The Women Lawyers Journal (WLJ) is NAWL’s biannual publication, created to share ideas, stories, and insights across the legal community.

Since 1911, it’s been more than just a journal—it’s helped build connections and foster collaboration among lawyers across the country and around the world.

The Spring 2026 issue explores the current moment, one that can only be described as unprecedented.

It reflects on what it means to practice law, to lead, and to persist today—when progress is neither linear nor guaranteed, and when the responsibility of the legal profession feels especially immediate.



Highlighted Articles

• The Unprecedented Path of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

• A Court in the Shadows: A Conversation with Professor Stephen Vladeck About Emergency Power and the Future of Supreme Court Legitimacy

• Equality, Still Pending: Women and the Law at America’s 250th

• Mind Over Motion: A Bundle of Tools for Lawyer Wellness

• Feedback, Coaching, and Communication in a Crisis

• Born of her Body: Maternal Lineage as America’s Instrument of Legal Exclusion (Selma Moidel Smith Writing Competition Winning Essay)

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Lorena Guzmán-Díaz
Weissman PLLC
New York, NY

Jacqueline Rogers

Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
Wilmington, DE