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Grit, the Secret to Advancement: Stories of Successful Women Lawyers
Grit, the Secret to Advancement: Stories of Successful Women Lawyers
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Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys
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Learning to Lead: What Really Works for Women in Law
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The Road to Independence: 101 Women's Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms
Bias Interrupters
The groundbreaking report "You Can't Change What You Can't See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession" published in collaboration with MCCA is forthcoming in 2018. The report reveals the various biases that women lawyers of color and white women lawyers experience in the profession, providing recommendations to legal employers for removing institutionalized and systemic barriers to women lawyers' success.
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Perspectives
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Free Reports
First Chairs at Trial: More Women Need Seats at the Table
This is a first-of-its-kind empirical study of the participation of women and men as lead counsel and trial attorneys in civil and criminal litigation. Using a random sample of all cases filed in 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, this report also identifies characteristics of cases, law firms, and clients that impact the extent to which men and women serve in lead counsel roles.
From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful: Success Strategies for Law Firms and Women of Color in Law Firms
Find information, insights, and advice gathered from women of color partners in law firms as well as an examination of law firm practices that contributed to their success.
Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Fortune 500 Legal Departments
The Commission on Women has analyzed the results of its survey of diversity dynamics in Fortune 500 corporate legal departments. This report focuses on the experiences of women attorneys, particularly women of color, as they go through the four major aspects of an attorney's career: recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement.
Online Toolkits
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