Grit Project Toolkit

The Grit Project educates about the science behind grit and growth mindset.  Its online Toolkit provides bar associations, law firms, corporate legal departments, and women attorneys with the resources to assess, teach, and learn these traits. Materials include program agendas, customizable PowerPoint slides, concept guides for presenters, a library of relevant scenarios for group exercises .. and more.  View and download the toolkit

Women of Color Resarch Initiative Toolkit

This Toolkit follows three cutting-edge research studies that analyzed the career trajectories and the experiences of women of color and the prevalence of factors that support or undermine their retention and advancement.  It provides you with all the necessary tools to conduct a conference to inform on the research and strategies that will ensure the success of women of color.  View and download the toolkit

Learning to Lead:
What Really Works for
Women in Law

Gindi Eckel Vincent, Author
Mary B. Cranston, Advisor

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Learning to Lead provides a concise road map of the latest collective wisdom on leadership and applies those principles to women lawyers. It also features interviews with 11 women legal leaders who share their lessons learned and tips for success.  Read this book, take action, and chart your course to success.

• View an interview with author Gindi Eckel Vincent
• View an interview with advisor Mary B. Cranston
• Learning to Lead teleconference audio/transcript
• Listen to Women in Charge:  Rising to the Top of the Legal Profession teleconference (7/13)

Now also available as EBook!

The Road to Independence:  101 Women's Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms

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Perspectives 

The Quarterly Magazine for and about Women Lawyers

Visible Invisibility:  Women in Fortune 500 Legal Departments

This report focuses on the experiences of women attorneys in Fortune 500 corporate legal departments, particularly women of color, as they go through the four major aspects of an attorney's career: recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement.

For decades, studies have demonstrated that women lawyers are not paid at the same level as their male counterparts.  In August 2012, ABA President Laurel G. Bellows appointed a blue-ribbon ABA Task Force on Gender Equity to recommend solutions for eliminating gender bias in the legal profession, with a principal focus on the disparity in compensation between male and female partners.  Toward this end, the Task Force implemented a series of projects to promote gender equity.

All of these publications and materials are available for downloading at no cost on the Task Force website.

• Closing the Gap:  A Road Map for Achieving Gender Pay Equity in Law Firm Parner Compensation
• Power of the Purse:  How General Counsel Can Impact Pay Equity for Women Lawyers
• Toolkit for Gender Equity in Partner Compensation
• What You Need to Know about Negotiating Compensation