Summer 2014

Professional Development

Learning to Lead: CWP Book Is Now a Valued Career Tool

Hannah Hayes

The Commission’s latest book, which has sparked webinars and discussion forums across the country, combines research on leadership qualities of successful women with evidence on leadership techniques, interviews with women at the top of the profession, common scenarios faced by real women, and practical application steps to achieve a successful legal career.

Professional Development

Pay Equity Has Become Job #1: Overcoming the Most Stubborn Challenge Women Lawyers Face

G.M. Filisko

Women lawyers still earn less than men for comparable work and continue to lag behind men on credit for rainmaking and client revenue. A toolkit developed by the ABA Gender Equity Task Force addresses institutional and individual changes that can move the needle, but it is critical for women to take control of their own compensation.

Professional Development

Death Penalty Lawyers, Despite Hardships, Are in It for Life

Cynthia L. Cooper

Among women lawyers in “the capital community,” many are “lifers” who walked into a single death penalty case and continued on a career path. Learn some of their remarkable stories, and why women lawyers are rarer at the trial level than for a capital case on appeal.

Professional Development

Leading Past the Rejection

Gindi Eckel Vincent

The author of the Commission’s latest book, Learning to Lead: What Really Works for Women in Law, encourages women to lead in spite of rejection and realize that sometimes it is through the failure that a better opportunity emerges.

Professional Development

The Commission Leads at the Cutting Edge

Bobbi Liebenberg

From the new Grit Toolkit to the launch of the Women of Color Research Initiative Program Toolkit and release of a ground-breaking study on the number of women serving in first-chair positions in civil and criminal litigation, the Commission is the leading national voice of women lawyers on key issues and an influential catalyst for change.

Professional Development

Commission on Women News

American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Boston; Women of Color Research Initiative Program Toolkit; Lynn Hecht Schafran Receives Sharon Corbitt Award; Linda L. Addison Elected Law Firm Managing Partner; In Memoriam: Karen DeCrow.