Legal Guides and Resources

• #MeT00 self-help toolkit  for those facing #MeToo situations in their legal jobs.
  
  
• Colorado LGBTQ Family Law: A Resource Guide for LGBTQ-Headed Families living in Colorado -- Family Equity Council and One Colorado, November 2017
  
  This is a new legal guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) families living in Colorado released by Family Equality Council and One Colorado. This resource provides LGBTQ-headed families and LGBTQ adults considering forming families with detailed and accessible explanations of the current status of federal and state law, including recognition of same-sex marriages, parental rights, adoption, applying for documentation for children, nondiscrimination protections, school policies, healthcare, parental leave, and more. The guide also includes a list of legal documents it is recommended that all LGBTQ families secure in order to ensure their rights and wishes are respected.
  
  
• ABA Legal Services for Veterans Website Resource Guide, created by the ABA Veterans Legal Services Initiative.

• A Current Glance at Women in the Law -- ABA, Commission on Women in the Profession, January 2017
• Annual Survey Report on Promotion and Retention of Women in Law Firms -- National Association of Women Lawyers, September 2017
• Bias Interrupters Project - You Can't Change What You Can't See: Interrupting Racial and Gender Bias in the Legal Profession -- by Joan C. Williams, Marina Multhaup, Su Li, and Rachel Korn for the ABA and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, 2018
• Left Out and Left Behind: The Hurdles, Hassles, and Heartaches of Achieving Long-Term Legal Careers for Women of Color -- by Destiny Peery, Paulette Brown, and Eileen Letts, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, 2020
• Walking Out The Door distills the data on why experienced women lawyers leave BigLaw, and what their firms can do to retain them -- by Roberta D. Liebenberg and Stephanie A. Scharf, ABA, 2019 
• Zero Tolerance: Best Practices for Combating Sex-Based Harassment in the Legal Profession -- ABA, 2018
• 2016 data on women judges in state courts from the National Association of Women Judges in partnership with Forster-Long, LLC
  
• 5 Ways To Win An Argument About The Gender Gap
• Foundations For Practice: The Whole Lawyer and The Character Count -- report from IAALS, July 2016
• Attorneys Faulted for Scarcity of Female Expert Witnesses -- ABA/BNA, September 6, 2017
• A Pragmatic Approach to Retaining and Presenting Expert Witnesses: Picking All-Stars and Avoiding Busts -- by Ladd A. Hirsch, Diamond McCarthy LLP Dallas, TX for the ABA, April 2012
• The Path To Lawyer Well Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change -- Report from the National Task Force on Lawyer Well Being; Bree Buchanan and James C. Coyle, Task Force Chairs; August 2017. Also visit http://lawyerwellbeing.net/. 
• Do Women's Networking Events Move The Needle on Equality? -- Harvard Business Review, Shawn Achor, February 13, 2018
• Report on State Supreme Court Diversity -- The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law has analyzed 60 years of data regarding who is serving on state courts of last resort. Published July 23, 2019. 
• Benchmarking Women's Leadership in the United States -- Tiffani Lennon, J.D., University of Denver Colorado Women's College, 2013
• The Women's Leadership Gap: Women's Leadership by the Numbers -- by Judith Warner, Nora Ellmann, and Diana Boesch; November 20, 2018
• Gender Penalties Revisited -- by Nancy Reichman & Joyce S. Sterling, University of Denver. Published in 2004 by the Colorado Women's Bar Association Foundation and the Hughes-Rudd Research and Development Committee. Click here for the executive summary of findings.