Women in Big Law: Progress, Challenges and the Road Ahead
In this article, Sophia Cahill and Danielle Vrabie compare the modern-day state of affairs for women litigators in big law and what remains true based upon former Chief Judge Judith Ann Kaye's 1988 lecture on the same topic.
March 08, 2024 at 10:00 AM
7 minute read
Long before the days of videoconferences and virtual hearings, attorneys were filling courthouses across the state daily, catching up with colleagues, making last-minute preparations for oral argument or brokering eleventh-hour settlements with opposing counsel. Less visible were the women litigators quietly counting to themselves on one hand the number of women assembled and not bothering to count the men who outnumbered them.
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