The percentage of newer female associates at the nation’s top law firms has dropped by only a single point, but the National Association of Women Lawyers sees significance in the…
The co-author of a study (PDF) that found that a Wall Street law firm was giving higher numerical performance reviews to male associates than it was female associates…
Crediting those who came before her, including her parents, for her new role as the first black woman on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Bernice Donald was…
A lawyer who left a BigLaw partnership to stay home with her two young daughters returned to the same law firm and helped create her new position there.
Clients retaining the services of Connecticut’s Lady Legal Group, thinking that their money is going to a women-owned business, might be in for a surprise.
It’s a controversial idea. But some women lawyers are suggesting that female attorneys do better, overall, when working in-house at least in part because corporations value the people skills they…
Despite comprising nearly half of the nation’s new law graduates these days, female attorneys still aren’t on a level playing field with male colleagues.
After seemingly coming close to joining the Obama administration as chief of the new consumer protection agency she helped create, Harvard University law professor Elizabeth Warren is now running, as…
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