise there are no hard and fast rules. That has changed over the past 15 years though. When I started, you'd better suit up for Court.

Dealing with the police is a whole other subject. Although our female public defenders are tough as nails, and more and more of our detectives are women.
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