Take two cups of commodities and agribusiness experience, add 1½ tablespoons of corporate and regulatory background, mix well with several years of part-time public interest work, fold in Mexican-American parents…
Like many other lawyers, Lina Kulchinsky works 12-hour days. Only hers are no longer spent in an office, but rather making pretzels at the Sigmund Pretzel Shop, which she opened…
A partner at Lewis and Roca in Las Vegas notes the numbers: About half of law school graduates are women, but fewer than one in five big-firm partners are women.
An associate at Fox Rothschild who returned from maternity leave was presented with a much-needed present from her secretary: a sign reading, “Do not enter-privacy please,” to hang on her…
Updated: Early on in her tenure at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Kat Griffin remembers picking up a Diane Von Furstenberg dress that she’d seen on Gilmore Girls. She thought it…
A former partner at DLA Piper told a United Kingdom employment tribunal yesterday that the law firm was “an old boys’ club” that fired her because she was pregnant.
The International Models Project on Women’s Rights is unveiling a wiki—a collaborative online database—to chronicle gender equality legal reforms around the world.
Partner John B. Quinn announced today that it’s changing its name to add its appellate chair, Kathleen Sullivan, as a name partner to the firm which is now known as…
Recessionary concerns are undermining efforts to achieve greater diversity in the legal profession, states an ABA report that will be released Friday at the association’s 2010 midyear meeting.
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