The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) has released its fourth annual National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms and the results are a mixed bag. On the up side, the compensation gap between male and female lawyers has shrunk, particularly among equity partners. On the down side, women [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
According to The Law Society, the representative body for solicitors in England and Wales, female solicitors earn 29% less than male colleagues in the UK. This is slightly better than the 32% difference reported for 2007. At the largest firms, the pay gap was 45% for 2008. Associates and assistants have the lowest pay gap, around 10%. There [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 4, 2009
A new study by the Minority Corporate Council Association says biglaw firms must do more to ensure that minority, female and LGBT attorneys have the same career opportunities as their white male counterparts. The study, entitled “Sustaining Pathways To Diversity: The Next Steps in Understanding and Increasing Diversity & Inclusion in Large Law Firms,” is based [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Project for Attorney Retention says reducing associate working hours will save a firm more money than cutting associate positions. PAR is an initiative of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and advocates for reduced hours as a way for law firms to retain [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
According to a report released by the San Francisco-based Project for Attorney Retention, which surveyed 100 American law firms, only 23 of those firms had partnership classes consisting of at least 40% women in 2008. Fourteen of the 100 firms did not include any women. The survey included 100 law firms, which were chosen based on prior [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 16, 2009
A new study by the American Bar Foundation, of 4,160 individuals who became lawyers in 2000, has found that 76% report they are either extremely or moderately satisfied with their decision to become an attorney. From the ABA Journal: The $1.8 million study is tracking the careers of lawyers over the course of 12 years. The attorneys [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 1, 2009
Hope you’re interested in Canada this morning. Canada.com has a story about the frustrations faced by female lawyers, and a new women’s professional mentoring program in Calgary. Patricia McLeod bumped up against the invisible wall between female and male lawyers as a young articling student at a Vancouver law firm. Male students were more frequently invited to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Newark, New Jersey’s Gibbons PC, a 230-attorney firm specializing in litigation, has been named one of the winners of the 2009 Catalyst Award. Catalyst is a nonprofit organization working globally with businesses and the professions to build inclusive workplaces and expand opportunities for women and business. Catalyst annually honors exemplary organizational initiatives that promote women’s advancement [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP apparently has a lot of money lying around, a lot of free time, and a complete collection of Mad Men DVDs. They have hired “image consultants” to give their female employees advice on how to dress more “appropriately” for the workplace. This advice seems to be “don’t dress like a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 29, 2008
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in DC law firms are taking part-time hours at nearly three times the rate that men are, a new study has found.There are nearly 6,000 partners in 131 big law firm offices in Washington, the [...]
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