
Across Biglaw Firms, The Future Really Is Female
Goodbye white shoe, hello white heel?
Goodbye white shoe, hello white heel?
This firm is hiring, promoting, and retaining their talent.
Roadblocks to data-driven business management are falling, and a better bottom line awaits.
The traditional path for women in the legal profession remains riddled with inequities. Entrepreneurial attorneys like Heather Cantua, Amy Duvanich, and Jamie Wells are driving an entirely new way to practice -- exercising greater autonomy over how they work, finding more compensation and more time for their passions, ultimately achieving their own meaning of success.
Disproportionate attrition of female attorneys in Biglaw is hardly a new problem.
The legal industry continues to make strides in the advancement and retention of women – but the pandemic has highlighted the fact that there’s still much work to be done, particularly for women of color.
We recently sat down with Charlotte Rushton, Thomson Reuters managing director of large and medium law firms, to discuss trends in female leadership at law firms and ways to improve diversity to benefit today’s law school students. Read the interview, presented as part of the Introduction to Law School series.
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The legal profession has changed dramatically since 2006, but the group that it's changed the most dramatically for has been women.