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By Natalie Posgate
(March 19) – Dallas women-owned law firm Stewart Bradbury may only be seven months old, but it is already tackling a well-established topic: the many challenges female veterans face when reentering civilian life.
As Amy Stewart, one of Stewart Bradbury’s founding partners, puts it: many women went “straight to the service at 17 and now find themselves in civilian life with no network or skills about how to get their career started or to start their own company.”
That’s why earlier this month, Stewart Bradbury kicked off Women’s History Month by sponsoring an event at the veterans’ empowerment center, Honor Courage Commitment. The attorneys at Stewart Bradbury were among 30 Dallas-area lawyers, judges, HR professionals, entrepreneurs and marketing professionals who helped female veterans create vision boards of what they want for themselves professionally and personally in their post-service life.
The workshop was the first pro bono event for Stewart Bradbury to sponsor since opening its doors last fall. Stewart said the firm has committed to host two more pro bono events geared toward female veterans this year.
The next one will be a Dallas Volunteer Attorney Association clinic exclusively for female veterans that the firm is sponsoring on April 6. The third will be a mentorship program that Stewart Bradbury is planning that will pair female attorneys and other professionals with female veterans in the community.
Stewart said she decided to make female veteran assistance one of her firm’s top pro bono priorities in 2018 after listening to then-ABA President Linda Klein speak last year about the higher chances female veterans face of having challenges when reentering the civilian life over their male counterparts.
“As a result, they suffer more from PTSD, unresolved issues arising from sexual assault during their service, homelessness, bankruptcy, domestic violence and addictions,” Stewart said. “Many of their problems can be solved with legal assistance. Her speech really touched me, so I was determined to create pro bono events in Dallas to help female veterans.”
Stewart Bradbury is a commercial litigation firm that Stewart and law partner Sarah Bradbury started after leaving Estes Thorne & Carr. Now at six attorneys, Stewart Bradbury advises clients on labor & employment, product liability, insurance disputes, ADR, business investigations and complex commercial litigation.
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