The first research report to be released through the Initiative on Long-Term Careers for Women in Law is here! "Walking out the Door" distills the data on why experienced women lawyers leave BigLaw, and what their firms can do to retain them.
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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
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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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.
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.
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.
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