If you’ve ever wondered why it can be so difficult to juggle motherhood and BigLaw, a Clifford Chance associate dubbed Ms. X explains it in a departure memo with a…
A National Association of Women Lawyers survey (PDF) of the country’s largest law firms recently found that 70 percent of the businesses’ staff lawyers were female. However, women…
Only 31 percent of ABA-accredited law schools have female students as law review editors-in-chief, according to a recent data. The number drops to 29 percent at U.S. News & World…
New salvos have been shot in a much-watched legal battle between a highly credentialed female lawyer and the Silicon Valley venture capital firm for which she has been working as…
A Chicago woman who wanted to join the military effort during World War II, but couldn’t because of her gender and became a lawyer for the Coast Guard instead, has…
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