Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

Juris P. Prudence is legal inspiration for girls everywhere!

1 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this spoken monologue, a lawyer who also writes children’s books explains how her love of stories about industrious girls inspired her to create the character Juris P. Prudence, a young lawyer who takes on fun cases for kids. She describes her dual professional life—practicing law and authoring picture books—and emphasizes that she created Juris to give girls, especially girls of color, a positive image of what a lawyer can look like. The speaker notes the scarcity of Black women lawyer role models in the media she grew up with, recalling that the only prominent example was Clair Huxtable, and highlights the need for more diverse representation in children’s literature.

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So that is my lawyer life. In my non-lawyer life, in my other life, I write children's books, which is a part of my life that I absolutely love. And it really is just something that has been such an enriching part of my life. I've always loved books. Since I was a kid, I was just enamored with stories about industrious girls. And so I write about a little girl. Her name is Juris P. Prudence, and she takes on fun cases representing kids. I wrote about Juris P. Prudence because I wanted to give girls, especially girls of color, another image of what a lawyer looked like, because the representation that I grew up with, it really wasn't there. I never saw pictures of lawyers on TV other than Clair Huxtable. There were very few images of Black women lawyers in the media, and especially in the children's books that I read.