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Joan C. Williams |
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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.
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Cynthia Thomas
Calvert |
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Cynthia Thomas Calvert is
Deputy Director 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.
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Linda Marks |
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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.
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Stephanie Bornstein |
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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.
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Manar Sweillam
Morales |
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Manar Sweillam Morales is
Associate Executive Director of WLL and Deputy Executive Director 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.
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Natalie Hiott-Levine |
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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.
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Elisë Clowes |
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Elisë Clowes is an employment attorney and Counsel for WLL in the San Francisco Bay Area. Clowes has worked as a management-side employment attorney in California for Cooley Godward in Palo Alto and Carr McClellan in Burlingame, where she was a partner. In 2004, Clowes started her own employment law firm, in which she counsels businesses about issues such as discrimination and wage/hour claims, employment contracts, employee manuals, sexual harassment prevention, and terminations.
Clowes is a 1982 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) where she was an Associate Editor of the California Law Review and served on the Moot Court Board. Clowes also serves as Secretary of the Board of Goodwill Industries for the San Francisco Bay Area and President of the Mental Health Association of San Mateo County. She is married and has two children.
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