Do women lawyers achieve greater success when they receive strong support and encouragement from mentors? Why does mentoring hold special importance for women, as opposed to men, in the legal profession? How can law firms and other organizations ensure that women develop the mentoring relationships that may prove to be a critical element of success within the firm or organization?
These questions and others about mentoring among women lawyers have been the subject of many a conversation over the last decades. Yet, these questions are still timely in an era when women lawyers continue to be underrepresented in positions of power and influence. For example, according to the website of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession (citing statistics reported by Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization), women comprise less than 15 percent of general counsels of Fortune 500 companies and just over 15 percent of partners in law firms nationwide. These statistics stand in stark contrast to the number of women entering law school, which has been around 40 percent, or higher, since the mid 1980s.
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