Should women lawyers be as aggressive–if not more aggressive–as men when it comes to business development? It depends, and much of the answer should be based on what women believe in for themselves, guest tell the ABA Journal’s Stephanie Francis Ward.
Jun 3, 2013 1:45 PM CDT
Reporters’ phone calls steadily interrupted Madeline Cahill-Boley’s first days as managing partner of midsize, San Diego-based law firm Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel in 2008. And while she knew…
Jun 1, 2013 10:20 AM CDT
Photo of Madeline Cahill-Boley by Sal Owen.
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Sedgwick Women’s Forum Tea on May 8 in New York City, firm lawyers mingled with clients and other key contacts. Among the prominent businesswomen at this year’s annual afternoon tea were Jean Ford (left) of JFord Consulting and guest speaker Joyce Roché, who spoke about her book, “The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success.” Photo by Len Irish.
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A former partner has settled her lawsuit contending that male lawyers at Greenberg Traurig hogged origination credit, excluded women from client pitches and favored themselves in work assignments.
The suit…
May 29, 2013 12:53 PM CDT
A fired female intellectual property partner has settled her federal employment discrimination suit against Ropes & Gray on undisclosed terms.
Patricia Martone, who was 63 when she was fired by…
May 17, 2013 6:20 PM CDT
Corrected: Christine Beshar, a senior counsel at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, achieved several firsts in her lifetime.
She read the law as Abraham Lincoln did, passing the New York State…
May 8, 2013 11:26 AM CDT
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Leila Kanani: Secondments can avoid resume gaps and keep lawyers current in case they want to return to full-time employment. Photo by Saverio Truglia
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Early in her career, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg was working in a man’s world.
Totenberg recalls that era in response to the question, “When have you been the…
Apr 30, 2013 12:48 PM CDT
Ordinarily, Judy Clarke has little to say about her work on high-profile death-penalty cases.
But at a Friday conference, she said it was a privilege to defend clients such as…
Apr 29, 2013 2:22 PM CDT
Last month, SCOTUSblog won a Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media–the first blog to ever do so. On Thursday, it announced that it…
Apr 19, 2013 1:29 PM CDT
Five law firms have kept their spots on this year’s list of the top 10 family law firms.
Yale Law Women published the list, which is…
Apr 18, 2013 12:33 PM CDT
Work-life balance? Fuhgeddaboudit. For ABA President Laurel Bellows, a visit to a restaurant or a vacation with family always includes a work component.
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Apr 8, 2013 11:00 AM CDT