In a recent client alert at Dentons, my colleagues and I explored two recent Supreme Court cases about whether Twitter and Google are liable for third-party content on their sites under the much-debated Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Doctor Who, Jill Biden?
Update: I wrote the below in May 2013 in response to a National Review article. The issue is ripe again with a December 11, 2020 op-ed in the WSJ, making mostly the same argument, complete with calling Dr. Biden kiddo. Sexist tropes are very slow to die.
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Doctor Who? No, not Dr. Who.
“Doctor Who?” is what the National Review Online asks about Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice President.
Apparently, that well-regarded think-tank takes issue with such insistence upon a professional distinction. In the article entitled, “Diagnosing Dr. Biden: The second lady exemplifies a bloated class of people with irrelevant, unimpressive titles,” we’re told that, “Dr. Biden isn’t a physician, of course. She has a doctorate – in ‘educational leadership,’ whatever the hell that is.”
Biting wit, to be sure. Continue reading Doctor Who, Jill Biden?
A Canadian’s American Dream
My father died at age 71 this summer before he could cast his first vote for an American president.
The Family Affair
(Published in the journal at the Ice Theatre of New York 2019 Gala honoring John and Amy Hughes)
“Do you all skate?” It is a question I get a lot as the oldest Hughes sibling. Put simply, we do – starting from my Canadian father right on down to the sixth and youngest sibling.
The Meaning of “Mother”
I know it’s Mother’s Day but I wanted to share this picture of my kids and their father because he does so much of what we see often think of as “mothering” – the care and feeding of others. In his case, it’s the lion’s share of the childcare, as it evolved from infant and toddler care to adolescent care and (the hardest) teenage care, all of the cooking and the laundry and most of the errands. I know he is not the only one.
Continue reading The Meaning of “Mother”
Talking Women in Compliance
I recently had the chance to be a guest on the “Great Women in Compliance” podcast, hosted by Lisa Fine of Pearson and Mary Shirley of Fresenius Medical. We talked about the founding and growth of the Cybersecurity Law Report and the Anti-Corruption Report, trends in data privacy, cybersecurity and anti-corruption compliance and the challenges of being a woman in the workplace, like being aggressive without being called shrill, the assumption that you take care of the children, and a requirement that you wear heels to court (yes that still exists!).
The Apple podcast is available here or search “Great Women in Compliance” on any podcast player.