Mary Ann Hynes, the first woman general counsel at a Fortune 500 company, started her job with CCH in 1979 as a complete outlier in her company. “People used to come up the stairs from all over the building just to see what I looked like,” she told attendees of the Wolters Kluwer ELM User Conference on Thursday.
Although Hynes felt that the legal profession had made great strides since she began her career, she noted that there is still great work to do. Despite graduating from law school at equal levels with men, women in private practice still make up only 18 percent of all equity partners. This number dwindles down to a meager 2.6 percent in looking at women of color.
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