Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks takes a stand for work-life balance in an essay that suggests too much leaning in can lead women to burn out and drop out…
Only 6.1 percent of lawyers working in major law firms were working part-time last year, and 70 percent of those part-timers were women, according to the National Association for Law…
Despite offering increased opportunities and flexible schedules to women attorneys in recent years, major law firms are still lacking in the diversity and innovative thinking that would make a difficult…
A third-wave survey of lawyers who passed the bar in 2000 has found a decline in the percentage of lawyers practicing law and major differences in pay based on gender,…
Women make up about 45 percent of new associate classes, but only about 30 percent of the 493 new partners announced so far this year by America’s largest law firms.
Following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga, the Rockettes, Colin Powell and Muhammad Ali, one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s best-known judges will push the ceremonial button on New Year’s…
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