Women in Law

In the Legal's Women in Law supplement, read about improving the discourse between women attorneys and their firms, ruling the rainmaking roost and why defining success is so difficult for women.

Also, find out what our Women in Law roundtable panelists discussed.

Improving the Discourse Between Women Associates and Their Firms Although the women associate ranks in many midsize and large firms throughout the country continue to increase, only 21 percent of women attorneys working in those firms eventually make it to equity partner.

What Is More Important for Pitching Business—Preparation or Relationships? Practicing law starts with getting and maintaining clients. Pitching business is an often underappreciated aspect of being successful as a lawyer. Thorough preparation is just as important for business development purposes as the research and planning needed for a trial. On the other hand, a lot of business is generated through relationships.

Ruling the Rainmaking Roost: Six Tips to Help You Get There To grow as a lawyer, most of us need to learn—at some point—how to “make it rain.” Rainmaking, as I define it, simply means building and bringing in work. The kind of work that is being built, and the sources of that work, mean different things to different kinds of lawyers.

#MeToo—From Lurid Headlines to Litigation and Learning As we approach the one-year anniversary of #MeToo, the falling dominoes dominate boardrooms, management meetings and litigation lore. The global grasp of the #MeToo movement cannot be understated.

Women in the Law: Mentoring the Next Generation of Leaders As a litigator who participates in the hiring process, spends time mentoring new hires, and has built a successful career in a male-dominated industry, I've found that there are five key factors that help new hires, especially women, succeed at a firm.

Why Defining Success Is So Difficult for Women? For women lawyers this inability to recognize that you are successful both in your own estimation and within the workplace is especially magnified and can lead to dissatisfaction, and in some instances can be the reason behind departure from the profession.

The 2018 Women in Law Roundtable Discussion The editorial staff of The Legal has always been aware that the hiring and retention of female attorneys is an ongoing issue in the legal community. In an effort to discuss some of the specific problems facing female attorneys and present potential solutions to those problems, we invited 10 practitioners to talk about how to bolster the role of women in the law.