Let's start by examining an early Supreme Court case on the subject. From the FindLaw homepage click on Legal Subjects Index . Then click on Ethics and Professional Responsibility . Then click on Supreme Court Cases . That case involved an application by Belva A. Lockwood for leave to file a petition for a mandamus requiring the supreme court of appeals of Virginia to admit her to practice law in that court.
Gender discrimination is one form of bias in the legal profession.
The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession aims to report the challenges that women lawyers face and to bring about change in the legal workplace. Start at the FindLaw homepage and click Legal Organizations and then National and Specialty Legal Associations . Find and click the link to the American Bar Association . Go to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession site. Go to the page for the Commission's newsletter Perspectives .