The Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association meets for lunch at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 10 at The River Club, 1 Independent Drive.
The guest speaker is attorney, former law professor and philanthropist Kristine Cherek, author of the Amazon bestseller “Tread Loudly: Call Out the Bullsh*t and Fight for Equality in the Workplace.”
Cherek will talk about the experiences, inequities and obstacles she encountered in her 20-year career as an associate attorney at a large national law firm, as the general counsel of a national corporation, as a partner of a regional law firm and as a law professor. She also will discuss biases, inequities and lack of gender parity that continue to exist in the legal field and in corporate America.
Members and nonmembers may visit jwla.org to register.