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Biglaw is Designed By Men, For Men…So Why Not Start Your Own Firm?
Thirty-five year old sprinter Allyson Felix is the most decorated Olympian in track and field history. Yet even Felix couldn’t outrun discrimination by her former sponsor Nike — which pressured her to return to form as soon as possible after a high-risk pregnancy and birth while slashing her pay to 70 percent of what she’d…
Read More12 of the 19 Black Women Who Won Harris County Judgeships Are Law Firm Owners & Why That Matters
Updated March 21, 2022 Back in November 2018, we posted about the extraordinary victory by 19 black women who won judgeships in Harris County, Texas – a dozen of whom were solo or small law firm owners. Nearly four years later as LawDragon, they have been thriving on the bench, adeptly navigating the challenges of…
Read MoreALM Columnist Says Women Aren’t In the Top Echelons of the Legal Profession Because They Don’t Rule at Big Law.
ALM Columnist Vivia Chen’s recent rant on the latest “Best Law Firms for Women” lists starts out promisingly enough as Chen questions why the lists reward law firms for effort, rather than result. As Chen points out, many of the law firms on the four different lists focus on child-friendly policies like part time availability…
Read MoreThe Legal Profession’s Invisible Women
Recently while online, I came across this post by a female law firm partner with 25 years of experience under her belt. She writes: This past year, I settled two enormous cases in federal district court, reeling in two success bonuses above and beyond my hourly rates, as a result of an arrangement that I…
Read MoreWomen Owned Law Firm D.C. Launch – Free Event and Chance to Win Great Doorprizes
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, the Women Owned Law Firms (WOL), is holding its D.C. launch at the Fastcase office in Washington D.C. Register here now! This event is for women-owned law firms -but that’s not all. We’re seeking women currently at big law, or who have left the practice to raise a family but…
Read MoreLadies, Take A Lesson From Solo If You Want Equality At Biglaw
Oh, the irony that an operation called Diversity Lab (along with Stanford Law and Bloomberg Law ) was the sponsor of the first ever Women in Law Hackathon. Diversity? Right. The Woman-in-Law Hackathon was anything but – unless you consider diversity to be a room filled with Ivy-educated, white people who each hail from a…
Read MoreWhy Does NAMWOLF, An Association for Women & Minority Lawyers Exclude Solos?
Legal excellence knows no color or gender, reads the tagline for the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). Unfortunately, NAMWOLF’s egalitarian notion of legal excellence doesn’t extend to size: shockingly, NAMWOLF bars women and minority owned solo and two-attorney practices from even applying for membership . For an organization that professes…
Read MoreHow the Work-Life Balance Advocates Do A Disservice To Women Lawyers
[Updated as of 10 am] For years, Deborah Epstein Henry, author of the just-released book, Law and Reorder , Cynthia Calvert of the Project for Attorney Retention and others have been pushing large law firms to offer part-time and other flexible employment arrangements to retain women. And if the results of the fifth annual report…
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