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Survey Shows Women Partners Are On The Increase

Survey Shows Women Partners Are On The Increase

A survey released Monday by Project for Attorney Retention shows law firms have “made significant advances in retaining and promoting their women lawyers” during the last year. According to the…

Rogers & Hardin Promotes Lori Gelchion to Partner

Rogers & Hardin Promotes Lori Gelchion to Partner

Atlanta’s Rogers & Hardin has a new partner. Lori Gelchion, a corporate lawyer with a practice focusing on Mergers and Acquisitions and securities law has been made a partner. Gelchion…

Five of Nine New Partners at WilmerHale are Women

Five of Nine New Partners at WilmerHale are Women

WilmerHale announced its new partnership class this week. Nine associates have been promoted to partner and of those, five are female. Three new partners were promoted in Washington DC and…

Good News/Bad News for Women in BigLaw

Good News/Bad News for Women in BigLaw

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.…

New Partner Class at Sullivan & Cromwell

New Partner Class at Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan & Cromwell announced its latest class of partners and four of the five promotions are women. The firm highlighted family friendly policies like flex time and maternity leave, which…

Report: Women Still Not Making Partner

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…

Mentoring Program for Female Lawyers Redresses Discrimination

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…

Gibbons Wins Catalyst Award for Women’s Initiative

Gibbons Wins Catalyst Award for Women’s Initiative

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…

Female Partners in DC Firms Take More Part-Time Hours Than Men

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…