Category: History and Holidays

Happy Pride!

June 17, 2021
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This month and every month, Page 2 is proud to be an LGBTQ+ affirming organization. We are grateful to our friends and colleagues who work to make our entire industry more inclusive, including the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago and the leaders of the LGBTQ+ sections of bar associations across the region and the country. 

"When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."

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Eunice Carter: The Pioneering Black Prosecutor Who Brought Down Gangster “Lucky” Luciano

February 1, 2021
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When social worker-turned-prosecutor Eunice Carter was handling prostitution cases in Harlem’s Women’s Court in 1935, she noticed something familiar about the accused women’s representation. They were the same lawyers and bail bondsmen whose names came up time and again in Mob cases. What’s more, the women all seemed to have been coached to offer the same explanations and defenses for their cases. Carter alerted crusading special prosecutor (and future governor...

Stars and Stripes and Donations

July 7, 2020
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Unsure what to do with your patriotic feelings this year? Why not support organizations working to make the American legal industry more equitable for lawyers of color.

The Diverse Attorney Pipeline Program aims to rectify the continued decline of underrepresented women of color in the legal profession by equipping women of color law students with intensive professional development, academic coaching, attorney and law student mentoring, and summer...

In Need of a Little Inspiration? Consider the Story of Myra Bradwell

March 2, 2020
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All Myra Colby Bradwell wanted to do was become a lawyer. In an era when women make up about 40% of practicing attorneys, this would seem to be an achievable goal. But when Myra, born in 1831, passed the Illinois Bar exam in 1869, she was promptly denied the right to practice law by the Illinois Supreme Court. Students of common law...