With black women still underrepresented in the legal field, Paula Edgar decided it was time for up-and-coming attorneys to hear the wisdom of black women working in the profession.

“When you think about the fact that there are smaller numbers of black lawyers generally, and that the number of black women lawyers are so much smaller, and that we leave the law in so much higher rates, I thought to myself, ‘What can we do to inspire,’” said Edgar, president of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and principal of consulting firm PGE.

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