Joan C. Williams

Distinguished Professor Joan C. Williams, 1066 Foundation Chair at U.C. Hastings College of the Law, is Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law (WLL) and Director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR). A prize-winning author and expert on work/family issues, Williams' book, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford, 2000), was awarded the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Williams has authored or co-authored four books and over 50 law review articles, and has had articles excerpted in casebooks for six different subjects. She has taught at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and UC Hastings law schools, and has lectured widely, including at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Duke and more than a dozen other law schools, and in Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru. 

Williams has been widely quoted in the press, in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Parenting Magazine, Working Mother and O, and has appeared in other media, including CBS Nightly News, CNN, CSPAN, The Diane Rehm Show, Public Interest, and Talk of the Nation. She was also featured on the PBS documentary, Juggling Work and Family, with Hedrick Smith. In 2006, Williams received the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Award for Women Lawyers of Achievement. In 2008, she delivered the Massey lectures on American Civilization at Harvard University. 

	Cynthia Thomas Calvert

Cynthia Thomas Calvert is Deputy Director and General Counsel of WLL and Director of Research of PAR, an initiative of WLL that examines work/life balance and part-time work for lawyers. Calvert practices law in the District of Columbia and Maryland. She was with the D.C. litigation firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P. (now Baker Botts LLP) for fourteen years, six as a partner. At MCLL, she worked full-time, part-time, and flex-time. She has now set up her own employment law practice, in which she counsels businesses about issues such as employment contracts, non-compete clauses, employee manuals, sexual harassment prevention, and terminations. See www.CynthiaCalvert.com.

Calvert speaks frequently about attorney retention, alternative work arrangements, and women in the law. She has written numerous articles that have appeared in the ABA's Law Practice Management magazine, The Legal Times and Raising The Bar (Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia), and on the Internet. She is co-author (with Joan Williams) of Solving the Part-Time Puzzle: The Law Firm's Guide to Balanced Hours (NALP, 2004). Calvert is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (cum laude, 1985), where she was a staff member and production editor of the American Criminal Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She is married and has two children.

	Linda Marks

Linda Marks is Director of Training and Special Projects at WLL. She has over 25 years experience in corporate consulting and training and specific expertise in flexible work arrangements and work-life balance. She previously directed the Work Time Options in the Legal Profession project for New Ways to Work (NWW), a nonprofit organization founded in 1972 to promote workplace flexibility, and is co-author of Negotiating Time: New Scheduling Options in the Legal Profession. While at NWW she also directed the FlexGroup, a consortium of 14 companies that were taking the lead in moving workplace flexibility forward as a business strategy. Included in this group were Hewlett-Packard, Marriott International, Royal Bank of California, Chevron and other major corporations.

In addition, Marks worked for WFD (Work Family Directions), a Boston-based consulting firm, and for Rupert & Company as part of their flexibility consulting and training practices, working remotely from her home in San Francisco. She is a frequent presenter and has spoken to meetings of the American Bar Association, Association of Legal Administrators, NALP and the state bars of California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. She is currently working with the Bar Association of San Francisco on their Work/Life Balance task force. She holds a bachelor's degree cum laude from Brandeis University.

	Stephanie Bornstein

Stephanie Bornstein is an employment attorney and Associate Director of WLL. Prior to joining WLL, she worked as a staff attorney at Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), a public interest law center focused on gender discrimination in employment and education. At ERA, Bornstein represented plaintiffs in individual and class action employment matters, specializing in pregnancy discrimination and family and medical leave. She was also among a small group of advocates to help author and enact California's Paid Family Leave insurance program, the nation's first comprehensive paid leave law. In addition, Bornstein worked as a legal editor of employment law products at Nolo Press, a leading publisher of legal books for non-lawyers.

Bornstein received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and her law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. At Berkeley Law, she served as Managing Editor of the Berkeley Women's Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice), a member of the California Law Review, and a counselor for the Employment Law Center's Workers' Rights Clinic. She also worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Thelton E. Henderson, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and as a summer associate for employment law firm Rudy, Exelrod & Zieff, LLP. Upon graduation from law school, she was awarded a two-year New Voices Fellowship to address work/family issues facing lower-income women. Bornstein has written and spoken widely on gender discrimination and work/family topics, including co-authoring articles for the Hastings Law Journal, the Pepperdine Law Review, the USF Law Review, the Berkeley Women's Law Journal, the California Employment Law Reporter, and the Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine.

	Manar Sweillam Morales

Manar Sweillam Morales is Director of Strategic Initiatives at WLL and Vice President of PAR. Morales practices law in the District of Columbia and Maryland, where she is Of Counsel with the firm of Barr & Camens. Prior to joining Barr & Camens, she was an associate with the firm of Woodley & McGillivary. She has represented labor unions and employees in all aspects of labor relations and employment law. She also represents and advises employee benefit plans in all areas of employee benefit law. Morales has litigation experience in federal court, before federal administrative agencies, and in arbitration. In addition, Morales is an adjunct faculty member of Georgetown University, where she teaches labor and employment law in Georgetown's Paralegal Studies Program.

Morales is a 1997 graduate of the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University. She is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar. Morales is also a member of the Women's Bar Association and on the Steering Committee for the Lawyers at Home Forum. She is married and has two children.

	Natalie Hiott-Levine

Natalie Hiott-Levine is Assistant Director of PAR. Hiott-Levine is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey and has practiced in both federal and state courts. In 1995, she received her J.D. from New York University (NYU) School of Law and became an associate at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.C., in Woodbridge, New Jersey. At Wilentz, Hiott-Levine first practiced as a school board attorney, and later in the areas of commercial litigation and employment discrimination. In September 1997, Hiott-Levine joined the litigation department of the New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP then Mayer, Brown & Platt as an associate. After the birth of her first son in 2001, she returned to Mayer Brown on a 60% schedule and began a telecommuting arrangement in 2004. During her eight years with Mayer Brown, Hiott-Levine represented clients including accounting and consulting firms, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, engineering and construction companies, commercial and industrial property owners, hotels, banks, a health insurer, and a foreign government in complex commercial litigations. Representative matters involved allegations of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, professional malpractice, fraud, misrepresentation, negligence, product liability, patent infringement, environmental contamination, and antitrust violations.

Hiott-Levine is very active in women's and diversity initiatives in New York and New Jersey. In February 2004, she was appointed to the New York State Bar Association's (NYSBA) Committee on Women in the Law, where she is Co-Chair of the Programming Subcommittee and sits on the Legislative and Best Practices Subcommittees. She also served as Chair of the Committee's Annual Program in 2005, entitled The Value of Diversity: Creating a Win-Win Environment for Women and Minority Attorneys AND Their Employers. Also in 2004, Hiott-Levine was elected to the Executive Board of NYU School of Law's Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association (BLAPA) and serves as co-chair of its Membership & Outreach Committee. She has been a member of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC since 2002 and the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA) Women's Rights Committee since 2005. In early 2006, Hiott-Levine accepted an invitation to join the Executive Board of the New
Jersey Women Lawyers Association. She is married and has two sons.