Justine F. Andronici, Associate |
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Justine F. Andronici has a unique combination of women's rights, civil rights and employee rights advocacy experience. In May 2008, Ms. Andronici was elected to serve on the National Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States and a leading national advocacy group for women's rights. Ms. Andronici has served as a Senior Attorney at the Maryland Women's Law Center. She also worked as a legal and advocacy consultant for WAGE (Women Are Getting Even), and as a legal consultant to the Feminist Majority Foundation. She has worked on a class action race-discrimination case and on Dukes v. Wal-Mart, a class action gender-discrimination suit.
Ms. Andronici is a 2002 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she studied women's rights and civil rights law as a Sparer Public Interest Law Scholar, and was an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. She was selected to the University of Pennsylvania Law School Order of the Coif, and received numerous academic and advocacy awards including; the Benjamin R. Jones faculty prize for Concern for Humanity & The Law, and the Alice Paul Award from the University of Pennsylvania Association of Women Faculty.
During the summer of 2001, Ms. Andronici was a Summer Associate at Bernabei & Katz, PLLC, where she worked closely with the founders of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP. From 2002-2003, Ms. Andronici held a Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship through Georgetown University Law Center. During the Spring 2004 and Spring 2005 semesters, Ms. Andronici was an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she taught a Women and the Law course.
Ms. Andronici earned her B.A. cum laude with honors in Political Science from Colgate University in 1994. She is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Bar Association.
Ms. Andronici is a contributing writer to Ms. Magazine.
Ms. Andronici's published works include:
Andronici, J. and Katz, D., Less Gain, More Pain, Ms. Magazine (Fall 2008)
Andronici, J. and Katz, D., Firing Back, Ms. Magazine (Summer 2008)
Andronici, J. and Katz, D., Stall Tactics, Ms. Magazine (Spring 2008)
Katz, D. and Andronici, J., Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers: Experts Only, Please, The National Law Journal (February 18, 2008)
Andronici, J. "Court Gives OK to Unequal Pay", Ms. Magazine (Summer 2007)
Andronici, J. and Katz, D. "The Right to Complain", Ms. Magazine (Spring 2007)
Andronici, J. and Katz, D. "Scaling the Maternal Wall", Ms. Magazine (January 5, 2007)
Katz, D. and Andronici, J., "Teen Harassment and the Foley Scandal," Ms. Magazine (October 2006, reprinted as "Workplace Harassment Now a Teen Right of Passage," AlterNet.org (October 24, 2006), AlterNet.org),
Katz, D. and Andronici, J., "Acting Above the Law", The National Law Journal (October 9, 2006)
Katz, D. and Andronici, J. "No More Excuses!" Ms. Magazine (Fall 2006)
Lead editor: Who Decides? A State-by-State Review of Abortion and Reproductive Rights, 12th ed., NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, (2003).
Contributor and Student research leader: Elizabeth Vrato, and Lynn Hecht Schafran, Gender Justice & Law, National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality in the Courts, Now Legal Defense and Education Fund and the National Association of Women Judges, (2003).
Contributor: Breaking Barriers, A Policy Action Kit Promoting the Reproductive Health of Women of Color and Low-Income Women, NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, (2003).
Ms. Andronici has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CSPAN and a number of local television and radio stations as a legal commentator, primarily on issues relating to Supreme Court nominations.
