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 received her JD from the University of Georgia Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the law review. Rogers & Hardin [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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 three in New York, with two more coming in Boston and the last one in London. Last year WilmerHale promoted ten partners, four of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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...Thursday, October 22, 2009
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 are aimed at recruiting and retaining more female lawyers. Three of the five promotions came in the area of corporate law which could [...]
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...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...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 [...]
Continue reading...
Sponsored by |
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
1 Comment