Melinda Coolidge of Hausfeld knew it was time to ask whether she could become a partner. The 33-year-old associate was doing the type of legal work that partners do. She had developed business, made recommendations to her firm’s management committee and felt like a partner.
So last year she went to the people in charge of Hausfeld — coincidentally, all men — and asked. They agreed to make her a partner this month. “Here it’s not really that significant that I’m a woman,” Coolidge said.
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