Nawl

Also found in: Acronyms.

An awl.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive ?

According to NAWL's own (http://www.nawl.org/p/cm/ld/fid=506) survey , the percentage of female equity partners has only increased from 16 percent to 18 percent.

Progress Slow For Female Lawyers In Private Firms

NAWL had issued a challenge to firms in 2006, setting a test for elevating women to equity partner, chief legal officer, and tenured law professors in increased rates and numbers.

Almost no progress for women in equity partner positions in U.S. since 2006

Ultimately, the distinctive language of section 28 was developed at a March 18, 1981 meeting between federal government Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers, Fred Jordan and Edythe MacDonald, key members from the Ad Hoc Committee and NAWL (Marilou McPhedran, Suzanne Boivin, and Tamra Thomson, respectively), and Ad Hoc legal advisor, Beverley Baines.

Is originalism bad for women? The curious case of Canada's "Equal Rights Amendment."

As president of NAWL, Kaufman will introduce two new member benefits: the NAWL Pro Bono Initiative, through which NAWL will serve as a clearinghouse for pro bono opportunities for.

National Association of Women Lawyers

(16.) NAWL, Brief on the Proposed Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11), Apri1 2001.

Domestic violence and gender-based persecution: how refugee adjudicators judge women seeking refuge from spousal violence--and why reform is needed

(NAWL) provides a numerical portrait of women in country's 200

Childbearing, childrearing, and Title VII: parental leave policies at large American law firms

National feminist organizations active in the antiviolence movement, such as NAWL, have recently been forced to close their doors.

The perils of institutionalization in neoliberal times: results of a national survey of Canadian sexual assault and rape crisis centres

They are called phthalates (pronounced thal' atz) and bisphenol (biz fe' nawl) A, BPA for short.

Our plastic world

NAWL could have filed an intervenor's brief to highlight issues not otherwise argued.

Aboriginal rights in a neoliberal world

"Many talented and ambitious women lawyers who have stepped off the treadmill for various reasons want to return to the workforce but find the road back to the law paved with potholes and roadblocks," said NAWL President Cathy Fleming, a partner at Nixon Peabody.