Joan C. Williams

Distinguished Professor Joan C. Williams, 1066 Foundation Chair at UC Hastings College of the Law and prize-winning author, is the director of WorkLife Law and co-director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR). The author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford, 2000) she was awarded the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. She 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 featured on the PBS documentary, Juggling Work and Family, with Hedrick Smith.

The author of one of the most cited law review articles ever written, and roughtly 50 other law review articles, she 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.

	Cynthia Thomas Calvert

Cynthia Thomas Calvert is Deputy Director. She is also co-director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of WorkLife Law 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 the Center for WorkLife Law. 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.

Linda also 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. Prior to joining the Center, she was awarded a two-year New Voices Fellowship to expand the work and family program of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), a public interest law center focusing on women's economic equality. After her fellowship, she stayed on as a staff attorney at ERA, where she represented low-income women in 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. She then spent nearly two years as a legal editor of employment law products at Nolo, a leading publisher of self-help legal books for nonlawyers.

She received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and her law degree from U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. At Boalt, 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. In addition, she worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Thelton E. Henderson, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and a summer associate for plaintiff-side employment law firm Rudy, Exelrod & Zieff, LLP. She has authored or coauthored several articles on gender and employment law topics for publications including the Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine, the Berkeley Women's Law Journal, and the California Employment Law Reporter.

	Manar Sweillam Morales

Manar Sweillam Morales is Senior Counsel and Director of the WorkLife Law Attorney Network. Morales practices law in the District of Columbia and Maryland. 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. 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 the Assistant Director of the Project for Attorney Retention. 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. She can be reached by email.

	Donna Adkins

Donna Adkins is the Academic Program Coordinator for the Center for WorkLife Law. She has over 20 years of experience working with a variety of social services agencies. She was previously a manager for an agency providing services for emotionally disturbed children. She created the first one to one support service in the Bay area for adults with developmental disabilities with severe behavioral and physical disabilities. She provided crisis intervention training (CIT) to police officers and court advocates dealing with people with mild disabilities who become caught in the legal/criminal justice system. Donna is a member of the Arc of the United States, as well as the Autism Society of America. Donna is on the State Developmental Disabilities Council, representing Area Board 5. She holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Disability Studies.

	Ariane Hegewisch

Ariane Hegewisch is a faculty fellow at the Center for WorkLife Law. She is a researcher on comparative human resource management, with a particular focus on working time, work life balance and labor market flexibility. Prior to coming to the United States, she worked at Cranfield University Management School in the UK, where she was a founding researcher of the Cranet Survey on International Strategic Human Resource Management, the largest independent employer based survey of HRM policies and practices globally. After growing up in Germany she got a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics in 1981, followed by an M Phil in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex. Before joining Cranfield in 1989 she worked for six years as a policy advisor on employment and industrial policy in local government in London.

She has published Women, Work and Inequality: The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market (with J. Gregory and R. Sales); MacMillan: London (1999), Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management: The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey (with C. Brewster) Routledge, London 1994 and numerous articles and book chapters on the themes of comparative HRM, working time flexibility, public sector reform and diversity policies. Her research and consultancy clients include the ILO, the European Commission, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Federation of Public Service Trade Unions. From 1990 to 1997 she served on the executive board of the UK-based Pay Equity Project, a campaign group concerned with comparable worth issues.

	Consuela Pinto

Consuela Pinto is Senior Counsel at the Center for WorkLife Law. She has more than ten years of experience as an employment attorney. Her extensive experience and expertise in the employment field is a result of practicing in both the government and private sectors. Pinto began her legal career as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, where she represented the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFFCP) in both class action and single plaintiff claims. After moving to private practice, she counseled clients on a nationwide basis on OFCCP compliance and enforcement matters. Pinto's practice also included representing employers in the full range of employment matters in federal and state courts and before federal and state agencies. She also has experience counseling clients on a wide variety of employment issues, drafting personnel policies and employee handbooks, assisting with internal investigations, conducting training, and drafting employment contracts and separation agreements. In addition, Pinto is a trained mediator.

Pinto is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law (cum laude, 1995) where she was an Associate Editor of The Labor Lawyer, a publication of the ABA's Labor & Employment Section. She also received a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University (1995).

Pinto has been an active member of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia (WBA) since 1996 and a member of the WBA Foundation's Board of Directors for the past five years. In 2004, she was named one of Washington, D.C.'s top attorneys by Washingtonian magazine. Pinto is married with two children.

	Linda Bray Chanow

Linda Bray Chanow is Senior Counsel and Director of Research at the Center for WorkLife Law and the Project for Attorney Retention. Since 1997, Ms. Chanow has worked to advance women lawyers and promote work life integration in law firms. Ms. Chanow serves as Co-Chair of the D.C. Women's Bar Association Initiative on Advancement and Retention of Women and was instrumental in the WBA Initiative's groundbreaking final report, Creating Pathways to Success. She is the author of the nationally-referenced work, Results of Lawyers, Work & Family: A Study of Alternative Schedule Programs at Law Firms in the District of Columbia.

In addition to her local bar association work, Ms. Chanow recently designed and implemented, Ready to On-Ramp?, for the National Association of Women Lawyers to help women lawyers develop their own personal strategy for re-entering the legal workplace. Until recently, Ms. Chanow was head of the Women's Career Development practice at Shannon & Manch, L.L.P. Ms. Chanow began her legal career as a bankruptcy lawyer and commercial litigator at WilmerHale. At WilmerHale, she played a leadership role in assessing and developing policies and programs related to work-life balance and the advancement and retention of women lawyers.

Ms. Chanow is a graduate of the Washington College of Law where she served as a legal assistant to Distinguished Professor of Law Joan Williams and assisted Professor Williams with her book UnBending Gender. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics relating to women lawyers and flexible work arrangements.

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Phone (Hastings Office): 415.565.4640
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